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Jun. 16th, 2011 09:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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- Hey, did I mention that my sister Katie graduated from college this past weekend? Because my sister Katie graduated from college this past weekend, summa cum laude, and is, in general, pretty awesome. It was a long weekend full of relatives and ceremonies and things and was very tiring but hey - Katie graduated. Hurrah!
- Summer reading has started at the library and school actually got out yesterday. This year, Kingston has made room for a sign-up table which is awesome because it means that we don't have to help every single kid get themselves signed up. (Not that we don't still end up helping a lot of them, but not having to help everybody is nice.) I go back and forth on summer reading - it is kind of a huge hassle and I'm always glad when it's over, but it's pretty awesome seeing the kids who are really enthusiastic about it.
- I finally got a bobbin case for my sewing machine! Now all I have to do is learn to sew...
- I have finished the main body of my bloomers and now just have to do the ruffles and the lacy bits on the cuffs. Every once in a while I glance over at them and, really, that "hey look - I made a garment!" feeling really never gets old. Even if they aren't quite finished yet.
- I did go ahead and order the Hollander translations of the Commedia and am eagerly awaiting their arrival. Apparently, I have put enough time between my Dante seminar and now to be actually really enthusiastic about this. The fact that I don't have to write a paper on Dante every week or so this time probably helps with that, of course. As does the fact that it's been over a month since I've found a book that I really want to read. I can only go so long reading nothing but fanfic. Also, I remember basically nothing about the Purgatorio (Maybe there were some people carrying rocks? We discussed synaethesia a lot. And the importance of properly articulated vowels, because "antepurgatory" is different from "antipurgatory". Oh, and the fact that "seraphim" is a plural which I was honestly surprised people didn't know). Or the Paradiso (Beatrice, giant Rose, everything is shiny). I'm really excited about rereading.
Today is a happy day.
- Hey, did I mention that my sister Katie graduated from college this past weekend? Because my sister Katie graduated from college this past weekend, summa cum laude, and is, in general, pretty awesome. It was a long weekend full of relatives and ceremonies and things and was very tiring but hey - Katie graduated. Hurrah!
- Summer reading has started at the library and school actually got out yesterday. This year, Kingston has made room for a sign-up table which is awesome because it means that we don't have to help every single kid get themselves signed up. (Not that we don't still end up helping a lot of them, but not having to help everybody is nice.) I go back and forth on summer reading - it is kind of a huge hassle and I'm always glad when it's over, but it's pretty awesome seeing the kids who are really enthusiastic about it.
- I finally got a bobbin case for my sewing machine! Now all I have to do is learn to sew...
- I have finished the main body of my bloomers and now just have to do the ruffles and the lacy bits on the cuffs. Every once in a while I glance over at them and, really, that "hey look - I made a garment!" feeling really never gets old. Even if they aren't quite finished yet.
- I did go ahead and order the Hollander translations of the Commedia and am eagerly awaiting their arrival. Apparently, I have put enough time between my Dante seminar and now to be actually really enthusiastic about this. The fact that I don't have to write a paper on Dante every week or so this time probably helps with that, of course. As does the fact that it's been over a month since I've found a book that I really want to read. I can only go so long reading nothing but fanfic. Also, I remember basically nothing about the Purgatorio (Maybe there were some people carrying rocks? We discussed synaethesia a lot. And the importance of properly articulated vowels, because "antepurgatory" is different from "antipurgatory". Oh, and the fact that "seraphim" is a plural which I was honestly surprised people didn't know). Or the Paradiso (Beatrice, giant Rose, everything is shiny). I'm really excited about rereading.
Today is a happy day.
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Date: 2011-06-16 05:53 pm (UTC)Sympathies on Summer reading. We begin soon.
And from what I remember on Dante (although there were papers involved), Purgatorio and Paradiso are not nearly as interesting as Inferno - the name-dropping parade slows to a trickle, if not falls off entirely, and Purgatorio is deliberately plain and Paradiso deliberately philosophical and filled with mostly the same thing - choirs of angels.
There are, however, people carrying (or being crushed by) rocks in Purgatorio, at least as much as I remember.