Monday, March 07, 2005
'Twould appear my recent online book purchases require the augmentation of more books ordered through Amazon to use up the Borders gift card. Three of the four books I bought came from "outside sellers", which means those were charged to my Visa; the one charged to the gift card only cost about twenty-two dollars, granting me a remainder of twenty-eight. This balance I applied to acquisition of the following (both by Paul Cartledge): Kosmos : Essays in Order, Conflict and Community in Classical Athens and The Cambridge Illustrated History of Ancient Greece. As a "you are a sucker for spending this much at once" bonus, I qualified for FREE Super Saver Shipping! I shall add "Super Saver" to my list of titles.
I signed up as a volunteer for some community Easter egg hunt held March 26th, but only because I want candy and hard-boiled eggs, of which I expect there to be an abundant supply. I shall also pad the volunteer portion of my resume with a couple of events through the honours society.
This Thursday the Classical Society finally has another meeting, at which I suspect we will discuss revolt against current club leadership, who apparently know nothing about event organization. Our faculty sponsor is sufficiently dissatisfied and requested that Rebecca (a girl in my ancient technology class) and I formulate plans and ideas for hosting a film series beginning next year. If enough people stick around during the summer, I might mention at this meeting we test run a few movies over the summer sessions; then I and the other participants may show everyone else how to proceed most efficiently (not that showing a movie on campus is rocket science, but it can and has been botched, to my experience) when fall commences. We also need to promote the sponsored lectures better, because the few the club has had went unknown to me every time until the day before. No one even bothered typing minimalist fliers to post around the language building, at which I, as former Treasurer to the St. Louis Community College at Meramec Advertising Club, was appalled.
Sometime this evening, after I conclude some online research and read Siddhartha for English class, Rebekah and I shall attend another campus-hosted music concert. The one last night featured a flutist and a pianist performing six compositions with an "Across the World" theme- one was French, another English, another Irish, the last Chinese, one American, and one German. I liked the Aaron Copland and the Chinese pieces best- the others had good moments, but with "zone out" periods. The German wrote something the flute performer described as similar to the Tom and Jerry theme, and it did not disappoint in that regard. I know nothing of tonight's musician(s); Rebekah is to call me with details.
[Lauree Frances Keith concluded this diatribe at 12:44 PM]