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I sat in the library today, surrounded by intelligent people working on serious projects. I wrote porn.

I'll type it up and post it when it's done. It really put me in a good mood, watching all these people engrossed in tomes on the military strategy Henry IV (non-existent as far as I remember), the poplation figures of Ancient Persia and Stalinist archetecture and what it tells us about social issues in Russia (those were the three people closest to me), and I was writing about Viggo fucking Orlando into the mattress.

On an unrelated note, did you know that the subjects within the Athenian Empire in the 4th century BC celebrated the feast Dionysia by parading through the streets of Athens 'each city providing a six foot statue of an erect phallus'? I had an interesting lecture this morning...

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I sat in the library today, surrounded by intelligent people working on serious projects. I wrote porn.

What wouldn't I give to be there?

In the next X-mas parade brainstorming session, I think I'll suggest the phallus statues.'Twould be different, at any rate. ;)

What wouldn't I give to be there?

Collab! Oh what fun that would have been. Except I think I'd have got the giggles. I was very subtle today!

In the next X-mas parade brainstorming session, I think I'll suggest the phallus statues.'Twould be different, at any rate. ;)
Go for it :P It would be educational - classical Greece. Cultural and all that.

Can I tell you how highly amused I am by the syllabus at Cambridge?

*falls over laughing*

Are you laughing at my lecture or the reading material of my fellow students?

The best thing about the syllabus here, IMHO, is the fact that it is so open. You can study basically anything you want. There were 35 history options in the first year, of which we had to choose three. It gets even wider as we get older. Not that I want to, but I could become a specialist in just about anything (Victorian sewage systems? Don't see the appeal myself!)

Why on earth would anyone want to be an expert in Victorian sewage systems?

And I laugh at the ... oh, what's the word ... stark difference between your fellow students' very intense historical debates, and you writing porn right next to them. I will never be able to look at my fellow riders on the Metro again without wondering which of them is subconciously reliving their nights of passion while their seatmate is reading the Economist.

Thus the basis of it's appeal. I'm going to write all my porn in the library now, purely for the thrill of doing so. I love the feeling of subverting authority, even in such a minor, and to be honest, harmless, way.

*grin* Go you. Ah, sigh, if only I had thought of it, I would have done it on Harvard Yard.

Actually, does Cambridge have any weird traditions? Because there were three things Harvard students had to do before graduating:

1. Throw a pat of butter on the ceiling in the freshman cafeteria so that it sticks.

2. Have sex in the stacks in Widener Library.

3. Urinate on John Harvard's Statue.

(My husband, incidentally, did neither number one (he was never a freshmen there, thus could not get into the cafeteria) nor number two (I refused to assist him); I cannot speak for number three.

I don't know of any traditions like that one, although I'm sure some of the colleges have their own. There are a few rules which seems bizarre - like immediate expulsion if you climb inside the statue (it's kind of like a vase) outside Senate House, or if you climb the exterior of King's Chapel. There are also things like if you turn up to an exam in full plate armour you automatically get a first class degree, and everyone in the room gets a first class degree if the Queen walks in during the exam.

Woah. Quick, go find full plate armor! *grin* Wonder if the Queen knows about the second rule? And better yet, if she did walk into the room during an exam, would people be more excited to see her, or that they're getting first place degrees?

I'd be far more excited about getting the first, than about seeing the Queen. Actually she will probably come sometime in the next year or two because she's our patroness (we're the only cambridge or oxford college to have a royal patron which is cool). Maybe we could bribe her to come durin exams!

I think I'd be excited for both, although probably in the moment, more excited for the Queen. But then, I'm an American, and we have this thing for royalty. *grin*

You can have 'em. All of them. And especially Charlie-boy. I mean honestly!

My friend Andrew went to school with Wills and Harry at Eton. He says they're both actually really dull to talk to.

Doesn't surprise me, all that much. If I were them, I'd be nervous about saying things to people, wondering what would be thrown back in my face in the gossip columns the next day.

All the same. If I were five years younger ... and not married ... I'd be all over Wills. He's awfully cute.

And you can keep Charlie, thanks. We've got Fergie over here already, telling us to buy things at Westfield malls and subsribe to Weight Watchers.

Sure, he's cute, but there's not much between his ears. Can't comment on between his thighs...

Oh, you're horrid! Sure you can't comment? *wink*

I can't comment coz I don't know, and if I did I wouldn't comment because I'd be afraid of lawsuits. Andrew might know - showers after rugby games or something (the idea of slashing them is somewhat appealing - I'm going to hell!), but I'd have to be very drunk to ask him. And even then I'm not sure I'd post it on the internet (well... maybe...)

Dammit. Satan never teaches us the good stuff.

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Continuing on the unrelated note ...