In which Sky realizes she ought to make an update.

[cerulean_sky]

• I really wanted the whole getting-me-a-car thing to be worked on this weekend. What I didn't count on was it being Homecoming at my school this weekend, and thus my dad is pretty much unavailable to tote me around to see cars. Sigh. I want to be able to bring friends home to see my cats. And go grocery shopping when I want to. And come home when I have a long break between classes and make myself lunch. This is my pouty face, let me show it to you.

• In way more cheerful news, I found a cheap fare to Tulum, Mexico and a cheap hotel there on the beach for Winter Break. I really want to go. I keep reminding myself to talk to my mom about it when she gets back next Monday. Guys, I need some beach R&R. And even if I don't really need it now, I definitely will by the time Winter Break rolls around.

• Sort of thinking that Ireland might be possible over Spring Break, but we'll see.

• Also sometimes, when my work for my next class is already done and I don't have anything else to work on with me, I resort to reading filthy smutty smut in the coffee shop where people could read it over my shoulder if they stopped to do so. This makes me giggle a bit. And by a bit I mean I look a little like a crazy loon.

• I've spent the last few days laughing at the irony of my life. It sort of makes me go, "My fuckin' life, guys. My fuckin' life."

• Ok, I've kind of spent the last few days laughing at my life in general, actually. Because, you know, my fuckin' life, guys. My fuckin' life.

• I lost my really awesome sunglasses like... two weeks ago, and I've been sunglasses-less ever since. Though I am somewhat hesitant of buying sunglasses online—because if they are too wide and too tall they make me look like a bug—but there's a pair of Cole Haan sunglasses on sale on this one website that I'm thinking about buying despite the fact that they might make me look like a bug. Or... should I just buy a cheap pair on Forever21.com and only have spent $6 (+shipping) for sunglasses that are inevitably going to make me look like an insect? I suspect the latter is the smarter choice.

• Nothing all that interesting is happening in my life.

• I am thrilled to be moving on out of the Hebrew Bible for seminar. I hope my seminars get better when we're talking about something else, and I am already sort of dreading going back and reading Christian Bible later. I miss reading Plato and Aristotle something fierce. (And if someone had told me that last year, particularly while I was slogging my way through Aristotle's Politics, I would have laughed long and hard, and maybe possibly have been able to calm myself down before they started talking about having me committed.)

• P.S. My wisdom tooth stopped hurting last week sometime. While I am filled with relief, I am not taking it as a sign that I don't need to have them removed, just sort of hoping that it means I don't have to do it right this minute.

Comments

[imaginarycircus.livejournal.com]

ARISTOTLE!! ♥

LOL coffee shop. That sucks about the car, kid.

[cerulean-sky.livejournal.com]

I am SO PSYCHED to read De Anima later this semester. I MISS REAL PHILOSOPHY.

Car will just have to be dealt with another time. THIS IS A BATTLE I REFUSE TO LOSE.

[imaginarycircus.livejournal.com]

De Anima is awesome. I also LOVED EPICTETUS and PLOTINUS!! I think you will too.

[cerulean-sky.livejournal.com]

I'm even glad to be starting Livy for next Monday. Last year the seminars on history were the worst—though Thucydides was way more epically worse than Herodotus—but I have a feeling even history will be better than the Bible.

I'm looking forward to just about everything we're reading this year, so that's a bonus. And I have all of my books for the first semester except Epictetus. (Which I swear to god I had a copy of three months ago. The hell did it go? This is the problem with letting other people touch your stuff.)

[imaginarycircus.livejournal.com]

Oh God did you read the Hobbes (blue cover same edition as Herodotus in red?) translation of Thucydides? I did and it was horrible. When I finally figured out it was my translation -- I switched to the penguin classics and it was SO MUCH BETTER.

I loved Livy, Polybius, Cicero, and Plutarch. Tacitus was so boring though.

[cerulean-sky.livejournal.com]

I think I read the Lattimore—Stephen, not Richmond—translation of Thucydides. I read the Greene translation of Herodotus, which was AMAZING. Alas, I don't think there's anything that could make Thucydides actually enjoyable. D:

I don't think we're reading Polybius this year... Or Cicero. But I'm looking forward to Plutarch for next Thursday's seminar. I remember liking him in high school. Right now I'm LOLing at Livy's introduction. (And kind f boggling at how amazing it is, but LOLing too.)

[imaginarycircus.livejournal.com]

Huh. That wasn't even an available version when I was in school. The Warner translation was the most accessible.

NO CICERO?! D:

[cerulean-sky.livejournal.com]

Most people read whoever did the Landmark Edition's translation. but I find the maps in the Landmark distracting. Plus, I get too tempted to read their paragraph summaries and not actually do the reading. So I didn't bother with that edition.

No Cicero. But lots of other cool stuff! (http://www.stjohnscollege.edu/academic/SFreadlist.shtml)

[imaginarycircus.livejournal.com]

I think the only difference is that we read Cicero instead of Maimonides.

[cerulean-sky.livejournal.com]

Huh. They changed it pretty soon after you though, I guess. Because my dad started in '97, and he read Maimonides when he was a Sophomore.

[imaginarycircus.livejournal.com]

Was he in class with Tim Sparkman?

[cerulean-sky.livejournal.com]

Possibly. I will ask him when he gets back from town.

[imaginarycircus.livejournal.com]

:D

[dusktodawn.livejournal.com]

oh girl...wisdom teeth, let me tell you. Mine have been coming in for almost....7 - 8 years now. They have their moments of pain for me, but otherwise, i give em a week and they're fine. of course, dentist told me they didn't HAVE to come out, they had room, but it might make me more comfortable. So in they stay >> can't afford that shit lol

[cerulean-sky.livejournal.com]

My top ones seem to have enough room. I didn't even notice that they had already come in until I was in pain with my bottom one and poking around in my mouth. But the bottom one that's coming in—the other one is hiding out and waiting, I just know it—is killing me. Or, was killing me. I'm 99% sure that there's just not enough room for it back there. I'm glad it's not impacted, though. That would suck so much more.

[exrpan.livejournal.com]

Mexico! That sounds awesome!! Though, does that mean I won't see you over winter break? :(

[cerulean-sky.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I don't think I'll be coming to NYC over winter break. I might stop by there on the way if I go to Ireland for Spring Break though! So maybe I'll see you then! Still, I'll probably be sending you and Mira presents for Birthdaymas and we can all Skype or something to open them. :)

[exrpan.livejournal.com]

Actually that reminds me...I just realized the other day that I lost your Santa Fe address. Can you email it to me?

[cerulean-sky.livejournal.com]

Will do. :D