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On the way to school this morning, we beheld a small dog running around in the street. I wanted very much to jump out, grab that dog, and take him back to his owners. Little cat-sized doggy shouldn't be out and about by himself, poor thing will get run over. Kind of had to get to school, though, and girl had an eye appointment, so chasing doggy down was right out.

Class la la la ding. Psych professor was amusing, as per usual. Got my second psych test back. Got a B. Rarr. High B (35/40) but a B all the same. Again, rarr.

Picked up by mother, then came along for the ride as also-in-car sister was returned to school. She's getting glasses. And because we're poor enough to qualify for government-funded health care for the kiddies, glasses are freeeeee. None of my glasses were ever free. Hmph. Of course, we actually made more than $25,000 a year when I got glasses. Now I need them again and we're too poor for them and I'm too old to qualify for freeness. Ahh, poverty.

I had something else to post but I forget what it was. I'm sure I'll remember.

I love this song.

Date: 2002-03-22 02:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] malver.livejournal.com
Gotta luv Scylla (no relation to scyllacat) & Charybdis...
Sympathy.

Date: 2002-03-22 07:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] stuffy.livejournal.com
Scylla & Charybdis

Referring to the short story in In the Shadow of the Gargoyle collection?

Date: 2002-03-22 07:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] malver.livejournal.com
Hrm- all I had in mind was mythology... another book to seek out...

Date: 2002-03-22 07:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] stuffy.livejournal.com
Ooooh. Which mythology? *perks ears*

Date: 2002-03-22 07:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] malver.livejournal.com
E.g. Homer, The Odyssey, Book XII: Scylla and Charybdis (pp. 189-201 of the E. V. Rieu translation, published 1946 by Penguin Classics)
"The other of the two rocks is lower, as you, Odysseus, will see, and the distance between them is no more than a bowshot. A great fig-tree with luxuriant foliage grows upon the crag, and it is below this that dread Charybdis sucks the dark waters down." p. 191

Date: 2002-03-22 07:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] stuffy.livejournal.com
Oooh. Haven't read Odyssey, both the Homer and James Joyce version. Have to obtain a copy of both one day...

Date: 2002-03-22 07:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] malver.livejournal.com
That's my copy I've been meaning to read, and which I've begun reading- I hadn't actually reached chapter twelve yet *sigh*

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