December 2009
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Dec 30th
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Christmas/New Year's
I’ve been sort of a vagrant lately, and haven’t had much access to computers. In any case, I have been bumming here at my friend’s flat in NYC for the past week and a half, then I went down to Jersey to stay with another friend for a couple of days, somewhere in there had the worst Christmas ever (it involves JFK and bitchy Delta airport ladies and failing to watch Sherlock...
Dec 29th
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“i think they’d enforce this shit for the entire duration of the flight if [they]...”
– jhn brssndn.
Dec 26th
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Dec 26th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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Heh.
me: Is 30 seconds long enough for this tofu?
jo: Probably not.
me: Well, I'll just flip it over and do it some more.
me: Heh.
Dec 24th
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Holy crap new followers
Aww, Six. You shouldn’t have. But hi guys! If nothing else, I have been recorded as a reliable source ‘for a good old fashioned jerk-off/sculpture-fucking tragedy’, so there’s that.
Dec 22nd
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 21st
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GRAAAADES...
are out. Well, all of them except one (Roman Comedy). And I did pretty much as expected, but a teeny bit better in the one subject I hated most. Take that, grad school!
Dec 21st
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Dec 20th
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I am chock-full of brilliant ideas
Guess who thought it would be an excellent idea to brave the Great New York Winter Blizzard ‘09 to get some ice cream from Chinatown? It was so worth it, though.
Dec 20th
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Dec 19th
To-dos in New York
Read Herodotus Book I in Greek Read Tacitus in English Review Latin This looks suspiciously like what I would be doing if I had stayed in Nashville There is no rest for the wicked
Dec 18th
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There is a child in a leopard-print Snuggie at...
Oh no, I was wrong. It’s a leopard-print trouser-and-hoodie combo.
Dec 17th
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Dec 16th
Dec 16th
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“If you took a walk by a Swiss lake in the 1930s—the peak time for the writing of...”
– Harry Mount, Carpe Diem: How to Become a Latin Lover (via niconarsi)
Dec 15th
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Dec 15th
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re: Greek prose and poetry proficiency
I have never been so relieved to see the words FAIL OVERALL BUT GOOD SIGNS HERE emblazoned on my exams, because by next semester I will probably pass these. Latin, however, can go fuck itself.
Dec 14th
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“καὶ τέλος κατὰ τοῦ τέγους ἁλόμενος διέφυγε, ῥαφανῖδι τὴν πυγὴν βεβυσμένος.”
– ‘And finally he fled, jumping down from the roof, with a radish stuck up his butt.’ Lucian, The Death of Peregrinus, AKA the gift that keeps on giving.
Dec 14th
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Berlusconi Is Punched at Rally  →
My day = made. jhnbrssndn: unburyingthelead: And he deserved it. I love Italy. Not enough politicians get punched these days.
Dec 14th
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Malcolm’s Mottos
Nicola: You’re back.
Malcolm: Yeah, just tying up a few loose ends.
N: With which you’re going to plait some kind of garrote and strangle me.
M: Forgive and forget. That's my motto.
N: I thought your motto was ‘who fucks wins’ or ‘olly swarky malky fuck’.
M: I’ve got a lot of mottos.
Dec 13th
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“We are going to take you down to Funky Town. Funky Town Centre here you come....”
– Steve Fleming, The Thick of It
Dec 13th
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“Dissatisfied with his lot, the young man gave himself up to drink, which,...”
– Heinrich Schliemann may have been an unscrupulous archaeologist and a douchebag, but you can’t deny his passion for his chosen field. (via)
Dec 12th
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on the intricacies of translating ‘οἱ...
prof: It could be neutral, like ‘unfortunate ones’, but it really depends on the context…anyone have any suggestions?
me: ‘Poor bastards’?
prof: I like it.
Dec 11th
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Dec 11th
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“That’s what religion is, K-Fed. Just a bunch of made-up rules to...”
– Tracy Jordan’s words of wisdom.
Dec 11th
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“Somebody needs to get in the holiday sonofabitch!”
– Cameron is my favorite. Or Manny.
Dec 10th
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Normal-people things I will do now that I am done...
Laundry for the first time in three weeks Dishes that have been in my sink since last Saturday Which, incidentally, was the last time I ate an actual meal, as opposed to peppermints or chips and salsa Cook a meal with food in it Watch Jeopardy! Look under the giant pile of papers and books hoping my couch is still under them SLEEP Restart cycle of madness tomorrow, but this time with a...
Dec 10th
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ListenSean Paul - Break It Off I am writing the...
Dec 7th
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Dec 7th
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Dec 7th
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Dec 7th
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Dec 7th
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Dec 6th
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Dec 5th
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“The essential pre-condition of divorce was marriage.”
– Found in an article about Roman divorce. No shit?
Dec 5th
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Dec 5th
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Swiss neutrality
John Oliver: There must be *some* countries you think are dicks.
Swiss Ambassador: …that I think are…what?
Dec 4th
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Dec 4th
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Dec 3rd
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Dec 3rd
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ListenBloc Party - Flux (German Language Version) Much...
Dec 3rd
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Anybody out there have strong opinions on...
Canon PowerShot SD780 blah blah. I really don’t want to write this paper, so I’m looking at cameras on Amazon. Ever since I dropped and broke my old PowerShot A630, I haven’t had a camera on me. The iPhone camera is all right, but goddamn that thing can’t take pictures at night. (Which meant that I couldn’t have pictures of my fantastic Max Brenner’s...
Dec 1st
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this program has aged me *this* much
me: I got an email saying the custodian left my lost ID here?
admin. assistant: Yes, here it is.
me: Great!
aa: (looks at ID to confirm that it’s me) You look much younger in this picture.
me, much later: That was taken only three months ago…
Dec 1st
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ListenMysto & Pizzi - Somebody’s Watching Me Also...
Dec 1st
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