Right. Last week was a bit slow so words are needed today. Not beating myself up if I can’t get there but still cautiously optimistic that I can overshoot my word count goal. First up on today’s agenda: SNAKES (feat. Pliny).

A #Roman die carved out of rock crystal, with traces of gold leaf which once picked out the details of the number dots & decorative elements (including a laurel wreath around the 1) - a very fancy thing to play games of chance with! 🏺 AncientBlueSky #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology

My PC has forcibly updated to windows 11 so now it’s time to play every visually impaired persons favourite game: where the fuck has all my stuff gone??

Love that Shackleton-Bailey opts to translate the ‘quid…?’ in Mart 7.34 as ‘oho…?’. Made me cackle and I think I might have to start using it as an alternative to ‘what…?’, just for flare.

Writing day today. Planning this morning and then co working with a friend this afternoon. Writing on Mart 1.35 for my chapter intro and want to get it done today, so this is partly an accountability post. Thankful for friends who check in just to check in.

Hello new followers! I’m a PhD student working on weird and wonderful bodies in Martial’s Epigrams - lots of sickness, metapoetics and of course penises to be found here! Mostly a very quiet account though, I should post more really…

I have made it safely to Cardiff for the CCC! If you see me do say hi - I will be wandering about with my long white cane looking lost! Looking forward to presenting some research on sick bodies and Martial tomorrow afternoon!

Today I am going through something that I like to call ‘do I actually hate what I’m working on or am I just really really hungry?’ Updates to follow after I have eaten lunch…

I work on OneDrive mostly and when a page is unresponsive it reads ‘page not found’ or something like that and every single time it happens I have a heart attack, like I could have accidentally deleted this 20k thesis chapter draft in my sleep…