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Erk, if my brain is this dead during midterms I hate to think what it's going to be like during finals. I'll probably just go through that entire week in a zombified state, just like everyone else on campus. Right now I keep feeling like I've been crying for a long time, which I actually haven't today! Which I find stunning! But I get the physical aftermath anyway, bah: I shall go the usual route and blame stress. (I've been clenching my jaw more than usual, too, but I think I'm not grinding my teeth when I sleep right now? Maybe? I just keep noticing I'm clenching my jaw because I'll move my mouth and suddenly realize how sore it is.)
Meanwhile I have been watching The Borgias trailer that came out in December over and over again just because I can't process anything else right now, except for all the back episodes of Man V. Food on Netflix Instead. (You know me, keeping it classy.)
Over and over and over again...
All the things I like in my history and my TV: plotting, blood, orgies, incest, pretty clothes, dirty politics, Rome! Although I take offense at Showtime calling the Borgias the original crime family; they are only from the fifteenth century, y'all! THAT IS PRACTICALLY YESTERDAY. And the late fifteenth century, at that. Hmmph. They even cross over into the sixteenth century! Bah, not the original crime family at all. (And what crime, anyway? I mean, if we're calling that a crime, I'm sure we can go back at least to the Julii Caesares, in Rome alone, not counting the rest of the known world.) Although I quite like this trailer too, although the Godfather ref at the end is like the least subtle thing ever:
You know, by the time this show actually comes out in April, I may actually be able to identify who people are. (My facial recognition skills are not that good unless there are other identifying features. I spent the first couple seasonn of Rome very confused about who was who.)
Although. I will admit that every time Jeremy Irons speaks I think of Scar, and then I start giggling and calling him "Pope Scar" in my head.
However, there is also a shocking dearth of books on the Borgias in the library. There's about 3/4 of a shelf for Lucrezia alone -- and someone just stacked them up and didn't file them correctly! Which was not true when I got my book on Lucrezia Borgia out of the library a month ago! I might be forced to reshelve them tomorrow just because thinking about it pisses me off -- and maybe a shelf on the Borgias in general. Maybe two or three books that have come out in the past decade. A SHOCKING DEARTH, Y'ALL. I am resisting the urge to take it as A Sign that I should immediately change my academic field, because clearly there is a gap waiting to be filled! Politics and Rome and incest and backalley murders, man, these are a few of my favorite things.
Er, I think I shall go to bed before I say anything else incoherent, because I went to bed late last night and took a midterm early this morning and have been reading about Saint Guinefort ever since. (Jean-Claude Schmitt, you irritate me, you and your self-righteous book and your self-righteous article, gah. CLASSIST. Oh, well, at least I have something to talk about it in tutorial tomorrow.)
Meanwhile I have been watching The Borgias trailer that came out in December over and over again just because I can't process anything else right now, except for all the back episodes of Man V. Food on Netflix Instead. (You know me, keeping it classy.)
Over and over and over again...
All the things I like in my history and my TV: plotting, blood, orgies, incest, pretty clothes, dirty politics, Rome! Although I take offense at Showtime calling the Borgias the original crime family; they are only from the fifteenth century, y'all! THAT IS PRACTICALLY YESTERDAY. And the late fifteenth century, at that. Hmmph. They even cross over into the sixteenth century! Bah, not the original crime family at all. (And what crime, anyway? I mean, if we're calling that a crime, I'm sure we can go back at least to the Julii Caesares, in Rome alone, not counting the rest of the known world.) Although I quite like this trailer too, although the Godfather ref at the end is like the least subtle thing ever:
You know, by the time this show actually comes out in April, I may actually be able to identify who people are. (My facial recognition skills are not that good unless there are other identifying features. I spent the first couple seasonn of Rome very confused about who was who.)
Although. I will admit that every time Jeremy Irons speaks I think of Scar, and then I start giggling and calling him "Pope Scar" in my head.
However, there is also a shocking dearth of books on the Borgias in the library. There's about 3/4 of a shelf for Lucrezia alone -- and someone just stacked them up and didn't file them correctly! Which was not true when I got my book on Lucrezia Borgia out of the library a month ago! I might be forced to reshelve them tomorrow just because thinking about it pisses me off -- and maybe a shelf on the Borgias in general. Maybe two or three books that have come out in the past decade. A SHOCKING DEARTH, Y'ALL. I am resisting the urge to take it as A Sign that I should immediately change my academic field, because clearly there is a gap waiting to be filled! Politics and Rome and incest and backalley murders, man, these are a few of my favorite things.
Er, I think I shall go to bed before I say anything else incoherent, because I went to bed late last night and took a midterm early this morning and have been reading about Saint Guinefort ever since. (Jean-Claude Schmitt, you irritate me, you and your self-righteous book and your self-righteous article, gah. CLASSIST. Oh, well, at least I have something to talk about it in tutorial tomorrow.)