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Sunday, November 23rd, 2003
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12:35p
I'm baaad - I haven't updated for so long! And it's not as if I've been doing nothing, rather the reverse - I
haven't had bloody time to update coz I've been so busy reading!
Now have three things to do:
My new Roman Elegiac Myth essay planning. It's gonna be on Ovid mainly this time, because I sort of ignored him last time, the main emphasis being on Tibullus and Propertius, whose names, incidently, I am absolutely sick of typing! So this time it's going to be about Ovid's use of mythology and how he reltaes back to the other two - the revolutionary little bugger he is!
Secondly, I have a presentation to give on Wednesday, which is bizarrely not scaring me at all, even though public speaking is not one of my favourite things to do. So I have to prepare that. I'm only doing a third of it, it's mainly John's thing because it's based around an essay he's written and Bernice and I are just helping him out. It's on the emperor Tiberius and the picture that the historian Tacitus gives us of him. Now, Tacitus really didn't like Tiberius very much so it's quite interesting and snipey! John's doing the accession, Bernice is doing the treason trials that his reign became infamous for, and I'm doing Tiberius' relationship with the Senate. It'll only be about 5-10 minutes worth of talking though, so not too terrible.
And lastly I've got the draft of my essay on how Augustus changed religion in his principate to write for Professor Levene. It actually went well on Friday - I was shocked! But highly pleased and relieved;) He actually asked me questions that I knew how to answer. *Phew-ness* So I'd been anxious and scared all week of this bloody hour I have to spend with him and it all went well. That is exactly how my life runs!
But the downside of all that work is that I probably won't get a lot of time to write in. I might do some on the train again I guess, but I haven't got a dictionary there, a thesaurus, the other stuff I've written etc etc. Ah, you say, I end my journey in a library, could you not use the facilities there? Well yes I suppose I could now you mention it but I'll probably feel guilty about not doing MA work by that time. It's all a viscious circle.
current mood:  okay
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