Dazzle-the-Duel, the best sword of all

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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.

Comments

[devonsego.livejournal.com]

I've not read any of Heaney's stuff, but I did read his translation of Beowulf.
Glad you're not too freaked out by school and bonus points for use of the word copacetic (which my browser refuses to recognize, stupid browser).

[violetselkie.livejournal.com]

Oh, he's orgasmic in that understated Irish scholar boy way. Like James Joyce! Actually, not really much like him, just in the Irishness and the sexiness.

I enjoy ironic 80s vocab: copacetic, tubular, jinx, way (no way! yeah way!), we are not worthy...ya know, all the cheeseball stuff. Oh: you know that one hit wonder where he's singing "just don't get it, keep it copacetic, learn to accept it"? (Might be called Born to be Down? Maybe?) That dude plays a bizarre contraption that's a guitar and a bass at the same time! Dude!

I feel like I'm writing you an email but leaving all the sexploits out. Or wait, there are no recent sexploits anyway. Anyway. are you up for hanging out some weekend, maybe we could work on that video project? I'm free as a bird, Friday afternoons to Sunday, minus travel time which isn't that bad. I mean, I might be doing stuff any given weekend, but there isn't a rule that says I must be a Cash Register Monkey or nothin'.

[violetselkie.livejournal.com]

It's Local H, "Bound for the Floor." And like, whoa, that guitar-type-thing is amazing.

Bodaceous

[devonsego.livejournal.com]

I had never heard that song, but I looked up the video. Then I looked on the intarweb to see what exactly he was doing and I guess he ingeniously installed a bass pickup into a regular six-string and has two outputs (one for each pickup) and with pedals and whatnot, he can control when he wants the bass output to register. Pretty smart.
No sexploits here either. Woo! Instead of preaching celibacy to students, the Republicrats should just make sure everyone grows up geeky. No one would ever get laid again!
I am totally up for hanging out most any weekend (but I'm in Idaho on the 1st through the 9th). Also, I do need to get my ass down to Tucson one of these days.