Game plan for today:
- Read pages 138-196 of Suri’s “Henry Kissinger & the American Century” while watching Trek episode Devil In The Dark
- Type up last peer review for intermediate fiction workshop
- Call local Walgreens and inquire about passport photos
- Go outside (69 degrees Fahrenheit on November 8th? Mmk Wisconsin.) and do Latin homework
- Do Greek homework and study Greek until my head explodes, in preparation for the midterm on Thursday. Heu misera sum.
- Also do some more semester planning, adjusting for a full four years instead of trying to cram history and classical humanities majors and Letters & Science degree into three and a half semesters.
"Love does happen"
Love does happen
Like a touch
of grace
It falls
Into place
Where there used
To be
Empty Space
When I hold your
Face
In my hands
I ask
How did this happen
To me?
-Leonard Nimoy
The italics are my own; this is my favorite part.
I am waiting for this to happen to me.
I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.
- D.H. Lawrence
G(r)eek and Star Trek
Spock rocks some stunna shades.
Just watched “Is There In Truth No Beauty?” while kindof doing Greek homework and I especially liked this episode! I enjoyed the character of Dr. Miranda Jones. Andwhaddaya know, there’s plenty of Classical references in this episode! First off, there is the Ambassador Kollos from the planet Medusa. Like the creature of myth they are named after, Medusans are formless figures considered so ugly that upon looking at them, humans are driven mad (rather than being turned to stone).The crew and Dr. Jones discuss the notion “promulgated by the ancient Greeks that what is good must also be beautiful.” This brings me to the name of the ambassador, Kollos- “κολός” is the Greek (masculine) adjective for “good, noble, beautiful.” (o i see what you did there!)
A quote from Miranda Jones: “Who is to say whether Kollos is too ugly to bear, or too beautiful to bear?”
As if loving Star Trek wasn’t nerdy enough, then it has fabulous Classical references I can enjoy as well.
nevermind.
After another late night doing Greek homework accompanied by much hair pulling, I think Latin is definitely the way to go next semester. I definitely don’t need to be stressing out over God knows how many other verb forms which lurk in the dark passages of future chapters of GREEK: AN INTENSIVE COURSE.
Latin is my first love. Enough of this affair with Greek. Except I have to take another midterm (next week thursday zomg) and a final before we break up.
A CHOICE MUST BE MADE
Potential spring course schedule is now dictating my life. If I am unable to bend the laws of spacetime, I don’t think I’ll be able to continue with both Greek and Latin like I’ve been wanting to. Before I had been deliberating on only taking one language, with a History 600 course on my plate, but now that the choice is being taken from me, I realize my true feelings.
But now I must choose between:
Greek 104- Second semester Ancient Greek
Latin 204- Intro to Latin Literature
I AM VERY UPSET ABOUT THIS CIRCUMSTANCE. SEE MY DISTRESS MANIFEST IN CAPSLOCK. DENZIENS OF THE INTERNETS, WHAT SHOULD I DO?
