Wednesday, June 15, 2005
I bought a used Alice Cooper album the other day, to which I listened as I ellipticized. Not having heard "School's Out" for many moons, I replayed it several times, resulting in an elated mood that promptly deflated upon my return to the dorm room, where I probably found something to avoid doing. But yesterday I accomplished the major things I had set out to do, and this morning I am well at ease.
After taking and quite probably failing a Latin quiz for which I had not studied, I visited Sharada at her office for an hour to unmuddy the murky waters in which my translation notebook lies [I keep using "in which", "wherein", "by which", "within which", because those are everywhere in Latin sentences; the quantity of imperfect and pluperfect tenses in my English has also risen]. Afterward I completed corrections to the German exam (I made an 86, but she offered a third of the total missed points for corrections) before playing racquetball with Bianca. By that time I was too exhausted to make a worthy opponent. If the ball did not come directly to me, I did not hit it.
My morning office shift began at three- between then and Deutschkurs, ich habe sieben Stunden zu studieren. I shall spend most of that time retranslating Latin passages, as per Sharada's suggestion.
[Lauree Frances Keith concluded this diatribe at 1:27 AM]