latin can be dangerous
I'll be observing the strike against Live Journal and only posting on my Insane Journal accounts. I haven't been gotten involved in the most recent LJ controversies the way I was in last years forays. I think I've just burned out and of course at the moment my activist type energy is concentrated in fermenting revolution at my workplace.
Which brings us to the following anecdote- Latin can be dangerous.
I talked to my parents on the phone and they were interested in seeing The Letter so I said I'd e-mail it to them. Because The Letter deals with accountability and the misuse of power, I have it saved on my computer as a file titled "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes," or “Who Watches the Watchmen”. This was actually the quote I chose to go beside my picture in my senior yearbook in High School so it’s sort of an in-joke with me, a shout out to the fat, outspoken and very brave young woman I used to be. So The Letter is titled "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes.” Also saved on my hard-drive a There Will Be Blood Daniel Plainview/Eli Sunday slash fic featuring delirium tremors, rough, scripture quoting, naughty Daddy role-play and rough, dubiously consensual hate!sex. This file is entitled “Quid Pro Quo.”
So I see a title that starts with Q and has a bunch of words I don’t really understand and click to attach it.
Needless to say, I came this close to e-mailing my parents the slash story by accident.
That would have been very, very awkward.
Which brings us to the following anecdote- Latin can be dangerous.
I talked to my parents on the phone and they were interested in seeing The Letter so I said I'd e-mail it to them. Because The Letter deals with accountability and the misuse of power, I have it saved on my computer as a file titled "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes," or “Who Watches the Watchmen”. This was actually the quote I chose to go beside my picture in my senior yearbook in High School so it’s sort of an in-joke with me, a shout out to the fat, outspoken and very brave young woman I used to be. So The Letter is titled "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes.” Also saved on my hard-drive a There Will Be Blood Daniel Plainview/Eli Sunday slash fic featuring delirium tremors, rough, scripture quoting, naughty Daddy role-play and rough, dubiously consensual hate!sex. This file is entitled “Quid Pro Quo.”
So I see a title that starts with Q and has a bunch of words I don’t really understand and click to attach it.
Needless to say, I came this close to e-mailing my parents the slash story by accident.
That would have been very, very awkward.