This is absolute.

[hawkwing_lb]

January 7, 2007 Progress Notes:

untitled space opera thingy

Words today: 1055
Words total: 2,630 by MS wordcount
Reason for stopping: quota and then some
Exercise: Short run. Later there will be situps and pushups.
Tyop du Jour: N/A
Words MS Word Doesn't Know: eejit, androgyne
Mean Things: the copilot is still dead
Books in progress: Jim Butcher, Storm Front
Books finished: Judith Herrin, Women in Purple: Rulers of Medieval Byzantium.



Nonfiction 1, Book 6.

Herrin, Women in Purple.

This is a solid assessment of the empresses Irene, Euphrosyne, and Theodora in 8th and 9th century Byzantium, and their complex relationship with imperial power, iconoclasm, and the restoration of icon veneration.

I'm not a specialist in this period, so I don't know how well it holds up in terms of accuracy. However, it is much more readable than other books of its type, and presents a reasonably balanced assessment of the three aforementioned empresses in terms of their relationship to Byzantine and imperial power, held in their own right or in their influence over their husbands and sons.

It's very interesting.



The glamour: Killed the essay that will not die. Ran out of fruit juice.

2,630 / 67,500 (3.9%)

Things to do tomorrow:

1. College.
--(a) library
--(b) deliver essay
--(c) lecture.
2. Gym.
3. Deliver CVs in order to find work. ETA: gods and little fishes, what happened to my memory? No, don't answer that.
4. Sort shit out for the rest of the week.
5. Write 1000 words.
6. Thoughts on Gentle's Ilario.