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A study day at home
Nov. 6th, 2001 09:26 amOkay, Hans Königer, I'm going to read your damn chapter on "Die Nichtrömerin" today. And then I'll be more caught up with the "state of the art" on the topic of "stereotypes of women in Tacitus" as it stood in the 60s.
Hooray Classical Studies -- just because some book or article is decades old, it's still useful unless discredited. And much younger than the primary sources.
Maybe I can take issue with Königer and discredit the work, to the benefit of my peers, all American grad students who find they not only have to get through Greek and Latin but French and German and Italian and Spanish too, and know less about the field in general, even as would-be specialists, than non-professionals who happened to have a run-of-the-mill European primary and secondary education a century or even half-century ago.
But anyway. Today and Thursday must be productive, since the weekend is shot for study with too much nerdity: two days more or less fully devoted to different permutations of the "fantasy roleplaying game." And I don't mean that in a sexual way, I'm afraid.
In other news, it's kinda cold in here. But if I turn up the heat and open the radiators it will quickly become intolerably warm.
Last night was a thing of game-geek joy. I usually find meetings in between monthly games a waste of time, but this time I arranged in advance to talk to a few people and ended up getting a lot prepared, including a good half hour or so of quality RP with this guy, so yay that. It was possibly the most useful meeting I've been to since the days when meetings were essentially mini-games, and people's characters could even get killed before they'd ever been to a "real" game. Twice. Poor Martin. R. said something similar -- essentially, that he'd had one of the most productive meetings since the days when he killed Martin's character.
Anyway. I digress. But then, if this is just a forum for my blathering on about whatever comes to mind, can that really be possible?
Hooray Classical Studies -- just because some book or article is decades old, it's still useful unless discredited. And much younger than the primary sources.
Maybe I can take issue with Königer and discredit the work, to the benefit of my peers, all American grad students who find they not only have to get through Greek and Latin but French and German and Italian and Spanish too, and know less about the field in general, even as would-be specialists, than non-professionals who happened to have a run-of-the-mill European primary and secondary education a century or even half-century ago.
But anyway. Today and Thursday must be productive, since the weekend is shot for study with too much nerdity: two days more or less fully devoted to different permutations of the "fantasy roleplaying game." And I don't mean that in a sexual way, I'm afraid.
In other news, it's kinda cold in here. But if I turn up the heat and open the radiators it will quickly become intolerably warm.
Last night was a thing of game-geek joy. I usually find meetings in between monthly games a waste of time, but this time I arranged in advance to talk to a few people and ended up getting a lot prepared, including a good half hour or so of quality RP with this guy, so yay that. It was possibly the most useful meeting I've been to since the days when meetings were essentially mini-games, and people's characters could even get killed before they'd ever been to a "real" game. Twice. Poor Martin. R. said something similar -- essentially, that he'd had one of the most productive meetings since the days when he killed Martin's character.
Anyway. I digress. But then, if this is just a forum for my blathering on about whatever comes to mind, can that really be possible?
