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Hey guys! I've been buried in Greek grammar for so long that I forgot all my login info and can't seem to get my password back... but jeez, there are a million active threads now! Hooray! Just saying hi. My current reading is Aristophanes' Clouds and Henry James's Portrait of a Lady. Two totally different kinds of humor billowing back and forth across my brain, it's lovely.

(For those who don't know/remember me, I quit my job in Chicago to hole up in a godawful college town so I could get my Classics degree finally. I really miss Chicago but the weather here is great and Greek really is all it's cracked up to be! Including difficult...)

― Ann Klerzinger, Wednesday, 24 May 2006 20:50 (nineteen years ago)

Of course we remember you. Except your name used to look different. Welcome back.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 21:02 (nineteen years ago)

An Ann by any other name would smell as sweet.

― Aimless (Aimless), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

Hi Ann!

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 23:39 (nineteen years ago)

Hi Ann! Where are you that the weather is great and classics are studied?

― Jaq (Jaq), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 23:58 (nineteen years ago)

I start learning the Greek grammar in the fall. The only other class that I am vaguely interested in -- a class on the Icelandic sagas -- is scheduled at the same time. Grrr!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 25 May 2006 02:43 (nineteen years ago)

Icelandic sagas ROCK! Mr. Jaq read me huge fierce parts of Njall's Saga earlier this year.

― Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 25 May 2006 04:16 (nineteen years ago)

Holla, Ann.

― remy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 25 May 2006 04:25 (nineteen years ago)

Jaq's story was part of why I was excited by it. There's a medieval lit class that will do one of them, which I might take, except, ugh, lit classes. (The sagas class was a foreign language dept class, which might make it less sucky.)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 25 May 2006 04:40 (nineteen years ago)

wait - reading them in icelandic? even the icelandic can't read those suckers in icelandic

― tom west (thomp), Thursday, 25 May 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

well, not quite. in one of the lectures i took on them in iceland, though, the guy doing it, an icelandic professor of medieval lit, showed us a digital copy of the original manuscript, and was kinda halting when he tried to get through it. he had to be cajoled into it, he demurred on grounds of how much the language had changed

welcome back ann, btw

― tom west (thomp), Thursday, 25 May 2006 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

No, I have no idea how a foreign lang department treats a lit class. I assume it's more like what in my old school was called "comparative lit" but then I never quite understood that either.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 25 May 2006 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

I took a fun Icelandic class somewhat like that, although I don't remember the exact rubric. We covered language structure and development as well as blockbusters like Egil's Saga and Hrafnkel's Saga.

― Paul Eater (eater), Thursday, 25 May 2006 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

Hey again! I said hi and then disappeared, I had relatives at my (1-bedroom!) house. Aw, fanks for the welcome back. Casuistry, I knows what you means about lit courses... it seems like anything you take out of a Classics department, while involving lit, seems to be a completely different and far happier animal... the professors seem to still enjoy reading the stories as stories, AND they actually have historical knowledge to impart...

(By the by, my name has to look different cuz I lost my password and if I try to sign as me, the site thinks I'm trying to impersonate myself.) (Which I am, but that's none of its goddamn bisniss!)

― Ack Sterzinger, Sunday, 28 May 2006 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

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