A little earlier this evening, RC mentioned a library book that she had found back when she was in high school, about six years ago. It was big, yellow, rather scholarly anthology of nonsense poetry, and we enjoyed it a lot. I wrote down my favorites, and one of them immediately went on my Facebook page, in the part of the profile section that ( Read more... )

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Why Do You Stay Up So Late?

for Russ

Don PatersonI'll tell you if you really want to know ( Read more... )

Substance and Shadow

John HewittThere is a bareness in the images ( Read more... )

Waking at 3 a. m.

William StaffordEven in the cave of the night when you ( Read more... )

LANDSCAPE WITH LAPWINGS

James AitchisonIt's another April, and a day ( Read more... )

I'm going to start locking posts about my volunteer work and academics. No sense having that much information about my activities out on display. Sometimes I consider going back and making all non-thematic entries (i.e., everything except the poetry) private, but I feel that would diminish the whole of the journal. Each of the poems and songs I ( Read more... )

Suddenly I have a remarkably good chance at a TAship. How did this occur?

I haven't updated this journal since early March, I see, but I'm always viewing other journals online. I'm a procrastination champ (oh, look at these library books all over my room!). Current reading: Plato, Aplolgy (Greek); Plotinus, Against the Gnostics (Neoplatonism seminar); Tacitus, Annales (Latin); and, oh yes, all these secondary sources ( Read more... )

I have behind me:
--two years of Latin
--five days of Greek

Latin has:
--eight noun cases
--three noun genders
--four verb principal parts
--three verb persons
--two verb numbers
--six tenses
--three moods
--two voices

Greek has:--six noun cases ( Read more... )