We Have Been Awarded

A Kreativ Blogger Award has come our way courtesy of Chorus! Thank you, thank you!

*waves to crowd, gives long tedious speech*

And so, down to business! First of all, I must list 7 things that I love:

• Most sports, but especially soccer, hockey, and baseball.
  
  
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• Cats!
  
  
  
  
• Seafood!
  
  
  
  
• Like the song says, giant squids (this is possibly related to the item immediately above)!
  
  
  
  
• The poems of Catullus
  
  
  
  
• Italy, especially the South. And the food...
  
  
  
  
• Ancient Romans
  
  

By no means a complete list, but there you go! And now, to pass on the award to 7 other deserving blogs! Well, most of the blogs that I would normally pick have already been tagged with this, so I'm only going with two right now, with an option to add more later:

EvilElitest
Pack Animal Existance

Friday Memes II: The Memening

And, here's the second meme!:

1. List these rules on your blog.

2. Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog.

First: I have succeeded in working the 1912 New York Giants baseball team into a lecture on the irregular Latin verbs "Volo," "Malo," and "Nolo." I did this yesterday.
Second: I have a fairly decent collection of punk rock albums.
Third: Most of said albums are in the wrong CD cases; I am somewhat lackadaisical in that respect.
Fourth: I, too, am fond of the mighty olive (green or black)!
Fifth: I have very recently, for the very first time in my life, become a cellphone owner. So far, so good, with that!
Sixth: I firmly believe, and have argued as much, that Hole were better than Nirvana.
Seventh: My three favourite Latin authors are Tacitus, Catullus, and Pliny the Younger, in no particular order.

3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blogs.
Ah-ha! I shall be wild and crazy and not follow this rule! Fight the Power!! Fight the Power!! * Runs Away *

Friday Memes I

A long long time ago, we got tagged for a meme by Chorus. More recently, we got tagged again. Here's the older of the two!

Rules:
The rules of the game get posted at the beginning.
Each player answers the questions about himself or herself.
At the end of the post, the player then tags five people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know they’ve been tagged and asking them to read your blog.

Ten years ago:
Ah, 1998! I remember it well. The big thing that year was that I started work at the University Bookstore, in the warehouse. It was, I must say, a fine place to work, with fine people.

Five things on today's "to do" list:
1. Mark some Latin quizzes (see below)
2. Carry out (Perform? Do? Answer?) the second meme (also see below. And above, eventually)
3. Read some more medieval Latin sources on the Battle of Varna.
4. Begin to ponder contemplating the possibility of writing a report on the pottery found this past June.
5.

Things I'd do if I was a billionaire:
Two Words: Generalissimo Chunklets.

Three bad habits:
1. I put off marking.
2. I put off doing memes.
3. I lose nail clippers at a truly astonishing pace.

Five places I've lived:
1. Here!
2. In another place, also here, but a different part of here, if you catch my drift.
3. Chicago, Illinois.
4. Ypsilanti, Michigan.
5. Given the amound of time, overall, that I've spent there, I'm going to mention Ossaia, Italy.

Five jobs I've had:
1. Bookstore Clerk
2. Latin Instructor
3. Various sorts of Archaeologist
4. Operatic Supernumerary
5. Van Driver (for a local used-clothes-collecting charity)

Five People I'm Tagging:
Given the age of this meme, and the fact that most of the blogs I read have already dealt with it, I shall pass on tagging this time!