Epic Realisations.

Hola,

Today and coincidentally last night was a time of realisations and random findings. I created a very large goal and ambition for myself, which was good because it gets me very motivated to study. Secondly I found........wait for it..........a Greek restaurant in Melbourne called Iliad. I mean EPIC or what?!? When i get my P's first place I'm off to is to the Iliad Restaurant! Imagine if someone was like " hey where are you off to?"........."oh just to the Iliad" hahahah awesome!!

I'm babysitting tonight, and currently the kids are having a 'picnic' on their mini Ikea table, and then it's Disney time! Too bad I can't join them.......I love Mulan.

On another note it was my Mum's birthday today, so a very Happy Birthday to her :)

My next book purchase shall be Ajax from Amazon.com I can't find a copy here in Borders so I'm going to do a bit of online Shopping, going to get Euripides' Rhesus, Ajax, the Frogs, the Phoenician Women, the Heracleidae and the Suppliant Maidens. Yes a lot of shopping to do.

That's it for now, back to studying about Realism.

Yags

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Birthday Cake FTW!!!

Check out these Birthday Cakes cool eh? bahah I would love this!!

It made me laugh so much.

Yags.

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Titanic Fail! :P

Hey guys,

Today was a fun and random day. Alen we will miss you heaps, don't die, don't get lost, please come back betrothed to a certain someone.........please :D haha. Remember when and if there is turbulence, just think of it like the plane is dancing and start singing! And remember all those statistics I gave you. I can't believe you forgot to take your box and I forgot to give it to you....fail :P

We had an awesome day shopping lol at Steph and her four bags!! Today

was also a train fail. And a special thanks to Shel and her epic cupcakes even though one of mine was stolen!! And a thanks to Steph for being at the right place at the right time ahhahaah.

So have heaps of fun Lenka, don't get lost, you won't and remember about Frankfurt move fast it's an insanely large Airport. Also check out my awesome buy, Sophocles' The Theban Plays from 1947. I love old books. I mean who knows what kind of History this book had, who owned it so very awesome. I also can now cross one thing out of my Bucket List, I went into an antique bookshop with a slidey ladder thing........EPIC!!!

Classics relatable conversation:

Us four walking past a Library

Me: "Oooo Columns"

Alenka: "Seriously............their Corinthian" bahahhha nice one ;)

So all up it was a nice day, and farewell Lenka.

That's it for now exams next week and then hello freedom!

Yags

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Euripides pants Achilles You!

Hi guys,

Just had an intense 43 mintues watching the season finale of Glee, shed a few tears :'(

It was sad I mean come on Sue even cried! haha. I watched a few episodes of the Tudors last night at 1am it was pretty good. Being a woman back in those days would have been insane, thankgod for the 21st Century! Today I was studying for my History exam, basically going back to the inter-war period, interesting but a lot of work.

Check out these funny Greek things I came across! I love these ahaha.

I really want a greek related t-shirt it would be EPIC!!

Achilles has got to be my favourite hero from the Iliad, yes I do feel sorry for Hector but whatcha gonna do? And I know Achilles gets ridiculed a lot for "sulking in his tent" which okay he did, but can you really blame the guy? Agamemnon was being selfish. This line from the Iliad makes me laugh all the time:

" and you, you dog-face" bahaha. But my favourite part of the Iliad is the part where Priam comes to get Hector's body back from Achilles, his speech the way he appeals to Achilles, is so sad yet displays the common courtesies that can take place during war. Here is a quote:

" I have endured what no one on Earth has ever done before- I put my lips on the hands of the man who killed my son" that just makes me cry. I love the Iliad. I think I will end up naming any future son Achilles, it's such an awesome name. I like names that are different, being different is nice. And plus no one will confuse you with anyone else, and you won't have that annoying thing where someone else has the same name as you, at school or at work...fail! I just want to name him Achilles, so I can yell out "Aaaaaachhiiilleeeeeeeeeessss" hahaha! Seriously the guy is cool!

Okay that's enough Achilles rants from me.

Laters

Yags

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My Desk.

This is my desk :D

a) that's my awesome flask.

b) thats a tub of lollies.

c). The writings are motivational quotes

^_^

Procrastination Sensation!

Bonjour,

So look what I came across Frank Miller's second comic after 300, this one called Xerxes. It depicts the battle of Marathon and they will probably be making it into a movie ( Alenka I think it's safe to say we will watch this!) because Leonidas is supposed to make a re occurrence *Alenka and Yags pass out* haha.

And Frank Miller has said he is going to depict Xerxes and his hubris, and show different aspects of the character showing him in Persepolis with Atossa haha (I remember reading her lines). So this is exciting considering the other Greek type movies have been a fail, this one at least is accurate.

