"I cannot be bothered to kill you, although it seems to me that not doing so is ill-advised."
Hey, folks. I'm hitting the point in the...well, can I call it a semester?...in which I pretty much want to do nothing at all productive. I'd spend all day doing nothing but sleeping, watching YouTube videos, and reading A-Team fan fiction if left to my own devices. Urgh.
At least I don't seem to be humiliating myself in my classes, which is cool. We're reading "Historia Calamitatum" by Abelard in Medieval Latin, which is...okay, quick background, Abelard's, like, the most famous traveling philosophy teacher in early 12th-century France, Heloise is probably the most educated young woman in all the land, he's in his thirties, she's in her late teens, and he has the hots for her. Today we read a passage where he was talking about how excited he was that her uncle had put her into his power, and then he was talking about all the sexual stuff they tried, and I swear, it's like reading medieval BDSM porn written by a twelve-year-old who's not comfortable talking about sex except in euphemisms and who hasn't figured out how to write about non-creepy erotic obsession. It's interesting, to say the least, and we do a lot of giggling in that class. Also, Abelard is super full of himself. (All of this makes sense, since Abelard the narrator is writing from years after Abelard the character has ended his affair with Heloise and, well, gotten castrated, and now he's recounting his misadventures in a way that's half, "Look how much MY life sucks!" and half "These are my true confessions of all the mistakes I've made!" It still makes me laugh.
In the class I'm auditing, we've just started reading "The Saga of Hrolf Kraki," and I know already I'm going to like it. My post title is from our current bad guy, who's not too busy to kill his brother and spend forever trying to kill his nephews but is apparently just too busy to kill the magical fisherman hiding his nephews.
I have decided, in order to get myself to post more, to do one of those thirty-day memes going around that I see in random strangers' journals. This is one about music. Because I like music.
Day 01- A song that makes me happy.
"Midweek Midmorning" by the Lucksmiths
This is a really nice, springy/summery sort of song. It has that kind of lightness, and the lyrics remind me of the sunny days I spent in Chicago, enjoying Lake Michigan after a long and wretched winter. If I had to pick one thing to miss about Chicago, it'd definitely be those warm days by the lake. I think this was one of the first songs I downloaded from eMusic my junior year, the spring I first made spaghetti squash and wrote my long Escape from Witch Mountain bandom AU and spent a lot of time just wandering around Hyde Park, hitting up the music stores and checking out the murals in the tunnels and walking as far as I could along the lake shore, so now of course I always associate this song with that time. Ah, nostalgia, what don't you improve?
Day 02- A song that helps me clear my head
Day 03- A song that makes me laugh
Day 04- A song that reminds me of something
Day 05- A song that has a new meaning to me every time I hear it
Day 06- A song I can always relate to
Day 07- A song that is my guilty pleasure
Day 08- A song I liked when I was younger
Day 09- A song that makes me want to dance
Day 10- A song that makes me cry
Day 11- A song that reminds me of summer
Day 12- A song that reminds me of my best friend
Day 13- A song I sing to in the shower
Day 14- A song I like hearing live
Day 15- A song people wouldn’t expect me to like
Day 16- A song that holds a lot of meaning to me
Day 17- A song that annoys me
Day 18- A song I have as my ringtone
Day 19- A song I'm currently obsessed with
Day 20- A song from a new album I'm waiting for
Day 21- A song I want to dance to at my wedding
Day 22- A song that would be the theme song to a TV show about my life
Day 23- A song that makes me angry
Day 24- A cover song
Day 25- An acoustic song I love
Day 26- A song by my favorite band
Day 27- A song I make fun of
Day 28- A song that reminds me of my significant other
Day 29- A song currently stuck in my head
Day 30- A song I haven’t listened to in awhile
Well, off to do homework. *sigh*
At least I don't seem to be humiliating myself in my classes, which is cool. We're reading "Historia Calamitatum" by Abelard in Medieval Latin, which is...okay, quick background, Abelard's, like, the most famous traveling philosophy teacher in early 12th-century France, Heloise is probably the most educated young woman in all the land, he's in his thirties, she's in her late teens, and he has the hots for her. Today we read a passage where he was talking about how excited he was that her uncle had put her into his power, and then he was talking about all the sexual stuff they tried, and I swear, it's like reading medieval BDSM porn written by a twelve-year-old who's not comfortable talking about sex except in euphemisms and who hasn't figured out how to write about non-creepy erotic obsession. It's interesting, to say the least, and we do a lot of giggling in that class. Also, Abelard is super full of himself. (All of this makes sense, since Abelard the narrator is writing from years after Abelard the character has ended his affair with Heloise and, well, gotten castrated, and now he's recounting his misadventures in a way that's half, "Look how much MY life sucks!" and half "These are my true confessions of all the mistakes I've made!" It still makes me laugh.
In the class I'm auditing, we've just started reading "The Saga of Hrolf Kraki," and I know already I'm going to like it. My post title is from our current bad guy, who's not too busy to kill his brother and spend forever trying to kill his nephews but is apparently just too busy to kill the magical fisherman hiding his nephews.
I have decided, in order to get myself to post more, to do one of those thirty-day memes going around that I see in random strangers' journals. This is one about music. Because I like music.
Day 01- A song that makes me happy.
"Midweek Midmorning" by the Lucksmiths
This is a really nice, springy/summery sort of song. It has that kind of lightness, and the lyrics remind me of the sunny days I spent in Chicago, enjoying Lake Michigan after a long and wretched winter. If I had to pick one thing to miss about Chicago, it'd definitely be those warm days by the lake. I think this was one of the first songs I downloaded from eMusic my junior year, the spring I first made spaghetti squash and wrote my long Escape from Witch Mountain bandom AU and spent a lot of time just wandering around Hyde Park, hitting up the music stores and checking out the murals in the tunnels and walking as far as I could along the lake shore, so now of course I always associate this song with that time. Ah, nostalgia, what don't you improve?
Click to viewDay 02- A song that helps me clear my head
Day 03- A song that makes me laugh
Day 04- A song that reminds me of something
Day 05- A song that has a new meaning to me every time I hear it
Day 06- A song I can always relate to
Day 07- A song that is my guilty pleasure
Day 08- A song I liked when I was younger
Day 09- A song that makes me want to dance
Day 10- A song that makes me cry
Day 11- A song that reminds me of summer
Day 12- A song that reminds me of my best friend
Day 13- A song I sing to in the shower
Day 14- A song I like hearing live
Day 15- A song people wouldn’t expect me to like
Day 16- A song that holds a lot of meaning to me
Day 17- A song that annoys me
Day 18- A song I have as my ringtone
Day 19- A song I'm currently obsessed with
Day 20- A song from a new album I'm waiting for
Day 21- A song I want to dance to at my wedding
Day 22- A song that would be the theme song to a TV show about my life
Day 23- A song that makes me angry
Day 24- A cover song
Day 25- An acoustic song I love
Day 26- A song by my favorite band
Day 27- A song I make fun of
Day 28- A song that reminds me of my significant other
Day 29- A song currently stuck in my head
Day 30- A song I haven’t listened to in awhile
Well, off to do homework. *sigh*