Nov. 18th, 2010

bedlamsbard: natasha romanoff from the black widow prelude comic (the kraken (girlyb_icons))
STUDENT #1: I just have to interrupt because what D. said CANNOT GO UNHEARD. He said, "So why has no one ever bothered to train whales? They're like the elephants of the sea!"
CLASS: *dies laughing*
PROFESSOR: Well, there are two historical occasions! In [er, year I have forgotten] when [some city-state]'s navy was sailing along, they ran across a pod of whales, and had no IDEA what the hell those things were, so they formed up into battle formation to attack. The whales just went under the ships and came out on the other side and kept swimming along, ignoring them. The other time was when Harald Bluetooth wanted to convert Iceland, so he sent out a Lapp in the form of a whale, only the Icelanders got sorcerors from the Hebrides who held off the whale with birds, walruses, and dragons, so the whale had to go back to Norway; Iceland was too well protected.
CLASS: *still laughing*
PROFESSOR: If anyone could have tamed whales to fight in wars, it would have been the Romans! They would have sacrificed to Neptune and Poseidon, and because the Romans are the favorites of the gods, IT PROBABLY WOULD HAVE WORKED.
bedlamsbard: animals: a cougar standing on a tall rock (girlyb_icons) (a high place (girlyb_icons))
My schedule for next semester is working itself out! I am still waitlisted for Shakespeare, but the prof's pretty lenient on letting people in during the new semester and he knows me, so that shouldn't be a problem, and although I'm not technically registered for my medieval religious culture tutorial, I am in! And I got the problem with Latin sorted out, so I am registered for that too! Which means that right now I am signed up for the following classes:

LATN 1020: Intermediate Latin (trufax: first class I will ever have at university taught by a grad student)
CLAS 3120: Etruscans and Early Rome
ENLS 3010: Children's Literature
COLQ 4013: Honors Thesis Boot Camp (no, really, that's what it's called)
HISE 3420: Age of Reformation
ENLS 4470: Shakespeare II (Jacobean) (waitlisted)
HISA 4020: Medieval Religious Culture

If I was taking Ancient Christianity or Greek and Roman Religions, I would totally call this semester the Semester I Found Religion, but I am not.

To everyone that commented on my grad school freakout post: thank you. I will attempt to reply to comments as I think on Certain Things.
bedlamsbard: natasha romanoff from the black widow prelude comic (battle (timeless-x-love))
PEPPERONI AND BACON PIZZA.

That is all.

(Also, Scipio Africanus, which is hilarious. It is a dramatization of the latter part of the Second Punic War, done as a propaganda piece by Mussolini in 1937 (anachronisms! They are there!), but as my professor says, the propaganda is forgotten in the spectacle of a charge of REAL LIVE ELEPHANTS at 6000 REAL LIVE ITALIANS (veterans of the Ethiopian War). No CGI here! No count on how many extras may or may not have been accidentally trampled in the process, either.)

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