Anywho, today was the beginning of Exam revision, so yeah fun! And I just found out that the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, has like a zillion Greek statues of Perseus, Achilles, Helen and more. Before I went, I was looking at brochures and not once did it say anything about Greece, and now I find out. Major fail! That just annoys me, from now on anytime I go overseas I'm going to spend months researching, it totally bums you out when you don't see something!

Yeah that's it for now.

Yags

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Destiny.

Hi all,

Today while watching How I Met Your Mother, the interesting part of the episode was about Destiny. Hmm I wonder where I will be in say 5 years time, hopefully having achieved some of my long term goals! But isn't fate, the future and Destin

y such an ambiguous topic. I mean if we

were in Ancient Greece we would just visit an oracle to ask anything. But I mean it's so weird thinking about say 5 years time, where I will be and where my friends will be. Freaky....

On another note handed in my last Uni assignments for the semester nice feeling, although tomorrow begins death revision and Exam mode. This is where I stay in pyjamas and trackies and my awesome Oxford jumper for the whole Swotvac. Whilst eating enough food for three people to survive, in one of the places Bear Grylls goes to. I also find my family are a lot more caring and sympathetic during this time, probably because they know i will bite their heads off. Right now I am in STRESS mode, it's when I feel like crying at random times of the day, where Procrastination is this creepy monster that creeps up on you, where I take out my anger on every little thing that happens. This is how I shall be until 17th June (after 3:00 pm). Seriously because of Uni, I have piled on the kilos and there is no exercise travelling there so it's a fail. I need my P's so I can join a gym!

On another note, I randomly thought about Penelope today, what she went through 20 years without seeing Odysseus *tear*, she spends the whole Odyssey crying seriously. So, so sad. And then when he comes home, he has to go back again....what is that literally? Also while chatting to Lenka tonight I realised, I forgot Wentworth Miller's birthday. Seriously like of course I know the date, but I was so busy I totally missed it! wow that's a first. So here are some super dooper pics of him looking smoking hot *drools and sighs*

That's it for now. Not really looking forward to tomorrow

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Fail Weekends.

Hiya guys,

This weekend was a fail weekend, at home doing my two final essays for the semester. Then I found out my holidays were shorter than everyone else's yep that bummed me out. I had so many plans for these holidays, now I have to do them in a smaller time frame....fun. Tomorrow will be the last time I have to travel 5 hours (worked it out 1/2 hour bus, 1 hour train, 1 hour tram times two is 5 hours) big epic fail! Then I was thinking and my mind went into " I want to get into Monash mood" I hate it when it does that, I was going good didn't think about it for like 3 weeks, then it creeped back again.... :( It's so depressing really, it makes you feel so dumb, worthless and genuinely crappy. Damn I hate having those thoughts because it will last for like a whole week, I will spend constant hours reading all the info about how to get in, and then still end up depressed. *sigh* it seriously is very disappointing.

On another note, I'm having some mixed feelings about good old Alexander the Great. I mean there are very nice things he does, like he allows Darius' family to continue living the way they were, when he marries Roxana (an afghan might I add) he does not push her into anything. But then he started using and taking part in some Persian traditions, such as having his men kiss him on the hand, and at times bow to him. For the Persians this is a sign of respect, but for the Greeks it's a very Hubristic attitude, and something left for the gods. This started annoying and causing hatred among his men. I mean no offence to the Great Leader, but if you were going to take part in some traditions, take the one's that at least would not offend your men and your own culture. He should of seen that one coming :P

Pizza tonight for dinner! I love winter but man it makes me eat so much!! Seriously it's like I grow an extra stomach and then it shrinks in Summer....fail!

p.s. check out the head bust of Alexander, he was quite the handsome man. It's freaky to see a bust of him so realistic.

Okay that's it for me. Hopefully I will get out of this Depressed mood, probably not for another week. Until tomorrow

Yags.

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Today's Thoughts.

Hello,

I seriously cannot wait for the holidays, don't get me wrong I enjoy learning but right now I'm so tired it's probably my Vitamin D and Iron levels, I forget to take my tablets even after constant hassling from my mum. I missed out on a trip to Ikea today, fail! I love Ikea, I always map out in my mind what my own place would look like. And for some reason whenever I'm there all I think about is the name Sven, Ikea=Swedish=Sven haha. But hopefully when our house has finally been transformed, I can re-decorate my room. I'm going for white walls, with red, black and white furniture. On the walls, I'm going to have this stencil border thing on one wall from Ikea it's really nice. My future bed is black and is sort of daybed/bed. And on my walls shall be three canvases (one with a black and white image of something Greek have not decided yet, the other one the Eiffel tower which I have on my blog and the last one is a collage of photos from overseas and here) and many book shelves probably black and red to go with the white. Yes I am excited, my mum should have been an interior designer she is awesome at this stuff, seriously and will probably do everything.

