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news archive 1: 11/01-05/02 ]
Final Status Report:
Latin: passed
Greek: bombed
History: aced
Sociology: done!
packing up and going
home! wheeeeeee!
5/19: Why I can't come
outside and play:
sunday: Latin
monday: (studying)
tuesday: Greek part I and History
wednesday: Greek part II
thursday: Sociology and NAP
5/17: Overhaul
just put the whole site under construction.
toying
around with the idea of a more graphics-based web. comments
are always welcome throughout the process.
5/14: Another Dean's Date
survived. 
Nothing like an all night
emergency paper party, followed by an all morning emergency paper party,
followed by an all afternoon emergency paper party...I grow weary of
these walls...
5/13, Reflections
on Dean's date:
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nicmasihou:
must...finish...conclusion...
GodsDuck:
must...start...introduction...
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WMMaestro04:
when you done, boy?
GodsDuck: the moment i leap out this
window.
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GodsDuck:
i have two 7-pagers
MaiaBabe: awwww *trying to be
overcome with compassion and pity but failing miserably*
GodsDuck: how many pages do you have
left?
MaiaBabe: ive got a total of 45
pages due, none of which is actually written
GodsDuck: i lose
MaiaBabe: yes, yes you do :-D
GodsDuck: FORTY-FIVE?
MaiaBabe: yep
GodsDuck: i feel strangely
comforted.
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5/10:
professor richter had my greek class over for dinner. he rocks.
5/3:
spring cleaning in the
duckpond! time to slim things down...
5/2:
yeah. you know it was
an angsty month when there are 5 'musings' updates in a row...
better now, though.
4/28
"We have not the exact
local knowledge that our enemy has, we have not his abundant supplies;
but we have our hands and our swords in them, and, with that, we have
all that matters." - Agricola, as recorded by Tacitus
4/27: Survey Results!
John should:
be a classics major, and proud of it.
() be
a classics major, but weep quietly when nobody is looking.
be a classics major, but slowly slip across the brink into the insane
abyss that is human history.
() drop
out.
John is probably
irreparably behind in:
Greek
Latin
Sociology
History
Seeing daylight
Comments:
"Betakh kar li avel zeh kol-kach sexy." -spielberg
"They let YOU pass all your midterms?? How did that happen?"
Meyers-Briggs: a test
that tells you nothing at all but still seems so very interesting...
me: E-S-F/T-J
nick m: E-S-F-P
damarah o: E-S-T-J
christina s: E-N-F-J
saman n: E-N-T-P
dave s: I-N-F-J
eric b: I-N-F/T-P
dave f: I-N-F-P
katie h: I-N-T-J
bill j: I-N-T-P
don l: I-N-T-P
4/22: "I
don't know what to tell you, John. You're going to have to stop
being an idiot sometime, but it doesn't have to be now..." -Vern,
on dating.
NEXT SEMESTER:
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CLG 214:
Seminar: Readings in Greek Historiography
Sample
Reading List: Homer, Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Polybios
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ENG 332:
19th-Century Poetry
Sample Reading List: Tennyson, Rossetti, Barrett,
Browning, Hardy, Hopkins, Wordsworth, Keats,
Shelley, Coleridge, Bronte, Arnold, Greenwell, Ingelow,
Clough, Field.
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CWR 201:
Creative Writing (Poetry)
Reading/Writing
Assignments: (1) One manuscript per week submitted to the Program
Office for
duplication. (2) Reading of other students' submissions
in advance of workshop in which they are to be
discussed. (3) Other assigned readings or exercises.
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Latin
(currently "LAT
210: Invective, Slander, and Insult in Latin Literature," but
i'm working with at least one
other person to set up a reading course in St.
Augustine instead -- we've been cleared by the
department, and just need to find a professor to
complete the process. could be very, very cool.)
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HLS/HIS 346:
Introduction to Byzantine Civilization
Sample Reading List: Procopius, The Secret
History; Nikephoros, Patriarch of Constantinople, Short
Chronicle; Whittow, The Making of Byzantium; Comnena,
Alexiad; Browning, Byzantine Empire;
Porphyrogenitos, On the Government
4/18: so
Seamus
Heaney gave a reading on campus yesterday. very cool.
got my book signed. loved his brogue. his poetry just
doesn't make sense without it. good stuff.
4/16:
 ahh
yes. it's limited
enrollment rejection time. back the drawing board...
