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[lovelies]

˙ǝɹǝɥ oƃ 'ǝɯǝɯ ǝɥʇ ǝʇɐnʇǝdɹǝd oʇ

˙ɹǝɯɯnq ˙ǝlnpǝɥɔs lǝʌɐɹʇ ǝɥʇ uı ǝɹɐ sǝʇıs ǝƃɐ ǝzuoɹq ʎuɐɯ ɥƃnoɥʇ uǝʌǝ 'sǝıpnʇs ɹno ɟo ǝdoɔs ǝɥʇ ɟo ʇno ʇıq ɐ sı ɐɹǝ ɔıʇsıuǝllǝɥ ǝɥʇ ˙ɹǝɥʇıǝ 'uı ʇoƃ sǝnƃɐǝlloɔ ʎɯ ɟo ǝuou 'puɐɥ ɹǝɥʇo ǝɥʇ uo ʇnq ˙ɐıɹʎs oʇ ƃuıoƃ ǝq ʇ,uoʍ ı ʎlʇuǝɹɐddɐ 'os

I've had kind of a rotten week.

Comments

[tytal]

Why aren't you guys going? They decide Finns aren't welcome all of a sudden?

[lovelies]

Nah, us theologians aren't. It was mainly meant for classical philologists.

[tytal]

Pfft. Fuck that.

[elowena]

I'm sorry to hear that. Competition for places on uni trips sucks ass. If it's any consolation, getting on trips as a Classics major is a hassle as well. (I could insert a whole rant on the department lagging behind and not realizing that only admitting 7th-year students on study trips sucks considering we're supposed to graduate in less than that but - well, there you have it

[lovelies]

Oh, I wasn't really upset about the trip. It's more interpersonal relationships that have been going sour lately.

There was a trip last fall for the Ancient Near East people, where many of my friends went, and I probably would have gotten in. But they visited Hellenistic sites on that trip, and it wouldn't have been that useful for me, so I never applied. On this Hellenistic Near East trip they are scheduled to visit bronze age sites (do not ask me why, it makes no sense), and those would have been of interest to me. But Hellenistic studies as such have no impact on my degree.

The people were chosen for the trip on the basis of how well they could argue for it being useful for their studies. My entire case was that I have in the past studied Near Eastern archaeology, Ugaritic, Armaic, Greek and Latin, and I really really really really really want to see Ugarit (even though I do textual studies and seeing the place has no bearing on poetic parallelism, which I left out of the application