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Post by janetcatbird on Dec 7, 2004 16:17:19 GMT -5
Are you kidding? I face-planted at 11:45, which is highly unusual. And it was the one night I needed to stay up late and review sources, but when you wake up to find your nose squished in the spine of "Confessions of Saint Augustine", it's a hint. But the paper got turned in (with seven minutes to spare!) this afternoon. The only way I've been able to function the past week and a half is to go into Scarlett mode--"I'll think about that tomorrow"-- and deal with things one at a time so I don't give myself ulcers. Now it's on to the Latin final.
Sorry, I'm sure the adults and parents don't really want to hear some 19-year old whine. But once I get it out of my system I'm good to go; I'll be much better company after the 13th! (My roommate actually put a notice on her board for people to knock quietly if they wanted to see her, unexpected but very much appreciated.) Later all, take care.
Catbird
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Post by js on Dec 7, 2004 22:31:30 GMT -5
Heads up!! You too can purchase the rubber suit from The Cell. On ebay now!! I know the lady who actually bid on and won V's brown sweater from TWWW. I'll have to see if she's interested in this.
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Post by jaquetta on Dec 8, 2004 11:44:06 GMT -5
whine away, janetcatbird. I've done my share (and continue it to this day).
How are you at reading assigned literature? I was pretty well read but there were a few exceptions (Moby Dick for one) that I just couldn't read once someone told me too. Plus - stupid concept.
Since I was confusing Utopia w/Paradise Lost the other day, I picked both up from the library last night. They are worlds apart. (is that a pun?) Clearly I never read Utopia, which is odd, because that's my favorite period of history. Guess I read more biography, historical happenings than the literature of the time.
Wow, Latin? I wish I had taken that.
The rubber suit from The Cell, js? Wow. People will buy anything. That was one creepy movie.
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Post by janetcatbird on Dec 8, 2004 12:31:25 GMT -5
Have not seen "The Cell", looks weirdly interesting but never got around to renting it.
Jacquetta, usually I'm pretty good with literature; I'll read/muddle through everything assigned (usually), but often I have a better memory for characters and anecdotes that grammer or formulas. Although some of the stuff for Early Christianity about did me in this semester, for crying out loud stay away from Athanasius! I don't care how beautiful the professor thinks the language is, he's bloody redundant!!
I read "Utopia" (twice, once for British History in High School and again last fall in the dorm equivalent of Western Civ), not my favorite, but definitely interesting, I preferred that to "The Republic". Of course, I had to stop myself from flinging my arms to the heavens and exclaiming "Oh Saint Tommy!" during lectures. (My mother used to teach at a private Catholic school, Saint Thomas More. Lotsa fun stories.) Have not read "Paradise Lost", one of these days I will. Not only does the concept intrigue me, but, hey, if it's referenced on Star Trek it can't be all bad!
It's weird, people in the dorm, including the professors, seem to know me as "the girl who reads everything". Not quite true, I missed the Lord of the Rings, but I am at least familiar with the biggies. I think it's cause I watch the right cartoons--"Pinky and the Brain" made a ton of cultural references, and then I would get curious and go read whatever they talked about. Same thing with stuff like "Star Trek".
Have you read the Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde? ("The Eyre Affair", "Lost in a Good Book", "The Well of Lost Plots" and "Something Rotten") Wonderful for readers, I mentioned it a long time ago. I'm wearing my SpecOps T-shirt now, I wear it for exams or on days when I need to feel capable and confident.
Yes, Latin. Overacheiver that I am I signed up and took 101 this semester thinking that "Hmm, History, Religious Studies, could be useful". Thing is I already had my foreign language requirement from French AP so it was sort of unnecessary for General Ed. I won't be continuing next semester due to hour restraints, but this professor was very good and I'm glad I got the beginnings of the basics. ALthough it screwed up my singing! (What I call "Singer's Latin" is pronounced slightly differently from what classroom professors tell you. So we'd be singing and I'd start singing classroom Latin which is not what they want, or I'd read with singer's vowels in the classroom, and, oh it's funny.) But I just got through with the final, really wasn't too bad.
