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I went into the Lemeuix Library today at lunch break...ostensibly to find rescources for my geography paper. The staircases between the first and second floors are fabulous--they're white and wide and they twist around each other in an abbreviated, glittering double helix. I went to the catalog and after failing to find anything useful to my current project, looked up Shakespearean crit and Elizabethan playwrights (because really, that's the most important section of the whole library). So I found a couple call numbers, went up to the fourth floor, and found the most glorious aisle of old, crackling, library-smelling books on Kit Marlowe and Shakespeare and Jonson, and there's piles of them, and it was joyous. So I sat on the floor and read about Marlowe for a while. I checked out four (The Death Of Christopher Marlowe, Christopher Marlowe, Shakespeare's Young Lovers, and Modern Critical Interpretations of Shakespeare's Sonnets) and they are beautiful and literary and sitting on my desk waiting to be read.
Next year fall quarter is like the light at the end of an already lit tunnel. We're studying Shakespeare and Marlowe and Donne! A class on Elizabethan drama, Will and Kit and all the fabulous writing they did, it's like drugs. And in Thought we'll be reading Descartes, Leibniz, Hobbes, Locke and Hume, and in History it's all about the Renaissance and Enlightenment and oooooh it may possibly be the best quarter of my life.

Of course, if you don't count the bloody paper and Dr. Tadie's way of talking, this one's pretty damn good so far. We're getting into the Republic now...[Dan was talking about the 'might makes right' view of justice and mentioned Machiavelli, and I muttered something along the lines of, Ooh, Machiavelli, I like him, and Kareem looked at me funny. So sue me. I think Nicolo was cool. I don't agree with him or anything. Hehe...oooooh, books....]

I probably should care about that paper I have to write. But I don't. I'm not too worried, acutually. And now I'm scampering off to History, haha, the best class...

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Talked with the parents for an hour today about my paper. Got some ideas...still don't want to write it, but at least I have somewhere I'm going instead of a morass of nothingness. Also I went over to Campion and hung out with Erin and Mallory and Kareem, and we drew our underworlds for Dr. Tadie. That was fun...I love being with people who make me laugh. I love it. And I like that even though we don't know each other, we can still joke around and tease each other and be silly. Maybe it comes easier with growing up. Maybe it's just us, I don't know. But it was fun.
And Erin, good lord, we're more alike than I thought. She's awesome. "I liked the Odyssey SO much better! ...Odysseus is HOT. I have to keep making myself believe Aeneas is hot because otherwise I just can't get through it." She was trying to read the last three books of the Aeneid but I flipped through and told her about it instead because oh lord, I know how boring it is at ten at night. She hasn't seen the extended Two Towers, so we're going to have a party. I get to cook. Campion has kitchens (proper kitchens, not like Xavier's measly one) on every floor...so I'm cooking. Huzzah! [There were two girls cooking dinner while we were working and it smelled so good]. Also she likes Lord of the Rings, and HP and especially Lupin and Sirius (so I sent her to Shoebox, of course), and our senses of humor are disturbingly similar, from what I've seen so far. Hehe.

Paper. Athena, more direct, motivated by love-buddy-pal-style of Odysseus, more willing to get hands dirty, i.e. to hang around with mortals. Juno movivated by hatred of Aeneas, can keep her distance (hate is distancing, love is opposite), manipulates other gods to do her work for her. Really weird character-switch at end of Aeneid...I think I'll just ignore that. Oh, grrrrr. Tired. Going to bed soon.

[In other news, my head hurts. A lot. *sigh* It's interesting. Incredibly throuough. Nice to read. Also makes me wonder what on earth these people DO to have so much TIME on their hands?

Ta.