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Need it be said again I adore my history class?

Dr. M: "The Americans aren't the first stupid people in history. Nor the Brits. And the Brits have been stupid a lot longer than we have." (Lizzy, I thought of you on that one...)

Dr M: (leaning over me, as he does often to us poor students): And so what had to happen [to the two kingdoms of Egypt]?"
Me: "Er...they had to unify them?"
Dr. M: "Two! Two! Two mints in one! That's Jesus, you know--two men in one. He's a candy mint! He's a breath mint! And they said, no, he's god--but anyway...."

Dr. M: "Yahweh! That's about as cool a name as you can get!"

Dr. M: "For the next three months I get to make you my clones...I wanna rule the world."
Amber: "Me too."

Dr M: "Numbers is not a Jew."

Also today I had lunch with Chane, Felix, Shannon and Shannon's sister, and that was nice, to talk to people I already knew. Yesterday I got a letter and a postcard from Allie and then finally the letter than Emily sent to my house, and today I got a letter from Claire and a postcard from Rebecca, so masses of mail making me v. happy.
Danica and I went shopping, and had feta cheese to put on our salads tonight, and brownies for dessert...mmm...plus other snack foods, because a dorm room is not complete without them.
And now, while all I really want to do is finish Howl's Moving Castle and then read Shoebox, I have two hundred pages of the Odyssey to read by Thursday, and about twenty pages of Jones for tomorrow (Atomists, so I should rip through that fairly quickly). Reading is getting insane...will get insaner. Cripes.
Other than having too much dressing on my salad and too much mayo on my sandwich, though, life is good.

Also, this is amusingly and dsitrubingly apt:

Generate your Anime Style by Jena-su
Name:
Hair:	Dark and cut short.
Clothes:	Long, super cool trenchcoats.
Powers:	Dragon taming
Special Features:	Wings
Sidekick:	A wise-ass little demon.
Attitude:	Happy, bouncy, too hyper for it to be heathly.
Weapon:	Sword
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And for the other me (NCPS Elanor), also weirdly apt...

Generate your Anime Style by Jena-su
Name:
Hair:	Rediculously long, always flowing.
Clothes:	Simple, comfortable, everyday clothes.
Powers:	Elemental control
Special Features:	Wings
Sidekick:	Your best friend.
Attitude:	Upbeat and cheerful.
Weapon:	Wrist blades
Quiz created with MemeGen!

For World of Cheesecake Lia:

Generate your Anime Style by Jena-su
Name:
Hair:	Naturally multi-coloured.
Clothes:	Leather, belts, chains, bondage pants, collars, and tight shirts.
Powers:	Light magic
Special Features:	Random tattoo(s)
Sidekick:	Small fluffy animal that talks...usually too much.
Attitude:	Bouncy one minute, murderous the next. No one knows when you're going to mood-swing next.
Weapon:	Wrist blades
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The quizmakers know your soul....

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Epicurus makes no sense. Atomism is doubly confusing because it feels to me like they were on the right track and then got off somewhere and I'm sitting here thinking, "yeah, yeah, yeah...hold on, what now?"
On the other hand it's kind of fun. In a scholarly way. And although the book is sometimes dull, any authors who writes "does it really make sense to say that one set of atoms experiences another set as red, solid and extended?" gets my vote. Also he uses billiard balls and cabbages to illustrate points.
Odyssey going okay, though. Odysseus really is fabulously cool, you know.

On the other hand it is a full moon tonight. Necessary before I sleep: Go outside and look at moon. Werewolves having fun running about in pack, and I'm not. Grrrrowl. Why haven't I got that set of genetics?

(Hehe. I kept reading about cabbages in my philosophy book and I kept thinking of Remus. Har de har. Shoebox has invaded my brain.)