Avernus

Holy hannah. How have I not found this before? Well, I'll see you all in the autumn then...

The somewhat-extended-weekend has been pleasantly quiet, though I'm still getting ridiculously tired ridiculously early. Well, ridiculous by my standards. It always takes a while to work back into the up at 8am routine, but it doesn't normally knock me out by 10pm as it has been this last week. Maybe it's all that healthy fresh air and exercise and vegetables. If so, I will have a return to sculking in libraries and instant noodles, please.

Just to keep things up to date - Friday morning we went to the Bennaki museum, which is a museum of Random Greek Stuff from the prehistoric era to modern times (though I don't think I'm ever quite going to understand the full appeal of Mycenean or protogeometricpottery.)

Friday afternoon we had a double bill of modern Greek class (pronounciation makes my brain ache >_<) and a lecture, which was all suitably brain-melty. We went to dinner en masse in the evening, which was pretty amusing - I think you in particular would appreciate the Greek taverna style of food, which consists of A Honkin' Big Plate Of Mixed Meats. Sure, you can have side dishes like Greek salads and friend potatoes and mysterious tomato and cheesy things. But the most important element is the Plate Of Meat For Sixteen. My god, there must have been a whole pig in there. Meal was generally fun, but I was a total wuss and cried off going on to a bar afterwards, on grounds that I could hardly keep my eyes open already ^_^;;; Also that I'm an antisocial little bleeder who would far rather be on messenger and reading comics of an evening than most activities which actually involve being outside my room (this evening being a case in point), but I wasn't going to *say* that sort of thing. Gives the right impression, you know, and we couldn't have that.

Saturday...Saturday we went back to the Acropolis museum to have a more lesiurely look around. I went and practised my reading of archaic inscriptions, scoffed at their label claiming that a particular bust was probably a lifetime portrait of Alexander, and fangirled some of the archaic pediment reliefs. (I love that particular Athena, she is a Scary Bitch just as she ought to be. Plus she has a cloak made out of snakes. Rock on.) Pottered along to the temple of Olympian Zeus in the afternoon, which is Massif, and I suspect a candidate for the Most Protracted Building Process Ever award. Being as it was started by the tyrant Peisistratus in the sixth century BC, and was finished by the emperor Hadrian in the second century AD. Rock on, Athenian public works commission. It makes all the fuss over the Olympics look rather petty, doesn't it?

From then till now, I have mainly being loitering around the school, doing some preparation work in the library for the lecture tomorrow, trying to think of something vaguely useful to do for my two extended essays for this term, distracting myself with enormous DC fanfic indexes, that sort of thing. I am far too easily distractable with comics crack >_< But I can truly say that I may well be the first person to have considered the possibilities of Hermes/Wally West slashfic. Well, they both exist in the DCU, it's *theoretically* possible. And that's more than enough excuse for me.

Incidentally - since I can very seldom think of interesting or amusing blog headings that are actually related to the entries at the moment (especially since the entries are erring on the side of portmanteaus), I propose to institute a system whereby I put an interesting or amusing quote as a blog title, and there will be a virtual cookie to whoever first guesses it right. It's pleasingly interactive. And I shall try not to make all of them DC related - but if you suspect it is, have a guess anyway. For example, I may not *know* that it was the silver age Flash who said "*UHNNN* I couldn't work up enough penetration-power!", but I could have taken a damn good guess at it. Today: don't take drugs, kids. You could end up in a basement next to some sneakers.