Yesterday morning, I was in a full-out, knock-down, drag-out PANIC. I had crafted my September reading schedule (general world drama), and there aren't enough days to do all the reading!! AAAAAAAA! I'm looking at an average of 200-300 pages a day, and this is seven days a week. I talked to my sister yesterday and asked her the bridal shower time. It goes from 1-5 p., and I'm not showing up to help set up (because it's apparently taken care of), and I'm also not staying late to break down (because that's also apparently taken care of). This is good news for me because I have one play reading scheduled in the morning before the shower followed by two more plays after the shower. Is Amanda going to football games this season? It's unclear right now. What is clear is my relief at not having gone in on season tickets with my parents this year.
Anyway, today is day two of my September reading schedule. I read three plays yesterday (the Oresteia trilogy) and one more this morning (Oedipus Rex). I'd never read the Oresteia trilogy before, so that was eye-opening...sort of. What was precisely eye-opening was that when you purchase the Dover Thrift edition of texts to save money, sometimes you get what you pay for in translations. The translation of this edition was horrid and so difficult to read. I've got a few more Dover Thrift translations of Greek dramas, but I'm hoping their translations will be a little bit better. I'm trying to be positive and chalking it up to Aeschylus being really old. Or something.
Robert and I are going to my parents' home this afternoon. I'm bringing Antigone, The Bacchae, Clouds, and Lysistrata for my reading homework this weekend. I've read Lysistrata several times before, but the latest translation I read was based on the Cold War, so some of the women in the play have Russian accents...no joke. It's quite weird. I purchased my own copy of Lysistrata so that I don't have to deal with the crazy accents and weird translation. I don't need something like that messing me up on my exams.
I should be finished with the Greek dramas after this group, I think. I'm moving on to Everyman and Second Shepherd's Pageant next, both of which I've read, but it's been a few years.
Well, time for me to dash over to the duplex, drop off my suitcase, walk Milton (who was very poorly disciplined for me this morning and got a swat on his rump because of it--I've never swatted him before *sad*), and go hop on the bus for school. La la la. Oh, how I love being busy. *sarcasm*
Have a good weekend everyone!
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