Observations on AElfric

Sex is more controversial than issues of textual transmission.

Issues of textual transmission involving sex, however, are dynamite.

I DO NOT WANT TO WRITE THIS ESSAY, OK?

HOW ABOUT I GO AND BECOME A STATION ANNOUNCER LIKE THAT FRENCH GUY IN SCOTLAND, OR THE PERPETUALLY SURPRISED WOMAN ON THE NEWCASTLE LINE. kthnx.

Blog notoriety!

Check out the google hits on the Naked Philologist of late:

Today

Search	Views
naked wives	1

Yesterday

Search	Views
female masturbation in late 1800's	1
name etymologies pevensie	1

Yes. That's right. I have reached the threshold of successful blogging- strange porn searches. I've been getting those for a while, actually. And the pevensie etymology search is fairly predictable. Female masturbation in the late 1800s looks like an interesting thing to research, actually

In other news, my new Evil Overlord arrived today and I called it Innocent III.
Also, this having-a-pet thing is all very nice but can I give her back yet? Why did no one warn me that pets are so much like children?

Strange thing of the evening: I came home and she whinged until I went into the bathroom, where she insisted I move the garbage bin from behind the toilet, so that she could a) lick the grout at the bottom of the wall and b) roll around in apparent ecstasy between the toilet and the wall.
No good reason for any of this, as far as I can see.