Yay for procrastination, you can tell I'm trying to postpone working when I blather on at great length. I'm going to nap, go to the Rec Center, and then commence a History Paper due at 9:00 tomorrow morning. Yay for caffeine! Take care all,
Catbird
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Post by js on Dec 8, 2004 12:46:04 GMT -5
Kudos for you, janet, for taking the Latin. I remember sitting on the back steps of the building struggling through Res Gestae every week - all of us helping each other to translate before the assignment was due. Latin has served me well and has helped me figure out the meaning, or possible meaning, of many an unknown word. That and Greek roots/affixes are a great foundation for vocabulary.
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Post by Patcat on Dec 8, 2004 13:15:29 GMT -5
Cool--we're discussing Latin!
I only had a semester as a high school freshman--the teacher retired then and the school decided not to continue. But I do find it popping up in my life, which is more than I can say for my ill-starred turns at Algebra.
I also have the pronunciation problem--I sing in my church choir, and the director (an exceptionally smart and nice man) is always correcting me. But at least it's not because I'm pronouncing it like a Hoosier, though I can do that too.
Pat
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Post by NikkiGreen on Dec 8, 2004 14:56:41 GMT -5
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Post by jaquetta on Dec 8, 2004 18:10:08 GMT -5
I too have a pronunciation problem, but it has more to do with reading phonetically. At least the older I get the less it happens, or the less someone corrects me What? You mean melancholy isn't pronounced mel- anch (rhymes w/branch) - oh - lee? Who knew? I've got all the Thursday Next books but I haven't read the last two yet. It always sends me off buying more classics that slipped by me, or that I've forgotten over the years. They are fun though. In the 7th grade I was home sick for a couple of months and I read Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. Did anyone tell me that he'd been "translated" from the Olde English? No they did not. It did make Shakespeare a snap though. NikkiGreen, that is interesting! My Canadian relatives are going to love that one.
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Post by Observer2 on Dec 8, 2004 23:59:17 GMT -5
“...If a Canadian says he had to "deke out of a meeting," it means he avoided the meeting....”
Does anyone else remember Lil’E’s favorite word for Goren? Detective Deke... Metella, if you ever hear from her, tell her she’s still missed...
Thanks for the article, Nikki... it is, as you said, *interesting.* (In the Chinese sense, we, in the US, are certainly living in *interesting* times.) (Come to think of it, I guess that means the rest of the world is, too. No wonder they're pissed...)
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Post by Sirenna on Dec 9, 2004 14:25:17 GMT -5
ETA: I see that Sirenna made "Detective". Congratulations. Thanks! I'm wearing the stars with pride Stay tuned for the next two hundred posts. Wait, that sounds more like a threat... When I travelled I met tons (or is that tonnes in US equiv) of Americans who had maple leaf patches on their luggage. It was a safety issue too unfortunately. They felt safer as Canadians - less likely to be kidnapped or singled-out by anti-American sentimentalists. I do think Canadians have a much easier time abroad. A double-double is a coffee with 2 cream 2 sugar from a Tim Horton's, an ex-hockey player turned businessman. Do you guys have 'hosers' ?
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Post by Metella on Dec 11, 2004 7:07:08 GMT -5
I like to be an American, while I would rather be Canadian, I would also rather be Italian. I like to discuss politics with the cloudy eyed fools who think love and kissed will make the N. Koreans invite us to tea. My Dad was stationed in S. Korea for a while, they have a culture that does not shun as much personal torture as the European culture does. Not evey Koren (like not every Iraqi) but the fundamentals that are taught/embraced are different & give them a different way of looking at the people of the world.
I am biased; I like law and order ;D I like treating all people as if they have a fundamental worth, I don't like setting babies out to die because of who their parent may be ........ oops, I started down a political road - NIKKI shame on you for egging me on; I guess I am not calm enough to be a real Canadian.
