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Today has been full of Learning Things.
In Greek class, we covered the passive/middle voice. Which actually surprised me at first, because I thought we'd get a few more tenses before that, but it turns out to make a lot of sense: with how much Greek uses the middle voice, and how many verbs go through meaning changes between one and the other, it'd be much harder to try to pick up later on, with more vocab already built up. Besides, it's pretty simple.
We only really covered the one chapter--which feels almost like slacking, despite the trouble I'm already having keeping up with vocabulary--but also took a quick look ahead to the next chapter, mostly in terms of "and here are all the OTHER prepositions, you may as well start work on them right now." I'm still not sure if I prefer fewer prepositions that take multiple cases, or more that all pretty much take their own: fewer words to memorize, but it's a lot easier to mix up the meanings when something like "hupo" can mean eight different things with three different cases.
Vocab is hard. My stack of "words I don't have down yet" grows a lot faster than it shrinks.
Then, directly after class, I learned--relearned, really--that walking to the library in this weather is a Bad Idea. Oh, yes, books needed to be returned, fines paid, some admin stuff taken care of, and it wasn't even at the day's high yet... It was still miserable. And then beyond miserable. And then a grim, relentless trudge, stopping at every patch of shade, and trying not to throw up. Or curl up in a ball and refuse to ever go home because that would involve more movement.
I do not have particularly good heat tolerance.
Finally, the climbing! Tonight was free instructor for women night at the north gym, which seems vaguely unfair to me, but since there was at least one guy in the group there, I guess they're not all that strict about the Women Only part of things. The gym was absolutely packed, but after a while it became apparent that about half the crowd was just sitting around chatting, so it wasn't too hard to find a wall to take a turn on.
In any case, I got Actual Instruction, which was pretty helpful. I still only got about halfway up my nemesis route, but I have a better idea now of what I need to do--and not do--to get past the tricky bits. (Alas, by the time I'd gotten high enough to hit the really tricky bits, I was already pretty tired.) I also--and this was very exciting--got halfway through a green (V1) route. Since I hadn't manage to start that one properly before, this felt like a real accomplishment, even though I didn't finish the route. And it's one more thing to work on next time.
Now. Back to studying Greek prepositions and verbs.
In Greek class, we covered the passive/middle voice. Which actually surprised me at first, because I thought we'd get a few more tenses before that, but it turns out to make a lot of sense: with how much Greek uses the middle voice, and how many verbs go through meaning changes between one and the other, it'd be much harder to try to pick up later on, with more vocab already built up. Besides, it's pretty simple.
We only really covered the one chapter--which feels almost like slacking, despite the trouble I'm already having keeping up with vocabulary--but also took a quick look ahead to the next chapter, mostly in terms of "and here are all the OTHER prepositions, you may as well start work on them right now." I'm still not sure if I prefer fewer prepositions that take multiple cases, or more that all pretty much take their own: fewer words to memorize, but it's a lot easier to mix up the meanings when something like "hupo" can mean eight different things with three different cases.
Vocab is hard. My stack of "words I don't have down yet" grows a lot faster than it shrinks.
Then, directly after class, I learned--relearned, really--that walking to the library in this weather is a Bad Idea. Oh, yes, books needed to be returned, fines paid, some admin stuff taken care of, and it wasn't even at the day's high yet... It was still miserable. And then beyond miserable. And then a grim, relentless trudge, stopping at every patch of shade, and trying not to throw up. Or curl up in a ball and refuse to ever go home because that would involve more movement.
I do not have particularly good heat tolerance.
Finally, the climbing! Tonight was free instructor for women night at the north gym, which seems vaguely unfair to me, but since there was at least one guy in the group there, I guess they're not all that strict about the Women Only part of things. The gym was absolutely packed, but after a while it became apparent that about half the crowd was just sitting around chatting, so it wasn't too hard to find a wall to take a turn on.
In any case, I got Actual Instruction, which was pretty helpful. I still only got about halfway up my nemesis route, but I have a better idea now of what I need to do--and not do--to get past the tricky bits. (Alas, by the time I'd gotten high enough to hit the really tricky bits, I was already pretty tired.) I also--and this was very exciting--got halfway through a green (V1) route. Since I hadn't manage to start that one properly before, this felt like a real accomplishment, even though I didn't finish the route. And it's one more thing to work on next time.
Now. Back to studying Greek prepositions and verbs.