The following book meme has been stolen from kayselkiemoon, whose literary taste I appear to share in many regards ( Read more... )

I have 1,513 words of my master's thesis written. Not bad for one afternoon. Trying to translate Syriac and think that the epithet used to describe the Devil, euphemistically rendered as "evil one" in the 19th century English translation I'm cribbing from, may in fact be "maggot". It has been a rather soggy and dismal day, which makes this ( Read more... )

Hullo all! Been a while since I've updated here, so I thought I would consider myself tagged by timeripple, and could thus easily come up with 10 things most of you don't know about me based on what has happened to me in the last few months ( Read more... )

Oxford, that is. Meaning I left at some point. I spent Christmas vacation in Finland, apart from one week in the Netherlands where I met some two hundred members of E's Dutch-speaking family at an interminable (8 hours!!!) family social gathering. Nice folks, though, from what I could tell. Christmas was relaxing, although I didn't get nearly as ( Read more... )

Today is the first day of the Christ Church Regatta, and at 14.16, our first big race. The day has dawned somewhat grey and threatening - I hope it won't actually rain. I'm really excited about the race and a little nervous ( Read more... )

Yeah, no job. No essay either, so far. Pass the sudafed.

- I have a cold.
- I have a hilarious pink cd/clock/radio that is currently rather incongruously playing classical music. This is incongruous because it's really pink ( Read more... )

Eusebius, you're blocking the sun.

A lifetime's ambition fulfilled:

I've rowed stroke at Oxford.

Oxford Matriculation Ceremony for the Uninitiated ( Read more... )