Pop culture has seeped into my brains
Click to viewdude. Dude. DUDE. DUDE. Is that...is that real? Is that Aang practicing airbending while the Fire Nation prepares its attack on the Southern Air Temple? That looks so incredibly amazing! This has the potential to actually be good! I...I can't believe it!
In other news...
1) I had a weird dream last night. It was about the Venture Brothers for some reason. The Venture Family found an abandoned Venture Outpost, and they were exploring it. Dr. Venture was examining some old inventions of his father's. Meanwhile, Hank and Dean found a large, menacing ghost in a closet. They wigged out in that way that they wig out, and yelled for Brock to help, but Brock just sighed in that way he sighs. Hank and Dean managed to accidentally defeat the ghost on their own. Brock went to the closet anyway, and found a terrifying umbrella-ghost living in there. He fought it with another umbrella. By this point, Brock started turning into me. He figured he just had to stab it in the mouth several times, because it's an umbrella so you just push on the veil long enough and the umbrella implodes. But it wasn't working. Brock was holding it down with the umbrella poking through its mouth, but the umbrella demon was struggling. Eventually the umbrella demon broke free. Brock/I was able to swing at it, so it couldn't come any closer, but it wouldn't go away either. It kept coming at me and I kept swinging at it, and finally I missed, and the demon opened its muppet-like eyes even wider and dove at me, and that's when I made myself wake up.
2) I took my Latin 101 final last night. I feel more confident about this one than the last one. I knew more vocabulary, and had a better grasp on the grammar. Not the best grasp, but I still had a pretty good grasp on it. I would be surprised if I get anything less than my usual 87 or 88%.
As part of a deal we hatched a few weeks ago, we had to stay after the test and learn the last two chapters. He wouldn't test us on them, but at least they had been taught to us. I was surprised that we covered exactly what I had been struggling with making this panel. So here is the updated latin cartoon, with proper grammar and vocabulary:
Now it actually does say, "Our hero was left behind." Or rather, "Our hero has been left behind." We learned the Passive tenses of the third and fourth conjugations last night. I got the grammar right on the hero asking "Why?!?" and the narrator asking, "What will he do?"
This appears to be the last I'll see of Prof Ely, unless he gets his wish and gets to teach second-year Latin next year. It looks like they brought him on only to teach first-year Latin. Next week I'll be starting up Latin 102, along with a few of the other students in my class. A Russian lady will be teaching us. Prof Ely says that she is very nice. For Latin 201 in the fall, the head of the department, Prof Brown, will be teaching.
Prof Ely is a very nice guy and a really good teacher, and I'm a little sad to not be his student anymore. He told me that I'm a very good, smart student, and that I should pursue classical studies further, as in like a career, and that he'll be teaching ancient Greek next year should I be interested. He also recommended that I read a comic series called Asterix -- has anyone ever heard of it?
3) I really wish there was like a Complete Idiot's Guide to Revolutionary-War-Era America. Not only would that be an awesome book, but also it would help me figure out some of the details for my RPG. What was the penal system like in colonial America? How did they get their weapons? What was the class system like, in more mundane details than "Thomas Jefferson was a big fucking academic who spent all his time studying and thought for some reason that everyone could afford a life of luxurious studying when in fact he had a whole bunch of slaves making all his money and sometimes he slept with them" and "Ben Franklin liked to talk a lot" and "John Adams actually worked for a living, you fucking assholes" and "George Washington wore his manly, heroic military uniform all the time because he was so in debt that he couldn't afford any other clothes, because you guys keep making him fight wars and neglect his plantation, you fucking assholes."
Wow, I'm passionate about the Founding Fathers, aren't I? Geez...
Also, m0053: did you get my email?
Well, Casey and I are off for a romantic weekend in Luray. See you Monday!