Highlights:
Read, did Greek homework, read some more, printed articles to read some more, watched season 1 of Castle, played a Star Wars miniature game, went to church, and read some more.
Current mood: chipper (sans coffee, so whatever chipper without the aid of a caffeine drip looks like...)
Current book(s): The Hobbit, Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Second Language Acquisition Theories, Athenaze, An Introduction to Lexical Functional Grammar (you know you wish your reading list were as cool as mine)
Details:
On Friday I power-studied through my cold (which is worse this morning than it has been this weekend :-/) and read for a good four hours. I did my first translation exercise for Greek class, which consisted of having a glossary and notes to aide me. I have some vocab to memorize so I'll be making a list and/or flash cards so I don't make the same mistake I did with French- learn the pronunciation but not the vocab and grammar. The good news about Greek syntax is that it is word-order-by-cubism. All of the parts of speech have their own morphemes realized as suffixes which attach to the appropriate stems to form meaning. Greek is very precise, except when it comes to word order. Viola, word-order-by-cubism. Fun! I like my syntax professor. He's funny and made a little fun of Chomsky's transformational grammar. Now that I am printing the 83-page chapter to read IN ADDITION to the chapter in the book this week, I am thinking I like him a lot less. :-/
On Saturday I had a much-awaited and well-earned day of cuddling with Blake talking and watching Castle, a fantastic cop show about a mystery writer who gets wrapped up in cop work when a murderer uses his plotlines to create death scenes. If you don't know, I collect several different mystery authors' works. Blake thought I would like the show and he was right. We also (per his rule that you must leave the house every day for at least a little while) went shopping- he bought frozen pizza and waffles and I bought nail polish remover. I don't know why that strikes me as funny, but it does. He took me to his favourite hot dog place, where an order of french fries is nothing less than an entire tray piled with salty potato goodness. Naturally, I had a salad for dinner last night. Yesterday afternoon before church Blake taught me how to play a game with Star Wars miniatures. He beat me, but just barely. Methinks it will be difficult to find a game at which I can beat him, but nonetheless it's fun to play. We also read the first several chapters of Voyage of the Dawn Treader. It was SO nice to just relax for a couple days, but I doubt my schedule will permit many more study-free weekends, so I am committed to having at least one weekend day for myself on which I do not have to study or do homework. Feel free to hold me to that. Next weekend I will be back in LA, so do not expect to hear much from me this week as I will be loading all preparatory studying for next week into these weeknights.
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