October 2008
7 posts
How many countries can you name in 5 minutes? →
92, with such winners as Saint Kitts and Nevis, Vanuatu, and South Ossetia (!). Funny, my colonial self kept putting in things like Zaire and Eastern Indochina, but apparently those don’t count anymore?
Also, I am obviously procrastinating. Life has been terribly busy and I’m barely able to get time to myself anymore. Boo.
September 2008
11 posts
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δεινόν, or procrastination
489 Tell Nikeratos: Moskhion is naturally taken aback by what he thinks is being suggested. It is certainly deinon to go up to your prospective father-in-law and inform him that some time last year you raped his daughter.
The nice thing about reading Greek Comedy, New or Old, is that your notes are filled with snide comments like this.
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This whole looking at grad schools thing
Is now becoming really time-consuming.
I hate being a senior, and it’s only been three weeks.
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The joys of translating an incomplete play.
Moschion: ……I ask to marry ……lest the marriages ……
Demeas: ……ly, my son.
Moschion: ……I'm willing ……to seem.
Demeas: You act well.
Moschion: …………
This is Menander's Samia, on which I will be basing my Honors thesis. Fun times.
Things I Am Doing
Way too much crap:
Making my way to my co-op on very south end of campus, and then crewing there Monday nights.
Correcting Greek 101 homework every day.
Tutoring Greek 101 kids sometimes.
Holding group study sessions the night before a quiz.
Working at the library 8 hours in two days.
Not cleaning up my room.
Being 90 lines behind on my Greek, and finding it really hard to give a...
I’m alive! →
And back in school, according to this schedule:
Anyway, now that I’ve finished both my first days of class, I can say with certainty…that this semester is going to be a mixed bag.
German is going to…
Footnotes, Endnotes, and Parentheticals That Cost... →
3 Who, although a gifted academic, is still a douche.
“[Former Wasilla mayor] Stein says that as mayor, Palin continued to inject...”
– librarian.net » Blog Archive » Sarah Palin, VP nominee
I just knew there was a reason (besides the baby thing, the pro-life thing, the whole being-governor-of-20-people thing, and the whole corruption thing) I didn’t like Sarah Palin. Don’t mess with libraries.
