August, I'm on your side.

[ourheavyhearts]

I think I might actually miss it here a little bit.

But I know I made the right decision.

Thursday is my last day here.

Monday is the Decemberists.

June is Rilo Kiley.

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oh yea

[nathanielat]

THOR LOVES YOU

Re: oh yea

[cycloctopus]

so, i saw a band called shearwater the other night, and their drummer was actually named thor. and he had long golden locks. i didnt see a hammer, but i wasnt brave enough to call him out. norse gods are pretty violent, i hear.

Re: oh yea

[_mayonnaise_]

Shearwater is basically the same band as Okkervil river, who is opening for Rilo Kiley. Okkervil River has been my favorite band for years, but I am probably not going because I hate variety playhouse and I am mad that Okkervil river is not the headliner. But I really want to hear them play their new songs because Black Sheep Boy is great, so I am torn.

Re: oh yea

[ourheavyhearts]

You should go! I'm going to that show. I love Rilo Kiley and Okkervil River. That's Zach by the way that you replied to.

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[cycloctopus]

see, now i'm torn. i may be in the frozen north of new england that week. which is a shame, because at the shearwater show, i met and made friends with their lead singer/guitarist/banjo...ist(?) john, who plays keyboards and such for okkervil. i impressed him with the fact that my friend and i had driven from atlanta to st augustine, florida, to see the show. he even offered to put us on the guest list for the tallahassee show the next night, which we couldnt make. it would be cool to see him again. but seeing certain people up north might be better.

Re: oh yea

[cycloctopus]

also: hi, trisha. i hope finals haven't killed you. there's been enough tragedy. there's been enough since clytemnestra and aegisthus killed agamemnon. i'm still dealing with that one.

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[_mayonnaise_]

personally, I am glad agamemnon died, the bastard. I have to go take my classics final in half an hour, so that was a very appropriate thing to say. You should come back up here during the summer when I have some free time. I mean it.

Re: oh yea

[ourheavyhearts]

Geez you two, get a room!

Re: oh yea

[cycloctopus]

has anyone told you that i live for the classics these days? sure, i'll come up this summer some time. if there's one thing i have plenty of these days, it's time. if there's two, they're time and fear of standing in one spot for too long. i warn you, however: now that i know you have read, at the very least, the oresteia, all i will want to do is talk about how totally awesome ancient greece is. okay, tori; now you can make your comment again.

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[ourheavyhearts]

Get a room!

When can i see you and get my ticket?

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[_mayonnaise_]

I re-organized my book shelves tonight, and I have half a shelf devoted to ancient Greece. I'm so awesome.

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[cycloctopus]

yeah. that's totally awesome. i miss having my bookshelf full of my greek stuff from freshman year. it's almost all in boxes in virginia. i need to ask: what else did your course cover?

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[_mayonnaise_]

My class was pretty lame actually. We did the Illiad, Herodotus, Prometheus Bound, the Lysistrata, Plato's Euthyphro and the Apology. However, Greek classics have been a personal interest of mine so the class was a bit of a let down. I do have some really neat travel books from my grandparents who have been there. That reminds me, I need to find my book on pompeii, it is missing.

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[cycloctopus]

i mean, those are all excellent things to read, but it seems like kind of a short list for an entire semester. we really plow through the stuff at st john's, though, which can be disappointing. i guess the idea is to give us access to and a taste of everything. most of us there have enough initiative to further pursue the things we like. i'm curious also about the structure of the class; was it heavy discussion or more like an overview of culture through the literature or something else entirely?

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[_mayonnaise_]

It was actually one of the worst classes I have ever taken, a huge waste of time. My professor dominated the class. He would start with Questions?, but after that there was no getting a word in. He would get half way through a lecture, look confused, and start back at the beginning. Someone told him one of the first times and he snapped at them. So, we moved at a snail's pace and were re-told the same things over and over again. Honestly, it was really disappointing.

Re: oh yea

[cycloctopus]

that's really a shame, i'm sorry. i recommend enrolling at st john's. you'll have to start as a freshman, but i gaurantee you'll like the freshman year reading list. the iliad, the odyssey, the oresteia, gorgias, two of of plutarch's lives, herodotus, the republic, the clouds, the apology, crito, phaedo, thucydides' peloponnesian war, symposium!, the oedipus cycle, parmenides, theaetetus, sophist, nicomacheaen ethics, politics, poetics, physics, metaphysics, timaeus, prometheus bund, hippolytus, the bacchae, philoctetes, phaedrus, and....lucretius' on the nature of things...? and that's seminar. we also learned ancient greek and went through the bulk of euclid's elements, the first few books of ptolemy's algamest, and a solid overview of science from ancient greece until just before the discovery of electricity. oh and we sang every thursday afternoon. my school is kind of ridiculous.