Historian Wabbits are cranky. Writing Wabbits are also cranky. I am hitting walls in my research, and it's driving me bonkers. It is annoying me even more because the resarch is for incredibly minor, throwaway details in a story. But the details have to do with history, so now I'm obsessed with getting them right and it's eating my time ( Read more... )

Finn listens to NPR on the way to work, which means that I listen to NPR too, when I commute with him. A few days ago, they were talking about how US deaths in Afghanistan are on the rise- June has been the deadliest month so far (though I think July has caught up, or is about to) with 27 US soldiers killed. That's an average of .9 US soldiers ( Read more... )

Went to the Phi Alpha Theta Northern California Regional Conference thingy this weekend. Presented my thesis again, but didn't win anything. Oh well!. A little bit of a bummer, but I'm not terribly worried. However - I am not impressed with the products of the UoP History program. *shakes head in despair* The two presentations by UoP students that ( Read more... )

But Euripides denied my chief accomplishment- that made by beauty, of by my actions, and those of Paris, launching a war that set a thousand ships to sail and brought down ruin to Troy.I really have no idea what I ws trying to do with this sentance. I think I started it one way and then changed my mind midway through, but really, it makes no sense ( Read more... )

Today I had History 101. We were presenting ideas for our paper which we will spend the rest of the quarter writing. In the middle of this, appropos of where to research, the professor started talking about Google. It went as follows ( Read more... )

A line from today's bunch of spam posts on the forums: "New Adult Tuba! - Crazy Today Movies" Because tuba fetishes are all the rage nowadays.

I just finished Born Red which is a memoir of a man who lived through the Cultural Revolution. People are crazy. He and his classmates were not only carrying out armed warfare against each other, several of ( Read more... )

and I blame the internet. Oh, and History of the Jesuits. They corrupted me!

( cut for religious macro that would be offensive if you had no sense of humor about religion... It's not that bad, I swear )

Ack. Just read Ouran #5. Mori offers to tutor Haruhi in history. XD *small squeeing noises of fangirlishness*

Google, you failed me. I'm trying to find an English translation of Vasily Trediakovsky's "Solemn ode on the surrender of the city of Danzig, 1734" ("Torzhestvennaia oda o zdache goroda Gdanska, 1734") because of a stanza quoted in a history article I had to read. It runs as follows ( Read more... )