Posts Tagged ‘classics’

Thank You One and All

Posted: 08/15/2011 in classics
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I got my exam results a few weeks ago and I tweeted, IM’d, FaceTimed, emailed and FaceBook’d – hell I even went on LinkedIn! But what I haven’t done so far is blog or had a full on celebratory meal as there is a bit too much going on at the moment and I’m on [...]

April

Posted: 04/17/2011 in classics, daily life
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My Twitter feed is chock full of tweets about the Virgin London Marathon that is happening today in.. duh.. London, and it reminded me that this time last year I was there. It wasn’t the weekend of the marathon but it was the weekend of the volcanic ash cloud craziness. The Icelandic volcano kicked off [...]

Snow day & why Pliny would have loved foursquare

Posted: 01/08/2011 in classics, Navel gazing
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Where oh where has the week gone? Suddenly it is Saturday afternoon and I find myself in a Malaysian restaurant in Hoboken. My first proper trip out in a week, and there were shrimp dumplings and tofu to celebrate. I’ve been under virtual house arrest studying all week so every day ran into each other. [...]

34 in 2011

Posted: 01/02/2011 in 34 in 2011
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1. Study hard & aim to get firsts in final exams: Greek Drama, Nero to Hadrian & Women in Antiquity 2. Start to learn “dead” languages: Latin & Greek 3. Start to learn a “live” language: German, French or Italian 4. Look for a part-time job in May to pay for language courses & perhaps [...]

Holding pattern

Posted: 09/08/2010 in classics, Navel gazing
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I am in limbo at the moment. September is that kind of month. Fluctuating temperatures have me flip flopping between switching over wardrobes or hanging on for that Indian summer (that is always promised). Those pumpkin spice lattes that I desire right up until my first sip when I remember why I only have one [...]

Dumb dumbs

Posted: 10/26/2009 in Navel gazing
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Today was a good day. The right level of busy that allowed me to answer shed loads of emails AND update Twitter.  I was able to take a killer aerobics class after work AND manage to stay awake long enough to plow through Suppliants (again) whilst breaking it down by its dramatic structure. I am [...]

The Plan

Posted: 10/03/2009 in classics
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Not quite as exciting as Battlestar Galactica: The Plan which is released in a little under a month (yippee) but I am going to make libations to the gods for a productive weekend. The weekend kicked off with sushi at Blue Ribbon and then finishing the latest Alexander McCall Smith novel ‘The Lost Art of [...]

quote, unquote

Posted: 06/05/2004 in books, culture, studying
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Two pearls from The Odyssey… ‘For we who are people upon this earth are jealous in judgment’ (Book 7, Odysseus smoozing with King Alkinoos). ‘They all would find death was quick and marriage a painful matter’ (Book 17, Penelope hoping her absent husband, Odysseus, would hurry up and come home to deal with the troublesome [...]

And you can’t go on it’s tragedy

Posted: 03/09/2004 in books, education, television
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I finished ‘Brighton Rock’ @ the weekend – rather chilling and scary. Must read something more up lifting next….oh ‘Jude the Obscure’ is next on my list that will be a riot!!!!!! Also, in the middle of studying Oedipus The King..it’s a laugh a minute here at the moment. On a happier note there is [...]

Separated by 3,000 years

Posted: 01/27/2004 in classics, daily life, Uncategorized
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As I was sat on my sofa trying to work through the latest topic on my classics course – ‘Agamemnon’ by Aeschylus (no I can’t pronounce it either), I had a sudden thought here am I studying translations of ancient Greek plays whilst my other half is happily typing away on the latest techy language…dot [...]