Andromache is a very strange play. I read it last night cause we're reading "Le Cygne" in French, and he talks about Andromache, and it's my precept reading for tonight. I'm not sure it's a tragedy. It's definately not a comedy, either. It's all full of anti-war rhetoric, with a great speech where Peleus tells Menelaus that he (Peleus) holds him (Menelaus) responsible for Achilles's death, for everyone knows Spartan women are sluts, and Menelaus should've just spat in the general direction of Troy, and married someone else. The only death is Neoptolomus's, but we never see Neoptolomus, and I have this impression of him being a bit of an ass. Andromache winds up at least relatively happy, marrying Helenus, and they are going to go off and create that "little Troy" thing from The Aeniad, Hermione and Orestes are happy cause now they are married and Neoptolumus is dead, and Peleus just has to bury his grandson and then he gets to go live with Thetis as a god for the rest of time. Menelaus goes off and we don't see him again. Andromache exits in the middle of the play, and is never talked about again until the end when Thetis is telling Peleus what is going to happen for the rest of time. Anyway, it's probably the weirdest Greek tragedy I've ever read. I'm inclined to think that it's only a tragedy in the sense that they perfomed it in a tragedy slot, after killing a goat.
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06:41:04 PM,Monday 4 November 2002
If someone hadn't hung up on two other people when she misheard what the person who wasn't on the phone said, she wouldn't be being snubbed right now.
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06:35:06 PM,Monday 4 November 2002
We have just made up the new circle of who kills who in Assassins. And again I feel all bad for my friends who are going to "die."
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08:20:50 PM,Sunday 3 November 2002
Knitting patterns always tell you to get too much yarn; I think patterns for sweaters should come with things like patterns for matching mittens and hats as things to go with your sweater, using your leftover yarn.
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02:40:36 PM,Sunday 3 November 2002
I made a mitten. I still have massive amounts of leftover yarn, and probably will continue to do so even after I make it's match.
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02:35:03 PM,Sunday 3 November 2002
My lips got so chapped it almost looks like I'm wearing lipstick.
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11:07:42 AM,Sunday 3 November 2002
My mom helped me clean my room up. Or rather, my mom cleaned my room up. It was really sweet.
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02:29:14 AM,Sunday 3 November 2002
Does anyone here have a small screwdriver I could borrow?
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02:23:55 AM,Sunday 3 November 2002
The fondue restaurant is wonderful. And remarkably more affordable than I'd thought when I first glanced at the menu and saw that there was a $49 dish (which is meant to serve two people a three course meal). And it's sort of like those Japanese Steak Houses where they cook right in front of you, only they do it with cheese, or interesting broths, or chocolate. They make a cheddar fondue, which I liked, cause I like cheddar, and we got a traditional swiss fondue with gruyere and ementhaler and Chris got this seafood one. And then for dessert we got a chocolate fondue that we created ourselves with milk chocolate and chambord. We convinced the waitress to let us figure out how to take home the leftover melted swiss cheese, and Chris wants to put it in an omelet in the morning, and she thought this was the best idea in the world. She was also very proud of us for deciding to have them put chambord in our chocolate fondue. She was cute and perky and totally on the ball and her day job is teaching reading to elementary schoolers.
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10:16:34 PM,Saturday 2 November 2002
To further annoy Martin: this evening at the fondue restaurant I got a drink mocha martini. It was bailey's, kahlua, vodka and godiva white chocolate liqueur.
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10:11:30 PM,Saturday 2 November 2002
They moved the TV into the Humphrey's Common Room, and no one told Security. The last Security had heard it was being used to store books by the bookstore.
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12:41:15 AM,Saturday 2 November 2002
Hey, Noah, if you read my blog, who is it that makes that pen you have that's the coolest pen in the world? (The one with the spinny nib.)
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12:30:28 AM,Saturday 2 November 2002
In Pamela Dean's novel Tam Lin, there is some brief mention of this character Prof. Medeous wanting to perform Greek tragedy in the original (as a partial explanation for why so many of the Classics majors seem to be Theatre majors at first). Mr. David's Greek Chorus thing reminds me of that.
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12:10:15 AM,Saturday 2 November 2002
I got this thing at 49 West called a chocolate cake martini. It was made with Absolut Citron (or Mandarin, do they make a mandarin?) and Frangelico. Neither one of which, I ought to point out, tastes anything like chocolate. But this thing tasted remarkably like good chocolate cake. It was weired and cool and yummy.
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12:03:15 AM,Saturday 2 November 2002
My parents are convinced that many of the people here are just like people they were friends with in college. Apparently Andrew is just like a guy from my dad and stepdad's frat.
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07:34:51 PM,Friday 1 November 2002
The internet connection at the new bookstore on Main St. is so much faster than the one at school.
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03:07:34 PM,Friday 1 November 2002
I have decided, at Jacob's suggestion, to rename my stuffed tiger Locke to see if people get it.
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10:11:27 AM,Friday 1 November 2002
I think I might like Phedre better than Hippolytus.
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12:17:01 AM,Friday 1 November 2002
I was reminded today, as I sat there in French class and talked about Neoptolomus/Pyrrhus and Andromache and Helenus and someone asked me if I had a note about it and I said, no, I just remember weird bits of Virgil rather well, that while I was in fact always meant to be a Classics Major, I do enjoy it here. My precept is definately the best class I'm taking right now, and it is Euripides, and the simple fact that it was written in Greek makes me extraordinarily happy. But when we finally move on from this goddammn theorem we've been working on for two weeks now, I will go back to being happy to be doing Lobochevski, and even when I sit there completely mystified, I'm having a blast with lab as well.
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04:31:16 PM,Thursday 31 October 2002
I told Katherine she could use my computer and printer to get her ballad for Storytellers, and then I forgot completely about this. I walked back in my room after Storytellers, and all the windows were everywhere else, and I felt like the Three Little Bears, but then I remembered.
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02:18:52 AM,Thursday 31 October 2002