Yo, Caesar!

[themeletor]

How nerd is it that my friends and I have been greeting eachother with "Happy Ides of March!"

Ju and Rose decided to wear black for the occasion, and I had planned to, but somehow when I woke up today my morning-brain was convinced that I simply had to wear red. For the Ides of March. Because... I don't know.

The same morning-brain thought that "red" meant what I now realize is my pink pinstripe buttonup.

I...should be getting more sleep.

(p.s. british_pickle, my laptop has been seized, and due to that and Yahoo being a b* you'll get your logs -- and my attentions -- on the morrow. If you could let gambling_pirate with-the-ineffective-journal in on this, I'd love you more than I already do. Her e-mail's untrustworthy, yarr.)

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[tiggothy.livejournal.com]

*giggle* I remember we used to have some teachers who insisted we write down "The Ides of March" as the date, rather than the actual date, back when I were at school...

...Although you've now made me worry about my new job - which I started today. Meep! Think I shall have to use my new icon to cheer me up...

pink / red, hey just tell them it faded :-p

[elessil.livejournal.com]

Tu quoque, mea filia?

pssst...you still owe me porn! *whines*

[(Anonymous)]

~Em

Primer on the Roman dating system (not that kind of dating o.O)

The days are measured as a distance from an important date in the month, i.e. the kalends, the nones (pronounced with a long O) and, of course, the ides.

The kalends always falls on the 1st of the month. The ides fall on either the 13th or the 15th, depending on the month. The old rhyme they teach us to remember it is "In March, July, October, and May the ides are on the fifteenth day." The nones falls on the 5th when the idess fall on the 13th, and on the 7th when the ides falls on the 15.

gtg, I'll continue this lesson in another post when I have time.