Horlicks, mmmm. I need to find time to go shopping at some point - top of my list is some Green and Blacks hot chocolate. It's a pity you can't send comfort food through interflora, or something ... :)
best of luck with essay. I've been to the GPs now and he was nice and straightforward and didn't try and examine me, and I have antivirals, and tea, and a cigarette, and. We can do this :) Glad you're enjoying it - I'm just going to rush this one off, because it's all a bit of a farce, and get back to finishing the Extended Coursework Essay of Love as soon as possible, because I'm enjoying that one, even if it is the hardest thing I've ever had to write.
Can I ring you tomorrow evening, or are you going out? *hugs*
Ahhh, green and blacks. And don't you dare buy it without also purchasing some marshmallows and chocolate flakes. This is the stable diet of our living room at the moment.
I'm glad everything's straightfoward at the very least. We can do this indeed. :) I skipped a lecture and have already been sitting in the library for an hour and a half. But! It's on Renaissance courtly love and self-identity, so I'm writing about Thomas Wyatt and his alternately misogynistic/effeminate reaction to women, and then am going to go on to talk about Shakespeare's 'young man' poems and put forward a slightly scary theory that a great deal of poetry written in Henry VIII's court actually has homosocial/homoerotic overtones, hence all the misogyny and fluctuating self-identity, but that it isn't made explicit until Shakespeare. I've never read any criticism that suggests this so am slightly scared, but hey. YAY! What's your essay of love about?
I will be going out, but probably not for all that long so yes. Ring meee! *big hug* xxxxx
marshmallows and flakes hadn't occurred to me, but now you mention it I agree that they're entirely necessary. Also, I want to be in your living room.
Your essay sounds very exciting :) can I read it? The one I'm doing today could be interesting except the question doesn't make sense. It's on (I think) concepts of self and other under the Imperium Romanum, the tension between the inclusive and transformative nature of the imperium and the continued construction of a barbarian sterotype, and how these are illustrated by the art of the Second Sophistic. The question appears to be asking about the relationship between Rome and Greece during this period, but as it wants us to refer to art and there are very few portrayals of Greeks in imperial Roman art, I'm confused. Am very unimpressed with this supervisor so far in general :/
The essay of love, on the other hand, which I will return to as soon as this silly art thing has been handed in, is all about the accounts of the Essene Jewish sect in Josephus and Philo and to what extent they're consciously Hellenizing. *nods* It's really quite specific and mainly consists of in-depth comparative textual criticism, so possibly wouldn't make fun reading :)
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on 2004-11-19 02:41 am (UTC)best of luck with essay. I've been to the GPs now and he was nice and straightforward and didn't try and examine me, and I have antivirals, and tea, and a cigarette, and. We can do this :) Glad you're enjoying it - I'm just going to rush this one off, because it's all a bit of a farce, and get back to finishing the Extended Coursework Essay of Love as soon as possible, because I'm enjoying that one, even if it is the hardest thing I've ever had to write.
Can I ring you tomorrow evening, or are you going out? *hugs*
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on 2004-11-19 03:24 am (UTC)I'm glad everything's straightfoward at the very least. We can do this indeed. :) I skipped a lecture and have already been sitting in the library for an hour and a half. But! It's on Renaissance courtly love and self-identity, so I'm writing about Thomas Wyatt and his alternately misogynistic/effeminate reaction to women, and then am going to go on to talk about Shakespeare's 'young man' poems and put forward a slightly scary theory that a great deal of poetry written in Henry VIII's court actually has homosocial/homoerotic overtones, hence all the misogyny and fluctuating self-identity, but that it isn't made explicit until Shakespeare. I've never read any criticism that suggests this so am slightly scared, but hey. YAY! What's your essay of love about?
I will be going out, but probably not for all that long so yes. Ring meee! *big hug* xxxxx
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on 2004-11-19 04:36 am (UTC)Your essay sounds very exciting :) can I read it? The one I'm doing today could be interesting except the question doesn't make sense. It's on (I think) concepts of self and other under the Imperium Romanum, the tension between the inclusive and transformative nature of the imperium and the continued construction of a barbarian sterotype, and how these are illustrated by the art of the Second Sophistic. The question appears to be asking about the relationship between Rome and Greece during this period, but as it wants us to refer to art and there are very few portrayals of Greeks in imperial Roman art, I'm confused. Am very unimpressed with this supervisor so far in general :/
The essay of love, on the other hand, which I will return to as soon as this silly art thing has been handed in, is all about the accounts of the Essene Jewish sect in Josephus and Philo and to what extent they're consciously Hellenizing. *nods* It's really quite specific and mainly consists of in-depth comparative textual criticism, so possibly wouldn't make fun reading :)