Завела твиттер (не спрашивайте).
Ну в целом пока что впечатления такие: в парадном углу Маск, брейкинг ньюз и модные мемасики, но основной контент фида — фешн ангст людей примерно на 25 лет младше. Но живенько и интересно. Наблюдаем дальше. 

Рабочее-короткое (дисклеймер)

Что-то я немного выдохлась. Работы полно, а я как болван — не знаю, за что хвататься в первую очередь. Соберусь с духом и перенесу сюда оставшиеся заметки с Армитаджа, а потом и французские.

7.10.

Дорогие мои израильтяне, хочется вас всех обнять и хоть как-то утешить, хотя все слова утешения тут бессмысленны. Скорблю вместе с вами. Вечная память убитым мученикам.

12th Anniversary: misc (En; photos)

You simply cannot start celebrating without a cake and a few macaroons! And continue with desserts (nevermind that posting food porn is frowned upon: let’s proceed with festivities):

12th Anniversary (En)

When I checked the forecast yesterday, it looked somewhat dull—a typical warm and grey-ish early October weather, nothing else to expect. Yet when I woke up, the room was permeated with beaming sunlight—exactly like 12 years ago, on the day of our wedding.

But of course I was excited and worried—similarly to the level of anxiety I’d felt earlier, at the Shire Hall office, when nervously replying “yes!” to the question “are you related to him”: the facial expression of the office clerk, a charming lady, was one of those that people call “complex” (she nearly burst into laughter, but remained professional until the end).

I was nervous yet everything went surprisingly perfectly and smoothly—a lovely sunny day, my dress wasn’t stained or torn, my high-heeled shoes were comfortable enough to jog, my bouquet was gorgeous, Pachelbel’s Canon sounded divine when I was taken down the aisle, my friends were incredible, our reception at an old Italian restaurant, La Margherita, was cosy and welcoming, with the most delicious food you could ever imagine, our cake was nice, the girls punting on the river Cam yelling to us “Happy Wedding day!” when we took our pics on the Magdalene Bridge were funny and sweet, but the main thing was that dear goofball next to me to whom I said “Yes!”

Happy Anniversary, my darling.

Nothings and triviality

Как выяснилось, моя стоматология (отличные врачи и проч.) с недавних пор предлагает филлеры и ботокс в качестве вспомогательной услуги. Бессмертное «в чем секрет моей молодости? доброта, шиншилла и самообман» заиграло новыми красками — с деликатными отблесками (и отзвуками) зубовного скрежета.

“Doubts about Thomas: Who wrote Thomas of Woodstock?” by Brian Vickers (TLS)

All I read about the authorship of “Thomas of Woodstock” in the past were endless ruminations about its anonymity, without any definitive source of attribution, but these two paragraphs made me chuckle:

Lake and Jackson were admirable exponents of what I have called the “open”, or empirical approach to authorship attribution studies, based on close observation of the texts. “Closed” approaches, by contrast, are those where enquirers are convinced that they know who the author is. Some are locked into a belief that Shakespeare’s plays were written by Francis Bacon, using a special cipher; others favour Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (1550–1604). Readers may wonder how de Vere was able to publish and perhaps act in the six or seven plays that Shakespeare had yet to produce, but as we know from contemporary evidence, for conspiracy theorists all things are possible.

[...]

Claims that Bacon wrote Shakespeare were decisively refuted by the Bacon scholar J. M. Robertson in the 600 pages of The Baconian Heresy: A confutation (1913), who confronted “the Baconian fantasy” afresh, while recording that “many of these claims were made years before; but they seem to recur spontaneously”. This is true of all such fantasy attributions. If there are typing facilities in Purgatory, the authorship claimants may work away happily ever after there [LOL] ©

Yet I, who have all these things in ken,
Am struck to the heart by the chiselled white
Of this handful of cyclamen. ©

There is a long history behind the whole Reviewer 2 meme, and the main issue is that in real life facing a nasty reviewer isn’t funny (speaking from my personal experience). Idk what should happen to the reviewing industrial complex in order to make it look and feel decent, as so many people in Academia *really* love to shit on their younger colleagues simply because “fuck you that’s why.”

That is why I try hard NOT to be this person, while reviewing even objectively poor papers: it doesn’t cost you anything to be polite and keep your frustrations to yourself.

I’ve been ready for October since last October!