Tuesday, April 04, 2006
I closed last night and consequently received only three hours of sleep before taking the seminar exam this morning. I felt fairly well-prepared, if already exhausted. I could not remember whence came a few minor art objects (the choices were usually between Tiryns, Mycenae, and Pylos), but overall I did much better than on the first exam and expect a "B" grade.
Afterward I played hooky from German Readings, considering I hadn't read the next section, to eat at the dining hall and take a lengthy-ish nap. I ate pizza and cheese bread (both of which are the sort of items I have been avoiding lately) so that I would have enough energy to work out for a prolonged period this evening after the German movie. For the coming semester I arranged my schedule so that I might have Tuesday afternoons and evenings entirely free again, for although I never have time to lounge around, precisely, it is important nevertheless that I insert bogus hours into my week.
I had not intended to take summer classes, but altered plans after checking my online financial aid page to discover I had received a thousand-dollar grant each session. It is a "TTU Resident Student Grant" that I also received last summer, though in a smaller amount, presumably for having registered as a Lubbock County resident (though about this I am not entirely certain). I registered this morning (tentatively) to take Introductory Entomology the first semester and Physical Anthropology the second semester, thereby removing the lab science credits I must acquire before graduation. That leaves a mathematics course, a communications course, and two American political science courses to complete sometime within the next year (or two). I might put them off again until next summer.
Introductory Entomology should be hilarious, if rather a bit dry. Anthropology should prove useful, at least basically, since classical study sometimes involves research/integration of the genre with this or that find. Plus, if I must touch a human body, I prefer it dead and de-skinned. Additionally to the science courses, I intend to audit the sophomore Latin classes over Catullus, which Dr. Lavigne intends to teach at noon every weekday. Sehr Spaß.
I had no time to take another senior level Latin course this semester (which is unfortunate, for the course offered was over Latin erotic elegies... verdammt!), and in the fall no one will be teaching a senior Latin course. But I need to continue my studies! This past fall we began reading a prosecution by Cicero, but changed plans mid-semester because the other students became bored. I war enttäuscht, because I loved Cicero. The passages were challenging, and his pomposity I found bemusing rather than irritating. But Catullus should still prove entertaining- the word pedicabo I learned from a Catullus poem. Pedicabo means "I shall violate you anally".
[Lauree Frances Keith concluded this diatribe at 3:52 PM]