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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...
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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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. ;)
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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.
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*falls over laughing*
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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!)
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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.
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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.
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My friend Andrew went to school with Wills and Harry at Eton. He says they're both actually really dull to talk to.
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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.
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Continuing on the unrelated note ...