Thursday, June 23, 2005
Last night the staff met to arrange July schedules; mine ought to prove more convenient, for I now work less on the weekends, with a greater amount of time in the office during the week, at which times I may study. This semester I worked far too many weekend hours; I alotted myself little recovery time between shifts. It zombified me.
After the meeting MeShawn, a boy named Scott, and I convened at the library to cohere our German project about the role of the Swiss military. What does the Swiss Army do, exactly? The following was our answer:
..........I created an outline handout, entitled, "Zwei Tausand Jahre in Zwei Minuten: Schweize Geschichte" (Eike came by as I studied it this morning. He glanced at the title and sort of tapped his foot at me: 'Unprecedented adjectives.' I looked at him quite blankly, with absolutely nothing to respond, until he said, gently, 'Schweizer Geschichte'. He then left for his Spanish class, calling out wittily behind him, 'I'll see you in 2301 [the class he teaches next semester]'. Pssh. Gag me with a spoon.). The outline runs thusly:
100ishRomeHelvetiansmilitaryroadsI provided additional information, but that was the gist.
BurgundiansCharlemagne
1291charterdefeatHabsburgs
freefromHolyRomanEmpirefrightenedbyFrench
TreatyofWestphaliaNapoleonignoresneutrality
CongressofViennaFederalState
industrializeddirectdemocracybypopularreferendum
defendLiechtenstein
noteatenbyAxis
nosupranationalpowerorganizationbinge
2002UNArmyXXIreformbillionscut
Between the end of this work shift and my little ellipticizing session, I shall read and conduct research for the gladiator paper. Das macht Spaß.
[Lauree Frances Keith concluded this diatribe at 2:57 PM]