Saturday, December 02, 2006

This is awesome: my Spanish teacher just offered to let me skip two years! This way, I get to go strait to AP Spanish from Spanish II. Of course, I'll have to learn all of the information, but my ability to learn quickly and self-teach were two major reasons for her offering. So exciting! I mean, I'm already bored stiff in that class--after all, we are still on chapter two, and really haven't done much to speak of (all review and vocabulay). It's a nice language, and the teacher is neat, if a bit eccentric, but during the endless review all I think is "man, I'd like to actually learn something!" That or "¿Jey? Es hay, ¿no? ¿Somos en el primer semestre de español uno? But, all of that may change!
In other news, I have been having bad luck with library books as of late. First, I wanted to get The Anarchist Cookbook, after reading Mr. W----'s copy's instructions for making plastic explosive from bleach. After all, who wouldn't want to know such things? Then I found out that not only is it reference, but also damaged! Damned anarchists. Then, I ordered a copy from Pine River, which said it was "availiable." And by "available," of course, they meant "reference." Then, upon W----'s suggestion, I ordered Œdipus Rex. Now, with a name like that it must be in Latin, Right? So now I'm sitting here with a Greek and English Ωιδιπους Τυραννος (Oidipous Tyrannos). Sure, it's still good reading, but I don't get to strengthen my Latin--which I'm going to need, seeing as I just opened up an account for my Latin blog.