Keep calm and carry on
Dec. 27th, 2011 07:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hawkwing_lbToday, I have been buying things. Or, at least, arranging to buy things, since I need new running shoes. There is a sale on, so for the very first time ever, I may get two pairs of running shoes in one year.
(My present footgear selection stands at boots two pair, flat formals one pair, dead and holy [sanctified and crucified] running shoes one pair, flipflops one pair. I'm not a shoe-y person. But the thought of having two whole pairs and not needing to worry makes me ungodly gleeful.)
Homer 1.130-140.
Answering him Lord Agamemnon said,
"Don't in this way, though you're good at it, godlike Achilles,
deceive me with your wit, for you won't outwit me, or win me over.
Are you willing, so that yourself you may hold your honour-prize, for me alone
to be left here lacking, while you call on me to give mine up?
But if they won't give me an honour-prize, the great-souled Achaeans
packed in close ranks, befitting my spirit, so it will be worth no less,
But if they won't give me one, I'll take it for myself,
going to your honour-prize, or Aias', or Odysseus',
I'll carry it off by force of arms - and he'll have been angered, whoever I come to.
But we'll consider these things in turn...."
...to be continued.
I have bought books. It has been a good day.
Things to do:
Review Honor's Paradox
Review The Road of Danger
Review Range of Ghosts
other reviews to be arranged
Thesis: twelve days' writing-up work @ 500 words per diem
Modern Greek: translate The Book of the Pirates
Ancient Greek: translate book one of the Iliad
Sundry things:
Dedicate day to funding search (aka, clean up email forwards)
Draft funding app
Contact survey project again (since no response first time)
Follow-up contact for other summer thing
Book flights and inform IIHSA of arrival/departure dates
Other things as they arise. Like laundry.
(My present footgear selection stands at boots two pair, flat formals one pair, dead and holy [sanctified and crucified] running shoes one pair, flipflops one pair. I'm not a shoe-y person. But the thought of having two whole pairs and not needing to worry makes me ungodly gleeful.)
Homer 1.130-140.
Answering him Lord Agamemnon said,
"Don't in this way, though you're good at it, godlike Achilles,
deceive me with your wit, for you won't outwit me, or win me over.
Are you willing, so that yourself you may hold your honour-prize, for me alone
to be left here lacking, while you call on me to give mine up?
But if they won't give me an honour-prize, the great-souled Achaeans
packed in close ranks, befitting my spirit, so it will be worth no less,
But if they won't give me one, I'll take it for myself,
going to your honour-prize, or Aias', or Odysseus',
I'll carry it off by force of arms - and he'll have been angered, whoever I come to.
But we'll consider these things in turn...."
...to be continued.
I have bought books. It has been a good day.
Things to do:
Review Honor's Paradox
Review The Road of Danger
Review Range of Ghosts
other reviews to be arranged
Thesis: twelve days' writing-up work @ 500 words per diem
Modern Greek: translate The Book of the Pirates
Ancient Greek: translate book one of the Iliad
Sundry things:
Draft funding app
Contact survey project again (since no response first time)
Follow-up contact for other summer thing
Book flights and inform IIHSA of arrival/departure dates
Other things as they arise. Like laundry.
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Date: 2011-12-28 08:31 am (UTC)Can't think of a fictional character who gets their comeuppance as thoroughly as Agamemnon does (or who annoys me as much). Clytemnestra's monstrous, but he's monstrous and also stupid.
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Date: 2011-12-28 12:56 pm (UTC)LibraryHall With An Axe.Hubris, Aggy. You can has it.