The Arrogant Emu

Has anyone here taken a look at the Greek prize text for this year? It’s insane! Look at the length of that sentence! How the bloody hell am I supposed to translate that??

So where is my black paint, huh? I think my roommate has to stolen it. If she will not give it back, I will bite her nose off, but right now she is asleep, the pest, and I can’t ask her.

It’s awfully hard to paint anything representational and use no black.

A horrifying thought: if I ever become a famous person or a revered author, there will eventually be works compiled of my writings in my younger days. This means they will find and publish this bloglet. Oog! What a depressing thought - everybody whose diaries and letters get published posthumously seems to be intelligent and articulate and mature, even in the smallest details.

I shall just have to be sure not to become famous.

How’s this as an idea for a Real Olympics event - a live chess game, set up on the field, where two people (I don’t know who) play a brief chess game on a small board while the moves are called out to the people playing the pieces on the big board. And when you take a square, you have to fight the other piece for it, with your choice of weapons: mud-wrestling, melee foam-swords, water-guns, or sophistry.

Speaking of which, now it the time to put in your input about what you wuold like to see this reality.

People make mistakes about each other all the time. Unfortunately, the main cause of dating relationships seems to be two people making mistakes about each other in unison.

And the story of the moral is:

And the moral of the story is.

U na posim-trennei, ama
E na posim-trennu
Stei tha stendete daeponu entr
Sum da ittachlokes kae i-steis.

I cannot follow you, my love
You cannot follow me….

Yay! Woo hoo! FLYING EMU!

Okay, that settles it, I’m going to Italy! I just heard back from the Lost Towns people and late summer is when they need people most! They are actually interested in having me!

This means I can keep doing interesting things, and actually get paid, and go to Italy!

FLYING EMU!!!!

Okay, gentities, so here’s the deal. There are two irreconciliable courses I am pursuing for the summer.

Firstly: An internship at the Walters Art Gallery. I would, I hope, be working either in the educational or the curatorial division, with any luck focussing on ancient art.
Them I have not heard back from. The deadline for their summer programs is April 15th, so I am not sure when I will be hearing back from them at all. (I mailed the final bits of my application to them today.) If I did get that internship, I would stay in Annapolis and commute to Baltimore. Advantages: A job working with ancient art, respectable pay from the Hodson Trust, staying in Annapolis all summer. Disadvantages: A long commute, the remaining uncertainty over whether I would get the job at all.

Secondly: An archaeological dig in Italy. There I would be learning archaeology and excavating an Etruscan hill north of Orvieto.
Them I have heard back from. I have a place on the dig Unfortunately (and here is the dilemma in which I find myself) they require a confirmation by April 1. The dates of the dig are from Jun 11- Jul 17, which would leave about a month between the end of the dig and the time school starts. I have written to the Lost Towns project inquiring whether I might arrange to work for them in that month, but have not heard back from them yet.
Advantages: It’s ITALY! And it’s ARCHAEOLOGY! I would get to travel and work and learn things and have enough time before that to finish my work on the house back home. And I would get a month of Annapolis. Disadvantages: It costs $1500, (not counting airfare which I would have to find), and I haven’t heard from the Lost Towns place to let me know whether I would make any money at all this summer.