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Even with the time-change, I'm getting a wretchedly late start today. This is a problem because Friday was one of those days when everything takes twice as long and is three times as much trouble as it should, such that although I managed to run my errands, I did no grading. Woe! I have promised my students their midterms on Monday, and midterms they shall have.

Meanwhile, I continue to waste time on Livejournal.

Here are three rather old links (old for this fast-moving livejournal world of ours, anyway), but well-worth reading.

Tom Holland, author of Rubicon, has a nice piece on all the sex in Rome in last week's Times. I think there's something interesting in here about the difference between modern myths of Rome and the discipline of Roman history.

minisinoo has posted an excellent essay on Gender and Sexuality in the Ancient World. Her focus is largely on Greece and the Near East (she's a Hellenist), and she makes some interesting observations about the effect of the one on the other. There is also bibliography.

And on an entirely different note, tarshaan, who has taken up the burden of writing Krycek for the crossovers100 challenge, has posted a marvelous Discworld/XF crossover, Unexpected Quarters. I quote here my favorite line (well, one of my favorite lines), "YOU SEND A LOT OF BUSINESS MY WAY." Go, read, leave feedback.

I understand that fandom and character suggestions for

yuletide expire tonight, with sign-ups beginning next week. I'm starting to have second thoughts about signing up, although I expect that I will. Last year, however, I signed up to write anything I thought I had half a chance of managing 1000 words on; I think this year I may be more selective. Not to complain about last year's experience: I had great fun and had that warm glow of pride one gets from writing in a fandom that was, is and always shall be obscure (although I was saddened to see that "Wieldy the Vampire Slayer" is not the only piece of Dalziel and Pascoe fanfiction on the net. Darn!) I think I'll just have to wait until I see the final list and can decide what I think I'm capable of writing. Certainly, there are some suggestions that are making my fingers twitch in the "hmm, I wonder if I could pull that off" way.

And now, to dress and head to the office.