greek latin and french.

the greek. teehee. von is not going to like this. the newly-formed classics club at uva has decided to celebrate homer's 2802nd birthday this thursday, on the lawn, all day, with cake, "funeral games" and 24 hour read-a-thon of the iliad till 9am friday morning. i think it's hilarious and good fun.

french. i do not understand my french teacher. for the first month and a half she came to class in shorts and colourful racer-back tops and sneakers and looking tres sportive, and then all of a sudden she's coming to class in black sweaters and short black skirts and knee-high boots with super-high heels and dangling earrings and generally very gothic, and what makes it all the more confusing is that she has shaved off all her hair and there's something v unnerving abt a naked scalp.

latin. i have been largely indifferent to the commentator of my ovid book, but when i saw this footnote on "siqua latent meliora putat." ("anything which he couldn't see he thought even better." apollo is chasing daphne and praising her naked arms. hah. mentally undressing her is what it is) i couldn't help liking him. the note says: 'believes the beauties yet unseen are best": dryden. a remark that might be applied to critics and commentators too." *grin*