I use the *Living Social: Visual Bookshelf* application on Facebook. It's got a bunch of cool features which this post is not about. But when I was going through just now and updating some things, I wrote an informal review of the third or so translation of the Iliad I've read and stumbled upon another review ... written in the style of Robert ( Read more... )

I may have said much of this preamble before, but just to catch everyone up to speed: My very dear friend, Desiree, gets married Saturday. I'm headed out tomorrow ... morning (is it really past 3am already?) to help with the last of the preparations and for the rehearsal and its dinner tomorrow evening. She chose me as the Maid of Honor.

My post- ( Read more... )

Sorry I've been out of the blogosphere again. Life and such. But here, as an installment of what I've been doing for the last week+, are some samples of the visual art projects from my Mythology class.

This is (a late draft but not final copy of) my project. Because the camera I was using was so crummy I had to equalize it to get the colors at all ( Read more... )

And in other cool news, check out the email my mom sent me:

Neeson to star as Zeus in 'Clash of the Titans'( Three Cheers for Remakes of Fabulous B-Movies! )

Check it out: monstropedia.org

Who knew studying for a Greek poetry exam could be so much fun?

Lead worship this morning. I only had one line's worth of crash-and-burn (just got totally lost in the presence of God/beauty of the music, then opened my eyes and had no idea where I was when I looked at my sheet of lyrics and chords). Fortunately my guitarist and violinist just kept playing right on without me, so it was not as half as awful as ( Read more... )

A favorite professor of mine re-opened the topic of directed study/conference-presentable research paper (maybe I mentioned this a while ago). Now (since we're through the halfway point of the semester grumble, grumble, grumble), if I'm still interested, he'd like to be the adviser on a research project and he has an off campus (because there's one ( Read more... )

It's Foreign Language Days today. The University (or, the Modern and Classical Languages Department of the College of Arts and Sciences) invites all of the high schools in the state to come and visit foreign language classes once a year. So I have to behave well and sound particularly snazzy when scanning my line of Virgil aloud today. I hate ( Read more... )

New words on Fail With Honor tonight: 350ish.

Got the Greek exam back. The one I was fairly sure was guaranteed to wreck my GPA. Yeah, mercy grade or otherwise, squeaked by with a low A on it. Also took the first Mythology exam. Think that went fairly well, but we'll see.

So, my three hour, once per week, evening Latin class decided (by means of no one vehemently opposing our instructor) to bring food to share on a rotational basis. I get to bring food next week, the week preceding Valentine's Day. My mom, fabulous, intentional, and creative woman that she has always been, created all kinds of neat traditions for my ( Read more... )