My computer appears to be dying. Dyiiiiing! And I have nothing to back anything up on because my external hard drive has chosen THIS MOMENT to abandon its mortal life and move on to a better place. So, Flist, if anyone has run across something similar (your screen starts shimmering really badly as though it's suffering with heat haze and jelly legs ( Read more... )

BBC's 'Ancient Worlds' you lied to me. Last night I settled down for what promised to be an hour long programme on Alexander the Great and within twenty minutes you had gone through his entire history (badly, I might add) and moved on to his successors. His successors are not him. This is easily recognisable by the fact that the period after ( Read more... )

My education rage, let me show you it.

( It's ok to be Catholic, but not to be Smart )

This rant brought to you today following the news that 53% of people in the UK feel Humanities-based subjects are a waste of time. This rant is not happy. It is opinionated, unashamedly biased and sometimes has swearing. You have been warned ( Read more... )

So, this is one piece down - two to go. And I'd better make them pretty quick given that I'm off to Egypt on Wednesday. Again. Ignore the references to various members of the Classics Department in the following piece - they're only relevant to those that know them.

Now, as promised, hot off the illustrious Classics department press:

( Boyfriend Blues - Why Being The Sidekick Never Pays Off )

I have two things to apologise for: Firstly, Moonstone was meant to be up by now, but real life has again taking one of its (apparently frequent) turns for the worse. I won't bore you with the details - suffice to say I'm just a bit busy at the moment, so Moonstone is still being done, it's just taking longer than anticipated ( Read more... )

Shameless use of a different icon for the moment, whilst I gaze in adoration at Tennant. Ahem.

( Some pondering on Doctor Who, Torchwood and fandom things. Oh. May contain some (very) minor spoilers. )

Random scholarly thoughts for the day - on my favourite historical subject, of course.

( Some talk of Alexander )

Mild rant ahead.

( Hollywood, ancient epics and why I hate them all... )

( Mutterings on Potter, OR: I will go down with this ship... )