GOGSoc Episode V: The GOG Strikes Back

Actually I don't think Greek chariotry was really that fast...probably mobile archery/javelin platforms. In fact in the ancient world only the Indians seemed to, for some reason, employ the "charge fast with massive lances" model. On one hand it makes sense because they had fast, strong, horses. On the other...well being the premier archers of the ancient world it seems like a retarded strategy. Academics are still confuzzled over that one.

I don't know, I recall once having to handle a horse who enjoyed defecating (whilst I was on him) and then trampling it, neighing frantically. He was an odd ball he was called "Cindarella" for some bizarre reason. He also used to happily try and bite people/horses but seemed to like other animals.

In general I dislike horses. Smelly, illogical and moronic animals. Now if I could have a giant cat to ride, that would be bossman.

... they returned from the ride
with Lyceum inside
and the smile on the face of the tiger.

That's a bit blue isn't it Hobnob?

So what happened when she turned 18, then? Did she receive a pet beaver for her birthday?

It's the stage you reach just prior to the book going to press. It means I can see the text and the photographs laid out properly and all that. It's quite a fun moment and it won't be many more weeks before it makes it into the shops.

I didn't know you had a sister she sounds inventive!

It's the stage you reach just prior to the book going to press. It means I can see the text and the photographs laid out properly and all that. It's quite a fun moment and it won't be many more weeks before it makes it into the shops.

Bloody hell. I think I spend half of that on groceries alone a month... I suck at budgeting.

I shouldn't have one really...it costs about £600 a year to run. I got it because my last job required so much travelling to participants and have kept it out if convenience, but should sell it really... But yeah, as craggy says, a stipend is fine (anyway, cam is no diff to Oxford), I wouldn't worry. And you can do things like teach, presumably, if you feel a bit hard up? You'll not be living the life fantastic, but you certainly won't starve or lack some beer money

do you think I'll have problems with having my bf over for a few weeks every now and then? A friend told me her flatmate basically had her bf living with her and that was at Newham where he'd stand out like the fly in the milk (Greek expression ).

yeah I really do want to teach. The thing is, I know for a fact that I will 99% also win a scholarship from a Greek foundation (I already have it so I basically have to renew it and from what I understand it's always renewed) which would give me £5000 per year for the first two years. But Peterhouse said if I win anything else they will give me that much less money. It would be nice having some extra cash, I wonder if I could make a case for it. Say for example I want to keep it for research trips, conferences, going to summer language courses (we need to have two modern languages by our second year so I am thinking about going to Germany and Italy in the next two summers to speed up the process). But I doubt they'll be sympathetic about it.

Yeh, but so did I when I had the money. Its not about budgeting, but constraint. Then again my fiance has lived on a very eager income since he started undergraduate, which allowed him to save all of the £3000 per year hardship bursary Cambridge gave him, and some Some people... Then again, I think he derives geeky satisfaction from working out the highest nutritional impact for the lowest cost, whereas I hate having to sit down and calculate everything.

I miss driving, but cars in the UK are a massive waste of money. I can't see myself having one until I have kids, because it frankly doesn't make any sense financially. My bus pass in Norwich is £200 a year for unlimited travel. For Corinna in Cambridge... well put it this way. For the three years I was at Peterhouse it didn't make any sense for me to use a bicycle because it took me longer to unlock and lock up the thing than it took for me to just walk from college to anywhere. Then again, Classics is on the Sidgewick site, so there she might find a bike useful. Even so, though, a car would really be ludicrous in central Cambridge.

I don't live in college this year. Since we are both studying at Oxford we got couples' accommodation so we live in a flat. I will miss having my own house.

I don't live in college this year. Since we are both studying at Oxford we got couples' accommodation so we live in a flat. I will miss having my own house.