«-- screw your roommate
(annual prank-blind-date dance) was surprisingly fun.
i think it broke 90° today.
too bad about the PILE OF HOMEWORK I HAVE TO DO. BUT NO. I'M
NOT BITTER. I LIKE WORK. WORK IS MY FRIEND. BUT THAT'S
OK. TOMORROW WILL BE NICE TOO. WHILE I'M SITTING AROUND
TRANSLATING. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
4/10:
well. mexico was good. i think i managed to escape unscathed
this time (ahh, non-potable water...)
summer looks like fun.
i'll be spending 5 weeks working directly with gary, hopping from church
to church, processing paperwork and whatnot, and 3 weeks translating for
various groups that come down -- building playgrounds, running vacation
bible schools and the like.
tecate is
most like what i remember of florido (where i worked several years ago)
-- small town, basic amenities, but just beginning to establish itself
as a community.
planicia
(where princeton
pres is going) is the least developed -- tattered houses, no
plumbing and rocky, dirt roads. they're slowly being incorporated
into the tijuana city limits, but things are pretty rough for now.
which leaves colonia alemán
-- the most developed of the three, and approaching middle-class (for
tijuana). should be the most comfortable week (possibly even with
hot showers), but also some of the hardest work -- we'll be digging a
trench to run a sewer line for the church -- through a vacant lot full
of trash and old concrete.
pictures are here.
3/30: Finally
broke down and took a Meyers-Briggs
Personality Test. as far as i'm concerned, they're more for
entertainment than information, but the results are always interesting.
I came out as an E - S - F/T - J (F & T were balanced;
S & N as well, but with a pretty solid leaning towards S)
take the test if you want
that to make any sense. Then gimme a holler:
THEN the day got interesting...
first with the "frankie-nick
incident"... 
then with the surprise flooding of murray-dodge.
several stitches and plumbers later, we
all got to bed.
3/27:
Well. not much news from the past few months. looks like i
passed all my mid-terms. for some, i may not be able to say much
more...ahh, the life of a classics major. but the curve is usually
kind at the end. or so i tell myself. frequently...
got accepted for my summer
internship in sunny Tijuana, Mexico. i'll basically be a go-fer
for the guy who coordinates a number of short-term mission groups in the
surrounding town. should be interesting. i leave next week
for a training session. more on that afterwards.
retreat was fun. just
a bunch of goofy people hanging out. pictures
are posted.
3/10: The
Condiment Museum
3/9: ok, so the water
was only out for a few hours. hardly noteworthy.
but, just in case my life
started to look normal...my mouse dies. i never realized how much i
depended on the little bugger.
so i'm currently using the
"accessibility options" -- ie, handicapped workarounds -- with
my number pad working like a mouse. arrows move. 5
clicks. / * and - designate what kind of click (left both or
right). ins and del are used to drag and release. and + is a
doubleclick.
this is educational.
schedule for tomorrow: church,
mouse shopping and STUDYING. three midterms in the next 5
days. sigh.
3/5: Laughing
hysterically...
Poe Field,
Princeton, NJ, March 2002
Yup -- for the second time
this year, the water main servicing my dorm has decided to propel its
contents into the air instead of my bathroom.
Unit
3, Berkely, CA, August 2001
2/5
finally posted the complete
rebuild of the faith page. it's a little incoherent and contains
more about my past and less about my God than i intended, but it's a
start. now to get back to work...
2/2
back in one piece. more
news and pictures due tomorrow.
1/23
New page -- The
Portrait Project: dedicated to finding small images of people that
somehow express something i see in their personality. call it art,
call it kitsch. just don't call it for pizza.
Regarding 1/14 -- The Innocence Mission sorta fell off my
radar. It's good stuff, but just not my style (now/yet). The
October Project, on the other hand, will be arriving in my mailbox any day
now... :-)
KAIIEEEEEE! Greek final
in 9 hours! panicpanicpanicpanicpanicpanicpanicpanic
1/19 here's a fun one:
"Because Windows
Millennium Edition could not identify the driver or program, it has
switched to MS-DOS compatibility mode to ensure the program will
run."
"the program" being
the driver for MY HARD DRIVE. this is not a problem for basic
functions, but it basically eliminates all of my virtual memory...which
makes multitasking almost impossible. i'm running Winamp, AIM and
FrontPage right now, and things are Not Going Well.
(for you late-comers, my
current project is rebuilding my computer. i currently have all
issues resolved, except for that "interesting" little
message...)
i'll try again after my greek
final. arg.
