we flew along just like a song on a gallant sailing ship

[hawkwing_lb]

The internet here kept dropping off yesterday and the day before. I hope it's better now - it seems to be working, at least.

So, yesterday. I spent the late morning and early afternoon in the library of the Ecole Francais, making my thesis grow some more. Making the thesis grow is tiring. It takes much concentration.

Then there was dinner with several Irish archaeologists. An evening that went on for six hours and culminated in an orange-fight between the road and our hosts' balcony as we were leaving. I haven't laughed so much or had so much fun in a donkey's age, I swear. I'm still slightly breathless from it.

I should try to get back into an exercise regime. Which means going for a walk, at the very least. (I cannot simply sit inside all day.)

Comments

[endlessrarities.livejournal.com]

Yep, that sounds like a fairly regular archaeologists' dinner...

I'm enjoying catching up with your exploits - and with the translations of Xenephon. I've read translations of his essay on Sparta and all things Spartan, and his essay on horsemanship (of course!) but this one's been new to me. It makes me realise once again how familiar the Ancient Greeks are and yet at the same time, how alien...

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

I have exploits?

*is tempted to make a gaming joke about feats and skill points, but refrains*

I shall hopefully move on from dear old Xenophon to Thucydides this weekend. Weird boys, the lot of them.

[endlessrarities.livejournal.com]

Yes, you do:-)

I share your pain - I have one more book to read in my non-fiction pile and then I'm on to Thucydides' book on the Peloponnesian War. For the second time, because I gave up the first time halfway through a particularly long, very dull speech by one of the Spartans, who wasn't being at all laconic at the time, or else he'd just have said, "No. You're talking mince. We don't agree." Or even just plain 'No."

Though at least I'm not reading it in Greek...

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

I am only reading extracts. Thank god.