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Athenian things
Mar. 26th, 2014 07:14 pmIf I'm more scattered and less communicative than usual - or just as scattered and more communicative - I blame being in Athens. Athens is scattering.
This morning I breakfasted on microwave porridge brought from home and marched the fifteen or twenty minutes it takes up (one of) the hill(s) to l'ÉFA, the French School at Athens, picking up a zambontyropita and a couple of mini chocolate croissants for lunch on the way. And passing three paramilitary cops - green fatigues, black berets - standing on a corner staring at passers-by with really hard eyes.
At l'ÉFA I was welcomed once again very graciously to their gorgeous library - Salle A is the original 19th-century article, all old dark wood and moveable ladders and old-fashioned oval reading tables - where, from sometime before 1100 to sometime around 1500, I wrote over 1000 words on my thesis and took some 400 words of notes not directly related to those 1000 words.
Now if only I can do that every day!
Then I came back and messed around instead of working on a review. Went for a shuffle-run in the park; managed to go for 90 seconds, approximately. Better than nothing, right? I can try again tomorrow.
This morning I breakfasted on microwave porridge brought from home and marched the fifteen or twenty minutes it takes up (one of) the hill(s) to l'ÉFA, the French School at Athens, picking up a zambontyropita and a couple of mini chocolate croissants for lunch on the way. And passing three paramilitary cops - green fatigues, black berets - standing on a corner staring at passers-by with really hard eyes.
At l'ÉFA I was welcomed once again very graciously to their gorgeous library - Salle A is the original 19th-century article, all old dark wood and moveable ladders and old-fashioned oval reading tables - where, from sometime before 1100 to sometime around 1500, I wrote over 1000 words on my thesis and took some 400 words of notes not directly related to those 1000 words.
Now if only I can do that every day!
Then I came back and messed around instead of working on a review. Went for a shuffle-run in the park; managed to go for 90 seconds, approximately. Better than nothing, right? I can try again tomorrow.
