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quislibetWhile I should be editing review articles (including one that's the latest shot in the battle between Martin Bernal and Mary Lefkowitz over Black Athena), I found myself instead curiously scanning the latest Classical Association of New England directory.
I was particularly drawn, in that way that procrastination begets, to people's e-mail addresses. Sure, most of them are "your name @ whatever . edu," but I was looking for the geeky ones: the ones where the usernames are "latinteacher" or "magistra37" or "mythman" or "aeneas_and_dido_4eva." (Okay, that last one's not for real.)
These are the addresses preferred for professional contact, mind you. The best one I've ever seen -- not today -- was someone with the username "anarchofag" who was the contact person for a conference panel.
Then I saw someone with an obviously Changeling-the-Dreaming-related username, a local grad student. "I almost feel I should know this person," I thought to myself, although of course the world, and even the Boston area, holds surprisingly more game geeks who are also classics geeks than I'll probably ever comprehend. (You wouldn't know it from the state of Latin in White Wolf supplements, although, fortunately, the new Order of Hermes book takes a stab at fixing that. But I digress.)
So anyway: mild curiosity drove me to google -- and very quickly from there to this young woman's obituary from June.
So now I'm all sad. She even died on my birthday, whoever she was.
Also: there is a large cockroach somewhere in this room.
I was particularly drawn, in that way that procrastination begets, to people's e-mail addresses. Sure, most of them are "your name @ whatever . edu," but I was looking for the geeky ones: the ones where the usernames are "latinteacher" or "magistra37" or "mythman" or "aeneas_and_dido_4eva." (Okay, that last one's not for real.)
These are the addresses preferred for professional contact, mind you. The best one I've ever seen -- not today -- was someone with the username "anarchofag" who was the contact person for a conference panel.
Then I saw someone with an obviously Changeling-the-Dreaming-related username, a local grad student. "I almost feel I should know this person," I thought to myself, although of course the world, and even the Boston area, holds surprisingly more game geeks who are also classics geeks than I'll probably ever comprehend. (You wouldn't know it from the state of Latin in White Wolf supplements, although, fortunately, the new Order of Hermes book takes a stab at fixing that. But I digress.)
So anyway: mild curiosity drove me to google -- and very quickly from there to this young woman's obituary from June.
So now I'm all sad. She even died on my birthday, whoever she was.
Also: there is a large cockroach somewhere in this room.
