Classical Closure
Is a book sitting next to me, edited by my tutor's dead husband. But it does have some pertinance. Cause: I'M GETTING REALLY EXCITED TO COME HOME!!! No more of this tentative wishy-washy shit (although I will still obviously miss folks just as much -- I've just started accepting it). I've just been dreaming and dreaming of everything that's going to be this summer. Uh oh, that sentence sounded distinctly like Attic Greek prose. ala the verb gignaesomai. I wonder how that's actually supposed to be spelled in English. Whatever. ANYWAY, with Casey and Justin getting the apartment all set up, and my mom making plans, and the weeks flying by here, everything's starting to feel really accelerated, but in the good way, the way I like. The best part is knowing that I can't build it up too much, as I'm prone to do, because I'm daydreaming about things that are simple facts, like the prospect of just being in Minneapolis, of living in Uptown, of not being in school, and of just seeing all these people I love! Of course it means that I won't be seeing certain others close to my little heart, but what can I do? I can console myself with the knowledge that airplanes exist. Besides, the Atlantic isn't all that wide......
At the moment I'm also feeling very preoccupied with work, which I suppose is good. My brain is buzzing with random vocab, Metamorphoses episodes, and good old Virgil. Most likely because I had a tute today with Peta. She gave me back my last essay, which was a bit of a debacle. I was really burnt out from the rape essay, so I chose to write about love episodes, cause I knew they wouldn't overlap. Then I half-assed the reading and showed up at my last tute rambling total gobbledy gook that I was just making up. But she decided that I was right, and told me to write my essay on that. Although I wrote it in a begrudging haze, it still said "Excellent" at the end, which is very, very good. And Peta said "I really like you" in talking about my report reading again, so grad reccommendation, here I come. Unfortunately I've also kinda bummed out on my reading again, and in this tute I made up some crap about how the Cipus episode, and the relation of the horns/laurels to Caesar/Augustus could be paralleled with Ajax and Ulysses in the Judgement of Arms, and then went on to say I thought Ajax was turned into a Hyacinth after his suicide because Ovid was suggesting the feminization of the greek tradition, and thereby making a modern statement on the virtus of Rome, effecting some sort of East-West shift, as with the literary tradition and the degeneration of Epic and on and on. Then there's all this stuff about Hecuba, and how she guards the Hellespont, which ties in with the relationship between geographical boundries and the transition from one era to another, like the Gulf of Corinth and the end of the age of gods/beginning of the heroic age. But why Hecuba? That's the problem. I need to somehow relate revenge/Hecuba to the end of the Greek epic cycle. Then I need to talk about teleological epic and Virgil vs. Ovid, the aftermath of Troy, and that of Rome. Not sure about that part, either.
Okay, I really hope noone read all that. Sorta went on a rant, but now I feel much more clear about what I need to do. Livejournal is actually good for something!
At the moment I'm also feeling very preoccupied with work, which I suppose is good. My brain is buzzing with random vocab, Metamorphoses episodes, and good old Virgil. Most likely because I had a tute today with Peta. She gave me back my last essay, which was a bit of a debacle. I was really burnt out from the rape essay, so I chose to write about love episodes, cause I knew they wouldn't overlap. Then I half-assed the reading and showed up at my last tute rambling total gobbledy gook that I was just making up. But she decided that I was right, and told me to write my essay on that. Although I wrote it in a begrudging haze, it still said "Excellent" at the end, which is very, very good. And Peta said "I really like you" in talking about my report reading again, so grad reccommendation, here I come. Unfortunately I've also kinda bummed out on my reading again, and in this tute I made up some crap about how the Cipus episode, and the relation of the horns/laurels to Caesar/Augustus could be paralleled with Ajax and Ulysses in the Judgement of Arms, and then went on to say I thought Ajax was turned into a Hyacinth after his suicide because Ovid was suggesting the feminization of the greek tradition, and thereby making a modern statement on the virtus of Rome, effecting some sort of East-West shift, as with the literary tradition and the degeneration of Epic and on and on. Then there's all this stuff about Hecuba, and how she guards the Hellespont, which ties in with the relationship between geographical boundries and the transition from one era to another, like the Gulf of Corinth and the end of the age of gods/beginning of the heroic age. But why Hecuba? That's the problem. I need to somehow relate revenge/Hecuba to the end of the Greek epic cycle. Then I need to talk about teleological epic and Virgil vs. Ovid, the aftermath of Troy, and that of Rome. Not sure about that part, either.
Okay, I really hope noone read all that. Sorta went on a rant, but now I feel much more clear about what I need to do. Livejournal is actually good for something!