Feb. 1

Lysh said:

So I don't know why my google reader isn't working for this blog and then it suddenly fed me like 20 blogs. ANYWAYS, I love your blog! It's a very good blog. I just spent a good portion of my blizzard-hibernating night reading it. You write interesting things, so keep going!

So I decided that since I like comments a lot but I can never really find a good way of replying to them on damn blogger (in this way t*m**r is superior), I'll just reply to ones I have replies to somewhere sometime[1] in a post, like thus:

Yeah I do enjoy writing this when I do, especially when I write all obnoxiously and wittily. But yes, I'm glad you like it :) There's not much point in writing in an open medium if it doesn't please anyone. I shall earnestly keep going!

Anyway, so semester II of college is going pretty well. I'm stuck indoors a lot due to weather/laziness, but that's okay.

• English is off to a bumpy start owning to my professor being late all the time because of the harsh weather, but the readings are really interesting, since man I love literary theory. I've not been terribly diligent with it, though, but I've tried. Hey, I wrote my papers decently, and that's what matters, right?[2]
• Ancient World II is pretty okay, the works we're reading aren't as dynamic as the Odyssey or Republic, but they are sufficiently intriguing. We're spending a month on Eastern stuff, which is surprisingly up-to-date for a classics class.
• Fuck, I love calculus. Math is so fun; I just love sitting here and working through problem sets and knowing I'm getting them right because I'm so awesome[3]. We finally started doing real calc II stuff (integration by parts) which is neat. My professor is amazing, too. He compared working out integrals to finding a lost kid at a train station ("and you, since you know your kid pretty well, you know that he's probably going to be at station #4, because, as you know, he enjoys doing drugs at station #4. So, correspondingly, you can skip right to u-sub." [4]).
• Second-semester Latin is not bad. It's really just starting off learning a language and learning the forms that's really frustrating. Now that I have most of the conjugations and declensions and syntactical stuff down, I am pretty confident with most basic Latin. I can even translate fairly quickly. And now we're just doing little nitpicky stuff like participles and gerunds and indirect statements that are fairly simple.

It's been snowing pretty generously today, and the snow is pretty, I'll admit, and I am kind of hoping for a snow day tomorrow.

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Missed you, blog.

1. I think I am correct maybe in saying that the different between a while and awhile, some time and sometime, is that the former is a noun/object, the latter more adjective.
2. That is not what matters.
3. ...and Asian....
4. This is paraphrased, but only slightly since most of these words were things he'd said.