Ξ Saturday, 24 Sep 2005 at 05:36 | → 1 Comments | ∇ Normal |
translation: i am acquainted with the night, the shades of yesterday, and even the unborn shades of tomorrow.
it has been a surprisingly eventful day today. oh, and by the way, i just thought up that little Latin phrase for my entry title because it seemed apt. i remember that I left off talking about going off to class and everything. latin was interesting as usual. did i mention i love Lori’s new pics? dear god she’s beautiful. ok, i’m getting off-topic. word. so I go off to Latin, and we started talking about last day’s assignment, looking over it a bit, and well, as you saw, I had finished my prose composition and was eager to hand it in. We talked about that next, of course, and she asked us if we’d run across any troubles in transferring English ideas into Latin. none of us really did, however, so it was cool, and our prof let us out 15mins early after we turned our shite in.
I met up with my friend Rhiannon outside of class, and we went over to get some coffee before Greek, which we had together next. I didn’t have any cash on me, and she generously offered to spot me for a hot chocolate (which I desperately needed, at least for a slight perk, since I’d gotten about 5hrs of sleep last night). how sweet of her! I must remember to pay her back on Monday. we both got hot chocolates, and then walked back towards Humanities, conversing, of course, as we went. I told her about how I’d done prose composition before in Latin, and even composed a lot of my own shit in Latin (my faithful readers should know this by now about me), and she thought it was pretty cool, even suggesting I should try submitting some of them to the classical literary magazine here. *shrugs* Perhaps one of these days. (more…)
Ξ Friday, 23 Sep 2005 at 17:43 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Normal |
alright everyone. a lot of crazy shit can happen in a short amount of time. just look at this week, for example — my life turned upside-down in less than a day. death floods in, all becomes clear, imbued with love as well. last night i wrote quite possibly the most brilliant little piece of English->Latin translation I’ve ever done. we had to translate a paragraph for my Cicero class from a piece of historical fiction called Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar — hence I am not plagiarising it, nor am I considering it my own work (except, of course, for the rendering of the Latin, which is of course all mine):
Eo die ipsas ad barbarorum calamitatis tetendit immoderationis taedium meum futtilitatis, et hos mortuos quos olim sorbuisset socios contra adeo atroxioris legionis adhibuisset Roma paenitui. obscuram ad regionem disparuere sicut venerant oppugnatores nostri ex qua nempe prorumpent tempestates aliae multae. Bellum non perfectum erat, et meam post accessionem mensibus nonnullis id iterum suscipere perficereque obligatus sum. eo tempore quidem hoc fine regnavit ordo. honoribus decoratus ad Romam redii, sed senueram.
my translation: On that day, my disgust for waste and futility extended to the barbarian losses themselves, and I regretted these dead whom Rome might have absorbed and employed someday as allies against more savage hordes indeed. Our attackers disappeared just as they came, into that obscure region from which no doubt more other storms will break forth. The war had not ended, and I was obligated to take it up again and finish it some months after my accession. Order reigned at that time, at least in that territory. I returned to Rome, decorated with honours, but I had aged.
otherwise, I ended up staying up allll night pretty much. i talked to my friends, of course, and I was going to talk to Cha on the fone, but by the time I finished my Greek (~6am), it was way too late to call her. oh well. i woke up just about on time (about 11am) this morning, laid in bed until almost noon, booked it out the door to class (dressed, of course). i will have to write more later, but i’m not feeling particularly verbose right now. ill write more later perhaps. i need to see what those lovely girls nextdoor are up to, hehe. peace.
Ξ Wednesday, 21 Sep 2005 at 22:21 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Normal |
just a quick note. i’m continuing the import process. it’s very slow going due to the messiness of Xanga’s HTML, but otherwise, it is working pretty fucking well. and do not fear, I will eventually spice up the visuals on here — I know it looks somewhat bland. anyways, i love you all, and thank you for reading, those of you who do. peace.
~edit~: do I look like MF DOOM at all?
wahahahha. yay. cant wait for halloween. pZ.
Ξ Wednesday, 21 Sep 2005 at 19:01 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Normal |
monday night after all the fallout, i surprisingly slept like a baby. i went to sleep at like 01.30 tuesday morning, and then I slept (like a baby) for almost 11 hours, until just about noon on the dot. unsurprisingly, i ended up spending most of the time updating this gem of a blog (*smiles*), and i then found myself at a strange juncture: it was almost midnight and I hadn’t eaten at all that day nor done any homework. hence I, iners though I was, managed to pull myself out of the dimension of sluggishness I was entrapped within, and ran across the way to the market. actually, i walked, but it’s inconsequential. got some pizza, a juice, munchies. shouldn’t have gotten any of that except the juice, since I have boxes of food here from my previous grocery run, but oh well… juice is good. (more…)
Ξ Tuesday, 20 Sep 2005 at 14:30 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Normal |
first post on lovely wordpress. i love it thus far. very simple to use and highly customiseable. well, if you’ll excuse me, however, I am going to start importing in my old work from Xanga. i really hope you enjoy the finished product, everyone. much love.
edit: as you can see, i’m writing this from the top down (newest to oldest) as not to confuse people. just need to import it all though somehow. yay.
i am also going to be including comments that my friends on Xanga wrote for me… hope this doesn’t confuse anyone either. i figure i’ll just add it into the text itself.
Ξ Tuesday, 20 Sep 2005 at 01:21 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Normal |
a different type of catharsis and nullifying epiphany. i now find myself single. yes, you heard me correctly. god, it’s cold here tonight. silence is a good thing. well, some things can’t be kept secret forever, i guess, and so my mischievous and hurtful escapades have been brought to the surface. i won’t go into those, because they’re not pertinent, and well, most of you who know me know what i’m talking about. everything was completely pointless, without any real rhyme or reason, simply a half-baked plan consisting of no real careful thought, but definitely concocted by a mind which is accustomed to being in the clouds usually. i did some questionable… hell, downright scelerous things, and well, my exit to that seemed to consist of my epiphany and catharsis within the last entry. nothing is ever that simple though. treachery, insidious treachery, abounds in some of the most unexpected places, but in this case, it lurked within all-too-familiar regions and borders. i shouldn’t have really expected that this would go unnoticed or no words would be exchanged. it was a blackmail bargaining item at the very least, meant to inflict as much anguish upon me as i caused (which i still don’t give half a fuck about causing, at least for some people) them. (more…)
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