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Thank you to everyone who responded on the porn question; it is much appreciated! (Also, curiously, I got equal amounts of comments on LJ and DW, which is unusual; I usually get more on LJ.)
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Tonight, after great internal debate, I went to one of NSAGA's faculty talks, with a professor of, I think, Italian history here; it was about women in medieval and Renaissance Italy (specifically Venice), and it was fascinating. (I am trying this thing where I make myself known to the MEMS faculty, as one of six or so MEMS students.) The great internal debate came from the fact that the Classical Studies department also had a speaker tonight, talking about art and gender in Dark Age Greece, at the exact same time, and I also really wanted to go to that, as Classics is my other major. How often is it that a university has two gender-oriented speakers in one night? Not that often.
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Gods, let's not talk about my midterms schedule over the next few weeks: two midterms this week (one in-class, one a take-home essay that I need to get on), two midterms next week, two papers next week, and one midterm the week after that. I kind of want to die just thinking about it. (Note to self: next year, don't take six classes.)
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Oh my God, there are classes up for Fall 2010! Oh my God, I want to take ALL THE ANCIENT HISTORY CLASSES. AND ALL THE CLASSICS CLASSES! EEE THE CLASSICAL EPIC WITH FRAZEL I AM ALL OVER THAT LIKE WHITE ON RICE. And Pompeii: Life in a Roman Town! And The Age of the Vikings! And the Peloponessian and Punic Wars! EEEE!
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My computer continues to freeze, at a count of six or seven times in the past thirty-six hours. I am too much of a wimp to try reformatting, even though I did have everything sent here.
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We had to read Procopius's Secret History for my Byzantine Civ class and -- it's hard to take Procopius seriously here, because he sounds just like all the political bloggers out there. Because, you know, Justinian is the King of the Devils! (And, of course, my professor declares, "I know you all read that chapter over and over again! If I were to take your books right now and drop them on the floor, they'd all open to pages 76 and 77!" Of course, this is also the prof who kept referring to the lectures about Justinian as, "when the Empire strikes back!")
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Tonight, after great internal debate, I went to one of NSAGA's faculty talks, with a professor of, I think, Italian history here; it was about women in medieval and Renaissance Italy (specifically Venice), and it was fascinating. (I am trying this thing where I make myself known to the MEMS faculty, as one of six or so MEMS students.) The great internal debate came from the fact that the Classical Studies department also had a speaker tonight, talking about art and gender in Dark Age Greece, at the exact same time, and I also really wanted to go to that, as Classics is my other major. How often is it that a university has two gender-oriented speakers in one night? Not that often.
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Gods, let's not talk about my midterms schedule over the next few weeks: two midterms this week (one in-class, one a take-home essay that I need to get on), two midterms next week, two papers next week, and one midterm the week after that. I kind of want to die just thinking about it. (Note to self: next year, don't take six classes.)
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Oh my God, there are classes up for Fall 2010! Oh my God, I want to take ALL THE ANCIENT HISTORY CLASSES. AND ALL THE CLASSICS CLASSES! EEE THE CLASSICAL EPIC WITH FRAZEL I AM ALL OVER THAT LIKE WHITE ON RICE. And Pompeii: Life in a Roman Town! And The Age of the Vikings! And the Peloponessian and Punic Wars! EEEE!
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My computer continues to freeze, at a count of six or seven times in the past thirty-six hours. I am too much of a wimp to try reformatting, even though I did have everything sent here.
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We had to read Procopius's Secret History for my Byzantine Civ class and -- it's hard to take Procopius seriously here, because he sounds just like all the political bloggers out there. Because, you know, Justinian is the King of the Devils! (And, of course, my professor declares, "I know you all read that chapter over and over again! If I were to take your books right now and drop them on the floor, they'd all open to pages 76 and 77!" Of course, this is also the prof who kept referring to the lectures about Justinian as, "when the Empire strikes back!")