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23 Tammuz/5 July, 2010
Jul. 5th, 2010 11:24 pm100 F (38 C) outside today – I slept on the second floor on the couch last night since it is much cooler there, for once my room was even too hot for me and that rarely happens. I needed earplugs, since the kitchen clock was too loud for me – tonight I will probably just move the clock upstairs or something. I didn’t realize it was a holiday and that my parents were not at work today for half an hour after I woke up, no wonder I didn’t wake up earlier from the noise.
“Highlander” S1 E11-13 These episodes were very good. The season is getting better as the show is figuring out what it wants to be and I’m enjoying it more. I really like all the female characters a lot – both Tessa and Randi, the reporter. (who actually talk to each other) And I like that most people on this show, even victims, get to be interesting and don’t just stand there when they are being attacked. And Tessa runs over a bad guy with the car! That was ‘hell yeah’ moment. Tessa and Duncan’s relationship continues to impress – and when she gets a great job in Paris, he just moves there with her. They are just so nice together, and they talk things out and she scoffs at anyone trying to get to Duncan through her.
“A month of Latin review” project:
I decided today that I need a proper Latin review. I was on my old laptop, downloading some pictures and cleaning out my photo memory card, and, since that laptop works slowly, I decided to have fun by pulling up my LinguaLatina program to see if I can remember declensions and conjugations. Not so much. I mean, it all came back to me, after some practice of it on the program and Latin is permanently wired into my brain from all that study for Toronto PhD Latin exam for years and years. However, it has been almost four years since I passed the said exam and my Latin now mostly involves my legal sources which are not that difficult and are fairy formulaic. So I can’t even do basic declensions without some thinking and ten minutes of looking at it. Surprisingly, I remember conjugations a bit better. And I know that when I look at a latin text, I do generally know what declension a word is in, and I could translate the Vulgate without much of a problem, but still I do like knowing how to do grammar and such.
So I decided to so a grammar review this month and move Latin back to the front of the brain. Each day I will go over two chapters of Wheelock. Today I looked at Chapters 1 and 2: first and second conjugation of active indicative verbs, present infinitive and first declension of nouns and adjectives. I feel smarter already.
“Highlander” S1 E11-13 These episodes were very good. The season is getting better as the show is figuring out what it wants to be and I’m enjoying it more. I really like all the female characters a lot – both Tessa and Randi, the reporter. (who actually talk to each other) And I like that most people on this show, even victims, get to be interesting and don’t just stand there when they are being attacked. And Tessa runs over a bad guy with the car! That was ‘hell yeah’ moment. Tessa and Duncan’s relationship continues to impress – and when she gets a great job in Paris, he just moves there with her. They are just so nice together, and they talk things out and she scoffs at anyone trying to get to Duncan through her.
“A month of Latin review” project:
I decided today that I need a proper Latin review. I was on my old laptop, downloading some pictures and cleaning out my photo memory card, and, since that laptop works slowly, I decided to have fun by pulling up my LinguaLatina program to see if I can remember declensions and conjugations. Not so much. I mean, it all came back to me, after some practice of it on the program and Latin is permanently wired into my brain from all that study for Toronto PhD Latin exam for years and years. However, it has been almost four years since I passed the said exam and my Latin now mostly involves my legal sources which are not that difficult and are fairy formulaic. So I can’t even do basic declensions without some thinking and ten minutes of looking at it. Surprisingly, I remember conjugations a bit better. And I know that when I look at a latin text, I do generally know what declension a word is in, and I could translate the Vulgate without much of a problem, but still I do like knowing how to do grammar and such.
So I decided to so a grammar review this month and move Latin back to the front of the brain. Each day I will go over two chapters of Wheelock. Today I looked at Chapters 1 and 2: first and second conjugation of active indicative verbs, present infinitive and first declension of nouns and adjectives. I feel smarter already.