So, I'm dogsitting for a professor this week, or actually, this last week and this weekend, and I haven't been so consistently sick in a long time ( Read more... )

Ave, Caesar ( Read more... )

So, here, I am presented with a remarkable challenge ( Read more... )

Tonight, I shook Edgar Meyer's hand. It was pretty rad.

In the concluding moments of an eight and a half hour Wegmans shift, my dear departed "Mullet" Dave wandered into Wegmans last night. We spoke for a few awkward minutes, standing a little too close, smiling a lot and him implying something about me getting drunk ( Read more... )

In the episode of "Law and Order: Criminal Intent" that I am watching, this recording artist-thief uses the teachings of Marcus Aurelius to convince poor kids to steal bicycles and kill people ( Read more... )

My project presentation is in T-minus-four hours. I am terrified. Maybe everyone who knows anything about printing, Venice, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, or Protestantism will mysteriously come down with some sort of "I know things about the Sixteenth Century" flu. I can only hope ( Read more... )

20,000 words. 75 pages.

God, I hope I can finish by Friday.

I'm taking a short break from translating a few documents of Medieval/Church Latin.

Dear Pope Leo X,

I would appreciate it, if, in the future, you wouldn't mind adhering to at least a few of the rules of Classical Latin. I truly believe that your Bulla Contra Errores Martini Lutheri & Sequacium is incredibly crucial to my project, but my ( Read more... )

I was reading a talk given by a mentor of mine here at the Newberry ( Read more... )