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Just had a silent-scream moment of FUCK THE WORLD AND EVERYTHING IN IT whilst trapped inside my sweater and getting stabbed in the face by my glasses.

The day so far has been... frustrating.

ETA: Have a quote that always makes me want to ring up John OMG ROMANS BLING BLING Maas and tell him to eat shit and go back to writing the sports pages.

"I have been left with the distinct impression that the 'rigorous academic standards' Prof. Raftery espouses are certainly very different to my journalistic standards and ethics in this matter."

(Letter, Archaeology Ireland, 1996)

BUTTHURT.

Academics may stab each other in the back for years, but everyone hates an outsider who tries to slip in with a knife. Wankademia: like family, in a way.

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We have one lecturer (Robin Lane Fox, The King of Awesome), who starts every single piece of bitchery with "Lovely man, wonderful man, friends for years, but he has no idea about this timeline. Use mine instead." or "Oh, what a gorgeous man, heroic, a HERO, was in the War, you know, got shot by his own side, which is probably why he's so pessimistic in this article..."

(Have just finished Season 1 of Rome. HE DIDN'T SAY THE LINE! O_O)

:O Robin Lane Fox! I am... torn about whether or not to be jealous. On the one hand, practically a celebrity, and he sounds awesome - on the other, historical consultant on Alexander. Although to be fair, really I hate Alexander because it's just bad, which is hardly RLF's fault. But it couldn't have hurt to step in and be like, "Excuse me, this film is not gay enough. I know it because of my learnings."

(Well! If he'd said THE LINE, it would have been kind of cheesy and awful, really. But you could see him TRYING to say it, which IMO was way more effective. God, that scene. So amazing. And keep an eye out at the start of S2 - THE LINE hasn't been totally ignored...)

It's odd, because he really loves Teh Gay. Not as much as he loves Philip's many wives (who he thinks all did Philip at once), but he mentions slash enough for my friend and I to be certain he writes Alexander-pr0n under an assumed name. Best quote: "Philip the one-eyed snake penetrating Greece." Once he turned up soaking wet because "he was in the shower, suddenly knew where the Sacred Mountain was, had to look it up, realised he didn't know where it was, and had to get back in the shower, and thus was late"; another time he had a huge hissyfit and refused to teach us about Demosthenes because none of us knew how to plant lily bulbs.

If you do well in your Finals, he gives his female students the choice between Colin Farrell and Jared Leto's mobile number. O_o

The scene was amazing. All panicked and confused and actually nothing wrong with it - I agree that the line was better going potential-said (though a teeny bit of me was disappointed - I am a loser) - the probelm is I am now officially hooked and I desperately looking around to find 2-1 online. I think I have it - I'll know in a minute or two.

"he was in the shower, suddenly knew where the Sacred Mountain was, had to look it up, realised he didn't know where it was, and had to get back in the shower, and thus was late"

...Okay, yeah, I am officially a RLF fan, now.

Also, ahem. ¬_¬

I'm a theology student, so I therefore have no reason to go to his Demosthenes lectures except to fangirl him, which stands out considering it's about 10 of us in a classroom. He is adorable and wonderful though and signed my biography of Alexander and calls me 'Kallikomos' or 'Cassandra' because he can't remember my name. XD <3 <3 <3

THANK YOU. *immediately begisn saving the first episode of sweet, glorious Classics crack*

...why weren't any of my lecturers ever this awesome.

Ahhahhahhah! It's funny, because a group I'm a part of got a snotty letter in the latest Archaeology Ireland.

Snotty letters in magazines are the discipline's version of the fandom FLOUNCE, I think.

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