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Am back in the Honors Program, and am now registered for Greek and Roman Magic, so my course list for next semester is:

CLAS 3190: Pompeii: Life in a Roman Town (cross-registered with HISA and ARHS)
CLAS 4060: The Classical Epic
CLAS 4810: Greek and Roman Magic (Honors)
CLAS 6010: The Peloponnesian & Punic Wars (cross-registered with HISA)
ENLS 4460: Shakespeare I (MEMS)
HISA 3150: Age of the Vikings (MEMS)

That gives me six classes, eighteen credits (though apparently I could knock P&P up to four credits somehow, thus making it nineteen; I'll talk to the prof, since that might help my GPA), thirty-six books, four classics classes, and two MEMS classes. I expect to be sleeping on a pile of books within a fortress of books, and perhaps occasionally showing my face to go to class or the library.

Things to do: e-mail the Latin 101 prof and find out how far into Wheelock the class is expected to go, since I just realized that my six-week summer session will probably not cover as much as a sixteen-week regular semester, but I still don't want to take 101 in the fall; start looking around online for cheap copies of the books; figure out if I'm going back early to help with move-in; decide on meal plan; did I mention the books?

In conclusion, my schedule is -- not bad, actually. I'll be done by noon on Mondays and Fridays (score! I love getting done early!), on Tuesdays and Thursdays I've got a three hour break between Shakespeare and the Classical Epic, although I have Greek and Roman Magic right afterwards (which is probably going to be in the same building, since I've never had a classics class that wasn't in Newcomb Hall, although apparently Pompeii is in Woldenburg), and on Wednesdays I've got an hour between each class and I'm still done by 3:30. Tuesdays and Thursdays I won't be done till five, but whatever, I've done that before and it's not terribly bad, though I still prefer having afternoons free. (I keep trying and trying to get all morning classes, and it always fails because it turns out the profs don't like getting up early. *pouts* I know, I am the opposite of so many college students, but having mornings free drives me crazy.) Earliest class is a nine o'clock (MWF), then nine-thirty (TR), which is what I usually try for. (I had an 8:30 once. I nearly died.)

I love being a liberal arts major.

yes, this is what I think about in my spare time

Gods damn the Narnia timeline anyway. (Now we're on the England side.)

So -- okay, Digory Kirke is born 1888, Polly Plummer 1889, and The Magician's Nephew takes place in 1900, forty years before The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe in 1940. World War I began in the summer of 1914 and ended in late 1918 in western Europe. The influenza outbreak of 1918 was in...uh, 1918, and 1/3 of the world's population was infected.

Okay. So. In 1900 Digory would have been twelve and Polly eleven. In 1914 Digory would have been 26 and Polly 25; Digory would probably have joined up to fight, but if he didn't, he would have been drafted in 1916 (unless he was in a priority occupation, but I'm leaning towards no, if only because by 1940 he's referred to as "professor"). Polly would have worked, or possibly joined the military in a non-combatant role, either as a nurse or something else. Clearly they both survived both the war and the flu, since they're around in 1949.

In 1940, Digory would be 52 and Polly 51. In 1949, they are 61 and 60, respectively.

The books don't say if they've ever been back to Narnia post-Magician's Nephew; I think the books imply they haven't, but LWW may imply that Digory, at least, has, or at least has tried to go there through the wardrobe. It's probable that if they did, they played no other major part in the development or history of Narnia. (I am disregarding the bit in LB where Tirian remembers them, because that seems highly unlikely and also does not mesh with my Narnia. My fic, my choice of canon.)

In conclusion, I have no point, but wanted to get the numbers and the years/events down on paper.

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*fans self* I have gone through and manually typed in the ISBN numbers for all my textbooks (thirty-five, actually; I was off by one) onto Amazon so that I wouldn't have to do that again -- for some reason on the university bookstore's webpage the ISBN numbers show up as image, not text, so I couldn't copy and paste. That was -- a lot. I have memorized the first few digits of Penguin translations: 798014044####

The list is here, if anyone wants to see. The only book that is not on that list is the Fitzgerald translation of The Aeneid, since I already own that and don't need to buy it. Some of these I can get pretty cheap, others more expensive. It looks like the Norton Shakespeare is the most expensive. (I bet it would be cheaper to buy a copy of each play individually, gah.) *sighs* I don't suppose anyone has a copy of the Norton Shakespeare and wants to get rid of it? *asks in vague hope*

ETA: Huh. The used textbook binding of the Norton Shakespeare are really cheap. There's no major difference between the textbook binding and the regular one, is there? Except that it's hardier? (Which can only be a good thing.)