Thursday, November 09, 2006
Last night I studied Latin with a fair degree of intensity until about nine in the evening, when Adrian and I abandoned the coffee shop for our separate abodes. Beforehand Adrian had taken me to a Greek restaurant, where I squeezed a Mediterranean (egg, meat, and cheese) pizza into myself. At the coffee shop Shane (one of the Classics graduate students) bequeathed unto me his breakfast bagel; thereupon this morning I swam after working out, in order to burn off a couple of the thousands of carbohydrates I consumed.
I studied a little over two hundred lines of The Aeneid, to be tested over about twenty-five this afternoon. I focused on the middle parts, but the passages Mr. Soon-To-Be-Doctor Lynn included on the exam came from the beginning and the end. Fortunately, I knew the earlier passage thoroughly enough, missing only a vague noun or adjective here and there. The unseen passage was less difficult than the ones for the other exams, except the last three lines. At the very least, I should have made a high "B", which would be appropriate for the amount of studying I devoted.
Tomorrow, early in the morning, I have exams in Greek and in the sculpture class. About Greek I am only slightly concerned, but Dr. Reed's class is an entirely different matter, for this unit has been a hodge-podge of different things. The material she spends ten minutes discussing during class will occupy thirty percent of the space for the entire test, while something she focused on for an entire period might be the subject of one cursory question. Twitch.
After the nightmare is over, I hope to finally finish over the weekend the book about Virgil's reception in Germany during the eighteenth century. Then I need to send Der Grair Bär an e-mail about next semester's schedule. Viel zu tun. It now being five, I should spend the next two hours studying Greek, before A. R. gets off work. Then A. R. and I will try to make sense of our ancient sculpture notes. It will take all night.
[Lauree Frances Keith concluded this diatribe at 2:45 PM]