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Polishing Weapons

Posted by Michael Livingston in Academics on August 18th, 2007

Spent part of the afternoon in my office at work, polishing up my weapons. (The cadets are about to return to campus, you know.)

Anyway, I was in the midst of working on my sword — a beautiful battle-ready replica of the supposed sword of the Black Prince — when it struck me that perhaps, just perhaps, there aren’t many jobs where one is allowed to brandish blades in the office for the sake of instruction.

Thank God I’m a medievalist.



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This entry was posted on Saturday, August 18th, 2007, 12:31 pm and is filed under Academics. You can follow any responses to this entry through RSS 2.0. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

  1. #1 by Mary Robinette Kowal - August 18th, 2007 at 13:36

    That is a very cool sword. So…when you say “battle-ready” are you expecting the cadets to be unruly this year? Or are we talking zombies?

  2. #2 by Michael Livingston - August 18th, 2007 at 15:00

    Having now seen (via your site) King George’s concerns about zombies, I’m watching my back in both regards. Damn you, brain-eaters!

  3. #3 by Johan Larson - August 19th, 2007 at 11:10

    …there aren’t many jobs where one is allowed to brandish blades in the office for the sake of instruction. Thank God I’m a medievalist.

    Yeah, it would such to be an anthropologist; they only get sticks. And archaeologists only get rocks!

  4. #4 by Michael Livingston - August 20th, 2007 at 12:13

    Ah, but Indiana Jones *did* get the girls…

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