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[cybermule]

Snow!

Snow, snow, snow!

Ironically, I did a tour of inspection of my garden yesterday, and all the important things (such as trees and herbs) had buds on. Not sure how long they'll keep them now, but at least I didn't kill anything crucial. There are a load of daffs and miniature irises out, and the crocuses I'd planted in the lawn had come through. Looked lovely :)

Currently spending my lunchtime desparately working on an essay about the Odyssey. Done the first draft of abotu one quarter of it. Hopefully I can get the whole first draft done before the weekend, and can then have fun at the weekend and just spend a couple of hours polishing it up.

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[delabane.livejournal.com]

Bloody good stuff - just walked home in it from University. We have yet to meet - still.

:)

[cybermule.livejournal.com]

We have yet to meet - still.

Heheh - very true! Next week's going to be manic - how are you fixed for the week after?

[delabane.livejournal.com]

That be good I think :)

[cybermule.livejournal.com]

Cool - I'd be around lunchtimes on the 9/11/12. Would any of those work for you?

[fyatuk.livejournal.com]

so, is the snow a good or bad thing? Normally it would be good, except that it might hurt your garden so maybe its bad? I jjust don't know... Glad you got a lovely view though.

Luckily I never had to do an essay on the Odyssey, though it was required reading. Had to do an essay on the Illiad though. Hopefully you'll be able to churn through it and get your weekend fun, since its always important to have weekend fun! *concentrates on sending positive "efficiency" thoughts*

[psilobabe.livejournal.com]

IMO Snow is baaaaad, its cold and you can fall over in it, it makes your face go red and it hurts when people throw it at you...its baaaad!! Give me sunshine any day!!

[kidkarrot.livejournal.com]

That's only true if your ambushers put rocks inside the snowballs, and besides, the sun will make your face go far more redder than something as simple as frozen water. Well, almost. With all the air pollution and drunks deciding any spot makes for a convenient toilet, acid snow could be a cause for concern when the blisters break out. ;)

I'll award you half a point this round for your opinion. Until next time, you better duck!

[psilobabe.livejournal.com]

hrm nice thought...acid snow hardened with the urine of drunk big issue sellers ..... bit like a cider pop then?!

[cybermule.livejournal.com]

Hmph. Why does that comment make me think of Bristol bus station?

[cybermule.livejournal.com]

Heheh - how do you feel about sunshine AND snow! Mind you, I did almost slip over about three times between home and here. Must stop stepping on the suspiciously clear bits...

[cybermule.livejournal.com]

so, is the snow a good or bad thing

Definitely a good thing :) I was a bit worried about my plants - it's the first year I've had plants to worry about! - but I guess that they'll be all right. It's not like I buy really fragile ones. So I'm just enjoying the snow :)

And thanks for the efficiency thoughts - they actually seemed to help, as I'm about 1500 words through the final draft. Hopefully I can finish it lunch-time, add references tonight, polish over the weekend, print and post on Monday.

*fingers crossed*

I'm impressed at Homer being recquired reading - I went to quite a fusty, old-fashioned sort of school, and we only got as far as the Aeneid. And that was only because I'd elected to do Latin instead of German :P

[fyatuk.livejournal.com]

Really? I was required to read Odyssey in high school, course that was in one of my "honors" classes (only year I was in honors English). Not sure if it was required for the "regular" classes. Probably only if you took the right English IV (my school let you specialize your English class your senior year. Had like 6 specialty classes, I took the "Sci-fi, Fantasy, and Horror" one, of course, but the teacher preferred horror so there was little Sci-Fi or Fantasy *sniffle*).

I took 3 years of German and was never required to read anything longer than 2 pages. 4th year German you had to read Faust though (of course in the actual German).

I got bored one summer and read the Inferno portion of the Divine Comedy in it's original language. Didn't understand a word of it, but it was an interesting thing to do. (Also have an english translation so read that after the original).

[cybermule.livejournal.com]

Yeah - we don't really have honours subjects at High School. We just tend to focus down to one or two subjects. I went for science and mathematics - if we'd got to do the Odyssey in English, I would have done that instead. Unfortunately, schools over here are a bit Shakespeare fixated, and you have to wait to degree level to do more CLassical stuff :P

[kidkarrot.livejournal.com]

The Odyssey is one of the best all-time books ever written, so your essay had best be worth at least three 1st's from the stuffiest shirt at Cambridge! At least the plants in that story don't have to worry about anything as silly as "snow". My own garden has gotten so wind and snow blasted this winter that I can sympathize, but I must protest your country's claim of even having snow to begin with. The UK is reputed for having more rain than exist water molecules in the Pacific, not whiteness! You should be ashamed of yourselves! And no, the fact that snow is rain, merely in a different physical state, is inadmissible because it blows a pomegranate-sized hole in my tangerine-sized theory. :)