i don't know if i can be here, but i can't abide having that old entry at the top.

Since my last update, i've moved to the UK, voted absentee for the first time (& for the winner), and developed an even greater understanding of how much i don't know.  But the real updates are for another day.  i know some literary types have me friended & thought they might have some insight on finding examples for a current project.

i'm working ( Read more... )

i feel like i'm ruining my life & my future.  i can't work, i can't think, & all i want to do is read old entries from various journals. 
Once, i used to write & once i used to produce.  Now i am old & pathetic & worthless.  Sometime i might expand upon why, but suffice it to say that it involves an inability to find motivation coupled with a ( Read more... )

Motivations:

As I decided upon this topic in a rather circuitous way, I thought to state a few of my reasons for investigating words denoting barking in Homer.  The first is of course, my great love for dogs and interest in how they were perceived in antiquity.  The second stems from a passage in book I of Boethius’ De Consolatione ( Read more... )

Talkativity, if the word existed, pleases my ears more than talkativeness. However, garrulity is a little too obscure. Loquacity might be perfect.

Since apparently i'm just posting work here now...

( extensive notes on Plutarch's treatise for anyone interested )

Here are some of my favorite stories from Plutarch's essay on talkativeness. i typed these up for a project, found them again, and realized they should be saved here for posterity.

Plutarch 503BFor when Aristotle himself was annoyed by a chatterer and bored with some silly stories, and the fellow kept repeating, “Isn’t it wonderful, Aristotle ( Read more... )

i can't find words to describe how things are right now, so i'll talk about one of the craziest days ever - a day that took place a couple weeks ago ( Read more... )

Also, i'm so happy that we finally had a brutal blizzard here. But i'm sad because it's going to melt in the next couple days... and i'm also starting to get the usual pre-spring anxiety. As the days get longer, i begin to fret and become more & more depressed. i dislike spring (despite the tornadoes) because it is the harbinger of that most ( Read more... )

All i've been doing is working like a dog, presenting papers (total: 2 since my last post here), freaking out at/about conferences, & writing rather blatently hostile letters to members of my department involved in hiring decisions. i'm taking 3 classes (2 seminars). In one, i have to read ~500-700 lines of Greek a week. It's brutal. i have ( Read more... )

You are looking online for a pair of miniature tongs, so that you can pick up your oyster crackers and pieces of cereal without touching them. Up until now you have used a spoon, but sometimes it is hard to separate out different colors of cereal fragments using a spoon. Tiny tongs would make it easy to select the proper colors and shapes. Also ( Read more... )