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artyartie ([personal profile] artyartie) wrote2007-02-20 11:36 pm
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sailing to valhalla

Walking to dinner tonight, I noticed again that the crescent moon looks like a ship, sailing on a wine-dark sea. In researching Viking and pre-Viking ship burials, I wonder if they noticed this comparison, and ever viewed the moon as a heavenly vessel that could carry souls to the afterlife.

Thankfully my research materials is fascinating because, once again, I'm doing my presentation research *two days before.* Thankfully, I seem to have refined this to an art, so I'm not too worried - I have plenty of examples to fill a 20-25 minute talk. My big paper for the end of the semester is on the Hjortspring boat and water internment and everything it signifies, or what they think it signifies. But it had to come this week, when I'm obsessing over 'Rome' and Cicero and everything I went to college for the last time around. Gah! I've been compulsively checking e-mail tonight as a means of procrastination tonight, I must stop. Really.

But the one upshot of Sunday's depressing episode was making some new friends in the 'Rome' fandom! [livejournal.com profile] babel, [livejournal.com profile] cerebel and [livejournal.com profile] quigonejinn are fellow Stoicphiles and a mixture of amazing writers, Hornblower fans and admirers of the lovely Alexander Siddig (Dr. Bashir from DS9).

Speaking of Hornblower, the news that Ioan very much wants to finance a BIG SCREEN Hornblower movie (a remake of the Gregory Peck 1951 film) makes me squeee like a middie. Damn it, I love this man, and if it wasn't for Al Gore, I'd totally have his babies. Hopefully, if 'Amazing Grace' does well, a studio will pick up a shiny new Hornblower!

[identity profile] artyartie.livejournal.com 2007-02-21 07:27 pm (UTC)(link)
In the past few years, I've decided I'm very ambivalent about having children of my own. I love them, but in the context of 'not being mine.' After watching 'An Inconvenient Truth' and seeing how we're expected to hit 9 billion people on Earth, probably in our lifetime, I don't feel the urge to add yet another. So if my mom ever asks, for example, why I won't give her grandchildren, I'm blaming Al.