I've stuffed envelopes
I hated it.

Go for it.

Hello everyone!
(Zapiola zip-zap-zop, Thu 5 Nov 2009, 21:36, 3 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

You've not been around for a while.
Last time I remember you I think I blathered on about the assiento. Or asiento. Can't remember which.

How is it all going?
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Thu 5 Nov 2009, 21:39, Reply)

Yes
we did talk about the asiento... well remembered.

I've been busy - finishing off a degree and now adjusting to unemployment.
(Zapiola zip-zap-zop, Thu 5 Nov 2009, 21:50, Reply)

Nah, I just remember you were doing Hispanic Studies or something interesting like that
Something South American. And that you had an interesting username.

How's the job going? I've just started my degree, and loving it. Definitely want to do further studies :) I've got my reading week now, yeah! Even though I've been ill this week and missed most of my lectures :( I still did the work...
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Thu 5 Nov 2009, 21:54, Reply)

Yeah Latin American Studies
Job at the moment is in Oxfam.

And editing work on people's Masters and PhD theses. Doesn't pay much but enough to keep me busy.

Reading week? My sister has that next week (I think). As far as I can understand her plan is to hit as many gay nightclubs in Brighton without any drawbacks of going to lectures hungover the next day.
(Zapiola zip-zap-zop, Thu 5 Nov 2009, 21:56, Reply)

That does sound interesting :)
I have the suspicion one of my friends will end up as a spy either in South America or Russia. She's fluent in about 5 languages (at the moment) and is possibly the cleverest person I've met. Definitely the sort of perosn to get on MI5 Fast Track.

What do you do there? I've never understood that- do you have to come up wiht something completely original? My lecturer in Latin told us he did his on obscene poetry. I love the guy.

I'm going home tomorrow, going to the b3tabash, then slobbing around with free food, a TV that shows Charmed, fast internet, and my kittycat. Could not be happier!
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Thu 5 Nov 2009, 22:02, Reply)

I did
my thesis on politics in Argentina in the 1850s. Its really a great help when applying for jobs.

MI5 eh? Hm. Now you've put ideas in my head.

Sounds like you've got a fun week planned. I'm off to a concert tomorrow night in a local pub organised by Oxfam. God knows what the bands are going to be like. Dire, possibly.
(Zapiola zip-zap-zop, Thu 5 Nov 2009, 22:04, Reply)

Aha! Though I don't see how obscene poetry would help you any more.
My aim is to be one of those academics that go on Radio 4 and talk about absolutely weird stuff. But I don't think I'm clever enough to be an academic. I'd do something on myths and legends, I think. It really interests me :) I do love creation myths. Eg.

God makes 2 people from mud.
2 people make a lot more people.*
God decides people are ruining earth.
Sends a big fuckoff flood.

Sound familiar? ;)

*albeit by taking stones and throwing them backwards over their shoulders...

My sister is going to work for the Government next year, I think. The SNP love her, she worked for them a lot of last year. No one understands why she loves the SNP so much, being not Scottish at all.

Ah, have fun. I worked for Oxfam over the summer as a steward at the festivals, I'm definitely doing it again. It's a reet laugh. Apart from the 8 hour shifts on your feet.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Thu 5 Nov 2009, 22:09, Reply)

Its the Ancient Greek creation myth isnt it?
Yeah I stewarded at reading for oxfam a few years ago with a friend. Neither of us could speak properly at the end of it. Thinking about doing it again, it was great fun.

I've applied for Govt work, waiting to see how that goes. Just kicking time here at the moment really.

Fed up of being broke :(
(Zapiola zip-zap-zop, Thu 5 Nov 2009, 22:13, Reply)

Correct :)
I've just done that bit in Metamorphoses. Yeah, that's in Latin, but the Romans nicked everything worth nicking from the Greeks.
/grumble about the Romans

I loved the little area we got, it was still nice and fresh and green at the end of the weekend, despite being there since Wednesday. Makes you realise how scummy the proper campsite is! Not to mention dangerous...

