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[bedlamsbard]

Am five episodes into Rome S1 right now. Octavian is my favorite. Also Caesar and Atia; I just keep wondering what crazy shit she's going to pull next. And Pullo! I really want to like Vorenus, but it's not quite working. I do feel really sorry for his wife; she's trying so hard. And I am curious about Octavia; I feel that she has hidden depths.

(I know so little about Roman history that most of this is new territory for me, sadly. No, I haven't even read the Shakespeare. I really need to take a Roman history class; I have a pretty strong grasp on Rome past about 300 or so, about when it turns into the Byzantine Empire, but most of my background is ancient and classical Greece.)

In conclusion: still hate people. Taking Japanese makes all other foreign languages seem easy because you don't have to learn three new alphabets. (Quote from Latin: "Why did they even bother inventing English? All the words are the same!" Not my quote; Latin full of vocal majors and pre-med people.) Geology is so boring I may weep. (Seriously, a memo to the rest of the class, I really really hope plate tectonics isn't new to you, because I think I'm on go-round number four or five.) Tomorrow I have a lab, also likely to make me weep; please to not be going for the full three hours, yes? On the bright side, Friday I only have Latin, not geology. Desperately want to bake cupcakes.

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[darklyndsea]

I watched a couple of episodes of Rome and soon realized I know absolutely nothing about Roman history (seriously, what I know comes from Latin class. So basically my knowledge is Mt. Vesuvius erupting and the furthest reaches of Rome). My fellow watchers found this strange for some reason. And also that Rome was so very much not my kind of show.

Your statement about Japanese makes me feel *so confident* about next semester. But at least two of my language classes will be easy (and when you add them together, you get English!).

I can see how geology could be boring. I mean, *my* class was filled with entertaining anecdotes about canoeing trips with dead cows, but without those it would have been bad.

[scy]

I've enjoyed Roman history. *nods firmly* And Octavian is very fascinating.

We were reviewing affixation in Morphology this week, and yeah- there are only so many times I can hear 'this is where a prefix goes' before I am alseep in my chair.

[bedlamsbard]

The only thing that really surprised me about Rome is that the action could have been better. *sighs* On the bright side, there's not much of it.

Heh! I was actually kind of surprised to realize that hey, Latin is technically my fourth language! (Not that I am fluent in German or Japanese, but I've had them. English is my baby, of course.)

Today my professor brought her dog to class! So that was exciting.

[bedlamsbard]

Octavian reminds me of Edmund, only less sarcastic so far. Also possibly less-principled? Or at least differently-principled.

[darklyndsea]

When we started watching Rome, the only thing I knew about it was that it took place in Rome, so just about everything about it surprised me. Yeah, let's just say that my usual way of finding new shows to watch is through fanfiction for a reason, because I couldn't follow what was going on.

Technically, I went French->French & Latin->French & German->Latin->Latin, German, & Japanese next semester. But, uh, the only one I remember much of is Latin, except for a few words in French (oh, high school language classes, does anybody learn anything from you?). I took four and a half years of French, but the only languages I can count to ten in are Spanish and Latin.

[scy]

That is a very accurate summation of Octavian. Very differently principled.