First bit of translation is the easy one! Namely, a set of letters that someone suggested, with a handy link. There's nothing particularly exciting going on here in the literary sense, but it's a nice bit of insight into the ancient lives of the, as best I can tell, quite wealthy. If you go to the website where I got the text, you can compare the ( Read more... )

So! It looks like Everyone Loves Ovid, which is not entirely surprising, so I'll be picking up with his Ars Amatoria pretty soon. (I have the first twenty lines or so translated already in a notebook somewhere, courtesy of some very long flights to and from Sweden, but I'll just restart from scratch to get into the swing of things.) Everyone also ( Read more... )

"Gosh," I said to myself, looking at Perseus and its giant store of conveniently accessible Latin and Greek texts, "I really should practice more, but it's no fun to just translate random things on my own without any purpose in mind beyond the practice, and without anyone to talk to about it ( Read more... )

So here's the thing. I need German reading proficiency for classics reasons, but getting an Only Reading Comprehension class isn't an option right now, nor has it been for some time. (Yes. I looked. Yes. I know about the theoretical For Reading classes for grad students at UT. Yes. I CHECKED. I may be getting a wee bit tired of having people ( Read more... )

...were not actually all that adventurous. I went in, I answered the usual questions, I winced at the finger stick, I gave blood. The only odd part was that, for the first time ever, the phlebotomist had trouble finding a vein. Lots of hmmming, having me squeeze the ball harder, poking around, a little fishing with a needle, and then finally ( Read more... )

"But I don't have anything interesting to say right now," I tell myself. "Well, except for those things which deserve a proper post with plenty of thought and organization, and I don't feel like that much work ( Read more... )

Rather than try to catch up with the last few months since I said anything about my life... Here's a list of Yuletide stories I really liked this year! *cough* And maybe this will remind me to update a bit more around here ( Read more... )

I have sold a short story! To a real zine that pays real pro rates! I'm very fond of it, as it's about AI girlfriends in spaaaaaaace. (It turns out that I write better stories, by and large, when I go for funny rather than grim.) You can see the announcement about the zine here, with links to places where said zine can be purchased.

This is for ( Read more... )

We flooded again. A relatively minor flood, this time, despite horrific rain--just parts of two rooms!--so I am trying to think of it as "Wow! That really expensive anti-flood work we had done has saved us a lot of trouble!" rather than "For fuck's sake, can we do anything to solve this? Ever ( Read more... )

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