Alcestis is an odd play. I find myself sitting there wondering why the hell Admetus asked her to die for him if he was going to flip out when she actually says yes and dies. But it's lovely, and I always did like this story.
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05:23:39 PM,Thursday 24 October 2002
Oh, yes, all Johnnies ought to know (don't know why i thought of this at not quite 8AM) Annabeth is getting married, and she's getting married in the Great Hall.
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07:48:38 AM,Thursday 24 October 2002
For whatever reason, my little sister was looking at stuff about Rhodes Scholars, and found out that one of my best friends from early early elementary school (she didn't go to kindergarten with me, and I left at the end of third grade) is a Rhodes Scholar. Go Shayna.
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01:51:05 AM,Thursday 24 October 2002
I dreamt about the Fourth Postulate last night. I don't really remember anything about it, except that someone said something along the lines of "but we don't have the fourth postulate here" and we talked about it for a really long time.
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12:38:00 PM,Wednesday 23 October 2002
We watched this short little video this morning about waves, which the sound was either turned off on or was non-existant. And our lab assistant decided that it would be appropriate to play The Ride of the Valkyries. It was really cute. And Mr. Maistrellis thought it was a great idea, which made it even cuter.
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12:34:38 PM,Wednesday 23 October 2002
Mr. David said he'd advise me on my paper since I want to write on Aeschylus or Homer. Just so long as I don't change my mind and decide to write on Spinoza or something, it's fine.
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09:40:15 PM,Tuesday 22 October 2002
Oh, they didn't do the shooting each other thing in the dining hall. By the time all three guys who were going to shoot each other were present, the dining hall had started to clear, which sort of defeated the purpose of the whole thing. Perhaps tomorrow.
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01:18:32 PM,Tuesday 22 October 2002
Again, looking at my Baudelaire paper as it forms itself on my screen, I sit here and think, well, I only have about ten more inches to write...
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01:16:49 PM,Tuesday 22 October 2002
I haven't written either of my past two lab reports, the later of which was due a week ago. And I haven't written my paper on Baudelaire yet, either, but that shouldn't take terribly long. I hope.
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12:20:33 PM,Tuesday 22 October 2002
I couldn't lay out the keys on a keyboard for you, say, writing them down on a blackboard. But my fingers know where they are, and that is all that's important. It's like playing music by ear. But not.
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01:30:37 AM,Tuesday 22 October 2002
I have no work ethic.
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01:23:40 AM,Tuesday 22 October 2002
Tomorrow at lunch there will be a very dramatic shooting as an ad for Assassins. I hope that it is both successful in getting people to sign up and not in offending anyone.
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01:16:31 AM,Tuesday 22 October 2002
I looked for Mr. David after seminar in the coffeeshop, cause he seems like a good sort of person to have as an advisor when you want to write about something Greek, not philosophy, and you think you wrote on Aeschylus too recently to have anything to more to say about it. But I couldn't find him. And Cassie doesn't think he'd be a good advisor.
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12:48:29 AM,Tuesday 22 October 2002
I don't think you ought to be able to get water hot enough to make tea out of a tap.
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07:41:34 PM,Monday 21 October 2002
I think it would be very cool if someone could come up with an experiment like what the Ancient Greeks when they figured out that the Earth was curving and figured out the circumference only instead of just doing it to our planet were able to do it to the universe.
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07:02:39 PM,Monday 21 October 2002
We were trying to figure out this weird Lobochevski thing this afternoon. A group of people were going about trying to figure out, thought they'd explained it, and then I pointed out that the way they'd explained it didn't work, cause then we'd be in Euclidean space. Bill laughed. Other than that, no one in the room seemed to acknowledge that I'd spoken.
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04:08:08 PM,Monday 21 October 2002
I got a syllubus-thing from Mr. Schulman this afternoon, telling us what we're reading when, with something like the last three precepts open with question marks. The thing is, I think there are around 20 plays, and there are 14 precepts...
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09:52:33 PM,Saturday 19 October 2002
I taught Rey and Prose how to knit this afternoon. Rey decided that it would be easier to learn how to knit backwards than it would be to learn how to perl. I tried to explain how that wasn't true, but she tried anyway, and actually succeeded, which impressed me.
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08:29:40 PM,Friday 18 October 2002
A major general (along with several other army people) sat in on our math class. When Mr. Beall told us that one of them was a major general, I considered singing, but I don't actually know the song.
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02:11:20 AM,Friday 18 October 2002
Everyone who doesn't already know this should read the Fox Trot that's going on this week.
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01:40:12 AM,Friday 18 October 2002