Snagged from antigone921:

- Anyone who looks at this entry please post this meme and their current wallpaper at their LiveJournal.
- Explain in five sentences why you're using that wallpaper
- Don't change your wallpaper before doing this! The point is to see what you had on!

( My wallpaper... )

I got myself a Merlin icon! Time to watch more of the show ( Read more... )

I may or may not have just watched five episodes of Merlin today. lysimache is grumbling things like "why can't we watch a GOOD show?" which I think is a little silly when we've just watched Starsky and Hutch go undercover as "good old boys" to investigate all the hillbillies making toxic moonshine, which, you know, I hear is a real problem in southern ( Read more... )

lysimache is the best person ever and bought me The Cambridge Old English Reader, which is a big ol' book that has forty texts/excerpts of texts of varying difficulty levels, with the tricky words glossed in the margins. I [heart] marginal glosses. I am particularly charmed by all the texts discussing Latin, because I am a dork. I know, I'm still working my ( Read more... )

Current temperature: 12 F ( Read more... )

Thanks for all the anniversary well-wishes! So I got lysimache for her birthday a textbook on comparative Germanic (Old English and Its Closest Relatives: A Survey of the Earliest Germanic Languages) that purports to be for undergrads who know neither German nor linguistics, and I have to say, I think the author's forgotten what people who don't know German ( Read more... )

Today the dog won Final Jeopardy again. I suppose that means I did a good job giving her animal-related answers ( Read more... )

*while flipping through the introduction of my new Beowulf book* "Hey, it's got a genealogy of the Danes! And look, another tree for all the Geats! It's like the introduction to a fantasy novel where they give you a family tree ( Read more... )

(...actually, that should be whatever the dual is, because I only have two books. I didn't get that far yet.)

I have not yet seen Beowulf (probably next weekend, I hope), but I did buy myself an Old English grammar. Yay! Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Primer was hiding out in the linguistics books, oddly enough, and for $10 it seemed like a good deal ( Read more... )