Another list
Sep. 23rd, 2003 01:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
quislibetI have done this sort of thing before, but it's time for an update.
Things on my desk:
A four-inch-high plastic Dalek; a bat-shaped picture frame with a picture of bat finger puppets draped over small pumpkins; H. Temporini-Gräfin Vitzthum (Hrsg.), Die Kaiserinnen Roms (München: Beck, 2002); a magnifying glass shaped like a ... giraffe or something; Tradition Book: Sons of Ether; a coaster shaped like the head of a black cat; an actual black cat -- no, now she's off; blank CDs; a Snoopy ruler, older than this year's batch of new grad students, with my name and home room number; a homemade Elder Sign; a two-inch plastic Darth Vader formerly encased in soap; a G3 iMac (charcoal) with necessary paraphernalia; D20 Modern; issues from 2002 of American Journal of Philology, Classical World, Helios, and Transactions of the American Philological Association; a foot-massager made of rolling wooden beads; a mug of coffee (nearly empty); Laws of Hunt; a tin of organic ginger pastilles from Flavigny; foreign-language-to-English dictionaries (three Greek, two Latin, two German, one each of French, Spanish, and Italian); a black leather bracelet with spikes; a framed picture of J. and me taken just before or after the one shown in this userpic; Loeb editions of Tacitus, Dio Cassius, and Juvenal; a non-functioning HP printer; a changepurse shaped like a bat with a zipper for its mouth; three sinister-nightclub-compatible cross necklaces; printouts of web-searched information about where to buy raw local honey; the CD for Warcraft III; pens and pencils in a pewter mug emblazoned with the seal of the College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio, incorporated December 18th, 1866; black Post-It notes; Blackout A.D.: Beyond the Ruins (© 1998 Neue Ästhetik Multimedia); a Breton travel magazine; card games (incl. "Lunch Money" and "Gother than Thou"); scholarly biographies of assorted Julio-Claudians; some pennies and nickels; assorted photocopies or printouts of articles (including one of great relevance, recently sent to me by a livejournal friend, and one unrelated to my academic interests, discovered by accident in a review copy of a book we have at work, written by -- I think -- another livejournal friend and so photocopied out of curiosity, treating, respectively, Agrippina Minor and Simon Magus); the latest printout of my Mortals Venue character; a site medallion for the coronation of Talymar and Eislinn, AS XVII, Barony of the Flaming Gryphon; a transparent purple plastic clipboard; a wax impression of the cylinder seal of Darius I, the Great, King of Persia (521-486 B.C.); a GE telephone of unremarkable appearance.
This list is not meant to be exhaustive, only exhausting.
Curiously, the construction workers across the street are making a loud noise that sounds almost exactly like a cat vomiting.
The reader will note that today is the first of two consecutive home study days. I'm getting a lot done.
Things on my desk:
A four-inch-high plastic Dalek; a bat-shaped picture frame with a picture of bat finger puppets draped over small pumpkins; H. Temporini-Gräfin Vitzthum (Hrsg.), Die Kaiserinnen Roms (München: Beck, 2002); a magnifying glass shaped like a ... giraffe or something; Tradition Book: Sons of Ether; a coaster shaped like the head of a black cat; an actual black cat -- no, now she's off; blank CDs; a Snoopy ruler, older than this year's batch of new grad students, with my name and home room number; a homemade Elder Sign; a two-inch plastic Darth Vader formerly encased in soap; a G3 iMac (charcoal) with necessary paraphernalia; D20 Modern; issues from 2002 of American Journal of Philology, Classical World, Helios, and Transactions of the American Philological Association; a foot-massager made of rolling wooden beads; a mug of coffee (nearly empty); Laws of Hunt; a tin of organic ginger pastilles from Flavigny; foreign-language-to-English dictionaries (three Greek, two Latin, two German, one each of French, Spanish, and Italian); a black leather bracelet with spikes; a framed picture of J. and me taken just before or after the one shown in this userpic; Loeb editions of Tacitus, Dio Cassius, and Juvenal; a non-functioning HP printer; a changepurse shaped like a bat with a zipper for its mouth; three sinister-nightclub-compatible cross necklaces; printouts of web-searched information about where to buy raw local honey; the CD for Warcraft III; pens and pencils in a pewter mug emblazoned with the seal of the College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio, incorporated December 18th, 1866; black Post-It notes; Blackout A.D.: Beyond the Ruins (© 1998 Neue Ästhetik Multimedia); a Breton travel magazine; card games (incl. "Lunch Money" and "Gother than Thou"); scholarly biographies of assorted Julio-Claudians; some pennies and nickels; assorted photocopies or printouts of articles (including one of great relevance, recently sent to me by a livejournal friend, and one unrelated to my academic interests, discovered by accident in a review copy of a book we have at work, written by -- I think -- another livejournal friend and so photocopied out of curiosity, treating, respectively, Agrippina Minor and Simon Magus); the latest printout of my Mortals Venue character; a site medallion for the coronation of Talymar and Eislinn, AS XVII, Barony of the Flaming Gryphon; a transparent purple plastic clipboard; a wax impression of the cylinder seal of Darius I, the Great, King of Persia (521-486 B.C.); a GE telephone of unremarkable appearance.
This list is not meant to be exhaustive, only exhausting.
Curiously, the construction workers across the street are making a loud noise that sounds almost exactly like a cat vomiting.
The reader will note that today is the first of two consecutive home study days. I'm getting a lot done.