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Post by Observer2 on Dec 13, 2004 23:58:47 GMT -5
Metella, I thought of you tonight. I went out walking later than I usually do here since I don’t have a dog to take with me, starting around 9 pm. It was about 39 (Fahrenheit), with a wind chill in the lower to mid 30s – crisp weather, in my terms, with enough wind to be exhilarating. I still miss having a dog along – and not just for the security – but I really enjoyed the walk. The section of DC I live in right now is mostly vintage row houses, with small front yards, many with nice plantings and flowers. Many have Christmas lights up; and, at the same time, believe it or not, this late in the season, four different yards had roses still in bloom. One was a mini bush, with bunches of one-inch diameter roses, two were old-fashioned cabbage-roses, and one was an incredibly delicate-looking white tea rose with pink edging on the petals, fully open, almost glowing in the street light. If we have the expected frost later this week it’ll be gone, but right now it’s an unexpected bit of beauty on my walk. I couldn’t smell the tea rose, but all the others were giving off a faint but noticeable scent up to several feet a way – delicate and sweet, like a memory of spring. Later in the walk I smelled wood smoke – most likely from a fireplace for fun, in this area, rather than for any heat production. And then, on my way back, I stopped by my favorite yard, the one with a huge (3 feet in diameter) rosemary bush, right next to a clump of lavender of about the same size. I always brush the lavender with one hand, to get that sweet old-fashioned scent. Then I brush the rosemary with the other hand. I don’t know why I love the scent of rosemary so much, but it’s one of my favorite herbs. And my hands smell of wonderful herbs for a long time afterwards. I’m sure you’re getting good walking weather where you are, by now. I hope you have some lovely natural areas to walk in. I have to drive to get to a park of any size at this point; but between the Christmas lights, the roses and the herbs, even walking on city sidewalks isn’t so bad.
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Post by janetcatbird on Dec 14, 2004 8:41:29 GMT -5
I wish I had some good places to go walking. I'm in the suburbs, but still...you walk everywhere on campus, and while it's not unattractive it doesn't quite have the appeal of the Bronte moors. Oh well.
Good news: Home for break, done with everything! Most of my grades are in, As and A-s so far and I'm not too worried about the ones not posted yet, so I'm pretty happy.
Bad news: locked myself out of the car this morning--after I'd locked the house door. (My car has that automatic lock as soon as you shut the door, I specifically told myself "Don't shut the door when you're scraping frost" and what do I do? Of course my purse with my spare AND cell phone were in the car as well.) So I had to call Mom from a neighbor's house, only it turns out the other spare key was with Dad, so we had to call HIM to come home from work...oh it was embarassing. And I had to reschedule the doctor's appointment, after I'd gotten up early. Sigh.
Still, I'm home for a month, that's always good. Think I'll get started on laundry and decorating before bugging my choir director to help me go over music. Later all,
Catbird.
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Post by MelTex on Dec 14, 2004 10:40:17 GMT -5
How do you guys all get to take a cool language like Latin, and we don't even get offered it down here! Course, here if you don't take Spanish, well, your basically screwed! I wish I could have taken Latin in high school or College, no such luck. Observer, sounds like you have a really nice place to walk! I wish we did here where I live, cause I go jogging a lot, but there always seems to be dogs on the loose. Oh well, guess you get more excersise if your being chased by a rabid chahuahua! ;D j/k!
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Post by Metella on Dec 15, 2004 11:35:16 GMT -5
Observer, I am just getting familiar with my new surroundings ...... I have city sidewalks now & must walk the "dogs" one at a time or others wanting to share the sidewalk would not be happy. So far I have not found a strolling treasure; but I am sure I will come across some soon.
Just for strollers like you .... I have already planted enough tulips to make Holland proud & plan for holly bushes along the property line .... so I have spring and winter covered for anyone's strolling pleasure. Any suggestions for summer & fall (autumn for Kahlia)? I have a budget!
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