Minored in Latin.
If I'd harboured any ideas about minoring in Latin ... well, the Aeneid killed them for me.
Still, how else was I to learn the word coruscating? Trust me, a sixteen year old has to work to get that into conversation.
Simon: I, uh... I never-never shot anyone before. Book: I was there, son. I'm fair sure you haven't shot anyone yet.
'War Stories'
Natter .38 Special
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
§ ita § - Aug 28, 2005 6:25:48 pm PDT #1922 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
aurelia - Aug 28, 2005 6:26:03 pm PDT #1923 of 10002
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Hell, I can get you a t-shirt that says "I visited the mother ship".
Need.
Kat, I've been wearing an Ace elastic and velcro thing that has helped me.
Kristen - Aug 28, 2005 6:26:15 pm PDT #1924 of 10002
Ow. Kat. Both for the sock and the heel pain.
I have serious back issues when I wake up. I've committed to myself that, if I win the Disney (pleasegodpleasegodpleasegod), I will buy a new freaking bed. A good one.
Also, to all my Apple loving folk, did anyone have a PowerBook battery that was recalled? If so, did you get your new one yet? I'm wondering if my request went through or not since I haven't heard a peep.
And Perkins, did you see the pictures I posted when I got the mini? I'm such a dork.
billytea - Aug 28, 2005 6:31:01 pm PDT #1925 of 10002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
billytea's post about a whole country catering to me.
Really? I hadn't thought it was a secret that America is burgeriffic.
§ ita § - Aug 28, 2005 6:32:48 pm PDT #1926 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I hadn't thought it was a secret that America is burgeriffic.
Yeah, but they still keep serving other food, food with the strange spices. So it's not top-end catering.
Cass - Aug 28, 2005 6:38:11 pm PDT #1927 of 10002
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
So while the food is Allyson-friendly, it's not specifically catered?
Well, we're supposed to be all melty pot... Mmm, melted things...
billytea - Aug 28, 2005 6:39:32 pm PDT #1928 of 10002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Yeah, but they still keep serving other food, food with the strange spices.
True, though I don't recall suggesting otherwise.
Lee - Aug 28, 2005 6:40:21 pm PDT #1929 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Ow. Kat. Both for the sock and the heel pain.
What Kristen said.
And Perkins, did you see the pictures I posted when I got the mini? I'm such a dork.
No, I missed that. In LJ?
I may be seeing G. this week. I will see if he can get me some shirts.
§ ita § - Aug 28, 2005 6:43:48 pm PDT #1930 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
though I don't recall suggesting otherwise.
And I don't recall suggesting you had. For the record. Just trying to help explain why she (and I) might have been confused.
dw - Aug 28, 2005 6:51:58 pm PDT #1931 of 10002
Silence means security silence means approval
If I'd harboured any ideas about minoring in Latin ... well, the Aeneid killed them for me.
It wasn't intentional. I was majoring in Classics and Horace killed that idea. I was able to salvage a minor, but only after my university's students voted 3-1 to demand that the univeristy start offering minors again (they'd stopped in the late 60s).
Still, how else was I to learn the word coruscating? Trust me, a sixteen year old has to work to get that into conversation.
My favorite Latin word is impedimentum, root of the word impediment. It means "luggage."