Aug. 24th, 2010

some_stars: (sam's ipod has far too much emo)
I am having SPECTACULAR music luck this morning. Which is good, because everything else is kind of a mess. It is the First Day of School, and I've been up all night due to a combination of nerves and terrible, terrible sleep scheduling. Also I have had coffee. I put on OK Go for the drive and managed to get all my favorites in just a half hour, then when I disconnected the ipod from the car the radio came back on and I heard the opening bars of Don't Stop Believing(my radio is always tuned either to the eighties station or the country-classics station). So of course I sat and listened to the entire thing, as is my joyful duty.

--I was going to complain about getting to campus 2 hours early (for parking) and the campus wireless being down, but now it is up! So I can cut-paste this out of the notepad doc I was writing it in. Really the only other bad thing is that my summer of indolence has made me so horrifically out of shape that I got actualfax winded walking from the car to the english dept lounge(where I basically live during the schoolyear). It is flat, I was going slow and not carrying anything big, and it takes about 3-5 minutes. And my heart was POUNDING. This is so terrible.

I have SO MUCH email to catch up on, and delicious feedback to reply to. As indicated above, I've been kind of a human slug since coming back from VVC, but hopefully that will now change. Also, I have NOT abandoned my watch-all-the-Doctor-Who project! It just really seems that way. But the original purpose of it was to gather footage for a vid that I still want to make, so once I get back on a regular schedule that will start again as well. Not that anyone who is not me cares, of course. Also, if I can get my hard drive fixed, I will be doing that twenty-days-of-vidding meme with far too many excess recs. I HAVE AMBITION.
some_stars: (LITERACY)
Can anyone recommend a good Iliad? I liked Lattimore's Odyssey but I wouldn't mind something a bit less...faithful, as long as it's not too out there. I have heard some negative things about Fagles from people who've read the originals; I'd rather struggle than feel like I'm reading an overly free translation, but I'm hoping there's a middle ground available. Apparently this Greek History class assumes you've read it. Also, I can't imagine anything that would make me read a non-poetry translation, but if there's one that is truly world-shaking, go ahead and recommend it.

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