Dazzle-the-Duel, the best sword of all

I'm really happy that the first reading for my English Lit course is the Seamus Heaney translation of Beowulf. It's a rollicking read. If you've never checked out Seamus Heaney, he's one of the few modern poets that I love. Seriously, I can count them on my fingers. And maybe toes.

The first day of school went really well. I was nervous (vomiting nervous, ugh), but everything seems copacetic. I love my Latin teacher, although getting honors credit for the class will be a pain in the ass - it's offered in honors and regular sections, and I couldn't get the honors section to fit with my other classes. There's a way to contract with the teacher for honors credit, but he didn't know how to do it...I also wonder if I should be in a more advanced section, since it came back to me fairly swiftly...

Sun-Tran seems to have improved its fleet since the last time I rode a bus. The air conditioning actually works!

Tomorrow: Astrobiology (yes, it's a real class!), Latin, and an Honors colloquium. Then Wednesday, I have another English Survey day, Latin, Fiction Writing, then my dreaded Balkans experience that I'm thinking about dropping already.