December 2009
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To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
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Be yourself, but be your best self.
– St Francis de Sales
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Done with finals
What a state I’m in.
Recall at the end of last semester, over the summer, I had written about loving a certain smile. I still love that smile; I am in love with that smile. Please consider this metonymy. To borrow words “5 Centimeters Per Second: Cosmonaut,” which are too accurate:
“…I fell even more in love whenever I saw his figure. It was scary and each day was...
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If you took a walk by a Swiss lake in the 1930s—the peak time for the writing of...
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Harry Mount, Carpe Diem: How to Become a Latin Lover (via niconarsi) (via eush)
I think I need to read this book.
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Dissatisfied with his lot, the young man gave himself up to drink, which,...
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Heinrich Schliemann may have been an unscrupulous archaeologist and a douchebag, but you can’t deny his passion for his chosen field. (via) (via eush)
“…Happiness of learning Greek.” I wish I felt that way.
Greek Final exam: Sunday the 20th, 7:45 AM.
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Natalie Portman to star in and produce "Pride and... →
sisterspock:
fairphantom:
(via deadgrotty)
APPROVE.
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NASA discover Spock's planet Vulcan →
Space scientists have discovered that the home planet of Star Trek’s Mr Spock may really exist - or at least something very like it. They used a powerful telescope to find evidence for rocky worlds around the very star which his home world Vulcan supposedly orbits in the hit TV and movie series…
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on the intricacies of translating ‘οἱ...
prof: It could be neutral, like ‘unfortunate ones’, but it really depends on the context…anyone have any suggestions?
me: ‘Poor bastards’?
prof: I like it.
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srs college bsns
Okay. I seriously think I need to block this website from myself until finals are over.
Time to make it work!
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Kλιγγόνες!
κλιγγόνες ἑν τὴ γὲφυρα
“Klingons on the bridge”
No joke.
κλιγγών, κλιγγόνος is a masculine third-declension noun.
Best translation of my Ancient Greek education.
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midnight-radio:
unpalombaro:uraniaproject:
1,159 thirty-sec exposures spanning more than 10.5 hours. The irregular galaxies Small and Large Magellanic Clouds (SMC and LMC, respectively) are visible towards the middle of the video. Very Large Telescope, Paranal Observatory, Atacama Desert, Chile, 23-24 Aug 2009 (Nikon D700).
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6 PM on Saturday? Time for a to-do list.
Laundry: It cannot be postponed any longer. Unless I go and buy more socks.
Study Abroad application: Complete personal statements and submit!
Greek homework: Unit 10 drills and composition work. Memorize ridiculous irregular noun declensions. WTF why is this crazy chapter the last one we cover before the final??
Latin: Translate next section of Daphne...
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Note: Star Trek soundtrack by Michael Giacchino— SO GOOD. Why haven’t I raved about this before?
Though the track titles are full of Pun Farr.
Also, Grooveshark.com is greatly appreciated.
Because you are human beings you are going to meet failure. You are going to...
– Commencement Address to the Mills College Class of 1983 by Ursula K Le Guin (Feministe) (via abbyjean) (via rakalak) (via lavenderlines) (via sebastianmelmoth)
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Latin txting
QHA? QUID HOC AMICE?
“What’s this friend?” aka: WTF?
VC VICTORIAE CAUSA
“The cause for victory.” Equivalent to “FTW”
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How To Feel Good Mentally, Emotionally, and...
sebastianmelmoth:
saafz:
1. Set, and exceed your standards by completing all tasks, managing your time, and meeting all deadlines.
2. Get an adequate amount of sleep, daily exercise, and eat well.
3. Everything else is linked to 1 & 2. There’s no secret to happiness. Unfortunately, happiness is hard work.
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Apollo loves and desires the marriage of Daphne having been seen,
and which he...
– -Ovid, Metamorphoses
“Thus in his whole heart he is burned and feeds futile love by hoping…”
This line just got me pretty damn sad, as I have been feeding a love (maybe not wholly futile, but it is encompassing, and irrevocable) by many hopes.
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If "The Wrath Of Khan" was an Italian Opera →
It would be so awesome.
Le Wrath di Khan.
The death of Spock needs to be an amazing hearwrenching romantic tragic aria.