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Thursday, January 18, 2007
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A Don's Life Mary Beard is a Cambridge classics professor, and the classics editor at the Times Literary Supplement. She and I have engaged lately in a bit of MBA (Mutual Blog Admiration). She found me first, but I've now been reading her blog, A Don's Life , and enjoying it mightily. I'll add it to my blogroll when I finally get around to adding various other blogs (Ferule and Fescue, I haven't forgotten you!) to it. Beard writes much like UD (On her recent trip to Egypt: "If you venture deep inside the pyramids...you find that the inner chamber smells very strongly of piss."). But she occasionally reminds UD that Beard's in England, not America, land of generous heating systems ("I realise that my blog may give the impression that a don’s life largely consists of whirlwind tours to exotic foreign locations. But most of what I do is infinitely more humdrum, and much less blog-worthy. Right now, it involves putting on my fingerless mittens and 'checking references' in the Classics Faculty Library, whose heat has been firmly turned off until the beginning of January."). They differ in other ways, too, as in UD's indifference to alcohol, and Beard's interest in it ("After a day’s stint in the library, honestly, I need a stiff drink.") But they both enjoy writing about universities, and their lives in them. |