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Patriots' Day
Apr. 19th, 2004 08:07 pmToday's spam headline: "amoebae aeneas."
Hard to concentrate today because of the nice weather, but still I have managed to get more done than on other recent days, putting on the Aeschylean lepadnon anankês, or, as we wilfully mitranslated it in an Oresteia course back in 1993, the "jockstrap of necessity."
You'll just have to take my word for it.
Highlights of this state holiday have included homemade cinnamon rolls for breakfast, not going into Boston Marathon commuting traffic of any sort, planting beans and peas, and sitting outside with a laptop, the text of Tacitus' Annales, and a large girly rum drink bedecked with a paper umbrella. Diagonally across the street I could see the blinking American flag lights on the house that always has garish holiday decorations. I suppose the flags are for Patriots' Day, but since 9/11 Uncle-Sam-related kitsch has been the default there.
Oh, and I must tell you about the ( candy )
Hard to concentrate today because of the nice weather, but still I have managed to get more done than on other recent days, putting on the Aeschylean lepadnon anankês, or, as we wilfully mitranslated it in an Oresteia course back in 1993, the "jockstrap of necessity."
You'll just have to take my word for it.
Highlights of this state holiday have included homemade cinnamon rolls for breakfast, not going into Boston Marathon commuting traffic of any sort, planting beans and peas, and sitting outside with a laptop, the text of Tacitus' Annales, and a large girly rum drink bedecked with a paper umbrella. Diagonally across the street I could see the blinking American flag lights on the house that always has garish holiday decorations. I suppose the flags are for Patriots' Day, but since 9/11 Uncle-Sam-related kitsch has been the default there.
Oh, and I must tell you about the ( candy )
