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I've been really tired this week. I'm a little less tired today (note, I am still up at almost 9.30!). I even graded one set of quizzes (three to go, plus acquiring two more tomorrow, boo).
Classes are a little better than last week, definitely more manageable-seeming. There's just one student left who I'm really hoping drops (because he is rude and disruptive and I signed his form but he didn't turn it in and the deadline passed and he has cut class this week and then been out sick). But still, so much prep work, OMG, and I *really* would rather be teaching Cambridge than Ecce. :( I feel like there is absolutely no content here at the beginning, and yet I can't go through it any faster (we're on Ch. 3) because there's too much vocab to reasonably go any faster, plus, of course, then we'd get too far later (can only go to 17, really, since that's all the further the other teacher went in the fall).
But hey, today some of my (puerile: derived from puer, as we learned today!) boy students left class shouting down the hall to their friends abīte, molestī!, because that is just soooo funny (it means "go away, pests"). At least they learned something?...
The weather is weird (0°F over the weekend and now in the 50s today?), and driving over the mountain tonight there was *so* much fog. Still, better than than below 0 all winter, right? (How do people live in those places? Gah.)
TIL something I think I knew already, but repetitio mater memoriae and all that, so hey, here goes: the endearment anima mea ('my soul'), which Claudia addresses her sister as in the Vindolanda birthday letter, appears to be a variant on an attested female speech pattern from comedy, the female-oriented use of mi anime ('my spirit, my life') which is generally (9 times out of 12) said by women in Plautus and Terence. Cicero also uses meae animae to women in his letters, and Marcus Aurelius calls Fronto anima dulcissima in one of the letters (of course I ship it; Amy Richlin auctore). The phrase is apparently also engraved on a gold ring from Britannia. Neat, huh? [The notes on the letter cite: J.N. Adams, 1984, "Female Speech in Latin comedy," Antichthon 18: 43-77. I would *really* like to read that article, but the ejournal seems to be only in some random database ("Periodical Archives Online") that I don't have access to. BOO.]
Classes are a little better than last week, definitely more manageable-seeming. There's just one student left who I'm really hoping drops (because he is rude and disruptive and I signed his form but he didn't turn it in and the deadline passed and he has cut class this week and then been out sick). But still, so much prep work, OMG, and I *really* would rather be teaching Cambridge than Ecce. :( I feel like there is absolutely no content here at the beginning, and yet I can't go through it any faster (we're on Ch. 3) because there's too much vocab to reasonably go any faster, plus, of course, then we'd get too far later (can only go to 17, really, since that's all the further the other teacher went in the fall).
But hey, today some of my (puerile: derived from puer, as we learned today!) boy students left class shouting down the hall to their friends abīte, molestī!, because that is just soooo funny (it means "go away, pests"). At least they learned something?...
The weather is weird (0°F over the weekend and now in the 50s today?), and driving over the mountain tonight there was *so* much fog. Still, better than than below 0 all winter, right? (How do people live in those places? Gah.)
TIL something I think I knew already, but repetitio mater memoriae and all that, so hey, here goes: the endearment anima mea ('my soul'), which Claudia addresses her sister as in the Vindolanda birthday letter, appears to be a variant on an attested female speech pattern from comedy, the female-oriented use of mi anime ('my spirit, my life') which is generally (9 times out of 12) said by women in Plautus and Terence. Cicero also uses meae animae to women in his letters, and Marcus Aurelius calls Fronto anima dulcissima in one of the letters (of course I ship it; Amy Richlin auctore). The phrase is apparently also engraved on a gold ring from Britannia. Neat, huh? [The notes on the letter cite: J.N. Adams, 1984, "Female Speech in Latin comedy," Antichthon 18: 43-77. I would *really* like to read that article, but the ejournal seems to be only in some random database ("Periodical Archives Online") that I don't have access to. BOO.]
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I am bad at posting (and reading!!) of late too. I hope we both do better. I like to see you!
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