Epic Procrastination
So my courses are incredibly interesting right now. Today I learned:
- How the Greeks wrote love poetry asking Dionysus for help just as much as the other gods, because they realised early on that your chances are much improved with alcohol,
- How the Romans didn't care about the different ways of practising their religion because they'd try anything that worked, and if it failed they wouldn't think "The gods are testing us!", they'd think, "Well, our neighbours have good crops, let's try worshipping their gods their way, and if that doesn't work, we're clearly not wording our rituals right!"
- That Cena Trimalchionis, as well as the wacky hi-jinks we were promised, is actually quite depressing as Trimalchio is clearly so obsessed with the fact he's going to die.
But of course, epic course enjoyment leads to escalation in procrastination. Having already drained out my usual resources - cracked.com, Barney's blog, and the recent addition LOLNews & Politics, I have had to become more creative.
I was tired of lots of my movie soundtracks on iTunes not having titles, just 'Track 1' and 'Track 7'. So I've just completed renaming the Titanic soundtrack depending on what's going on in the movie at the moment, resulting in track titles such as 'Dude, That's a Big-Ass Boat' and 'Holy Shit, We're Sinking!' Next stop, Troy.
Or, you know, I could get back to translating about a trashy Symposium (aka Faux-Sympo) hosted by the most wacky morbid guy ever.
- How the Greeks wrote love poetry asking Dionysus for help just as much as the other gods, because they realised early on that your chances are much improved with alcohol,
- How the Romans didn't care about the different ways of practising their religion because they'd try anything that worked, and if it failed they wouldn't think "The gods are testing us!", they'd think, "Well, our neighbours have good crops, let's try worshipping their gods their way, and if that doesn't work, we're clearly not wording our rituals right!"
- That Cena Trimalchionis, as well as the wacky hi-jinks we were promised, is actually quite depressing as Trimalchio is clearly so obsessed with the fact he's going to die.
But of course, epic course enjoyment leads to escalation in procrastination. Having already drained out my usual resources - cracked.com, Barney's blog, and the recent addition LOLNews & Politics, I have had to become more creative.
I was tired of lots of my movie soundtracks on iTunes not having titles, just 'Track 1' and 'Track 7'. So I've just completed renaming the Titanic soundtrack depending on what's going on in the movie at the moment, resulting in track titles such as 'Dude, That's a Big-Ass Boat' and 'Holy Shit, We're Sinking!' Next stop, Troy.
Or, you know, I could get back to translating about a trashy Symposium (aka Faux-Sympo) hosted by the most wacky morbid guy ever.