I'm the new Mr. Seeley

I finished my apologetics class by having my students read the Apology. What it has to do with Catholic dogma I am not so sure. While I was giving my students a speech about Socrates, and waxing poetic on the fact that God did not create "the best of all possible worlds" I got inspired and asked them this question.

"How many of you are more confused now then you where at the start of the school year?"

They all said I succeeded in my task of obfuscation.

I was so proud.

TWO MORE WEEKS

... until the end of the world as we know it. The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Volume 1 . I just pre-ordered my copy five seconds ago.

Oh God! NO!!!

Disney is making a ... a ... a ... oh FUCK I'll let them exlapin.

Kiki's Delivery Service - A live action English language adaptation of Eiko Kadani's book series, which was previously brought to the screen in Hayao Miyazaki's popular late-'80s anime film of the same name. Jeff Stockwell (The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys) is writing a screenplay.

Link (scroll down)

Any one else having the probelm that when you log in, the website thinks you read Japanese? If I actually still bloged, and wasn't just letting my blog die, I might get mad.

RE: Latin

I don't consider my-self a Latin scholar, nor a great lover of the language, but one of my pet peeves in people who use Latin words but don't inflect them correctly. Granted this is often a small point, like people using stadiums and not stadia. But what never ceases to annoy me is how people abuse the word alumnus. They say alumni for a one person, alumnus for a female graduate, alum for one graduate, and (I consider this the worst of the bunch) alums for many graduates. (As you might guess this time of year (mid May) always upsets me.)

I understand, though do not excuse, people making these mistakes; either in conversation or in print by newspaper writers, who have never been nor ever will be good writers. But today I say a bumper sticker that said "CU Alumni". Now this is too much! The University of Colorado is one of the best state colleges in the country, and it has a wonderful Classics Department. Surley at least our universities could be counted on to defend language from the Philistines. But that would be too much to ask from the "Home of the Buffs".