Behind Infinity

It’s very yucky here. Have we had any blue sky/full sun at all this week? Any?? I don’t think so. All of this gloom makes me sad. Today it was freezing rain as I drove to campus. I counted 17 cars in the ditch over a 22-mile drive. It was a mess. And the sidewalks on campus were 1″ deep in slush this morning…my feet got soaked. Boo hoo. Poor me…all together now, “aaaaaw. that’s really sad, brittany.”

When I get sad I look at sunshiney pictures. My Arkansas pictures are great for this because it was so bright and so hot when we were there this summer…I can remember how the sweat just rolled off. It felt like I was going to melt. I didn’t like it at the time but right now I’d love to bake under the sun…

Oh, sun.

Here’s one of my favorite sunshiney pictures.

This is Junior, my birthday baby. Honestly when this little guy was born on my birthday last year I joked that ownership should cede to me as sort of a bonus birthday present, but I never thought I’d get the chance to own him. However there’s actually a good possibility Aaron might throw him on the trailer and bring him up for me this week when he goes down to fetch his Crazyhorse. If he does, this little guy will be the second Hunter family pet that shares my special day, my siamese cat Jasmine being the other. And whatever we name him, it really ought to start with a J so that it fits in with all of the other Hunter livestock. Jasmine, Jessie, Jezzie, Gypsy(which yes I know doesn’t start with J but she’s not ours anyway, so it’s just a bonus prize that it still starts with the same sound) and….?
Actually, I’d like to name him Seneca. That’s a good name for a western horse.

Wow. Look at all that nonsense I just spewed out for the whole internetz to read. I blame it on Loretta–she told me I had to write a new post and I’m just obliging her. I really have no real thought to contribute to the world. At this point, I can’t guarantee that I’ll hear more than about 50% of anything anyone says. So if you’re talking and I’m giving you the “not comprehending…and really not caring” look, don’t be offended. It’s not you, it’s me.

I’ll close with some great quotes from lately. While the weather outside was yucky this morning, there was certainly lots of sunshine in the Classics department.

Devin: “Good thing Classicists don’t have access to hydrochloric acid.”
Dr. Anderson: “Actually, hydrochloric acid runs in our veins.”

Dr. Anderson: “So Kate, was it beneficial when you visited the 102 class yesterday? Did you enjoy learning about participles?”
Kate: “Yes, but I learned more about alcohol than I did about participles.”
(Dr. Anderson goes into lengthy analogy about how participles are similar to whiskey and scotch)

Dr. Anderson: “Give me an ablative absolute on the rocks.”
Devin: “I thought all Cicero’s ablative absolutes were on the rocks.”

So here I am at Suzanne’s. I decided that I needed to make a trip to the bank, in the blizzard. It didn’t look all that bad. But actually, it was all that bad. Seeing as the bank is in the Ramblewood strip mall by Suzanne’s Ramblewood apartment, I decided to hole up with her.

And this happened:

“Well, I would have emotional problems if I lived at Meijer for awhile, too.”

-Suzanne

Also, this: (while watching Lost)

Brittany: “Is he still alive?”
Suzanne: “I’m thinking, yes.”
Brittany: “Yeah, they wouldn’t knock off Billy Boyd.”
Suzanne: “Yeah, and neither would they Dominic Monaghan…which is who this is.”

and a particularly apt one at that.

“Latin’s like life: you focus on one thing and you’re lost; you look at the context, you’ll be okay.”

Braelynn, to Aaron: “We should play Game Cube. Have you ever played Game Cube?”
Aaron: “What’s Game Cube?”
Brenna: “You play games on it.”
Braelynn: (produces the Nintendo Game Cube from the other room) “This is a Game Cube.”
Aaron: “Oh, very nice. I used to have geometric toys when I was a child, too…”
Braelynn: “See? You open it up and put the CD in like this.”
Aaron: “…Like blocks. I had blocks.”
Brenna: “Well Game Cube costs more than blocks.”
Aaron: “I suppose that’s why you have just one of them.”
Braelynn: “You only need one, see? We have lots of controllers, and you plug them in.”
Aaron: “Do you have a Game Sphere?”
Brenna: (weirded out) “um, no.”
Aaron: “That’s too bad.”
Brenna: “There’s no such thing.”
Aaron: “Well then maybe I should invent one.”

I think my sisters each have almost as big a crush on Aaron as I do, even though Brenna didn’t appreciate his suggestion that she ought to roach her plastic Saddlebred’s mane so that it could be a three-gaited horse.