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Done with finals

Sun, 20 Dec 2009 19:30:00 -0600

What a state I’m in.

Recall at the end of last semester, over the summer, I had written about loving a certain smile. I still love that smile; I am in love with that smile. Please consider this metonymy. To borrow words “5 Centimeters Per Second: Cosmonaut,” which are too accurate:

“…I fell even more in love whenever I saw his figure. It was scary and each day was filled with anguish. But feeling happy anytime I met him was something about myself that I couldn’t do anything about.”

sisterspock: fuckyeahprettyplaces: Vatnajökull Glacier,...

Sat, 19 Dec 2009 17:20:42 -0600

sisterspock:

fuckyeahprettyplaces:

Vatnajökull Glacier, Iceland

sisterspock: Joni Mitchell ‘Picked up a pencil and wrote...

Sat, 19 Dec 2009 17:18:47 -0600

sisterspock:

Joni Mitchell

‘Picked up a pencil and wrote “I love you” in my finest hand
Wanted to send it, but I don’t know where I stand

Telephone, even the sound of your voice is still new
All alone in California and talking to you
And feeling too foolish and strange to say the words that I had planned
I guess it’s too early, ‘cause I don’t know where I stand

Crickets call, courting their ladies in star-dappled green
Thickets tall, until the morning comes up like a dream
All muted and misty, so drowsy now I’ll take what sleep I can
I know that I miss you, but I don’t know where I stand’

(via rowanboat)

Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:24:21 -0600

(via rowanboat)

fystfanart: Straight outta Vulcan Betta recognize.

Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:15:24 -0600

fystfanart:

Straight outta Vulcan

Betta recognize.

sisterspock: cerisekanin:(gwarf)

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:41:53 -0600

sisterspock:

cerisekanin:(gwarf)

So I was looking up Taft and Dollar Diplomacy for my history...

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:42:00 -0600

So I was looking up Taft and Dollar Diplomacy for my history paper…

sisterspock: jesuismarah: spiels: juliasegal

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:53:18 -0600

sisterspock:

jesuismarah:

spiels:

juliasegal

“Joni Mitchell… I love her, and true love lasts a...

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:46:13 -0600

“Joni Mitchell… I love her, and true love lasts a lifetime.” (from Love Actually)

eush: ipengui: Mr. Darcy: Derbyshire’s Freestyle Disco...

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:42:31 -0600

eush:

ipengui:

Mr. Darcy: Derbyshire’s Freestyle Disco Champion

I’ve just started watching the third series of That Mitchell and Webb Look, in my ever-expanding quest to not write my paper.

“Oh Caroline will you PLEASE SHUT THE FUCK UP!”

“Perhaps Mr Darcy, you would be good enough to favor us with a brief exhibition of your freestyle disco prowess?”

"If you took a walk by a Swiss lake in the 1930s—the peak time for the writing of Latin grammar..."

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:39:29 -0600

“If you took a walk by a Swiss lake in the 1930s—the peak time for the writing of Latin grammar books—you could hardly fail to bump into knots of bespectacled millionaires swapping gags about ablative absolutes and rogue gerundives. Here, footling around in a rowing boat in the shallows of Lake Geneva, was Benjamin Hall Kennedy, the original writer of the Primer, in deep conversation over cognate accusatives with the man who revised it in 1930, Sir James Mountford. There was Liddell, deep in conversation over a glühwein with Scott about the correct Greek word for the most terrible of Athenian punishments—”to stuff a radish up the fundament” (raphanidosis, by the way).”

-
Harry Mount, Carpe Diem: How to Become a Latin Lover (via niconarsi) (via eush)

I think I need to read this book.

"Dissatisfied with his lot, the young man gave himself up to drink, which, however, had not made him..."

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 13:19:12 -0600

“Dissatisfied with his lot, the young man gave himself up to drink, which, however, had not made him forget his Homer; for on the evening that he entered the shop he recited to us about a hundred lines of the poet, observing the rhythmic cadence of the verses. Although I did not understand a syllable, the melodious sound of the words made a deep impression upon me, and I wept bitter tears over my unhappy fate. Three times over did I get him to repeat to me those divine verses, rewarding his trouble with three glasses of whiskey, which I bought with the few pence that made up my whole fortune. From that moment I never ceased to pray God that by His grace I might yet have the happiness of learning Greek.”

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Heinrich Schliemann may have been an unscrupulous archaeologist and a douchebag, but you can’t deny his passion for his chosen field. (via) (via eush)

“…Happiness of learning Greek.” I wish I felt that way.

Greek Final exam: Sunday the 20th, 7:45 AM.

midnight-radio: itsfullofstars:rymdhiss:spacethebeyond: 8...

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 13:16:20 -0600

midnight-radio:

itsfullofstars:rymdhiss:spacethebeyond:

8 The core of the spectacular globular cluster Omega Centauri glitters with the combined light of 2 million stars. The entire cluster contains 10 million stars, and is among the biggest and most massive of some 200 globular clusters orbiting the Milky Way Galaxy. Omega Centauri lies 17,000 light-years from Earth. Image acquired in June of 2002. (NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team, STScI/AURA) More (see this on Google Sky) #

rowanboat: fystfanart: this gorgeous picture is made even...

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:17:34 -0600

rowanboat:

fystfanart:

this gorgeous picture is made even better by being called: “Not the hell your whale”

Oh my god.

This is beautiful. And I love it.

Natalie Portman to star in and produce "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies"

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:16:40 -0600

Natalie Portman to star in and produce "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies":

sisterspock:

fairphantom:

(via deadgrotty)

APPROVE.

NASA discover Spock's planet Vulcan

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:19:07 -0600

NASA discover Spock's planet Vulcan :

Space scientists have discovered that the home planet of Star Trek’s Mr Spock may really exist - or at least something very like it. They used a powerful telescope to find evidence for rocky worlds around the very star which his home world Vulcan supposedly orbits in the hit TV and movie series…

on the intricacies of translating ‘οἱ κακοδαίμονες’ in reference to Christians in Lucian’s De morte Peregrini

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:56:53 -0600

prof: It could be neutral, like ‘unfortunate ones’, but it really depends on the context…anyone have any suggestions?
me: ‘Poor bastards’?
prof: I like it.

mills: From Photophobia; from this set; larger. I like little...

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:59:39 -0600

mills:

From Photophobia; from this set; larger.

I like little frontier settlements, outcroppings of life where it might be hard to scratch out an existence, or at least a bit lonely: a hanging rootless daredevil, for example, or high above where there’s no shelter.

Orestes Pursued by the Furries (via Tales of a Wayward...

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:14:04 -0600

Orestes Pursued by the Furries

(via Tales of a Wayward Classicist)

midnight-radio: Resplendent Beard. - [Pointy Dog Theater] The...

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:04:18 -0600

midnight-radio:

Resplendent Beard. - [Pointy Dog Theater] The Philosophic Cock.

What they never tell you in school is that most of our Founders were, in life, TREMENDOUS DICKS.

By Alice Hunt, the writer of Goodbye Chains, which is one of my favourite webcomics (and in which there is currently some SERIOUS SHIT GOING DOWN, yikes). Click the link to read the whole comic!

And start reading Goodbye Chains here—the artist changes after about 70 pages, so if the art is a big deal for you trust me, it becomes really good; you can see some of Tracy Williams’ drafts for her redrawing of the early pages here. (Or you can start at Williams’ first page if you prefer; Hunt does not seem to think that that would unduly impact the reading experience.)

(I’ve plugged this comic a couple of times before because it is worth it.)