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1) I'm suffering from excellent book burnout. I have this enormous stack of truly fantastic literature to get through, and I keep finding I simply don't have enough brainpower to keep up with the stack as fast as it grows. As problems to have go, it's not a bad one, but it's still a bit frustrating. These books are good! I want to read them! But one of the qualities of excellent literature is that it demands something from the reader, and I can only give so much back while my brain is full of language.
2) Latin composition continues to be interesting, and deeply challenging. Right now I'm working on purpose clauses, which I adore for their straightforward simplicity. (It's ut or ne, and that's it! Only two tenses of the subjunctive get used! Once you're in the purpose clause it's a nice straightforward sequence of standard forms!) I have also learned all the horrible tricks of persuadeo, learned to keep an eye out for negative doubt clauses and statements of hoping/wishing/threatening/vowing, and almost managed to make peace with the oddity of Latin's handling of negatives.
3) Homer continues to make me twitch. It ranges from exquisite poetry to exciting adventure story to banal repetition of stock phrases, and spends a lot of time following a wildly unsympathetic protagonist who I think could've stood to be stabbed by a Trojan a lot earlier and thus saved a lot of people a lot of trouble. And Greek is god damn hard, I tell you. Hard! Now that I'm finally starting to follow along with Homeric forms for the verbs and what not, the prof keeps pulling out questions of "How does this differ from the Attic form?" that I can't answer because I have carefully been ignoring the Attic forms so that they don't confuse me... Argh.
4) Mid-terms next week. Eek. At least I did well on the Egypt test. (And without the official study guide, either, since auditing the class means I don't have access to the online materials. Guess I should've gotten that form turned in properly.) Turns out that Hathor is pretty awesome. Who doesn't love a goddess of childbirth, parties, and the horizon?
5) Attempt to buy a house is proceeding pretty well. This makes me suspicious. If all goes as it ought, we ought to be moving in by mid-April, but how often does all go as it ought?
2) Latin composition continues to be interesting, and deeply challenging. Right now I'm working on purpose clauses, which I adore for their straightforward simplicity. (It's ut or ne, and that's it! Only two tenses of the subjunctive get used! Once you're in the purpose clause it's a nice straightforward sequence of standard forms!) I have also learned all the horrible tricks of persuadeo, learned to keep an eye out for negative doubt clauses and statements of hoping/wishing/threatening/vowing, and almost managed to make peace with the oddity of Latin's handling of negatives.
3) Homer continues to make me twitch. It ranges from exquisite poetry to exciting adventure story to banal repetition of stock phrases, and spends a lot of time following a wildly unsympathetic protagonist who I think could've stood to be stabbed by a Trojan a lot earlier and thus saved a lot of people a lot of trouble. And Greek is god damn hard, I tell you. Hard! Now that I'm finally starting to follow along with Homeric forms for the verbs and what not, the prof keeps pulling out questions of "How does this differ from the Attic form?" that I can't answer because I have carefully been ignoring the Attic forms so that they don't confuse me... Argh.
4) Mid-terms next week. Eek. At least I did well on the Egypt test. (And without the official study guide, either, since auditing the class means I don't have access to the online materials. Guess I should've gotten that form turned in properly.) Turns out that Hathor is pretty awesome. Who doesn't love a goddess of childbirth, parties, and the horizon?
5) Attempt to buy a house is proceeding pretty well. This makes me suspicious. If all goes as it ought, we ought to be moving in by mid-April, but how often does all go as it ought?