So. It's Wednesday. Yesterday I said it was the longest week of the semester.

I've been elected Consul (president, for you non history buffs out there) of the Classics Club. I also have two other fabulous officers working with me. I have played Godswar RISK twice in the last week ... the first time to learn it, the second with the Classics Club. ( Read more... )

Which five book characters are you most like (including, if you want, one of your own)?

Tagged by mela_lyn .

1. Simon Peter from the New Testament. (Instructions didn't say whether the book had to be fiction or not, right?) Peter (a fisherman) doggedly did what society told him he ought to do, even when he did it poorly, without asking for help. Peter failed ( Read more... )

Last night I saw He's Just Not That Into You with my little sister. Really sweet, smart, funny film. Total chickflick but funny enough that I wouldn't feel badly dragging a date to see it. All of the great stuff from the self-help book+Love Actually+When Harry Met Sally. I was expecting fluff from the cast I knew about, but I was actually impressed ( Read more... )

It's Foreign Language Days today. The University (or, the Modern and Classical Languages Department of the College of Arts and Sciences) invites all of the high schools in the state to come and visit foreign language classes once a year. So I have to behave well and sound particularly snazzy when scanning my line of Virgil aloud today. I hate ( Read more... )

New words on Fail With Honor tonight: 350ish.

Got the Greek exam back. The one I was fairly sure was guaranteed to wreck my GPA. Yeah, mercy grade or otherwise, squeaked by with a low A on it. Also took the first Mythology exam. Think that went fairly well, but we'll see.

The University of Montana Classics Club met for the first time tonight. Won't bore you with minutes (you can find those on our facebook page if you're interested). But we nominated officers, and I made the ballot for Consul (president) and Quaestor (treasurer). I've done ground work and officer work for clubs before, but this is the first time I've ( Read more... )

Ok, so we weren't strictly 'studying' for all twelve hours ... but the Greeks just left my house, slightly after 2 in the morning the night before our test. I don't think I've ever 'crammed' for a test like this before. Part of this is my own fault, I'll admit. Part of it was because there was a change in testing procedures from last semester to ( Read more... )

I still have slightly more than half of my takehome exam to finish. And tomorrow I have to go to church, hopefully let my pastor fix my tail-light, have the Greeks over for a last-ditch effort at studying for our first exam on the Odyssey (without a dictionary we found out a mere week before said torturous experiment), then go to a house warming ( Read more... )

This makes book 4.5 completed in 2009, for those of you keeping score at home.

In Bone Crossed, Patricia Briggs crafted a masterful plot and deep characters whom I felt strongly about. Her world building continues to astound me in its balance of subtlety, texture, and completeness. Bone Crossed was worth every moment of waiting for since I finished ( Read more... )

According to Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition, "an idiot is a stupid person with a mental age below three years, while a moron is a stupid person with a mental age of between seven to twelve years."

Just thought you should know.