Ow

I first woke up at 0800.
My hip hurt.
How did I hurt my hip in my sleep?
So then I manage another 4 hours sleep, interrupted by ouch every time I turned over.
Argh.
Just now I went to pick up the mail of the floor and made ouch noise out loud.
I do not usually make ouch noise out loud.

The plan for today involved taking stuff to the electricals shop and generally wandering around town.
... no.
I shall instead phone the electricals shop and get them to pick it up, which if I weren't such an optimist I would have done in the first place.
... if I can find a phone number.

ETA: Phoning achieved!
... and now my hip has stopped hurting.
WTF?

Did it pop out like action figures do???

But hey, they'll be coming to pick up the busted thing, so call it a win.

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Electricals place phoned back. Their come and get it days are the same as my college days. So they'll pick things up on Saturday.

I've been reading one of the books on the list for KidLit. I'm not impressed. But it's a very skinny book, so I've only got a couple of pages left.

My reading rate is not impressive this weekend. Yeah, I finished the whole Writers Tale, but that wasn't on the list. I did do the required reading for KidLit. And this optional extra reading. And some Euripides. And the required stuff off the Blackboard. And some commentary.

... okay, being unimpressed by that is kind of special...

Right then. I am studious student. I go study.

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sophrosyne is, according to the notes on Medea I'm reading, both the most important and central Greek virtue, and practically untranslatable. Innocence, temperance, self control, 'saving-wisdom' are all suggested. World Wide Words says soundness of mind, moderation, prudence, self control. wiki offers 'It is perhaps best expressed by the two most famous sayings of the oracle at Delphi: "Nothing in excess" and "Know thyself."'

Translation is a tricksy thing.

Then there's puns and plays on words that just get lost along the way. Though some of them I should really have noticed before.

Eros and Eris

passionate love and strife

practically the same word.

Now that's economy of language.

Philia keeps being translated slightly differently too. Friendship, family, mutuality of relationship, comradeship, partnership... it's a right complicated one. It has loyalty mixed in with it.

It seems pretty important to get the distinctions in translation when Medea is talking on it. Difficult, but pretty central to the meaning. Looking for philia and only finding eros? Not finding either? Complications.

I thought I was studying English.
... English nicks words from all over, so I pretty much am.

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The book full of notes I'm reading says the earliest Greek tragedy is in manuscripts with no names on. Doesn't say who says what.
... so, basically, they're working from the subtitle files??

It also keeps noting that some words are found nowhere else in Greek. Euripides makes up words. Must be a right headache for translators.

Then I start to wonder how people manage with Joss Whedon now. Amongst others. Language is very fluid stuff.

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I read some more for Children's Literature
and got ambushed by Want-A-Baby.
Small people! Reading! With extreme cuteness!
I can do reading. I like reading. I know how to do the reading related parts of life.
I could give them books, and they could read books. How cool would that be?
... yeah, I think maybe 'Want-a-baby' involves quite a lot more complicated stuff and not just reading.
Possibly this would be more 'want to be children's librarian' or maybe 'want to teach to read'.
... nope, definitely want one of my own.
They would be tiny and cute and a Doctor Who fan. *nods*

*sighs*

Is quite difficult to concentrate on reading when it makes this much distraction in my head.

There's also small flaw in plan. Babies start out at sizes that aren't much to do with books. And the youngest books I read are mostly for 11 year olds. While it is possible to get children that are already 11 year olds, it is not quite what I had in mind. Still, has advantages. Could shop for their fandom interests. No accidentally getting one that likes football best.
;-)



The next problem is I had planned to read one more book about Medea. Now there's lots of small children in my head I do not want to be reading about Medea. Medea can go away and not go near the, er, entirely imaginary children.

:eyeroll:

It's like mixing Medea and the Sarah Jane Adventures. Not good at all.

Actually the notes book today said that Greek first time brides were only just teenagers, so Glauce that Medea burns would be, logically, about the same age as the girls in SJA. Damn that's a weird though. Nasty.

And yet another angle on Jason. Sure, he's a hero, did the whole Argo thing, got a shiny bit of wool and all. How long ago? How old are his children? Is bride #2 old enough to be their mother? Likely not. And suddenly he looks even worse.

Wonder how old Medea was when she ran away with him? I mean the whole instant passionate crush on the tall dark stranger bit sounds everso teenage now I think of it.

... this is what happens when you mix up ye ancient myth and modern social realities. Wierdness.