The best thing about having a cricut is my ability to now make the dumbest stickers I can think of for my water bottle

I decided to learn how to do Lino block printing and this is my first effort. She’s a little rustic but I’m pretty proud of her.

I made a zine about what I thought the world might be like if it was Reme instead of Rome. You can read it here: gememberthat.itch.io/spqr (This is just for a bit please don’t take my masters away)

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AMPHORAE XIX postgraduate Classics conference in Adelaide, Australia - Registration is now open! Register to attend online or in-person here: events.humanitix.com/amphorae-xix...

Wishing a happy birthday to my favourite Pisces (other than myself) Ovid.

Shout out to @davidrafferty.bsky.social for promoting me so I don’t have to ❤️ (I am quite proud of these though)

If there’s one thing I can do it’s make a bunch of niche South Australian references and I think that’s very funny of me. Is there a series of SA Amphorae niche bits? Maybe…

TONIGHT 📣📣📣 6PM AEDT | 8PM NZT | 3PM AWST Come celebrate #IWD2025 with AWAWS and Faezeh Dadfar! Faezeh will be sharing insights from her journey as an Iranian archaeologist navigating the intersections of gender, identity, and academia. To register, please email Dr Anastasia Bakogianni

Join AWAWS on March 4th at 6pm AEDT to celebrate International Women's Day with an incredible talk by Faezeh Dadfar. To register your interest for this talk and receive the Zoom link please contact the Chair, Dr Anastasia Bakogianni: [email protected]

Come find our #OvidCorner at tonights post-keynote reception for #ASCS46 to hear about launching an #AustralasianOvidianSociety !

I gave my paper on Ovid’s exile works at #ASCS46 yesterday. This is a dumb piece of artwork I made for it that I am highkey v proud of

Incredible talk from Georgia Pike-Rowney on the ARTefacts project at the ANU classics museum! LOVE the creative responses and engagement with ancient content! #ASCS46

I took this picture of Wilfred tonight and I think I need to paint it.. he Sees

Keep an eye out for some very exciting events in 2025!

My poor old laptop seems to be properly struggling now. The ol' boy has seen me through an undergrad, honours and mphil. He needs to rest.

Talking about Ovid and elegy are some of my favourite things to do and if you also love to do that and are living it up down under @shona22.bsky.social and I wanna hear from you!

So excited for @chelschwartz.bsky.social ! She gave a great talk and it was awesome to watch her do so well

Out of interest, has anyone on here done or knows anyone who has done a combined classics and creative practice PhD? I’ve got thoughts…

Out of interest, has anyone on here done or knows anyone who has done a combined classics and creative practice PhD? I’ve got thoughts…

Working on getting back in the good books after being away for a week at a very enjoyable ASCS conference

This is the longest I’ve been away from my cat since I brought him home and the instructions I’ve left for the cat sitter reflect this

Just over a year ago my friend asked me if I could look after this sick kitten she found while we found him a home. Turns out that home was mine and Wilfred and I are best buds. He’s fat and mean and I love him.

hello I have migrated over to bluesky username is gemmaneall

Very excited to have received the marks for my MPhil thesis back a few weeks ago accepted with no revisions! I haven’t spoken about it much because I’m still recovering from the idea that I finished it at all, but thought it a good way to ring in this new profile!

It has been a long journey, but it feels pretty good to finally have submitted my MPhil thesis. I'm proud of myself!

So I’m studying to be a teacher now and it’s been very interesting and I’m learning a lot but it’s so funny to speak to my retired teacher mother who is so annoyed w herself for throwing out 40+ years worth of teaching resources last year.

Losing my job suddenly has not been my favourite experience but at least the cat is pleased I’m home more.

It appears I’ve become the type of person who spends her long weekend making this for a cat

Happy trans day of visibility to all of my trans and gender diverse friends! And also my enemies! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

Hello! Does anyone have any recommendations for resources on the teaching of Latin in Australian schools? I'd love to get a bit of an idea where we're at currently as support to a point I am making in my thesis and also for my own knowledge.

I’m a day late to wish Ovid a happy birthday but I just wanna say that it totally track that my man is a Pisces. As a fellow Pisces, writing a whole bunch of (beautiful) poetry in response to exile saying that they just don’t “get” his art is very on brand.

If anyone is wondering how the first week of my thirties is going today I serenaded my cat with a play list called “90s mom anthems” while doing my dishes so I’m doing pretty well

I turn thirty tomorrow. Any advice for my thirties? My twenties were pretty rough and I’m not keen to do that but older.

I bought myself a dress to wear on my birthday as a little present and it arrived today and is so unflattering on me I’m so disappointed. I just wanted to feel cute for when I turned 30 :(

I had to go to the hospital the other day bc my organs were betraying me and my wonderful friend Kelly looked after Wilf the kitten for me and sent me this series of pictures which truly tells a story:

Small kitten friend Wilfred has put on almost 100g and I’m so proud of him! He has so much energy now and his little goblin of a personality is shining through.

I’m fostering this little guy for a bit and would love name suggestions. Current top contenders are Bernard and Edgar though I am also partial to Wilfred. He has old man energy and we are best buds already.

I’m the worst person to read through my own work not because I miss stuff but because it’s boring. I know how it ends I don’t care to keep reading. I want some twists! A red herring! Past me is boring and wrote a thesis instead of a murder mystery and I’m paying the price.

I’ve invented a 5 year old niece so if people ask me who painted my toenails I can say she did it instead of admit that me, a 29 year old, is bad at doing them. Her name is Holly and she starts school soon.

The universe is trying to make me feel better about turning thirty soon and so fall out boy has released a new song. It has worked. It is once again 2006, from under the cork tree is my favourite album and I am happy.

In the absence of being allowed a pet at my flat I have anthropomorphised the robovac I got for Christmas. His name is Eustace and he tries so hard. I’m proud of my son even though he cannot ever find his charging dock.

Realised I’d forgotten to take my meds this morning when I was halfway to work already. Today is gonna be interesting.

I’m currently having a crisis over the fact that I’m the same age as Kate Winslet was in The Holiday. Am I supposed to have a cottage like that by now??? A career??? I have neither. Instead I have credit card debt and an obsession with finding the perfect wrapping paper.

One of the (very few) redeeming features of working in data entry is seeing all the email addresses that people started when they were teenagers and now must continue to use. I see you, sxc_grlz_r_us, and I respect you.

I received a rental increase of an extra $25/week with my lease renewal yesterday. I know I’m fortunate to be paying as little as I am and I will happily take it as I can’t possibly afford anywhere else. But still my rent is now 43% of my income. And this doesn’t include bills.

I’ve budgeted 7k words for the chapter I’m currently working on in my thesis. At the moment, it sits at 12k and there is no end in sight. Please pray for me.

I accidentally spent many more hours than I am proud of googling different wrapping papers today. Still have not found the perfect one though.

The ~joys~ of renting… going on 48hrs with no hot water and no eta on repairman’s arrival. I can put up with cold showers but I want to wash my hair so bad.

I acted again today for the first time since 2017 and then I made Christmas ornaments and put up my tree with my friends. Sometimes life is just really nice.