William ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I am so pissed right now I could burst into tears by mistake. Which means I need to take deep cleansing breaths, maybe take a walk (or two) around the block...but I've gone to my new manager and told him that my old job won't let go, and asked one of the old managers if his expectation of my new job is that I keep doing my old one too.
I don't really care if this gets ugly, since I feel it is ugly.
Oy, ita. If it has to get ugly, it has to get ugly -- you can't do two jobs!
And stress leads to tension and tension leads to headaches and headaches lead to sick time, AND AND AND. That cycle ain't nothing but vicious.
Ugh ita, good for you for being proactive here and not letting the old boss load up too much work onto your back. But yeah, sounds like it might get ugly.
Is "genuine" Roman speak as dick-laden and gay-snapping as Spartacus dialogue?
Dunno. Catullus was pretty filthy, but it was more celebratory than pejorative. On Tumblr someone just linked to graffiti found at Pompeii: [link]
My parents came back with some hilarious pictures of the whorehouse district in Pompeii -- the way there was marked with penis-arrows, and then each house had a picture of its specialty over the door. (The overall tour guide was scandalized that the local guide had taken the church group there, but of course they were into it...)
I can't think of Pompeii without thinking of my 10th-grade Italian teacher, who had one carousel of slides from his summer trip that were suitable for students, and another carousel of his full set of slides.
OF COURSE he hit the off switch just as soon as he realized the mistake, but OF COURSE we were all extra-researchy at the town library after that.
Ha! (I realize this is probably A Thing That People Know, but I did not!)
oh yeah, we went to a Pompeii exhibit in museum down here when I was growing up. It must have been a big deal traveling exhibit, but all the phallic statues were startling to elementary school-aged me.
Cool origami street art and check out this amazing work from a Vietnamese origami artist.