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dragonlady7Lots of puttering and research today. Not so much getting things done around the house, which is too bad.
Work called me not once but twice to ask if I'd come in. I can only surmise that either a) two people called in, or b) it was extremely busy and they were desperate.
It being a Tuesday, I strongly, strongly doubt that B was the case.
I refused both times: Z had the car today, and I couldn't have gotten there.
I spent most of the day on the Internet, which was nice, given how much time i've spent of late working on the laptop in remote Internetless locations.
I decided that I needed to do a little research on primitive tattooing techniques, and of course that led to me spending about four hours drooling with a glazed-over stare as Wikipedia ate my brain. Naturally. (Google helped too.)
I did also find this blog: and i wasted all that birth control.... I've only read about two entries but I am engrossed anyway. I mean... a fat girl struggling with infertility who talks about her former drug problems and about how she understands and forgives a pro-lifer who stalked and abused her for having lost a pregnancy to pre-eclampsia. I mean shit, man.
Also she has a copy of the tattoo they found on the Ice Maiden of Pazyryk, which is, well, the reason I was there.
Yes. My barbarians, once pseudo-Celts, then pseudo-Balts, are morphing into pseudo-Scythians. Why ever the hell not?
Amusingly, the Scythians used cannabis sativa in some of their rituals. Which means that I have an interracial romance and also OMG DRUGS in this thing now. I'm psyched, aren't you?
In other news, I finally managed to join elmwoodstrip.org (under the same username as here) and it took me about an hour to figure out that to post a link there, you just type in the URL of the link and it makes it into a neat and tidy little link there. Nice.
Other other news: Baked Chee-Tos. Wrong? I can't tell. They taste good for the first, like, twenty or so. But they're not Chee-Tos. Why am I trying them? I don't know.
Other other other news: Don't wanna go to work tomorrow. MEH.
I really think I'll stop now, as that can only deteriorate. Eep, it's way past my bedtime. I did have a nap this morning though so I suppose this is penance for it.
Work called me not once but twice to ask if I'd come in. I can only surmise that either a) two people called in, or b) it was extremely busy and they were desperate.
It being a Tuesday, I strongly, strongly doubt that B was the case.
I refused both times: Z had the car today, and I couldn't have gotten there.
I spent most of the day on the Internet, which was nice, given how much time i've spent of late working on the laptop in remote Internetless locations.
I decided that I needed to do a little research on primitive tattooing techniques, and of course that led to me spending about four hours drooling with a glazed-over stare as Wikipedia ate my brain. Naturally. (Google helped too.)
I did also find this blog: and i wasted all that birth control.... I've only read about two entries but I am engrossed anyway. I mean... a fat girl struggling with infertility who talks about her former drug problems and about how she understands and forgives a pro-lifer who stalked and abused her for having lost a pregnancy to pre-eclampsia. I mean shit, man.
Also she has a copy of the tattoo they found on the Ice Maiden of Pazyryk, which is, well, the reason I was there.
Yes. My barbarians, once pseudo-Celts, then pseudo-Balts, are morphing into pseudo-Scythians. Why ever the hell not?
Amusingly, the Scythians used cannabis sativa in some of their rituals. Which means that I have an interracial romance and also OMG DRUGS in this thing now. I'm psyched, aren't you?
In other news, I finally managed to join elmwoodstrip.org (under the same username as here) and it took me about an hour to figure out that to post a link there, you just type in the URL of the link and it makes it into a neat and tidy little link there. Nice.
Other other news: Baked Chee-Tos. Wrong? I can't tell. They taste good for the first, like, twenty or so. But they're not Chee-Tos. Why am I trying them? I don't know.
Other other other news: Don't wanna go to work tomorrow. MEH.
I really think I'll stop now, as that can only deteriorate. Eep, it's way past my bedtime. I did have a nap this morning though so I suppose this is penance for it.
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Date: 2006-03-08 06:51 am (UTC)My favorite snack for a long time was BBQ Fritos. Then they stopped making them and I've been sad ever since.
They still make 'em.
Date: 2006-03-08 12:57 pm (UTC)- Z
Re: They still make 'em.
Date: 2006-03-08 04:53 pm (UTC)Re: They still make 'em.
Date: 2006-03-09 03:34 am (UTC)Re: They still make 'em.
Date: 2006-03-09 04:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-08 02:10 pm (UTC)I wouldn't touch 'em with a 10-foot pole, but Z loves them, and so I buy them out of a sort of defense mechanism-- it's good to have junk food in the house for the 40-pounds-underweight boy, but not for the 40-pounds-overweight girl, so if there's something he'll eat that I won't, so much the better.
And Fritos are nasty, but BBQ Fritos are extra nasty. And I swear we had a bag in, like, December or so.
Psst...
Date: 2006-03-08 06:38 pm (UTC)Re: Psst...
Date: 2006-03-09 03:32 am (UTC)Wow. All I've done is daydream about it, really. I'm not much of a researcher. I wouldn't have much to contribute to a trade-- I pretty much posted all the links I'd found in this post.
The sad reality of how lazy I am is that I've already pretty much written the novel but feel that my generic horseback-riding barbarians are lacking a certain... authenticity. Which is backwards and not at all how I usually do things, but that's sort of this novel in a nutshell.
But if you've any links it wouldn't be too much trouble to pass along, I would love to see them.
Re: Psst...
Date: 2006-03-10 12:48 am (UTC)I can't find the document that I saved a lot of the links into (grrr) -- I think it's on my home computer.
But, where I started off was with a decent popular history, "Women Warriors" by Jeannine Davis-Kimball which has lots of information on the Pokrovka burials. You can see an abstract of an article by her on the same topic here:
http://www.archaeology.org/9701/abstracts/sarmatians.html
IIRC the same woman runs the Center for the Study of Eurasian Nomads (http://www.csen.org/) which has lots & lots of neat stuff, including a whole book in PDF format:
http://www.csen.org/BAR%20Book/BAR.%20Part%2001.TofC.html
For classical literature, Herodotus (http://www.livius.org/he-hg/herodotus/logos4_10.html), Strabo, and a few others cover the Scythians & Sarmatians. The Perseus Digital Library (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/) is probably the best place to find those references, or you can check Gutenberg.
I don't know enough about Russian scholarship to evaluate this guy's website (http://public.kubsu.ru/~usr02898/slavonic.htm) but I suspect he's a bit kooky. However, there are lots of interesting linguistic factoids & speculation:
http://public.kubsu.ru/~usr02898/sl2.htm
http://public.kubsu.ru/~usr02898/sl57.htm