1/16 yesyes.
so i'm 20. enough singing already!
got dragged out to the street
for my birthday. was fun -- stopped in to watch a U2 cover band at Quad,
then danced at Colonial
until we all collapsed around 2.
now to study for that latin
exam..........
1/14 New band recommendations: The
October Project, Over
the Rhine, The
Innocence
Mission and Waterdeep.
OP and OTR tend to be somewhat brooding (read: angst)
but/and (depending on your preference) musically & lyrically
impressive. OTR has the most diverse repertoire of the 4; ie, the least
easily described. OP is now defunct. sad.
IM is quiet, soothing,
sipping-tea-and-watching-the-spring-rain stuff. simple, but with a
curious talent. i like.
Waterdeep seems quite out of
place here -- they're hippie folk. musically less diverse, but has
put out some songs with surprisingly deep lyrics. more of an
acquired taste.
and an oddball -- Evelyn
Glennie -- percussionist who does a lot of weird very-modern
stuff. quite outside my normal haunts, but kinda cool.
as you can tell, i've been working Very Hard on my papers.
23 hours, 44 minutes left...
12/28 AHHHHH! looming paper
deadlines! run away! run away!
12/14
form results:
Version 3.0:
sweet
ok
0 fair
0 poor
John should be:
doing homework
sleeping
dating
0 eating (will no one feed me?)
Interesting Comments:
"muted colors rock!!"
"don't worry. you wont fail latin."
"mom"
"Be young, have fun, drink pepsi."
"Your cookies are better...in bed."
"Yeth, you are the ladieth man."
"Are you STILL not dating?"
12/10
deep thoughts for the day:
1) days go better when begun with prayer.
2) dude, like so i totally just discovered that my meal plan covers
sushi at the campus center...
12/8 planning...
next semester:
PSY 101 -- intro psych - prof. Kinchla
LAT 205 -- Roman letters (pliny, cicero, ovid etc) - prof. Kaster
CLG/HLS 240 -- postclassical greek (new testament through 400ish
AD) - prof. Richter
REL 384 -- "From Eros to Sin: Augustine's Transformation of
Plato" - prof. Wetzel (visiting from Colgate)
next year:
eating/rooming plans are still sketchy -- turns out ALL the current Butler
RA's reapplied...meaning there are 20 or so of us newbies competing for
like 3 slots. should be...erm...interesting. interviews are in
January.
12/2 yeah - so i was sitting in church today and
realized it was the anniversary of my baptism. pretty cool.
tomorrow is going to be insane -- between 9 and 4:30 i
have a physical therapy session, a mad rush to get into psych 101 next
semester, Greek, civil engineering, lunch, an advisor appointment, my
Latin seminar and a Latin test. that means the only non-scheduled
time i have is from 2:00 to 2:30 -- and that had better go into Latin
cramming.
i suspect i'll be asleep by five.
11/26 it has come to my attention that there is
almost no actual content on the current version of the site. this
is a problem. bother. ahh well. enjoy the galleries
and such -- text and other such things will return through the winter.
11/25 1:37am and all's quiet. back from
break. still behind on work. figures.
have my new fancy gel wrist-wrest. hopefully will
address my "minor problem" of fingers that burn so much that
i've had to give up guitar and instant messenger. if i lose email
i WILL hyperventilate. appointment at mccosh tomorrow. i
miss my guitar. snif.
another thanksgiving come and gone. was difficult
this year -- just didn't feel like i had much to give thanks for.
which is silly. just plain foolish. i should be on my knees
singing praise. but tell that to my overstressedsemidepressed
brain. then send complaints to canada.
i have high hopes for spring. winter is always
hard. i seem to be somewhat photosynthetic.
must stop writing midnight sentences. four words
and a period. brain can't continue thoughts.
went to a taize service this evening -- meditations,
old-style chants and prayers. dunno. had never been to
one. part of me loved it -- had all the mystic wonder i miss about
the church i went to (briefly) as a child.* but part of me was
constantly nervous -- i've always been a little leery of the
hyper-ecumenicalism that has seized the Episcopal church. i just
can never be comfortable in one of their services -- i spend all my time
overanalyzing their theology. another sillyfoolish voice in my head.
but i'll probably go back. it was nice. calming.
shoot. stayed up too late again. starting
another week behind on sleep. bad patterns. bad patterns.
11/19 waaaaah...i don't WANNA fail latin...snif...
11/13 yeah, so i'm rebuilding this whole monstrosity instead of
doing work. go figure. the whole place will be a little
touchy for the next week or so, since i only have time to bring a few
pages up to date each day.
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