I did, by the way, get to SCCS. Kit took care of upgrading my WordPress software. The problem was with Fugu in fact, and not actually a problem so much as a quirk in the way it handles deletion of directories. He also kindly modified this theme to include tags, which you can now see at the tops of posts. Plus, he changed something with permissions that briefly allowed me to upload photos in the old WordPress, but with the new upload system of 2.5, I’m getting a different error message when I try. One of these, days, I’ll be successful.

Had my last seminar on Monday, and my last Movement Theater class (which was actually a joint performance with the Movement Theater II class of pieces we’d been creating throughout the semester) last night. Now it’s just two Greek classes to go, and then just studying for finals. Today was the end-of-year Classics picnic, which featured excellent food and a skit parodying the Agamemnon and much discussion of what this year’s Classics T-shirt should be.

Housing didn’t end up being terrible. By the time they got down to the last hundred or so Juniors, all singles were gone, so they opened up the singles waitlist. Most of the remainder elected to go on it, which meant that the part of my block that will be here next semester managed to get the last two (pretty sizable, actually) available doubles in Mertz.

Anyway, if all goes to plan, I’ll only be here a semester anyway. In the spring I want to study at ICCS in Rome. From what I’ve seen in my research of it and what I’ve heard from several people, it’s a great program, and while it’s pretty highly rated in academics, the workload is not bad compared to Swarthmore. I think I could do with a break, especially in Rome. Half of the program is a course that involves multiple field trips per week to go look at old Roman things, so I’m excited.

I’m also trying to figure out what to do in the summer after the program ends. I had originally planned to make a bunch of money sometime between now and then in order to stay in Europe and travel for a while. After speaking with Professor Turpin, however, my new plan is to find some sort of summer program and get the college to pay for it through Classics Department or general Humanities funding. This is a while off, so I have plenty of time to consider, but I’ve been looking at archaeological digs, mainly in the U.K. I’d kind of like to go back to Germany or the Czech Republic, though. If I could come up with my own interest and write a convincing enough plan, I could probably get funding for whatever I wanted, actually. I just need to figure out what that is.

Bollocks. I’ve broken my headphones again.

I was in Sharples (Swarthmore’s dining hall), and walking up to bus my try. The curlicue cord, dangling from my pocket, got caught on a chair back as I was walking by, and pulled my up short. Everything looked fine, but when I tried to listen through them, nothing came through. Once I got home, I opened up the plug and found that while the ground was still attached, both the left and right channel wires had pulled off of their contact points. Well, now that I know how to solder, I can fix it on my own. I just need to get hold of a soldering iron again.

I preregistered for classes today–sort of, at least. My schedule for next semester was going to be Acting II Monday afternoon, Latin seminar (Aeneid) Wednesday afternoon, and Directing I Friday afternoon (plus a likely fifth course–maybe intro to Comp. Sci. or intermediate Greek). For a while, the Latin seminar was going to be moved to Monday, but after surveying students, the department found that Wednesday worked best. Unfortunately, the theater department didn’t follow suit when they changed Directing I to Wednesday afternoon at the last minute. As of now I’m registered for all of those classes, regardless of the conflict. Come next September, I’ll need to talk with people to see if one of those classes can be moved. Otherwise I’ll have to put off Directing until the fall of senior year, which would require a whole bunch of schedule juggling. Grrrr, theater department.

Also, my blockmates and I didn’t get any of our desired blocks for next year. When we got our lottery numbers yesterday, we found out why–they’re terrible. Because we blocked together, we have a series of six numbers in the 760s. Rising Junior numbers cut off at 800, so we’re going to have bad luck picking rooms. Also, our housing lottery is Monday at 7:30, the same time as my Movement Theater class. Grrrr, housing.

Regardless, the semester is almost over. A week and a half of classes, followed by reading week and exams. I don’t have much work left, now that my final seminar paper is done. I’ll have a lot to do to prepare for exams, though, what with catching up with all the Latin reading that I haven’t done. I’m looking forward to a month in which to do nothing before I head up to camp.