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There are only two weeks left: Greek Tragedy meets twice this week and then no more, and the linguistics paper is due a week from Thursday. And then I'm done -- if done means no more excuses for not getting back to Thrasea, Helvidius, & Co. All I want to do is read Trollope and Lysias, and I don't want to wait two more weeks to do it; I rediscovered my favorite window seat on the fourth floor of the library, and I have secreted a Greek dictionary there.

It face the Shakepseare shelf, and while I was browsing a book about How Much Better Shakespeare's Classical Plays are than Johnson's, I found a reference to this story. It's one of the most hilarious things I've read in a while, I think -- the first half for the Latin, and the second half for the Boys School Story.

Also, I am weirdly fascinated by 19th century translations of Shakespeare into Greek (more here)

I know that being able to turn Shakespeare or Milton or Keats into Sophoclean trimeter is not the most useful classics-related skill to have, but...