that’s the end

The real end of the semester. It will take a few days to recover, and you still might not see me on here as much as usual.

Gibbon on the Germans

No offense, these were my ancestors too:

“In the dull intervals of peace these barbarians were immoderately addicted to deep gaming and excessive drinking; both of which, by different means, the one inflaming the passions, the other by extinguishing their reason, alike relieved them from the pain of thinking.”