Uh oh...

Connie went overboard with her l337 Latin skills. Poor person. I'm sure they just wanted a translation, not an incomplete lesson.

Incidentally, you know you've been taking Latin too long when you're reading a book and you automatically find yourself trying to figure out the scansion. I can't even do that properly when it's in Latin poetry, much less English prose!

Pandora's box.

I went through a time where I was obsessed with Greek and Roman (And Norse) mythology. Actually had quite a good book on it... not very long, but very concise, and it covered the important ones very well. Anyway, I've just been thinking about the story of Pandora's Box Jar.

As we all know, Pandora (all gifts) was sent to humanity as payback for some crime (I think it was the theft of fire by Prometheus (foresight), but I could be wrong). And she was sent with a jar and told not to open it, but her curiosity got the better of her and she ended up releasing all the bad things from the jar into the world. In some versions, she manages to close the jar before the last monster, foreknowledge, escapes, and in others, the last thing out of the jar is hope.

For years, I thought the latter version made no sense. Why on earth would there be something good lurking at the bottom of this sea of monsters? And hope is a form of ignorance about the future, you don't know what bad things are happening, so you can feel good. It's almost the complete opposite of foreknowledge. But I've had a thought that maybe I've had it wrong the whole time. Hope wasn't a good thing, it's the worst monster. Because we're hopeful, we are knocked down harder by all the terrible things in this world. And then, even though we should just give up and go home we can't, because we've got that hope that things will be better. Just another cruel joke played on humanity.

*dies laughing*

Stolen from feminist.

Go click. Then, commit a few crimes. After all, gay marriage has destroyed the fabric of morality :)

Just watched Enterprise...

All I can say about THIS episode is "DEAR GOD THAT IS THE MOST CLICHED ENDING EVER". Because it is.

I have an idea, but I want to run this by everyone first.

My GPA for this past year sucks. My GPA is now shot to hell. I need to boost it, and the easiest way to do that is to take extra classes in the summer. There's a four day break between first and second summer session. I *could* visit Xiggy during that break (yes, that means cutting my visit shorter) and take ONE class during second summer session. That'd be three summer classes instead of the two. I might even be able to take two, but only if Xiggy doesn't mind being stuck with Lizziey in the mornings DOING HER HOMEWORK. Honestly, this summer's gonna suck for everyone with all the schoolwork we need to be doing.

Anyway, thought I'd see how this goes over with the relevant people first.

The busier I stay, the happier I am.

So, this summer I'm taking at least two classes. I'm definitely getting a job. What else should I do?

[Poll #299513]

Note that some options fall into more than one category... certainly books on autism/autistic people can fit three categories all by themselves

Thanks for the advice.

Continuation of my earlier post...

The Gay Agenda.

Taken from oddizm

http://www.livejournal.com/users/oddizm/31058.html

I am all for teaching kids to speak (or otherwise communicate, signing or typing is fine by my standards, so long as people can understand them). I'm fine with teaching your kid how to not "meltdown", how to cope, because that's not good for anybody in the long run.

But some people take this sort of thing too far, and think it's good.
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*deep sigh*