The Keane and Mark Ronson songs that are stuck in my head right now are really making it difficult to memorize Latin conjugations and declensions for my final in five and a half hours.

manus manoooos
manum manoooos
manoooos manuum
manui manibus
manooo manibus

Potential confusion:

• manus ≠ manUs
• nom pl + acc pl + gen s = manUs
• dat pl + abl pl = ( Read more... )

Apparently humans use laughter as a way to communicate friendliness rather than appreciation of wit. According to an article in the New York Times, "it's not about getting the joke. It's about getting along." This makes sense to me. I laugh a lot; I like getting along with people. Sounds solid enough ( Read more... )

( Another 2006 meme. )

If I had a B+ three days before the final and my final class grade is an A-, then I sure as hell got an A on that exam.

Success!

On Friday, I knew res, rei would be on my Latin midterm. Nice didn't say so specifically, but he emphasized it so much I knew it would be. Somewhere between Friday and this afternoon, though, I decided it wouldn't be worth my time to study the fifth declension because he most likely wouldn't put something so new on the test. Obviously I was wrong, ( Read more... )

Calc, French, my iPod and my iMac have all abandoned me. Latin and Privacy are my only friends, and they are fickle. o me miserum!

I've just discovered that even Goudy hates me. Why did they have to have crappy chicken today of all days?

He is so amazing. He said something about how his weekends are so much better now that he has me than they were before we got together, including the first two weekends here at school, and I about melted. I was hiding my head to ignore the segment on Vietnam in the documentary we were watching and ended up falling asleep on him for two hours, and ( Read more... )

I'm totally going to learn Latin ( Read more... )