KoA parallel of the day! These always make me happy. I just realized the hilarious similarity between the story of Bacchus (Dionysus)  and the dolphins (as seen in Book 3 of Ovid's 'Metamorphoses') and the story line of the King of Attolia. First of all, Bacchus enters dressed in "embroidered robes of gold and purple" and "half-dazed with wine and ( Read more... )

I should be doing homework, but I just couldn't resist a little doodle. And now we all see why I don't post any artwork >.< Absolutely zero skill in the artistic world. But I was bored so...( See the doodle... )

                                                                                            
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My mom and I have LOVED this coffee for years now. Two reasons: it's good stuff in its own right, and it's called Dancing Goats. Coffee named after GOATS, I love goats. How is this not the awesomest coffee ever? But it just occured to me - Gen is a "goatfoot" and he's a pretty darn fine dancer. Gen is therefore a Dancing Goat(foot). Yay, I found ( Read more... )

Oh my gosh, last week of school DONE!!!! It's been amazing though, I have never had such a concentration of Thief references in my life! First, in my Egyptian religion class, my prof explained how Cleopatra wasn't actually beautiful, all the men who fell head over heels in love for her did so because of her brains. My first thought, "EDDIS!!!!!" ( Read more... )

Argh, two hours to go until a big Italian quiz and then tomorrow I have a Latin quiz (Latin prof is trigger-happy with the quizes, we have one just about every class). Why can't I be Costis? Getting notes from Gen with handy vocab words and conjugations? He could even include the words for 'idiot'. Latin would be stultus -i (m) 'a fool', but I don' ( Read more... )