etumukutenyak | Vacation, Day Two

I'd taken this week off when we thought that Son had no camp this week (silly Honey miscalculated and he's still in camp). Day One was lost to a migraine that wasn't the most painful (and grateful I am for that) but still caused enough mental fog that I spent the day mainly sleeping. It left during the night, so when I woke this morning, I was back to my chipper self.

So, this AM, Son walked the dogs and then requested that he be allowed to walk to camp from home. Bye, dear! I perused emails, worked out on the Wii Fit, shopped a bit, and went over to the Red Cross to donate blood. For that effort, I got a bottle of juice and a t-shirt -- and an excuse not to work too hard for the rest of the day. Oh, I plan to clear out the closet so I can get started on the new shelving unit..but I'm just out of energy right now. I should be better later.

Soon, I have to pick up the Son from camp and the sandwiches from the deli. Son has a Scout meeting and Honey has another one of her all-important church meetings at the same time (luckily, in the same location), so after dinner I'll watch them leave the house again.

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Ha..yes. No major jobs around the house to do, and a consult surgery to teach tomorrow AM (vasectomy in male monkey). I suppose I could do some laundry once I get home..and those shelves won't put themselves together, eh? Then I can get back to the latest Temeraire book and find out how they chase old Bony out of England.

You've been busy though! Learning Latin and Greek -- I never could get the hang of Greek, although I loved Latin.

Consult surgery? Are you sure you're really on vacation? :)

The new Temeraire is out? I'll have to wait for paperback, I think: I didn't love the last one enough to keep shelling out HC prices.

Greek is for college. Latin is for fun. They're very similar languages, suprisingly enough, except koine uses the dative for the same things Latin uses either dative or ablative. Both good fun. :)

Ah, but vasectomies are fun. They're dead easy to do (channeling Eddie Izzard: "easy-peasy!"). Now I've taught two more veterinarians how to do this lovely little surgery, and more male monkeys can be housed safely with female monkeys without the unwanted sounds of little feet pitter-pattering throughout.

Then we walked down into Georgetown and had a lovely lunch, after which I had a leisurely drive home (although the leisureliness was unintended).

This Temeraire is better again -- more action (!), more intrigue (!!), and I haven't got past the invasion of London yet. Dinner intruded.

I do know quite a bit of Greek roots in English (thanks to a college professor of English), so I am not a total heathen.. ;-)Someday I'll have the time to devote to those languages again.

I'd like to have the time to learn both.

I think Spanish and Mandarin might be more useful.

I speak one, though not the other.

I have very minimal Spanish (I read it pretty well) and no Mandarin. I don't really remember any of the Japanese or Chamorran that I learned when we were station on Japan and Guam. I have a small bit of French, which again, I read pretty well, and when I'm trying to speak Spanish and my brain doesn't know the word, it sticks the French word in without asking.

My cleaning lady is going to take English classes (free, from the elementary school) two days a week this year. I think we should have free Spanish classes, too!

I do want to learn Latin and Greek, though, and have professional reasons for doing so. Certainly, I'd like to do some work on classical European thought in my old age. (Curiously, I just learned that a headmaster of a school to which I went -- long before I went there, I should add* -- was an authority on Cicero. He (the headmaster, that is, not Marcus Tullius) had as one of his perquisites the right to pasture his cattle on school land.

* His editions of Cicero were published in the 1880s.

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