I cooked myself dinner! I am a real grownup person! Huzzah!

Of course I've cooked dinner before, but it is somehow different when I'm not doing it in my parents' kitchen.

My life is settling into something of a routine. A routine that largely revolves around translating Thucydides. THE MAN IS RIDICULOUS. His sentences are like giant tangled ( Read more... )

This conversation occurred in my Sophocles class today while translating Antigone. One of the many excellent qualities of that play is the fact that it inevitably leads to discussions about incest.

Guy: Wait, so Kreon is Jocasta's brother and Haimon is his son, so Antigone and Haimon are cousins?

Professor: Yes.

Guy: You'd think this family would ( Read more... )

I have the really embarrassing urge to write Loveless fanfiction. Someone please stop me.

AHHHHH I HAVE SO MUCH GREEK TO TRANSLATE. The class is averaging about 150 lines per week, which is fine if I do a bit of it each day, but DEATH if I try to do it all in one night. Like I did last night. I ended up working on it for three hours before going to ( Read more... )

I seem to be quickly developing a massive crush on my Greek professor. THAT'S NOT AS GROSS AS IT SOUNDS, I SWEAR. He just got out of grad school and this is his first teaching job, so he's like 28 at most. And he looks REALLY YOUNG. I thought he was a student when he first walked into class. So it's still inappropriate of me to perv on him, but not ( Read more... )

I've been trying to read Sappho. So far this is the only poem I can completely make out, and only because it was in my Greek textbook last year.

Δέδυκε μεν ἀ σελάννα
καὶ Πληΐαδεσ, μέσαι δὲ
νύκτεσ πάρα δ᾽ ἔρχετ᾽ ὤρα,
ἔγω δὲ μόνα κατεύδω.

The moon has set,
And the Pleiades. It is the middle
Of the night, time passes,
And I sleep alone.

Sappho's Aeolian ( Read more... )

My first day of class was pretty good, although Latin looks like it's going to be kind of a disaster. The super irritating guy who reads Robert Jordan is in my class again...ugh. And my Greek professor from last quarter is now my Latin professor. I have him for an hour every day at nine in the morning for ten weeks. :( He saw me and said, "HEY! YOU ( Read more... )

So I've been translating Xenophon's Anabasis for my Greek 100 class, and I've been coming across some pretty INTERESTING STUFF. This is what Xenophon had to say about about his fellow Athenian, Meno, after her was murdered by the Persians. After thoroughly trashing his character in every way (saying he was a liar, a terrible military commander, ( Read more... )