Ashley Walker

Classics grad student at UNC | probably thinking about poetry | she/her

[Ashley Walker @ashleywalker00]

@apistone I haven’t read it, so I don’t know how much it specifically engages with Hesiod, but ‘Work & Days’ by Tess Taylor might fit what they’re looking for! https://t.co/2a2HCEDA2K

[Ashley Walker @ashleywalker00]

@sgmilliron Thanks, Sarah!!!

[Ashley Walker @ashleywalker00]

Thesis officially submitted, defended, and approved by feline reviewer

[Ashley Walker @ashleywalker00]

@halliesneed Thanks, Hallie!

[Ashley Walker @ashleywalker00]

@sgmilliron Congrats, Sarah!!! 🎉 This is so exciting and I’m thrilled for you!

[Ashley Walker @ashleywalker00]

Putting that English major to good use today

[Ashley Walker @ashleywalker00]

@abbiecribbs I’m SO glad to know I’m not the only one who feels this way

[Ashley Walker @ashleywalker00]

@trevorarrow98 That would make sense! I kept trying to think of what it might stand for and couldn’t come up with anything that wasn’t negative 😂

[Ashley Walker @ashleywalker00]

I panicked yesterday because I thought I’d somehow failed a class I audited. Turns out, a U is the audit equivalent of a P and does not, in fact, stand for unsatisfactory like it did on elementary school report cards.

[Ashley Walker @ashleywalker00]

@greamath I am very confused as to the rationale behind Lee’s choice of letters, but this is indeed a lovely example where a U grade can be joyous

[Ashley Walker @ashleywalker00]

@EmBaker6 @chelsaflanary @MikhayahS @abbiecribbs @h_fischbach @ScottBeatty19 @LauraAArciniega Anne of Green Gables—L.M. Montgomery
Metamorphoses—Ovid
Home Fire—Kamila Shamsie
The Elegance of the Hedgehog—Muriel Barbery
The Aeneid—Virgil
Poems & Plays—T.S. Eliot
Opened Ground—Seamus Heaney

[Ashley Walker @ashleywalker00]

@arj520: “Did you eat NINE cookies?”

Me: “...”

A: “You ate ramen and nine cookies for dinner?!”

Me: *decides now is as good a time as ever to admit I also ate four cookies worth of cookie dough while the aforementioned cookies were baking*

[Ashley Walker @ashleywalker00]

@greamath A cute dog and a literary joke?! This is precisely the Twitter content I’m here for

[Ashley Walker @ashleywalker00]

@greamath Indeed, I probably won’t tweet again for several months... But in the meantime I’ll still be here liking dog pictures and literary jokes :)

[Ashley Walker @ashleywalker00]

Me: Listening to and trying to repeat my French vocab words. Failing horribly.

@arj520: Oh so kindly pulls up the Friends clip where Joey’s trying to learn French: “This is how you sound right now...”

I’m definitely ready for this semester.

[Ashley Walker @ashleywalker00]

A lovely thread about the difficult joys of classical (Greek) translation...

[Ashley Walker @ashleywalker00]

@arj520 and I were having a great conversation. . . until I sat up, yelled, and ran out of the room because I realized I had an entire chocolate bar of the pocket of the jacket that I had just washed.

Today’s lesson: washing a Hershey’s bar does not diminish its deliciousness

[Ashley Walker @ashleywalker00]

Me: applies sunscreen poorly and gets rather sunburned at the pool

@arj520: “Oh, your legs look like crab legs... you know, cause they’re only red on one side... But hey, the backs of your arms look fantastic!”

[Ashley Walker @ashleywalker00]

William Carlos Williams + ancient Greek tragedy = pure genius.

[Eidolon @eidolon_journal]

This is just to say
I have slept with my mother
who was also
my wife

and killed my father whom
you were probably
honoring
as king

Forgive me
I was ignorant
so blind
so so blind.

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[hope @h_fischbach]

"I suck at getting into cars in dresses. Something always goes wrong" – @ashleywalker00