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Dude, y'all, I'm all dolled up and I kind of feel like a Japanese housewife dressing up to be shipped off to the internment camps. Or possibly (more or less macabre), like a GI's girl in Hawaii right before Pearl Harbor, effect slightly enhanced by the fact that all the NROTC guys are wandering around on campus in uniform. It depends if I'm wearing my black pumps or flip-flops. (Did they have flip-flops in the 1940s?)

I'm wearing this dress (despite the reviews, it also looks very good on skinny small-busted girls; I suppose it would fill out the bust slightly more if I wore a padded bra, but I don't have any), with pearls and my "well-behaved women seldom make history" earrings (perfect for Tamora from Titus Andronicus!) I might switch to jeans and a t-shirt, since I want to cook later and I don't have an apron. (See! Now is the occasion when having a fancy apron sitting around would be a good thing!)

Maybe I'll see if one of my roommates would be willing to take a picture later.

Rome 2.03

OH GOD DAMN ROME END ON A CLIFFHANGER WHY DON'T YOU.

In other words, finally made it to 2.03. Gah, I really wish that this show wasn't condensing time as much, it's really frustrating; I feel like there's so much awesome stuff going on off screen but I don't get to see any of it. On the other hand, Agrippa was adorable.

ETA: Thoughts on actual content: Huh, there was a lot of sodomy in this ep, wasn't there?

What, we only get about an ep and a half of The Godfather: Ancient Rome? FAIL. Although, let me tell you, Lucius Vorenus is no Vito Corleone. Not even a Michael Corleone!

Please tell me that letter of Cicero's is an actual historical document that survived. Oh my god. Please let that be a reenactment of an actual historical event.

Again: so much fail on telling and not showing, that three month gap could have been dynamite, but come on, show. I get that you were running on borrowed time and all, but STILL.