Mhm, where abouts are you based? I'm sure there's plenty to distract you! I'm just getting used to the feeling of having over a grand in my bank account. Not for long though, I don't think :(
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Thu 5 Nov 2009, 22:17, Reply)

I had
to read part of the Metamorphoses in school. It were interesting, but I never got around to reading the whole thing. It was in English of course. My latin never got much further than Caecilius in horto est, or Senex in Amphiteatro dormit. And i've probably got them wrong too..

I'm up near Coventry (well about 10 miles from there). Yeah there's enough to keep me occupied here - especially now that a friend of mine got made redundant and dumped on the same day.
(Zapiola zip-zap-zop, Thu 5 Nov 2009, 22:22, Reply)

I'm shockingly poorly read for a Classics student
It came out at my interview I'd not read the Aeneid cover to cover. Still haven't. Ah well. And no, that's perfectly correct. I'm having to deal with sentences like "Pelidae tunc ego forti congressum Aenean nec dis nec uiribus aequis nube caua rapui", which has got several nasty bits in it. Not least because there's no participle of "to be" in Latin...

I'm in London, so I can safely say I'm never bored. I love it here! But can't wait to be back in good old Manchester, where a train into town will cost me £1.25 both ways...
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Thu 5 Nov 2009, 22:29, Reply)

Now that
is Latin way beyond me... I only did it for three years and I was bad at it.

Never read the Aeneid either. Read most of the Odyssey, which I actually quite liked. I want to read the one by Petronius about Trimalcho's dinner party, but I've not found a copy anywhere yet.

Hopefully I will be moving to London at some point... the bright lights are calling!
(Zapiola zip-zap-zop, Thu 5 Nov 2009, 22:38, Reply)

Ha, that sentence took me ages, with my uberdictionary and grammar.
It's got stupid things in it like Greek accusatives and ablative absolutes with no verbs (due to aforementioned problem with esse). If it makes you feel any better, if you talked about political problems in Argentina in the 19th century I'd be just as at sea :)

Oh, the Satyricon? I've read bits of that. There's a bit about playing with young boys' balls in it. One of the tattoos I want has something to do with that. Trimalchio's Dinner Party is interesting, it's nice to see the problems with the "nouveau riche" is an age-old problem. Juvenal's Satires are good too. Very entertaining :)

I've no idea where Coventry is. I know it's South, but my geography is Highlands of Scotland down to Edinburgh down to Newcastle down to Manchester down to Birmingham down to London down to Cornwall. So very patchy :)
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Thu 5 Nov 2009, 22:49, Reply)

Hai!
Right, that's about 20 votes for yes, including my flatmate.

How are you, good sir?
( Maladicta, Thu 5 Nov 2009, 21:44, Reply)

Healthy
just had chicken and ham pie for dinner
(Zapiola zip-zap-zop, Thu 5 Nov 2009, 21:51, Reply)

Evening Zaphead
Maybe if you put a pleasant surprise in an envelope every couple of envelopes, you'll get a warm glow by thinking you may have made somebody's day.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Thu 5 Nov 2009, 21:44, Reply)

Like
a kinder surprise, but more papery?
(Zapiola zip-zap-zop, Thu 5 Nov 2009, 21:51, Reply)

It could be a nice photo. Or it could be Origami
Speaking of Kinder Surprise eggs, I now find my childhood's been ruined because in each Surprise, they now have a warning in numerous languages. I think the whole non-verbal-ness of it all has been spoiled.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Thu 5 Nov 2009, 22:01, Reply)

Or
a £5 M&S voucher?

Although that could start to get expensive...
(Zapiola zip-zap-zop, Thu 5 Nov 2009, 22:04, Reply)

Capital Bonds, surely?

( Maladicta, Thu 5 Nov 2009, 22:19, Reply)

Or diamonds
Specifically blood diamonds.
(Zapiola zip-zap-zop, Thu 5 Nov 2009, 22:20, Reply)

Nah
The best gifts are handmade. I still reckon Origami. Perhaps the contents of the envelope could be Origami'd.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Thu 5 Nov 2009, 22:28, Reply)