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Pieces of February.

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Writing so many applications, résumés, emails, and personal statements over the last couple of months has made me feel such disconnection from myself, like I am always operating in third-person, like I am not the person who actually experienced the things I am discussing in these papers. Looking forward to being more grounded in present reality, present learning, present movement—soon, hopefully.

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Odysseus Killing the Suitors, 1883. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs Picture Collection, The New York Public Library.

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Quick coloured-pencil sketches of Australian wildflowers for a card.

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More Lucretius, toast, stewed apples with oats.

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A few acknowledgements from academic books that I think about often.

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A busy few weeks with some dips, some rises. Enjoying and grateful for: research and the presence of my advisor, adding a dash of maple syrup and cinnamon to coffee, an attentive G.P., generous work-offers, perfume, physical notebooks, good CDs, my partner and friends. Not enjoying the chaos of my current administrative position and the uptick in anxiety and allergies!

The first image is a reconstruction of a wind-direction compass as described in Theophrastus (Concerning Weather Signs §35: αἱ δὲ στάσεις τῶν πνευμάτων οὕτως ἔχουσιν ὡς ἐν τῷ γράμματι διώρισται…). This figure draws upon Aristotle (Meteorologica 2.6), whose list of winds corresponds with reliefs on the Tower of the Winds horologium in Athens.