one more instance of why i am a geek:

Happy Birthday to lacylu42, my birthday pal! Hope it's a good one.


I'm spending my birthday in the library working on my final project for Thistory I. About the only thing that makes this worthwhile, besides the knowledge that it's the last thing due, is the marginalia in one of the library books: Someone has crossed out instances of passive voice and changed them to active, or changed "we shall not find" to "do not find." My favorite is this passage:

The year is so carefully given by so many ancient authorities that there seem to be no IS NO reasonable grounds for doubting it correctness, in spite of the fact that the Parian Marble gives the date as 485 BC....

...I mean. Really? Awesome.