So. I SWEAR I'm not addicted to cheddar triscuits and lucky charms. ;D

My novel is about 5,500 words long so far. Yay! I'm still rather behind schedual, but school is first - unfortunetly. After seminar class I'm aiming for 2,000 more, so I figure I'll catch up soon.

So we just finished Plato's Republic. Oh my word, that's a rather crazy book. First he starts by making the assertion that people are analogous to cities (an assertion I'm not sure I agree with), and then he goes on to construct a "just" city (which I'm not sure I agree with), and then he ranks what types of constitution are just (aristocracy, timocracy, oligarcy, democracy, tyranny) and compares them to the type of men they represent, then he goes onto the cave metaphor, and then he randomly switches into what happens in the afterlife and why poetry is unjust.

It's crazy, but rather interesting...most times. ;)

Other than that...life is life. Nothing particularly new has happened, other than Moby's bumper begining to fall off.

Oh! WAIT! Something new HAS happened!

I got a computer and a printer! Yay! Now I don't have to handwrite EVERYTHING. And my omputer is GAWGEOUS! It's name is Aldus Manutius...after the man to invent <i>italics</i> and the first man to use ; in print. It's so beautiful.

And I still need to take out my garbage :P Eck.

NaNoWriMo is National  Novel Writing Month, where you write a 50,000 word novel (novella, technically) in a month (November). It is an AMAZING, life-changing journey, and a hella a lot of fun to boot.

Last year I joined on the 15th, and still finished my novel. (It was rather silly, and very easy to write). I definetly recommend it, you still have time. I'm way behind myself - I only have 3,444 words, and I should have 11,669. It's all gravy, baby ;D

And thus NaNoWriMo begins.

I'm so excited.

Currently Listening Garden State By Various Artists see related

Real quick, because I have to get back to my paper.

My favorite thing about the Odysseus is the home life of the house of Laertes. You have young Telemachus, growing into adulthood, you have the cute little Penelope/Odysseus test thing (P: "Maid, move our marriage bed!" O: "You crazy woman! That bed's made out of a tree rooted in the ground" P: "Only Odysseus would know that! *kissykissy*"), then there's Odysseus meeting his father again, and Odysseus meeting Telemachus, and then....what I just found...

"Eurycleia the daughter of Ops, Pisenor's son. / Laertes had paid a price for the woman years ago, / still in the bloom of youth. He traded twenty oxen, / honored her on a par with his own loyal wife at home / but fearing the queen's anger, never shared her bed."

How wicked is that?

Anyway. I'm at work on my paper (obviously) and I think I'm making headway, which is always an encouraging feeling. I doubt you'd find it as interesting as I do...kinda like when I figured out how to construct squares using only circles and right angles - no triangles, no measurements. I couldn't get anyone else to be interested, but I was INTENSLY amazed at myself. Lol.

You should all join NaNoWriMo....it's so amazing...there's still time....

Currently Listening Billy Joel - Greatest Hits Vol. 1-2 By Billy Joel The Piano Man see related

So. My topic "Is Telemachus a man at the end of the Odyssey?" has transformed itself to "How does Telemachus change between his meeting with Athena and his meeting with Odysseus?"

See, when he meets Athena you can see the man he will someday become - but he has yet to make that leap. He simply sits around in immature langiour, wishing his father would come and solve all his problems. However, when he meets Odysseus, he has taken (or rather, been prompted to take) action, and comports himself with more confidence and ability. However, he still has no plan: he continues to wish his father were around to take his revenge.

Then, is it really his place to take the revenge, or can Odysseus alone take it?

Also, how much of the change is Athena's doing? There is one noteable scene, immediatly preceeding his meeting with King Nestor, when he asks Athena what he is to say, and she replies that he should not worry, and that he will be filled with divine inspiration. When he meets Nestor, is his lovely speech the work of Athena, or simply his noble heritage showing through? She does corporally leave him later that night, so perhaps after that he is on his own? Or was he on his own all along? Does a god's patronage require the god's presence?

If only these questions kept me awake at night, instead of falling into blissful slumber after watching "Hitchhiker's Guide the the Galaxy".

Ah well.

So, in other news, Moby needed new brakes and such. Ugh. That was a fiasco. There's a seminar essay peer reveiw today at 1:30 which I'm dreading, since my essay presently sounds like a 4th grade book report. But after that, at 3, there's a NaNoWriMo meetup down in town. I'm rather excited for NaNo - more than I should be, since I don't have time for it ANd don't have a computer. But that's life, eh? And then tonight not only is there a Halloween party (and there was mention of rum&coke), but I believe there are movies playing...Rushmore and...something.