Reflexions Itinerant: March 2004 Archives
Just a quick hello from freezing-cold-and-too-far-north Edinburgh. No, not that bad, but pretty nippy on the whole compared to the mid-teens weather dahn-saaf ("down south" to the foreigners). I have four minutes allocated time at this terminal, so I'm not going to elaborate, but oh-so-much science; there's some really fantastic things going on in the Universe of academia. Bleh - have to push on. Someone do the spell checking for me in arrears. Tschuess.
Back in the land of fresh air, I already find myself in the clammy security of routine, but while it's a little too familiar to earn my affections, it is nice to be back in some respects.
No signs of mega-jet-lag, with a full night's sleep through to this morning, but I have been a wee bit drowsy for most of the day, which makes sense whether taken as the result of 28 hours of very little by way of sleep, or the 8 hour shift in timezone. Too jaded now to write anything substantial, I'll leave you with a Greek translation of mild gaïety. My, those Greeks knew liberty.
but a boy that, once within my
arms, is eager for his fate
and straightaway ready to abandon
every shame, I also hate
preferring one that knows the way to
give himself and not to give,
restrained yet passionate, neither shamed
nor too inflamed by acts of love
- Strato. xii. 200 -
