Thought of the day

For You know my inmost being. You kit me together in my mother's womb. Your works are wonderful; I know that full well.


Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Ain't Life Grand???

Well, I don't think that I have much to post today. I was having a pretty -blah- couple of days. The rainy weather, while definitely needed, hasn't helped with my not so enthusiastic mood. I have had a headache for a few days now, and was about ready to throw the bathroom scale out the window (and I would have if it didn't belong to my friend Jen). So needless to say, I was not really excited about much when I was cruisin' the internet today and decided to check my final grades for the Summer II semester. I knew that I earned an A in my African Anthropology class, but was unsure about my Latin class. You see, the professor was not what you would call prepared for this class, we only has 4 people in the class total, me, a freshman, and 2 graduate students, we didn't even know what we would be graded on. It turned out that the grade for the entire class was the final, which was 30 lines of translating a poem by Horace, Ars Poetica, a poem over 1100 lines long that basically bashes any other poetic style other than dactylic hexameter (a type of meter). Needless to say, I was rather stressed, and didn't think that I would do that great. So I checked my grade and I think I am going to have a bruise on my chin from where it hit the table. I GOT AN A!!!!! In 6 semesters of Latin, I have never done that well. Praise God!!! There is no way I could have done that well if He hadn't been there to help me study, and concentrate, and manage it all without going nuts. I am officially on summer vacation now, 2 whole weeks with no school, Yipee!!!

We are now adding a quiz to this part of the blog. The first person, of the many, many who view this blog daily, that can correctly name the character and the movie in which it appeared, will receive a life time supply of -thumbs ups-.....
I know it's a hard one. But this is one of those weird things about me, I have a fascination with Disney movies and get a thrill out of knowing the character's names. Good luck!!!

4 comments:

Deanna said...

Is that Archimedes from The Sword in the Stone. (I totally cheated)

:-)


Congratulations about the A!! That is so awesome!

April said...

I thought it was Big Momma in The Fox and the Hound.

Congrats on the A. When you have time I invite you to read the 970 line poem I wrote which also exalts the virtues of dactylic hexameter. Mine is in Italian though, not Latin.

Jen said...

Now I was going to say.. Friend Owl from Bambie. Oh well.

Cori said...

Jen, good guess for not being a cheater...like someone else who I won't name...

I would really like to read that poem April, but I have a more pressing engagement at this moment. Maybe one day when I have free time, ha!!