so. tired.

[xifeng]

Mother's Day came and went; we had beef Marseilles and lemony bread pudding, during which I had to improvise the flavor of limoncello as we did not have the real thing. Turns out one tablespoon of lemon extract to three of Bacardi works. Who'da thunk it?


Also, I went to the library because I made an error of judgment: specifically, I spent entirely too much time drooling over Isaac Deutscher's three-volume biography of TROTSKY OMG, and made the grave tactical error of looking at the pictures. The man died forty years before I was born, I'm really really gay, and yet oddly, he ties my panties in knots and has done since I was about fifteen. WHY GOD WHYYYYYYYYYY.


There, it's over now. Um, the TMI about dead Communists I mean.

The exciting bits of tomorrow: I get to go to Union County (KY). Blecch ptooey, but it'll all be over soon. (One hopes, at any rate.) I also hope my phone doesn't fart on me; the sonofabitch ran down yesterday and I'd just charged it Friday night. After today, a day of absolutely no use, I've got it plugged into the charger AGAIN because it's showing at half power.

Comments

[tara]

See, I am probably not the person to talk, given my historical crushes (which will eventually comprise one of my lists of ten), but I find Trotsky to be a Very Unattractive Man *g* I do, however, understand the Sexual Attraction To A Dead Person thing, because I have been known to have unchaste thoughts about Augustus and Agrippa on many an occasion :)

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

Oh, Tara, you're so always here for me. ;) I find him hotter than Hell in the summertime, but if it weren't for the brains and the passion, I don't know if I'd find him as hot. Give me a geek over a handsome vapid man any day. *g*

(Needless to say, our love is Tragedy Across the Space/Time Continuum! ANGSTWOE.)

You? Unchaste thoughts about Augustus? Oh, perish the thought. ;)

[tara]

Oh totally. I would find Augustus significantly less hot if he had lost at Actium, I'm sure *g* Although... Cleopatra remains a sexy bitch, loss or not ;)

You'll have to go to Europe and stare sadly at statues. I have a photo of a Lenin statue, but no Trotsky ones, I'm afraid :(

It's hard to believe, isn't it?

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

Cleopatra was cool in her own right, though, and she actually put up a fight, which makes her doubleplus cool in my book. I can totally imagine her birching Antony. ;)

That is because there are no (or v. v. few) Trotsky statues. :( They were destroyed after Stalin consolidated his power and used it to pwn all the old Bolsheviks, driving them into death and/or exile.

I know. Totally out of character.

[tara]

I just love the way she used what power she had (mostly sexual, obviously) to further her (and Egypt's) ends. Of course, she chose the wrong triumvir in the end, but that's beside the point. I doubt anyone would've been betting on Octavian at that stage of things.

Ah, that would explain it then. As it was, the Lenin I saw was in East Germany.

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

Well, she did have considerable leverage in terms of grain and that, since everybody totally wanted Egyptian grain and all. I think Gus' propaganda has painted her as probably worse than she was. (Of course, that was how you made war back then...hey, wait, not that much has changed.)

There is supposed to be a Lenin statue somewhere in Russia which, when viewed from the right angle, appears to be pitching a tent. Just FYI, since I know you like rude things *g*

I love how our conversations jump all over teh map :)

[tara]

Well, yes, they wanted grain, but hooking up with Julius/Antony meant that they didn't just waltz in there and take it with their mad roman empire skills *g* I love Roman propaganda. It's so unabashedly over the top. I especially like the stuff about Antony being another man's wife :)

It's like the Russian version of the rude bits in Disney movies!

But they are completely related! Um, somehow.

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

It is. They trot march out as many Morally Righteous adjectives as any Southern Republican in the States. *g* Oh, God, and their letters in Suetonius. "Soooo, Gus, can you tell me that you've been totally faithful to Livia Drusilla?"

Totally! Our conversations are of global significance ;)

[tara]

I love how all their correspondence is so full of UST as well. It's all "omg you are unchaste... but we're still up for next weekend, right?"

Well duh. World leaders only wish they could be so relevent.

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

"You sick and disgusting pervert! I'll be there with bells on! Will you be wearing the German slave-girl outfit for me?" God, the slash that could be written...actually, history is FULL of slash that hasn't gotten written. I think I know what my goal in life is now.

World leaders are like, "I wonder what Lee and Tara think of my new policy?" or, "How is this inflation hurting Lee and Tara?"

[tara]

Well, the wonderful thing about the Roman era is that they probably were having sex with other blokes, if not actually with each other.

We should really have our own seat and nameplate at the UN *g*

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

Oh, you know they were. :D I bet Cicero liked to pretend to be a naughty little schoolgirl, or the Roman equivalent. He was such a stuffed shirt, you know he had some wild and crazy side waiting to come out.

Totally! Then all the young cute politicians will be thinking, "What can I wear that will please Lee and Tara?" or, more pertinently, "What can I not wear?"

Also, our first official act would be as follows: "Resolved: BOOBIES RULE."

[tara]

Oh, he'd totally have done the schoolgirl thing. I bet he's really pissed off that he died long before cheerleaders outfits were invented.

That should already be an official act. I mean, what are those politicians doing with their time?

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

Either that or he liked to dress up like Catiline and take his just punishment. *g* Then again, that doesn't preclude the schoolgirl thing...

For some reason we act like it's a scandal when politicians demonstrate their hearty approval of boobies. :(

[tara]

*snort* Somehow I'm getting nappy images as well. Diapers for you scary American types *g*

We would probably be okay with it as long as it were a male politician.

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH *runs and hides* OMG UNCLEAN. *scrubs with caustic lye*

When we're not busy being secretly outraged, because as we all know, when you hold elected office, you cease to be a real person with foibles and interests like anyone else.

[forgottensanity.livejournal.com]

And you say us people who don't like fish are odd. Tsh.

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

I assume you find it odd that I had to go to Kentucky. Please be assured that I would never go to Kentucky if I weren't required to do so by my employer. I want to live with the normals like you, Cat!

[forgottensanity.livejournal.com]

Well so long as that's understood. I don't want you roaming around Kentucky at will, that's unsanitary. They make fried chickens there! Out of real chickens!

You don't need to socialise with people like that.

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

Oh, I know! And they don't have accurate legal descriptions or anything! It's positively terrifying, and if I can stay on my side of the Ohio River in future, well, the happier we'll be.

I do need to socialize with angeljuggalette, as she is my friend, but other than that, I can take or leave Kentucky. And often choose to leave it. Screaming.