bedlamsbard | Mar. 10th, 2013

Mar. 10th, 2013

Today I did a mental catalog of all the tea I own and came up with fourteen. FOURTEEN. Eight black, two green, two chai, one oolong, one herbal. What even. (Five loose-leaf, eight bag, one that kind of powdery instant stuff that I haven't really gotten around to drinking because it was behind all the other tea.)

Today I also drank too much black tea and got jacked up on caffeine, which basically means I can't do anything functional until I come down. I hit the upper point of the caffeine high at the same point I hit pre-essay panic and my right wrist started acting up, which, let me tell you, terrible, terrible combo.

I really should be putting more effort into these essays. I really should be more worried about these essays, considering I only just started doing research for the other one and they're still do the same day. (But the first one is about half-done and I figure I can blather on about rams and coins and the Romans being batshit and why the fuck do the majority of the main texts in this field predate WORLD WAR II for most of the rest.)

Today I read a book about Graeco-Roman Slave Markets, Fact or Fiction? (what a weird fucking way to phrase that), and while the actual Graeco-Roman part was pretty blah, she started out talking about early modern/modern slave markets and I was equal parts disgusted and inspired (TO WRITE), which was really weird. I also blanked on the fact that there is an actual slave market in VotDT until I was mostly done with the book, and belatedly remembered that one of my favorite restaurants in NOLA used to be a slave market. Yeah, weird times. (This is one of those times when I'm equal parts doing research for a paper and for Dust, as well as out of sheer horrified curiosity.)

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Hobbit art recs: ship art! (all different pairings this time)

Fili/Kili by

megatruh (NSFW, incest)
Dwalin/Thorin post Battle of Azanulbizar by

pandakriwilz
Thorin/Dis by

kaetiegaard (NSFW, incest)
Bilbo/Bofur by

kaciart
Thorin/Kili by

lanimalu (incest)

Crossposts: http://bedlamsbard.livejournal.com/812592.html

Apparently I took my goal of only doing 50% of the things at the last minute instead of 97% of the things at the last minute to mean, when having two essays due the same day, write one leisurely over the period of several days and write the second one at the last minute.

...I didn't mean it that literally.

I'm seriously gonna hate myself tomorrow and Tuesday when I'm vomiting up 3K on the archaeological evidence of Roman slavery at 5 am.

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Meanwhile, I just read an article that had me literally yelling at the computer screen. Gods, academia, please change.