This is the image of Byzantium. The photo is of the post-thrash metal band Byzantine from Charleston West Virginia. Not exactly your standard image of the effeminate Greek of the Crusading sources is it? The lecture is ready, I am pretty confident that all is going to be right for the first week. Now I need to make sure all the powerpoint aids are present in the rooms and of course I will need to check the rooms so that I know where I teach. One more semester begins. Listening to Morphine at the moment and eating lentils. My life is as simple as it could be at the moment. I feel like having a beer but I am not sure I can be bothered to go out and get it. Back to the powerpoint. A domani