I just wrote this sentence:

"The breasts of his women are also lopsided, one usually pear-shaped and the other smaller and pointing upwards."

The worst part is that it is also factually accurate and I'm leaving it in.

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"Each person has his own custom, his own practice; the Divine Mind has distributed various guardians to the various cities; as particular souls are given to mortals at birth, so, too, are heavenly geniuses divided among peoples. Utility, which is the clearest proof of the existence of the gods to mortals, adds to this argument. For as all human ( Read more... )

So I agonized a little bit and then decided not to do the paper that's due tomorrow. This isn't as crazy as it sounds - honest. You see for my Roman history class there are four essay topics for the semester and I have to write on three of them. My plan was to do the first one so that I would still have a free skip later on, but I'm feeling kinda ( Read more... )

For some reason completely unknown to me I am super tired today. I fell asleep on the couch after finishing my Roman history reading and I only recently got up and made mac-and-cheese for dinner. I may need something more than that later ( Read more... )

The problem with writing research papers is that it is so easy to get distracted while you're researching for them - at least if you're interested in the subject. I'm currently writing a paper on how Ammianus Marcellinus depicts the Emperor Julian as a Roman Hero and I'm reading Ammianus Marcellinus and the Representation of Historical Reality by ( Read more... )

So it turns out that I actually have five weeks of Midterms rather than four. I was supposed to have my Greek midterm on Wednesday, but Prof M forgot to tell the rest of the class after I talked to him about it and he figured out a date (right in front of me I might add). I asked today if we were still having the midterm on Wednesday because he ( Read more... )

ARMS OF YAY!

I am going to Italy this summer for a course in Roman Field Archaeology!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WICKED AWESOMENESS!!!!!!!!!!!

I totally get to write Fanfic for my Roman History class! Instead of a final paper we get to write a Roman History play using a scene (or a few scenes) from one of the Ancient historians we've been reading. And then we have to explain our choices and what they mean and all that, but I get to write a Roman History play ( Read more... )

I just got my abridged copy of the Liddel and Scott Greek-English Lexicon.

The Little Liddel.

I am so happy.

I am such a nerd.

Yay!!!!!

There are now five people in my Ancient Greek class, which is (I'm pretty sure) a fifty percent rate of attrition in the first month alone. I like small class sizes as much as the next girl, but this is a bit much. I shudder to think of how big the third year class will be. Although of course whether I get to third year Greek depends entirely on ( Read more... )