americaaaaaa!!!!
(Hugh Laurie while he was still English)
The States!
Hi, I’m Eush, from the PI, via Ohio, now in Nashville. I ply my trade in Classical studies but moonlight in general gallimaufry. Hit me up here.
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It’s time for my sporadic photos from Italy of random things
A few days ago, we went to ‘Horace’s’ Villa (well, it could be, but we’re not sure, so the inverted commas are there). So naturally, I have a photo of me and a friend comparing notes on the latrines there.
We also went to Alba Fucens and we spent hours trying to identify the ruins. So here is me with my group, climbing back up the mountain, with my signature pose.
I got epic sunburn that day.
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![via the NY Times:
The [American Academy in Rome], with its small size and proximity to the Italian countryside … now offers a menu that mainly relies on ingredients that are delivered by local farmers, grown on the academy’s sumptuous grounds, or foraged by the academy’s fellows in field trips to local meadows and forests. All food scraps are composted and not much is thrown away. In a town where residents talk a lot about food, the new food at the academy quickly became the talk of Rome, and a dinner invitation became a coveted commodity.
Monday night plans.](http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l4w7t8Yb5d1qz988go1_500.jpg)
via the NY Times:
The [American Academy in Rome], with its small size and proximity to the Italian countryside … now offers a menu that mainly relies on ingredients that are delivered by local farmers, grown on the academy’s sumptuous grounds, or foraged by the academy’s fellows in field trips to local meadows and forests. All food scraps are composted and not much is thrown away. In a town where residents talk a lot about food, the new food at the academy quickly became the talk of Rome, and a dinner invitation became a coveted commodity.
Monday night plans.
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One of my favorite parts of being in this summer session is that we’re allowed access to places not open to the public (like, say, the inside of the Temple of Hercules Victor, now free from bird crap!), and my second favorite is watching other tourists try to follow us into the temple, while the angry Italian lady in charge of the place kicks them out.
So anyway here is a photo of something that is not a penis. I’m still working on those hot Italian men photos, Six—we went to the beach yesterday, but it was mostly full of old men in Speedos because this is Europe—but so far, no dice.
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So my first week in Rome has been pretty great, if a little exhausting. Our days with the program have been pretty intense, and I am about three shades darker from standing in the sun all day now. I’ve been learning a lot (even how to read Etruscan, which was cool), seeing a lot of things, yadda yadda. So of all the awesome things I’ve seen this past week, (Tusculum, necropoleis at Tarquinia and Banditaccia (my favorite site so far), the Pantheon which I found by accident while looking for Mia Market which turned out to be closed on Sunday anyway, etc etc etc), I have chosen to show you a photo of votive penes from the Museo della Navi Romane, because I can’t find the one where I’m high-fiving the giant hand of Constantine.
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Phoenix - “If I Ever Feel Better”
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I completely support that church that wants to set fire to a big pile of Korans.
On one condition: they have to do it inside their church, with the entire membership present, and the doors locked.
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“Don’t you write a book about this, George Orwell!”
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