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LSATs and associated babble
Sep. 24th, 2007 08:19 pmDo I want to restore from saved draft, asks LJ. I say yes and get this:
"Linguistic peculiarity of the day: cups of coffee are hot. They radiate heat. Katee Sackhoff and Paul Gross are hot. They radiate hotness. Why is this?"
Er. I don't know either. I haven't been getting much sleep lately.
That's not, amazingly enough, what I want to talk about. ( cut for babble about the LSAT and law school in general - also, American denizens of higher education, I NEED YOU )
And now for something completely different, while I'm here. Over the last few days,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
foulds and I have been finishing off our (mostly his) OULES script of Virgil's Aeneid done as a musical comedy without the music (paraphrasing PG Wodehouse there, but you know what I mean). Reading it through the other night, I paused on the infamous beginning of the flashback scene, where Aeneas and his Trojans have just arrived in Carthage and are being given dinner by Dido and her court. Tell us the story of the fall of Troy, she says.
Aeneas hesitates, and begins. And into my head, fully-formed, appeared the phrase: "I first arrived in Carthage on the trail of the killers of my father..."
foulds says I can put it in. And, okay, Anchises is dead by this point, but it's not accurate so I'll have to alter it (suggestions of what the phrasing should be are gratefully appreciated). Still. I feel good about it. I want that fact to go down as a matter of record.
Okay. Back to work. Tomorrow I have to get up early, go and yell at the DSA, buy a scientific calculator and go into work to explain why there is a piece of paper in the till that reads "oh god oh god just kill me now." I lead a very exciting life.
"Linguistic peculiarity of the day: cups of coffee are hot. They radiate heat. Katee Sackhoff and Paul Gross are hot. They radiate hotness. Why is this?"
Er. I don't know either. I haven't been getting much sleep lately.
That's not, amazingly enough, what I want to talk about. ( cut for babble about the LSAT and law school in general - also, American denizens of higher education, I NEED YOU )
And now for something completely different, while I'm here. Over the last few days,
foulds and I have been finishing off our (mostly his) OULES script of Virgil's Aeneid done as a musical comedy without the music (paraphrasing PG Wodehouse there, but you know what I mean). Reading it through the other night, I paused on the infamous beginning of the flashback scene, where Aeneas and his Trojans have just arrived in Carthage and are being given dinner by Dido and her court. Tell us the story of the fall of Troy, she says.Aeneas hesitates, and begins. And into my head, fully-formed, appeared the phrase: "I first arrived in Carthage on the trail of the killers of my father..."
foulds says I can put it in. And, okay, Anchises is dead by this point, but it's not accurate so I'll have to alter it (suggestions of what the phrasing should be are gratefully appreciated). Still. I feel good about it. I want that fact to go down as a matter of record. Okay. Back to work. Tomorrow I have to get up early, go and yell at the DSA, buy a scientific calculator and go into work to explain why there is a piece of paper in the till that reads "oh god oh god just kill me now." I lead a very exciting life.
