I am packed. Pretty much, anyway.

My Birds (Aristophanes) seminar was rather strange, though amusing. We were rather serious (with occasional outbreaks of laughter) for the first hour and a half, but after that everyone was ready to leave and start spring break. This manifested in 10-second silences and people saying the equivalent of "So what did ( Read more... )

To clear up any confusion, Ethelflaed is ethelflaed and my roommate. And I am Kelly, last time I checked ( Read more... )

My grandfather: "Pie will be coming shortly."
Me: *happy dance*
My grandfather: "...in six or seven hours."
My dad: "I thought pi came after three."
Me: "OW."
My dad: "There's no need to be irrational about it."

Ok, so Ethelflaed and I have decided that if Aristotle and Driesch (two of the authors we read in freshmen lab) were alive, our age, and went to St. John's, I would marry Driesch and she would marry Aristotle. Driesch would clearly be the more romantic of the two, as he would raise "one giant organism from two sea-urchin eggs, fused in the blastula ( Read more... )

What I read:

"While Croesus was making these plans, all the outskirts of the city became infested with snakes, and as they appeared the horses used to stop grazing in their pastures, walk over to where the snakes were, and eat them. "
-Herodotus's Histories, Book 1, verse 78 ( Read more... )

( Highlights from SPACE: 1999 (Published 1977) )

Theoretically it can be and has been done, but it's not happening at present ( Read more... )

I've finally figured out the angle from which to approach (is that proper grammar? Why can't I tell? English is my native language! I should be able to tell whether I'm writing it properly or not!) my Oberlin essay, so once I become less confused about grammar, I can finally start writing the aforementioned essay ( Read more... )

Any non-psychopath would take a bit of a breather after posting a total of 4 entries yesterday, but luckily for you I am not one of those. I do, however, enjoy negatives. I like positives more, though ( Read more... )

I swear, this is my last post for the day. I've been meaning to filk this song for ages but never got around to it until now, when it started playing.

( I Want To Hold Your Band, spoilers for Lord of Chaos )