Er, so it looks like I've pretty much abandoned this journal and moved to GJ, which seems to be dying right now anyway :/ Whoops.

IN OTHER NEWS -- it seems like I finally got my first final mark for this term now, although it's still technically unofficial at this point. Sorry, spusan, but your guess that my final mark for CLST 330 (Classical Greek ( Read more... )

So, on a whim, I was browsing the website for the National Ballet of Canada's annual production of the Nutcracker. The backstory to this is that when I was nine, I was in Junior Division (now 'Junior Associates', I believe) program at the National Ballet School, which is affiliated with the National Ballet. It's an afterschool program, though you ( Read more... )

Only in a classics course would one spend a considerable amount of class time looking at a slides of a famous historical battle depicted on a vase as a naked man holding his genitals in one hand and about to sodomize someone who's already bent over and yet still oddly fully clothed ( Read more... )

Well, I got two more of my midterm exam marks today, and they make a nice addition to the 98% I got back in CLST 330 (Classical Greek Culture and Society) last week -- 100% in CLST 101 (Introduction to Greek and Roman Civilization), but since it's an 100-level multiple choice, I wouldn't have expected anything less (but I didn't get that one ( Read more... )

GOOD NEWS -- I got 98% on my CLST 330 (Classical Greek Culture and Society) mid-term exam. Hurrah! All downhill from there though. And I am sorry to disappoint you about the lack of a 99.9% there, spusanBAD NEWS -- I have never done as badly on an exam as I just did coming out of PSYC 355 (Comparative Cognition). Never have I WTFed at so many questions, ( Read more... )

So all day (and Friday, come to think of it), I've been hearing drunken shouting outside of my apartment -- it's Homecoming Weekend, which means that practically every student in town is going to be smashed all weekend, especially tonight. About ten minutes ago though, I heard these booming noises that sounded suspiciously like fireworks -- not the ( Read more... )

The Department of Classics here at Queen's is hosting a visiting speaker (Dr. Ingrid Holmberg from UVic) who'll be doing a talk (poster here) titled 'Troy the Film, Homer's Iliad and Empire'. Anyone who knows my major interests in classics knows that I MUST GO TO THIS SPECIAL LECTURE ( Read more... )

Well, my Friday's been excellent so far -- I actually got enough sleep and woke up at a decent enough time that I was early for my PSYC 342 (Psychology of Social Influence) class at 10:00AM. Instead of having a lecture throughout the entire one and a half hours, we spent about forty-five minutes (after discussing the upcoming midterm) watching a ( Read more... )

Okay, silly fandom thing -- I have been COMPLETELY out-of-the-loop with 'Class of the Titans' right now, owing to a lack of television access and the fact that I'm so behind with academics and extracurricular stuff at school already that I can't afford to keep up with things like news-blogging right now, but could someone (if you're not too busy, ( Read more... )

Did anyone manage to catch the 'Class of the Titans' Season Two preview yesterday on Teletoon? Not only have I been really out of the loop with fandom things lately because of my spring and summer, but I got the date mixed-up and thought it was going to be shown today. All I know about it so far is that the channel apparently showed the entirety of ( Read more... )