Monday, June 27, 2005
Last night at the rec I spied Tim, Sharada, and Matt (literally half the Classics graduate students) climbing the rock wall, it being adjacent to the machine I prefer. They being the most congenial ones, I climbed down (the stairs) with salutations after I finished ellipticizing, chatting with Sharada for about half an hour as I cooled down. She also kindly provided me with the assignment I missed Friday.
Tim (Mr. Knight) TAed two classes I took this spring, Matt (Mr. Underwood, which, of course, leads my mind to "Undertaker") TAed the classical mythology class and is to be my Greek instructor this fall, and Sharada (Ms. Price) TAed mythology and is my instructor in Latin both summer semesters. I greatly anticipate Greek, especially learning to write it- adapting to a different writing system was part of the Spaß of Japanese.
I read quite a bit more of Spectacles of Death in Ancient Rome last night before bed time; if I don't finish today, I should still have ample material to write the two-page paper Sharada requires Tuesday as two replacement quiz grades. I added some writers from the author's footnotes to my "must-read" list, which challenges the books already on my shelf that I have not yet read. I must plough through them, first. I managed already to misplace The Aeneid, which I had almost finished- it would have taken another day. Oh, well.
[Lauree Frances Keith concluded this diatribe at 4:10 AM]