It's been such an exhausting couple of weeks. I should really be continuing my cleaning right now but I just can't bring myself to get up. I've had exams (Greco-Roman history, English Lit, German and Latin) and terrible insomnia this week, and the week before I was depressed about missing Deepavali (Hindu Festival of Lights, the biggest Hindu ( Read more... )

I'd often heard of studying or memorising something until you could recite it in your sleep, but I always assumed it was just an exaggeration, a figure of speech. Then yesterday morning I found myself dreaming of a stratigraphic diagram with an intrusion (aka a drawing of the different layers of soil/earth, with a small pit or something dug down ( Read more... )

I kind of want to quote the conversation about Easter that Wednesday and Eostre have in American Gods, but sadly I did not bring my copy with me. Also, I had an absolutely delicious hollow Cadbury's Easter Egg today. :9

For the Myths of the Greeks and Romans unit I'm taking for Classics and Ancient History, we've got to do this digital project ( Read more... )

Pick up the nearest book to you. Turn to page 45. The first sentence describes your sex life in 2012.

Sadly I am sitting almost exactly in the middle of my room and surrounded by books, and there are two possibilities:

Greek Mythology by John Pinsent: At some stage Io was tethered to an olive tree in the grove of the Mycenaeans and guarded by the ( Read more... )

2020 EDIT: This list has not been updated since 2011, and is extremely out of date. (I didn't write much for a few years and then I've mostly just been writing Tolkien fics since 2016.) If you are interested in following my current writing, please head over to my Archive Of Our Own account. I've been on a cleaning/organisational frenzy at home ( Read more... )

Aargh. My A Levels were finished at the end of last November and I have a break until university starts much later this year. I'd been looking forward to this period SO MUCH last year, and planning what I'd do kept me going.

Now the months stretch ahead of me and I have so many things to do but just can't bring myself to finish them. Would the word ( Read more... )

It's 09/09/09! :D

Nine was considered a sacred number by many ancient mythologies/cultures. Most of them held both three and nine in high regard. The Egyptians had their Ennead, the nine powerful gods of Heliopolis. The Greeks and Romans considered nine a powerful and sacred number and some prayers were recited three or nine times. The Hindus have ( Read more... )