Latin Quenya Paper

I had a Latin paper due last Sunday at Curfew. (11pm)
Unfortunately (or possibly fortunately) I had a bout of temporary insanity at about 3pm, when I decided to scrap my nice, normal, boring paper, and delete it.
With the question being "Is the Ablative Case only one or more than one case, and how is it divided or not?" The majority of people in our class wrote that it was one case. Maybe a third wrote that is was two cases, severl that it was three cases, and a few people that it was six cases.
However, I can safely say that I'm the only person in my entire class that wrote that the ablative was actually SEVEN cases, and then proceeded to use Quenya (a form of Tolkkien's Elvish) to prove it.
I have absolutely no clue what grade i'm going to get on that Paper, but it was the funnest I've ever written. :D

Chapel Plans for TAC

Also on Sunday, I had dinner over at Father Borden's with the rest of the altarboys. Mr. and Mrs. Dillon (The president and his wife) were there, and as I sat at the dinner table next to them, we talked for quite a bit.
The interesting part (besides how they were recovering from the flooding down in the hacienda) was the construction plans for the chapel. I found out that they hope to start working in June, and they're almost positive they will be able to start work before the end of summer. The plans project that the building will take two and a half years, but Mr. Dillon hoped to get it done in two. I'm guessing three.
As a side note, though the chapel will be beautiful, it won't have any stained glass windows to start with, because they're going to get the money for those later, but they think it's important to get the chapel up now.
Also, they might start building the official faculty office building while the chapel is building, because that should only take a year to build. And once that's done, it's time to blow up St. Patrick's Hall!!! YAHOO!!! No more eyesore in the middle of the green!
(is it wrong to post about celebrating the destruction of St. Paddy's Hall on his feastday?)
Anyway, it sounds like it's still possible that the chapel might be finished before we graduate, which would be awesome.

Architectural sketches of the chapel:







Chapel Website

bleah.

Unle Bob's visit.

Yesterday my Uncle Bob visited me at college (he was in the area selling medical instruments/supplies). It was very nice to have someone from home here. I met him in the parking lot at 1700, gave him a very brief tour of campus, and showed him my room (which was somewhat disorderly, because I wasn't expecting to have him there), and we drove to Ojai Pizza. We discussed a nice wide variety of topics, from flooding to my subjects to his kids' baseball leagues and dead Greek men. And had very good pizza.

Don Rags

As I'm sure some of you people know (and as some probably don't) in the middle of every semester at TAC, there is a period of time known as "Don Rags." This refers to the ancient and venerable tradition of having your tutors talk to eachother behind your back to your face.
In other words, every student in the school, at different assigned times, goes into a classroom, where they are faced with a battery of teachers, who proceed to debate the merits and flaws of said student, not addressing the student directly at any time, but referring to him as though he were not present. And they're not always very merciful.
However, in return for 15 minutes of torture, we do get 3 days off of school, which seems like a fair trade to me.
During Dons Rags, I've had a pretty fun time, playing chess, going bowling, playing LOTS of Ultimate Frisbee, having some UT2004 Tournaments, and other such stuff.
My actual DOn Rags went pretty well, almost all my tutors had good things to say about me, and Math and Lab tutors didn't have anything negative to say, although that was balanced out by my seminar tutor, who didn't seem to have anything positive to say.

In other recent news, Mr Dragoo brought up Yoda in his other language class, and told them, "Fecundum est studium Jedorum." (fruitful is the study of the Jedi).

Mike Crump and Gabe Mamola protested outside of eachother's Don Rags, because they were both in room 209 (one of the only rooms with big windows) and they held a sign saying "Have Mercy." Only Mr. Nieto noticed it when Crump heldit, but because Gabe waved it and jumped around while Crump was having his Don Rags, all the tutors noticed and commented on it, and Mr. Nieto ran out and chased him off.

Erin said to, so I will

Here are the rules
1. Grab the nearest book
2. Open the book to page 123
3. Find the fifth sentence
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog, along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it. Just grab what is closest!

Euclid's Elements, Page 123, sentences 5-8

Let AB be the given finite straight line; thus it is required to cut AB in mean and extreme ratio. On AB let the square BC be described; and let there be applied to AC the parallelogram CD equal to BC and exceeding by the figure AD similar to BC. Now BC is a square; therefore AD is also a square.

What fun. I liked book 4.

Girls... *rolls eyes*

Today I gave a large lily to Kitty and was promtly bonked on the head with it.