- I'm getting almost no sleep at the moment, so am feeling pretty dead most of the time ( Read more... )

Just dropping by the world of social media to say ( Read more... )

Firstly, a big happy birthday to two lovely people I know through the world of Pros, biani and constant_muse! Hope you're both having a wonderful time *hg ( Read more... )

Owwwwww ( Read more... )

So I'm busy being dead and trying to wish my new found tonsil spots away :/ And planning my career, which I rather enjoy until it gets to doing all the work I've planned, at which point I get all stressed. E.g. I seem to have successfully negotiated myself plenty of lectures next year, including the six Indo-European verbs ones - but when the time ( Read more... )

There was a recent Any Questions discussion about the relevance of studying dead ancient languages in schools (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00vy3y7#synopsisRead more... )

1) thelistkeeper made this and dedicated it to me, and it's awesome :D (Sherlock/Dr Who S5 crossover picture)

2) xwingace wrote this, and I loved it and thought I should recommend it to the world :D (Dr Who S5 fic: mock scholarship on the Pandorica ( Read more... )

I keep writing 'finra' for 'infra'[1]. Fin-Ra sounds like a character from the He-Man/She-Ra universe[2] to me, so now I'm imagining it as a dark-haired superhero girl with a very very narrow waist and a very shiny cape ( Read more... )

I have a question for all of you:

Is your writing internally consistent? By which I mean, does the shape of each letter you write vary, or is it always pretty much the same?You see, the reason I'm asking is that I'm thinking a lot about palaeography at the moment, especially since there seems to have been rather widespread literacy among the ( Read more... )

Happy Hallowe'en everyone! Hope you have lovely parties and things. I'm having a party here at home with my Mum :)

Other than that I'm just working really hard, so if you don't hear from me it's because I'm not checking emails and LJ as often as usual ;)