Really frustrated that I haven’t been able to post for the last few weeks - I’m back at college and the internet in my room is completely broken. I’m hoping it’ll be fixed in the next couple of days… but then, that is also what I was promised last Tuesday. Ah well, I’ll get there!

I was amused by Mary Beard’s post about the new doors at the Classics faculty - felt it was bizarre that people from around the world were commenting on doors I use most days. Having seen them, I don’t think they’re really ugly; but also, I can’t really remember how they look different from the previous doors. Ah well. They do, however, make opening the door manually really difficult.

Also annoyed at college internet for making me miss the Pompeii episode of Dr Who. I saw about the first twelve minutes. Not actually the internet’s fault, as I could have remembered to watch it when it was on real TV. Anyone see it?

I’ve also been very pleased in the last few days to realise that Amazon booksellers use the fact that postage is set at a flat £2.75 for books to charge just 1p for all Very Short Introductions. I’m planning to buy up the Classical ones and learn them off by heart for my exams. :-) The first one to arrive, and very much recommended (as is the speedy bookseller Speedy Tortoise) is “A Very Short Introduction to Ancient Warfare”. May post a review when my internet works - it’s not at all how it sounds.