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Every week these days I head to my old stomping grounds on the 19th floor to sort through the mail my replacement doesn't know yet what to do with and say hello to Coworker Crush.

She's actually been absent quite a bit while I've been there, but I don't want you all thinking I'm neglecting her. Today she caught up with me as I was leaving to get a soda from the cafeteria downstairs, so we had a nice talk on the elevator down, mostly about books. She's reading Iain Banks right now, and I am about to start on the many and varied PDFs I'm supposed to be reading, but at the moment on the train am buried in a translation from the French of The Memoirs of Hadrian. ("Wait -- " "Yeah, the one with the wall.")

One of my fellow admins asked me today if my boyfriend works in the city, so apparently my love life is even more exciting than I thought. There followed a brief, tactful conversation about my sexual orientation, which may have been what he was angling for to start with.

It's a Tuesday, but it feels oddly like a Monday...

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The guy with the elephants was Hannibal, a military commander from Carthage living from 247BC to 182 BC. At the start of the Second Punic War, he marched his troops, including elephants, over the Pyrenees and the Alps into Italy, attacking allies of Rome.

Hadrian (really: Publius Aelius Trajanus Hadrianus Augustus) was a Roman Emperor, born 76 died 138. He built the so called Hadrian's Wall, marking the northern limit of the Roman empire in Britain.

/history geek

Thank you for the info! I couldn't quite remember what Hadrian's Wall was for. Also, is this the same Emperor who limited Roman expansion in general?

Thank you for the correction! I knew Hadrian's Wall, because I lived in Scotland as a child, but didn't know/remember Hadrian was an emperor.

Re the elephants, well, Hadrian and Hannibal both start with an H. Do I get points for that? LOL

::sends love to history geeks::