...see, I've got your old ID, and you're all dressed up like The Cure

lysimache, in an effort to inflict her shiny new nail polish fandom on the rest of us, keeps buying me nail polish even though I don't actually wear it much. So today she painted my nails black, and I spent about forty minutes feeling especially goth before the glittery silver layer went on. Which, you have to admit, kind of ruins the emo. It is pretty, though.

Also, I feel I should mention that yesterday I finally, finally finished reading Suetonius' Life of Caesar. We kind of powered through the last several sections, but man do I feel accomplished having made it all the way to nonnulli semet eodem illo pugione, quo Caesarem violaverant, interemerunt, the end. ("Some [of Caesar's assassins] killed themselves with the very same dagger with which they had violated Caesar," aww, how nice and poetically just. Also why do the Romans have eleventy billion words that mean "kill?" Okay, the last one was probably more "violate," but still. It seems excessive.

Am now reading some excerpts from the Gallic Wars, the invasion of Britain, which is (a) really, really boring and Caesar hasn't even landed his boats yet and (b) way, way, easier than the Suetonius. Like, I know almost all these words! I read a quarter of the book in under an hour! Which I guess is good. I would rather be reading, say, the Satyricon, but I want to read the obscene bits that Jen says they don't make student editions for because apparently the students don't need to read about Roman BDSM, and my Latin is so not that good. She says I should read Livy, but I think Livy sounds just as hard to read but without exciting salacious bits. Though I suppose anything that isn't about troop movements is an improvement. I will grant that it is pretty cool to be reading Caesar's actual writing, though.

Anyway. I suppose that is enough geekery for the evening.

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