classics...mmm

thus ends my first real weekend here. the majority of it was spent sleeping, reading, or watching stargate sg-1. i absolutely love the fact that my homework involves reading things that i would read for fun. then, today, was a meeting. and not just any meeting. it was the first meeting, ever, of the classical studies club. which is going to be awesome. it was so crazy, listening to people talk about classical studies, about latin conjugations, what the proper plural form of "toga" is and all kinds of other random things. in some ways, it reminded me of Olin. it's a group of people intensely interested and incredibly knowledgeable in an area of study that actually takes brains to understand. these are people who know latin, and greek, maybe hebrew; who study philosophy, history, literature; who are interested in anything pertaining the "classics"; anything ancient; anything that is the foundation on which our culture is built. this is stuff that i've never had an opportunity to learn, but have always been curious about. this is stuff that, the more i see, the more i want to know, to learn, to study. we're going to read some of ovid's metamorphosis every week at our meeting. and these people are cool. there's nothing like a small group of crazily interested and intelligent people in one place to make one feel at home. yum. this pleases me. hurrah for people who care about improving thought! being gadflies. i think i would really enjoy being a gadfly... at least now people aren't forced to drink hemlock.