...I like speaking of myself in the third person, especially when that third person is a pseudonym and an alter ego...but I digress...
Like the procrastinator that I am, I'm finally getting around to buying myself a 2008 calendar. I really need one for the office so that I can count weeks and prepare my schedules. For the past three years I've bought an "Ancient Greece" calendar. These calendars had beautiful pictures of some of the ancient sites throughout Greece. For some reason, they don't have a 2008 Ancient Greece calendar. They probably stopped making it because I was probably the only person in this entire world who got excited about such a calendar. They have other Greece calendars and you can count on having at least one of the months having a photo of the Parthenon. But most of the other images are quite "touristy." You'll see super white buildings with super blue roofs. You'll see a chair and an umbrella on a sandy beach. Who cares about the stupid umbrellas on beaches? I want the Parthenon! I want the Porch of the Kores! I want the Temple of Hera! I want the Palace of Knossos! Stupid umbrellas on beaches. Who cares about them? Since they don't have my Ancient Greece calendar, I have to find something else. Even though I'm a Hellenist (a Greek specialist), I might be forced to buy a calendar about Rome. At least they have photos of some statues and some old concrete buildings. Or I might have to lower myself to the level of the rest of the Plebs of the world and buy a "normal" calendar...
Each year I also usually buy a little desk calendar. This is usually one of those page-a-day calendars, and the one I buy has a Latin word or phrase for the day. Yes, I'm a geek! I'm having a hard time finding these, too, mostly because they're out of stock. Really? How many people in the world need a Latin page-a-day calendar? So, I do searches in those little search boxes. Enter phrase: Latin calendar. The results usually bring up wall calendars, and I get a number of things that I'm not exactly looking for. Hot Latin Bods of 2008, complete with lots of pictures of sweaty pecs and six-pack abs. Or I get Lovely Latin Ladies of 2008, complete with lots of thong and butt shots. Neither is appealing to me, and certainly neither is appropriate for work! So now I'm still searching for some kind of geeky desk calendar that is more suited to my natural geekiness.
Sigh, it's tough being a geek...
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