Thursday evening was actually super-fun. I played Capture the Chicken with the senior highs, which means actually having to try, which I didn't really feel like doing. So John and Caitlin and I (Program Staff Team Go!) all ended up on the same team against the cook's family + friends. Now the cook's family and friends are all good runners and such ( Read more... )

( Because all the oboe music in the world is not going to keep us from sinning... )

I was kind of freaking out because I had a bunch of things I could write about for my Bach's St. Matthew Passion paper, but I couldn't choose between them. So I set down a list of possible paper topics/titles:

1) The Actual Story: Recitatives in Bach's St. Matthew Passion
2) The Character of the Alto in Bach's St. Matthew Passion
3) "Geduld, ( Read more... )

I just won Hamlet: The Text Adventure! You can find it here: http://www.versificator.co.uk/hamlet/

It's pretty fun. :D

Eggnog is creepy ( Read more... )

Woke up at 6:10, got on the road by 6:30. Excellent. Tammie was terribly nice and drove me to the airport (and Kristin to Baltimore, I presume). We talked about St. John's and things. :)

Lines weren't bad at all at the airport, and I got through re-reading 6 Apollonius proofs, the assignment for Neitsche's Birth of Tragedy, and part of Dante's ( Read more... )

Hello anticlimax ( Read more... )

"...For it is not by cake that I would have you achieve this, but by right judgements." - Epictetus (Discourses, Book II, Chapter 16, Verse 26)

Epictetus knew the cake was a lie.

I'm back at school ( Read more... )

I opened my Greek/English interlinear New Testament to look a particular verse up, but my eyes fell on one word on a random page: pornois. It apparently means exactly what you suspect it means. So I just learned the dative plural of "fornicator"! :D ( Read more... )