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Yep, I guess I'm not going to get that paper written for noon today. *sigh* It's one of those classes where I have to do two out of the four papers for the semester, and I've done one already, and I meant to do this one (#3) because the fourth one is due the same day as another paper, but...I did all the preliminary reading for this one Saturday and yesterday, and then last night I just...didn't write the paper, and if I try writing it now, it's going to suck, and I have a paper I actually have to do due on Wednesday which I haven't done any of the reading for because I was doing the paper on this one, and this is getting to be a really convoluted sentence, isn't it?

Anyway. Damn. Will do paper number four; at least the reading for this one was interesting and will be helpful in the discussion session today. I just wish the other paper wasn't going to be the first of three papers due in two days. On the other hand, I could, *gasp*, write them in advance, rather than the day before. I know. Shocking stuff. I don't know if I can handle it.

Uh, in conclusion, don't grow up and be like me, kids! Okay, switching over from Iceland-brain to Rome-brain.

and then Rome figured that if the Carthaginians could build boats, THEY certainly could

Allow me to sum up the First Punic War for you, as told by Polybius:

MAMERTINES: ...uh, could we get a little help here?
CARTHAGE: OMG we have wanted to get one over on Syracuse for years, let's go!

( mostly it sums up to this: Carthage, in a fine tradition: FUCKING ROMANS. )