Friday, April 08, 2005
The Latin instructor notified the class, 'You ought to put the third test behind you and focus on everything from now leading up to the final,' not realizing I, at least, had already done that before I took the third exam. I looked at the paper and could not remember my name or the date, let alone recognize perfect passive participles.
But that is all behind me.
This weekend I shall read quite a bit. In English we began a new novel, A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin, which seems a simpler read than the others. The plot may be more complex, but the language itself is relatively straightforward, perfect for the end of the year when the class wants to analyze no longer, if any had desired to do so in the first place.
I arose at four-fifteen this morning to write the proposal for September's classics conference I am to attend. This endeavour took less than an hour; I ought to have done it last month. Oh, well. The professor needs to edit the paper, and then I shan't have to concern myself about it much until summer. I intend to present something on the Roman aqueduct system, which happens to be the subject of my final ancient technology project; the research will therefore be mostly complete.
It is also, admittedly, an easy topic to research, though that makes it somewhat difficult to present something informative to people who probably familiarized themselves already with the material. Oh, well. I achieved my primary goal of avoiding some subject that requires building, at least- I cannot very well construct an aqueduct, unless in static miniature.
[Lauree Frances Keith concluded this diatribe at 4:26 AM]