Annapolis, MD
Friday, April 28th, 2006
Phew! Another week come and gone in the blink of an eye.
Things are starting to pick up again here, even as they're also slowing down. Some people are starting to slack off, just as other people start to panic and work harder. There's only one more week of real classes (can it be?), and everyone's starting to plan their next year, the summer, and of course, Dead Week.
Dead Week is the week before school actually gets out, when we're all having our don rags and there are no labs or tutorials. Right before Dead Week is Reality Weekend, which is one of the weekend-long parties with food and contests and stuff.
"Stuff" includes the unofficial school sport, Spartan Madball, the name of which is all you really need to know in order to understand how it is played. Skits and movies are popular too. As for myself, I've still got work to keep me busy, and another week of Greek and Ptolemy (who is AWESOME - if you see me over the summer, ask me to show you how to find the ratio between the radii of the eccentric and ecliptic), but even I've got plenty lined up. Goodbye, get-rid-of-leftovers dinners are being scheduled as we speak. All the last performances of the two choruses, the theater company and other groups are scheduled. Yup, the show's definitely winding to a close . . .
I guess I'll have time to reflect on the year later, but right now I'm looking forward to going home. Really being with my family, doing all the things I've missed, being on a schedule that doesn't require two hours of Aristotle cramming twice a week - it sounds pretty good.
But already I'm looking forward to everything I'm studying next year. Second-semester French tutorial, lots of music, conic sections, and especially the Bible, with the New Testament read in the original language, of course. Bach! Apollonius! God! What more can a Greats-dork like me ask for?
Nothing at all, really. Also, I have a paper to write on some Plato. So, I'll be back next week! With more reading, and thinking, and planning.
Roxanne
[see pictures below]
This hookah was part of an outdoor math class . . .
This is just a scene I see coming back from West Annapolis Elementary School every morning (rowing shell and all).
The bridge is King George St. where it crosses College Creek.
That's the "back campus" of St. John's College on the far shore.
