la la la ROMANS
Jul. 20th, 2011 08:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bedlamsbardUrgh, the past two days have been the days where Bedlam spills things on herself. Yesterday I got honey all over myself at breakfast, today I spilled yogurt on my jeans, also at breakfast. I really hope the next step isn't spilling a pot of tea down my chest.
So my period started yesterday, which is right on schedule according to MonthlyInfo, and, eh, whatever, I knew I was going to get my period while I was in England and I was just really hoping it wouldn't be (a) while I was on the Wessex trip or (b) while I was in transit. Neither of those will happen unless my period is abnormally long! (For me, anyway. I'm actually generally pretty regular, which is nice.) Only I ended up getting blood on my sheets last night, which I woke up to this morning and went, "WHAT THE HELL AM I SUPPOSED TO DO OH MY GOD." New Orleans I'd throw my sheets in the wash, whatever, but I don't have a spare set of sheets here and they don't change them until Monday and also...I'm not entirely certain the dryer in Newnham works. I ended up scrubbing at them until the stain was mostly gone and then layer towels on top and bottom of them, hoping that they'd dry out by the time I got back from class. And then I was late to breakfast, and then I spilled yogurt on my jeans (which also have blood on them, what the fuck, I hate everything), and now that spot on my sheets is still slightly damp. *hands* I went to Boots today and stared thoughtfully at the MoonCup in its discreet little box on the bottom of a shelf of tampons, since I've been thinking about getting a menstrual cup and you can't really buy it off the shelf in the U.S. Or at least I've never seen one on the shelf in the U.S.
Also, I am still really confused by English bathrooms, but I feel that after two and a half weeks, it's a little late to admit that.
So today I told someone that I had bought six books in England, and they responded by, "That's a lot!" and I went, "...I thought I was restraining myself," because it was only six books. Besides, I have another week and a half. This could go, uh, rather badly. I don't know how I'll get them home. Does the U.K. have a media mail equivalent? (Media mail -- in the U.S. if you just send books with the USPS, then there's a lower rate, but I don't know if it applies internationally or not. It's how I shipped all my books home this past year, though.)
Meanwhile, in my program we have finally gotten to Roman Britain! Finally, something I have actually studied; everyone else was going, "Eh, most of the Paleolithic stuff is review," and I was going, "NO IT'S NOT FOR ME." Only I feel like we hit it too fast because we didn't spend enough time on the Bronze Age and the Iron Age. It was just la la la lithics la la la roundhouses la la la ROMANS. *sniffs* Also...I'm a little put out that Roman Britain is the only period we're not being taught by someone with a doctorate. I'm sure our tutor is very qualified and I'm being a snob! I just. They couldn't have found a classical archaeologist? I mean, Martin Millett is at Cambridge, and his whole thing is Roman Britain! Not that our tutor isn't very entertaining and very good, I just...wow, now I'm wondering if the Archaeology Department at Cambridge has a working relationship with the Classics Department at Cambridge. On the other hand, he might just be out of town.
Today was full of lecturers going over the allotted times, so we were late to lunch AND dinner. *sighs* Roman Britain lecturer did bring his Roman legionary reenactment kit, though, so that was AWESOME. We also went out to the Fitzwilliam Museum, which, heh, where one of our tutors criticized the layout of the museum. It is "artistic." (aella_irene, do you want to pop in tomorrow, if we have time? They've got some nice Roman stuff. Also this china figurine where the guy is grabbing this girl's ass...and cauliflower ware.)
Well, since I'm on the Cambridge Classics website anyway, now I'm staring at the MPhil application requirements. I wonder if it would be weird to e-mail whoever the Classics department secretary is and say, "Hi, I'm an American student who's doing a summer program at Cambridge, I'll be applying for grad schools this year, would it be possible to talk to someone about the program at Cambridge?" But I'm not really here for that much longer. Ugh, I don't know. Anyone have any thoughts? If anyone made it down this far, of course.
So my period started yesterday, which is right on schedule according to MonthlyInfo, and, eh, whatever, I knew I was going to get my period while I was in England and I was just really hoping it wouldn't be (a) while I was on the Wessex trip or (b) while I was in transit. Neither of those will happen unless my period is abnormally long! (For me, anyway. I'm actually generally pretty regular, which is nice.) Only I ended up getting blood on my sheets last night, which I woke up to this morning and went, "WHAT THE HELL AM I SUPPOSED TO DO OH MY GOD." New Orleans I'd throw my sheets in the wash, whatever, but I don't have a spare set of sheets here and they don't change them until Monday and also...I'm not entirely certain the dryer in Newnham works. I ended up scrubbing at them until the stain was mostly gone and then layer towels on top and bottom of them, hoping that they'd dry out by the time I got back from class. And then I was late to breakfast, and then I spilled yogurt on my jeans (which also have blood on them, what the fuck, I hate everything), and now that spot on my sheets is still slightly damp. *hands* I went to Boots today and stared thoughtfully at the MoonCup in its discreet little box on the bottom of a shelf of tampons, since I've been thinking about getting a menstrual cup and you can't really buy it off the shelf in the U.S. Or at least I've never seen one on the shelf in the U.S.
Also, I am still really confused by English bathrooms, but I feel that after two and a half weeks, it's a little late to admit that.
So today I told someone that I had bought six books in England, and they responded by, "That's a lot!" and I went, "...I thought I was restraining myself," because it was only six books. Besides, I have another week and a half. This could go, uh, rather badly. I don't know how I'll get them home. Does the U.K. have a media mail equivalent? (Media mail -- in the U.S. if you just send books with the USPS, then there's a lower rate, but I don't know if it applies internationally or not. It's how I shipped all my books home this past year, though.)
Meanwhile, in my program we have finally gotten to Roman Britain! Finally, something I have actually studied; everyone else was going, "Eh, most of the Paleolithic stuff is review," and I was going, "NO IT'S NOT FOR ME." Only I feel like we hit it too fast because we didn't spend enough time on the Bronze Age and the Iron Age. It was just la la la lithics la la la roundhouses la la la ROMANS. *sniffs* Also...I'm a little put out that Roman Britain is the only period we're not being taught by someone with a doctorate. I'm sure our tutor is very qualified and I'm being a snob! I just. They couldn't have found a classical archaeologist? I mean, Martin Millett is at Cambridge, and his whole thing is Roman Britain! Not that our tutor isn't very entertaining and very good, I just...wow, now I'm wondering if the Archaeology Department at Cambridge has a working relationship with the Classics Department at Cambridge. On the other hand, he might just be out of town.
Today was full of lecturers going over the allotted times, so we were late to lunch AND dinner. *sighs* Roman Britain lecturer did bring his Roman legionary reenactment kit, though, so that was AWESOME. We also went out to the Fitzwilliam Museum, which, heh, where one of our tutors criticized the layout of the museum. It is "artistic." (
aella_irene, do you want to pop in tomorrow, if we have time? They've got some nice Roman stuff. Also this china figurine where the guy is grabbing this girl's ass...and cauliflower ware.)Well, since I'm on the Cambridge Classics website anyway, now I'm staring at the MPhil application requirements. I wonder if it would be weird to e-mail whoever the Classics department secretary is and say, "Hi, I'm an American student who's doing a summer program at Cambridge, I'll be applying for grad schools this year, would it be possible to talk to someone about the program at Cambridge?" But I'm not really here for that much longer. Ugh, I don't know. Anyone have any thoughts? If anyone made it down this far, of course.