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A summary of the last three months:
January: Epic internet issues! Frantic application to Oxford! Join new morris side and fret at them (they are sympathetic, and also silly. I love morris dancers).
February: Fret. Internet issues continue. Carry on with publication. Discover Deep Space Nine. Rapidly become obsessed interested to a not insignificant ( Read more... ) -
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Last year at Hallowe'en I was dressed up as Inana getting merrily drunk with a load of other assyriologists.
This year I'm hiding in my room with the lights off, trying to keep out of sight of the little fuckers brats vicious terrors children trick-or-treating down my road.
I think I preferred last year.
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Exams are bearable. Nearly finished. 2 to go.
In other news, I'm older than I've ever been, so I'll be at the Granta after 10 and until about 10.45 (before that I'll be revising, after that I'll be sleeping as I have another bloody final tomorrow) to celebrate - come along if you're around - you don't even have to buy me a drink because I'm off the ( Read more... ) -
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I rather liked Dr Who tonight, especially counting the cunningly-inserted-book-titles.
I was, however, slightly disappointed that it was early Agatha Christie and thus was set before she met and married the great Max Mallowan, the celebrated Assyriologist and excavator of Nimrud and other exciting Assyrian sites.
Not that I'm partisan or anything.
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Two posts in one day! Good lord!
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multiple languages
I'm reading a book about dream interpretation in the Ancient Near East, and someone has written a note in the margin. In Hebrew.
Things like this make me so happy. Not so much the writing notes in other languages as the confident expectation that everyone working in this area will understand. Or at least know someone else who does.
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Words fail me
I've got an email address for the big cheese at Tesco and even a draft of what could be written, if anyone else feels sufficiently moved to protest about this. Honestly, there are many things that get my blood up but this is just...
Off for a calming cup of tea.
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On a non-Sumerological note...
Saturday night (12th), London Barndance, C# House in Camden.
Any takers?