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I just started another blog, which I am calling a “reading blog,” but which I actually started so that I’d have someplace to chronicle my term abroad experiences. I guess that doesn’t make all too much sense, but at the very least, it will mean this blog becoming even —er. (comparative of something, I know not what.)
Maybe I’ll take up trying to write like a foreigner. Good.
Anyway, other blog is here: The Mock Turtle (that’s right, I jumped on the Alice-reference bandwagon, but let it be known that I’ve been on the Alice-love bandwagon for most of my life, thankyouverymuch)
Filed under: egg-lish
I am still in school. It’s June 8th and I will be here until next Tuesday. Nonetheless, to stay positive, here is my list:
Good things about the end of school
1) Throwing things away. We went through spring cleaning phase in the room shortly after returning from spring break, but this is so much more thorough. We need to get rid of as much useless crap as possible, so that we won’t have to pack it, ship it, or store it. I love the feeling. I also love seeing all of my colorful toys packed away in a clear plastic box to be moved later to my summer home half-way across campus.
2) I don’t care about my homework. And my professors don’t expect me to. They know it’s week ten, and that it’s June. One actually said to-day, “You didn’t finish the book? You read a lot of it, though. That’s good.”
3) We are suddenly presented with a theatrical bounty. Last week, the theater department put on Aristophanes’ The Birds, which I appreciated especially after a term of reading the play in the original Greek. It became very quickly a whole lot funnier. From the sky-colored set to the rap that Peisetaeros used at one point to convince the birds of the merit of his plan (all translated exactly from Aristophanes, as our professor pointed out), it was such a fun performance. Also, as my fellow Greek students observed, it was fun to see a lot of very attractive fellow students parading in skimpy costumes.
That performance is going to be followed up tonight by The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) which will be performed by two friends and an acquaintance of mine. To clarify, those are three guys who constitute the entire cast. They performed parts of it last year, and hilarity is expected.
4) The campus is gorgeous.
