Mom is visiting, with the intention of finishing the alterations to my Bride's Maid's dress. And most of today was actually spent shopping.

I mentioned in my last post that I got a copy of difrancis 's new book, The Turning Tide, but I also got the really cheap Barnes and Noble Classics editions of Gulliver's Travels and Pride and Prejudice. I am ( Read more... )

I survived the Greek test today. It was a little rough. I think I didn't do as well on it as on the last one. Had a section about poetic figures/techniques, one of which was clearly a hysteron proteron, (the first example given here is actually the English of what my exam said from Book XII of the Odyssey) but the second example of text had mostly ( Read more... )

Last night I saw He's Just Not That Into You with my little sister. Really sweet, smart, funny film. Total chickflick but funny enough that I wouldn't feel badly dragging a date to see it. All of the great stuff from the self-help book+Love Actually+When Harry Met Sally. I was expecting fluff from the cast I knew about, but I was actually impressed ( Read more... )

All things considered, today was actually a productive day. I cleaned my house, paid some bills, talked to my mom, baked for fellowship meal at church tomorrow, and wrote three and a half pages of my Hamlet paper ( Read more... )