Joyful things

[hawkwing_lb]

Today, my supervisor gave me a book. Gave, not loaned!

The way to my heart, she has it.

(The book, by the way, is Robert Garland's Eye of the Beholder, about disease and deformity in ancient Greece. I've read the earlier edition - it's pretty cool, albeit a touch full of unthinking ablism.)

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Two Greek classes today, ancient and modern. I foresee much confuzzlement on Mondays from now until March. Also some watching of Greek TV on Youtube: I need to get my ear in. Quickly.

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Falling off walls: a good thing in life. Sent: two estimated 5s and a 6A, made another step higher on last time's estimated 6B, and threw myself at about three hard things that gave me little satisfaction - one is really dynamic, and I think it's either a hard 6A or a middling-low 6B: lots of hop-and-reach, and one move that may be a true dyno. Fun was had.

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Also a good thing: Joanna Russ's The Country You Have Never Seen. britmandelo, I may have to make squeeful noises in your direction for the recommendation, when I've read more than three pages of it. I hope you'll forgive me when that happens.

Comments

[britmandelo.livejournal.com]

Forgiven in advance! Russ is worth a lot of squeeful noises.

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Much gratitude. :)

[endlessrarities.livejournal.com]

Wow! My supervisor SOLD me a book once. For a fiver. It was Passage of Arms by Richard Bradley. A great book, but the trouble was... It was a damned review copy, so he knowingly did his impoverished student out of five quid.

My supervisor was a damned fine academic, but a pretty awful human being. He's a dead ringer for Saruman now, too...

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

This was a review copy too. Normally they get fought over, but it wasn't especially relevant to any staff interests, so it got passed down to me...