Aphatos

Salutations.

I’m pleased to see that you have entered my world, I hope you enjoy your time here. My name’s Caroline and I’m currently a student at Royal Holloway, University of London. And yes, it does require that awkwardly long title. I study Ancient History within the Classics Department and am enjoying it very much!

I will quite often mention my family, housemates, workmates, Classics friends, school friends, college friends and best friend. Yes, they’re all in categories; I enjoy organization and make lists for every single thing under the sun. I’m picky, nosy, bossy, wordy and extremely talkative.

I love comedies such as The IT Crowd, Blackadder, Red Dwarf and Scrubs. I also love crime shows such as CSI, NCIS and Midsomer Murders. I am also quite the sci-fi/fantasy geek and love Battlestar Galactica 2003, Heroes, Firefly and The 4400. The list of authors I read and movies I like is far too long to note down here, but suffice to say that I love sci-fi/fantasy in these media as well. As for music, my tastes are all over the place, but I think I can safely say that I enjoy most types in moderation, and I also guiltily admit to indulging in some cheesy pop!

Finally, something I hope will come across in this blog; I love to write. I don’t write enough, and I unfortunately could have better muses, and I definitely don’t have enough time… but I love it all the same; it would perhaps be logical to assume that the lack of time I have to write results in my loving it even more, as with the theory of forbidden fruit.

Caroline

P.S. In case you couldn’t tell from the title of this page, I love Lord of the Rings; but the movies only, as, although I consider Tolkien to be an incredible storytelling genius, I cannot handle his writing style in the slightest. The only writing I enjoy and can read without feeling my eyes cross from any time earlier than 20 years ago is poetry. (By earlier than 20 years ago, I even mean going all the way back to Homer’s Iliad.)

P.P.S. Yes, I realize the Iliad is technically a poem, but it is also mostly written in prose and it is extremely long — at one point Homer actually lists all of the warriors in Agamemnon’s army, which takes up, as you can presume, a great number of pages.