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Elysium

ToM Dracone

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I am so glad it's the weekend. I've been needing one since Monday. And when you need a weekend after Monday, you know it's going to be one of those weeks.

 

For example, yesterday I woke up thinking it was Saturday. I was so happy. Then I realized it was Thursday. The day went downhill from there. I survived by reading the entertaining quotes I write down in my planner, in addition to a bunch I have from last year.

 

My week has been far busier than usual, encompassing preparations fo Halloween, Halloween in itself, organizing the SSC3, getting all the rules clarified afterward, homework, and finally preparing for my Advanced Algebra test today. We've been doing everything imaginable with absolute values lately, based on solving equations and inequalities involving them, sometimes with as many as five pieces to the solution.

 

To my surprise and delight, however, the test was actually pretty easy. Everything on it was things we've covered a lot ... And this unit was the one I've fully understood, too. So I was elated, given that I had expected the test to be really hard. Afterward we spent ninth period outside in the cold, eventually deciding that we wouldn't go back inside until we managed to juggle the soccer ball around our entire circle of seven people. We finally did, a few minutes before school was over, and literally screamed and ran back inside immediately (leaving the ball out on the field). It was fun.

 

AND NOW IT IS THE WEEKEND. Repose! Relaxation! Sleep! *falls over*

– ToM

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Tempus

Ahhh, yes, the weekend is truly a glorious thing. Those days when I can just relax in front of my computer, and whatch the episodes of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. Even so, This week was relaxing. Only a math test, which was easy. I did get to miss some of english class, due to Latin. My Latin teacher, Mr. J, managed to get a British historian to talk to us about Julius Caesar, and the Punic Wars. The guy's name was Adrian Goldsworthy.

 

He actually told the students who were listening an amusing anecdote about Julius Caesar. The whole thing about him saying "Et tu, Brute?" was probable untrue. Supposedly, when the assasins assaulted Caesar, Julius used one of those extremely sharp senatorial pens to stab them. at one point Caesar supposedly said, "*blank* you Casca! What the *blank* *blank* do you think you are doing?!" Supposedly. Still, that is a lot funnier than "And You, Brutus?"

 

And I give a thumbs up to you for the Mythology reference.

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<daydreamer>

Weekend! Weekend! Hooray for the weekend!

 

Good to hear that you managed to survive that week! Now enjoy the weekend well... till school starts again.

 

(<dd>, you're horrible.)

 

-<dd>

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He actually told the students who were listening an amusing anecdote about Julius Caesar. The whole thing about him saying "Et tu, Brute?" was probable untrue. Supposedly, when the assasins assaulted Caesar, Julius used one of those extremely sharp senatorial pens to stab them. at one point Caesar supposedly said, "*blank* you Casca! What the *blank* *blank* do you think you are doing?!" Supposedly. Still, that is a lot funnier than "And You, Brutus?"

 

And I give a thumbs up to you for the Mythology reference.

But Et tu, Brute? is so much more symbolic. "Even you, Brutus?" (Since et at the beginning of a sentence means "even" or "... too" rather than "and".) Since he had been deserted by all his former friends – Pompey, the Senate, Brutus ... And throw in the story about how after he had been stabbed, he supposedly pulled himself up at the feet of a statue of Pompey, looking down in mocking ...

 

And yay for mythology!

 

<dd> – Hooray indeed! But nah, next week there aren't half as many things going on ... :lol:

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