Yesterday was... entertaining. I didn't get much medieval Latin translated, and didn't dig up too much information that sparked new ideas about Boniface and the suppression of saint's cults. Ah well. But Prof Brown had me sight-translate ~20 lines. o.O It was a little daunting on occasion, but I could do it with a little help from Cassell's and Lewis and Short. Hooray!

Ovid was also fun. As the letter to Helen wears on, Paris gets worse and worse with his descriptions of what he'd do to her. At one point, he even goes so far as to say that if HE had carried her away and was forced to give her up, as Theseus had, he absolutely would have had sex with her first (he even rails at Theseus for his idiocy on that account ;). But it gets better! If she was still a virgin, he would have taken her as if she were a little boy (like Spartan custom, he points out). Yikes. The farther we read, the more I understand that first line of Helen's reply: "My eyes have been violated by your letter!"

German is very good. All's going well; I just need to keep on the ball with that, Latin and my thesis work. Phil's actually keeping track of the number of hours he works per week, and I think that may be a good idea. That way, I can cut out the time-wasters that aren't important to me, like random web-surfing, and limit the ones I enjoy, like watching/playing MarioKart and other games in Sarah and Brian's room. (Don't worry, friends are not included in time-wasters, I promise. ;) It's just that I need to focus on what I need to get done and finish that... especially since I'm thinking about trying to work part-time at Borders before summer begins. And there's the Mozart concert in April - not only will I be playing in the orchestra, but Don may ask me to play the concerto in G that I worked on for so long over the last couple years. We'll see. If that happens, I'll certainly be spending quality time with flute over the next several months...

Oh yeah, orchestra. I'm only playing in the Bartok Dance-Suite (Tanz-Suite) and Overture to Ben. Cellini by Berlioz. Angela gets first on the Rachmaninoff piano concerto, and she thinks I got the better part of the deal. We'll see. After playing those two, I can understand why Allen's distributing the load. This is HARD music, and it'll take a good deal of work to pull off. But it's also good music, which means it won't be a chore to practice. Hooray! :)

Ok, time to get back to German so I finish assignments before class.