Bugs and Aristotle

Ha! Wow it has been a long time since I have posted. I am still alive. I've been busy with school and going home for spring break where I got all my wisdom teeth out. That was awful and I'm not fully healed yet. But that is old news.

More recently I've been working to become better at Greek. I'm currently really horrible at it and I want to be able to move on to Greek III next fall. Yesterday's class was what I felt was a rite of passage. We sight translated Aristotle. Of course this required some serious guidance/help from Dr. Smith and the notes provided by the text (and I think that the passage is slightly adapted, but I don't think very much at all) and the bit of work I had done ahead of time to learn the vocab in the passage that I didn't know very well, but it was a rite of passage and a sight translation just the same. I was all excited as I made my preparations during lunch, like I was anticipating a great event. Aesop is child's play. Thucydides is for the easily entertained. But Aristotle, Aristotle changed my life. When I got to class I found that no one else seemed to view it quite the same, they were terrified. I was too, and had more right to be so probably than most in the class, but I was terrified more in the awstruck way. I went first. I translated one clause. Not even one sentence. It was rough. But when I was finished and remembered having read that clause in philosophy class early this semester, I was satisfied. I may be one of the worst, but I am a Greek literate. cairw gar!

Yesterday ended in excitement. I found a tick on me. I found out today that it was a deer tick. Soooo, there is a chance I'll catch Lyme Disease, though not very much since I think I only got it yesterday afternoon. It makes for an exciting life though.

Today philosophy class was awsome. And I wasn't the only one who thought so. A number of people seemed to leave all charged up and glad with the world of thinking. We are studying Keirkegaard, and while I don't think anyone agrees with him and many of us don't agree with each other on how to disagree with him, he facilitates great discussion. So that was fun. I think I have also picked one thing I would like to write on for my Directed Research and Writing projects: "The Natural State of Man: Polis or State of Nature?" Much hinges on the question, not just political theories (as we are seeing in Keirkegaard). Dr. Mitchell was proud to hear that I am nearly a convert to his Aristotelian thinking. Fare well Mr. Locke!

I have a speech to write and Greek to translate. So I am ending this blog now.