Latin's done, and went about as well as the previous exams, I think, so that's fine, but I'm totally panicky about Greek. I know no verbs! Well, some, but not freaking many. Must, must, must institute regular review of vocabulary! Okay, time to stop the panic-procrastination and go study.

Happy Easter and Passover, to those celebrating ( Read more... )

Well, I'm still a bit overwhelmed in Greek, but gaining ground. I do love it so, perhaps especially when I start out so lost. Also loving the Olympics and the CBC commentators who don't chatter through all the exciting bits. I remembered to put black beans in the slow-cooker this morning, so I've had a yummy dinner and am now going to settle in ( Read more... )

I knit a sweater! And learned how to knit with both hands for colorwork and graft, which was lots of fun. There were little holes at the edges of the underarm joins and a random loop from somewhere, but other than that, it's pretty and functional and immensely gratifying ( Read more... )

is kicking my ass. Euripides is indeed a big change from the little textook sentences, but I have a rough translation of 10 (of 80!) lines for tomorrow. It's a slog, what with my lame vocabulary and the fact that I haven't looked at Greek in a month and seem to have all my forms muddled, but still fun. But the Latin assignment was easier than I' ( Read more... )

Hello lj world, and happy new year. 2005 was not much fun, overall, but I'm optimistic about 2006. Classes start tomorrow, and I'm very excited about starting to actual Greek and Latin instead of the exercise sentences, amusing as they sometimes were. I need to go check with an advisor once next years course offerings are up, but I think I may ( Read more... )

Happy Thanksgiving to all who are celebrating. No turkey or long weekend here, but we do have a lovely snow and the recent stresses in my life are going to ease up now, at least temporarily, so I'll celebrate that. And enjoy any turkey vicariously.

I made honey cake and it was delicious. That and pizza and honey and apples and wine was a fine Rosh Hashanah dinner. It would have been nice if I wasn't working around a young person throwing an absolute fit about being sick to her stomach. Literal beating on the floor and kicking and writhing and remarkably loud groans and cries of "Can't you ( Read more... )

I can't sit down without wincing and managed to do something odd to a knee, but riding was wonderful. I managed to post at the trot for the first time ever, which was surprisingly fun, but my steering ability didn't quite agree with the horse. I ended up being put in an intermediate group, but the instructor said that would be fine, so I'll just ( Read more... )

I can't say life sucks, really, when it's a gorgeous day out and I'm going horseback riding in a couple of hours and I've got Greek and Latin studying to do that I enjoy very much. But it's been really damned hard recently and I'm so tired of it. If I manage to make challah for Rosh Hashanah, I'll be pleasantly surprised; I'm looking forward to ( Read more... )