Anyway I also watched How I met your mother love it, Barney is just legen..........wait for it dary! haha. I seriously sometimes end up crying from laughter. Still have not finished the documentary on Alexander because of these essays but hopefully Monday night shall be the post :P

Also couldn't get Finn's "Jessies's Girl" out of my head from Glee, he sings it so well.

That's it for now, it was a short post until next time!

Yags.

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Awesome Alexander.

Hi all,

Today was pretty average, I'm tired and sleep deprived.....not good. Getting through this weekend will hopefully go well ( I have one and a half essays to finnish fml) and then after that exam revision...oh the joy! While procrastinating today I watched a documentary on Alexander the Great (okay it's educational so it should only be semi-procastinating), and amazing. It was a really awesome documentary and I only got through a quarter of it but the first thing I loved about it was the quote that said Alexander would become a man that would have Historic Immortality (nice eh?). I am so over essays right now, sometimes I wish time would go faster.

The documentary was so good, I can't get over it. I shall put a proper post about it after I get my essays finished. Also they showed how Archaeologists had found the burial chamber of Phillip (or Phillipe as some like to call it) with all the treasures buried alongside him, it's at the bottom of this hill. So they made a museum in the burial chamber...how cool! That's a "must do" on my bucket list!

On another note going shopping tomorrow for my mum's birthday even though she doesn't like being reminded haha. Might buy a wallet I need a new one, I get sick of them like pencil cases. Speaking of which I shall get a new pencil case for next semester win!!

That's all folks. Early morning start tomorrow, hurrah!

xxxx

Yags.

Random Findings.

Hey there fellows,

So today was the second last day of tute's for me this semester.....yay! Is a bit exciting I must say, although there is still a big workload to get through before I am finally free. I came across a few things that I have to do. I have endeavoured to make it my goal to get my P's by October ( until the end of it), by driving 7-8 hours each week and getting lessons. So yes hopefully it shall be done! I watched Glee today very random episode 21 ( it freaked Shel and I out, with the

pregnant women dancing, sometimes it felt like one of the babies woul

d just fall out....*shivers*). I also came across these really nice and Greek relevant bracelets from Sue Sensi, take a peek:

Now if you look closely which you can't sorry but you will see on the coins Athena in her armour, and there is also one with her owl on it. Awesome or what!?! Must invest :)

On another note public transport is a major fail, I am over random moments making eye contact with strangers. Lit was good today, we had photocopied handouts from Herodotus which was a win!!

And I also read about today being the day that the last Harry Potter film had finished shooting. Don't really mind, I'm not a big fan of the movies truth be told the books hell yeah!! (hi zenab and cindy yes I related you guys to HP). So yeah that's it for now today essentially was a day of goals and cool stuff!

p.s. Awesome quote written on a book about greek myths (except for the part about Homer, I love Homer): " Draw your knowledge of the past from me and read the Ancient tales of learned lore. Look neither at the page of Homer, nor of elegy, nor tragic muse, nor epic strain. Seek not the vaunted verse of the cycle; but look in me and you will find in me all that the world contains" .

Until tomorrow,

xxxx

Yags.

Fail day much?!?

Hello

thought I would provide some musings which took place today. I started analysing Euripides' play Hippolytus yes I am planning to do some analysings on the holidays because

a). I will be bored currently being jobless (yes I shall hunt while on holidays and drive!)

b). Because I have to keep in check with my analytical skills when it comes to classics, I'm scared to lose them :/

Anyway I will hopefully have an analysis up here soon for all you fellow Greek Geeks. And then I came across an Age Article on Greece and the financial crisis, and someone put forward the idea that get this they should sell the Parthenon haha that made my day. And then I thought wow how cool would it be to own a piece of such an amazing creation, so if it does pop up for sale I am so bidding........probably will only be able to buy a pebble! But a pebble from the Parthenon awesome or what?? I also found my Troy dvd which I had misplaced it is a bit sad that I literally know more than half of the lines from that ever so incorrect film, I need a job.

I also essayed a bit today and enjoyed it because I related it to Oedipus and Freud win!!

Today was also a fail day, it's weird on the days that I do have Uni I don't want to go and then on the days I don't I do! Very weird!!! Also watched the Horrible Histories they are hilarious! Seriously Youtube it awesome! And then I gave one of my friends tips because she is off to the states like me by herself for the first time, I should write a book :P And I watched the last and final episode of Ugly Betty I cried through all of it, it was sad yet great at the same time because they all got happy endings and she ended up with her hot boss! Aww so picture me at 1am, with my mac on my lap bawling my eyes out that was me!

That's it for now chickadees, until tomorrow when I wake up at 5am but last week of Uni yay!

xox

p.s. I don't know if this is weird or not but why does Euripides look like Jesus? hmm weird.