4/30/07

What do you call the mini Greek dictionary?
“The Little Liddell.”
So what’s the intermediate one called?
“The Middle Liddell.”
So that makes the big one the Big Liddell?
“No: the Great Scott.”


Anything that can’t be found in LSJ deserves a note.
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Today’s words: Cravatta a farfalla

4/29/07

Kleptomania: the gift that keeps on giving.
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Today’s word: Prego

4/27/07

“I can't see much of the future…”
Past/Present.
“…Spurn my natural emotions…”
Thinking/Feeling
“…We won't be together much longer…
Dream/Reality
“…Ever fallen in love / In love with someone / You shouldn't have fallen in love with?”
No/Yes
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Today’s words: Ho perso

4/26/07

7 1/2 bowls of pasta e fagioli is not an accomplishment, but merely lunch.
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Today’s word: Zuppa

4/25/07

“Which is worse: wikipedia or sorcery?”
I have no idea what you’re talking about, but that was an amazing thing to walk in on.

Done talking.

“In putting together this report, we opted for expediency rather than research.”
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Today’s word: Veloce

4/24/07

Time out.
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Today’s word: Intervallo

4/23/07

Sanity, mortality, and historical accuracy are overrated.
(Caligula, roughly speaking.)
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Today’s word: Pazzia

4/22/07

“4 days is too long to go without.”
Hasn’t it been 5?

<counting>
“No, it is 4.”
Well, to the Romans, that would have been 5: inclusive counting.
“It can still be 5.”
Well, to the Romans, that would have been sex.

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Today’s word: Senza

4/21/07

Ab urbe condita.
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Today’s word: Compleanno

4/20/07

Oh my god it’s 4:20

8pm, LabSci 300. Free. See me there.
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Today’s word: Improvvisazione

4/19/07

“How ridiculous is this? We only have the volumes from A to O! What kind of alphabet ends with O?”

It’s all Greek to me.
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Today’s word: Greco

4/18/07

What’s your number?
“8. We good?”
We good.
“Oh wait. Add 3 to that. We still good?”
Slut.

<shocked look>
Sorry, double digits.
“I need to consult J[] about this.”


<cough>

“So once you hit 10, that’s it for life?”
You could hit triple digits.
“Then you get a triumph!”
“An obelisk might be more appropriate."
But the arch may be more symbolic.

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Today’s word: Tosse

4/17/07

Executor.

Jenny- Italian jewelry, Le Glay
Kevin- Heffalump (Noah and Bucher get visitation rights)
Amy- 69 sweatshirt
Elizabeth- chocolate stash, computer
Mother- hair straightener
Dad- Notebooks
Ms. Levin- paper notes
Laura- bus card, umbrella
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Today’s word: Testamento

4/16/07

"The evening was as uneventful as a spin of Left Foot Red when your left foot is already on red."

Epilogue
U[]C[] and D[] never worked out. I suspect after he found out about her sexuality, that was that.

H[] and I are good friends, and it definitely wouldn't have worked out between us.

S[]Gu[] is slowly progressing with R[]. They've definitely had obstacles, but things look hopeful.

I have to meet with F[]W[] in a few minutes to talk about next week.

The Pope is still Catholic.
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Today’s word: Ancora

4/15/07

“How’s the Italian coming?”
Let’s not talk about how much I’ve forgotten.
“Oh, I thought that the daily word in your Away Messages was indicating that you were picking it back up?"
It’s indicating that I know how to use the Internet and an Italian-English dictionary.


It’s official.
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Today’s word: Italiano

4/14/07

The Best Restaurant Ever is Il Pino at Via delle Terme Romani 71, Bacoli (near Baia). Not only were they open on Easter Sunday, but they put up with my awful half-forgotten/near-hypoglycemic ally faint Italian, and rushed out a plate of gnocchi to go, and gave me free water and free coffee while waiting, and even gave me one of their forks to take with me. Which I returned, for as awesome a souvenir as it would have been, they deserved it back, along with a huge tip.

(This would have been the first time I ordered or paid for coffee if it weren’t that I didn’t do either.)
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Today’s word: Forchetta

4/7/07

[may retroactively add an account of Campania here]

4/6/07

Campania for a week; buried for all time.
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Today’s word: Orologia

4/5/07

Putting things in orders.
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Today’s word: Pulire

4/4/07

Voracious; put it in my mouth.

Can you feel the fascism?
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Today’s word: Fragola

4/3/07

“Cum meis poni statuam perennem
Nerva Traianus titulis videret,
inter auctores utriusque fixam
bybliothecae…”


Hitting the stacks.

“…Nil totum prodest adiectum laudibus illud
Ulpia quod rutilat porticus aere meo…”

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Today’s word: Biblioteca

4/2/07

Cute Diet
Only eat cute things.

This may be impossible to uphold when in Italy during Passover.
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Today’s word: Carina

4/1/07

Nothing better.

A man rushed into the doctor's office and shouted, "Doctor! I think I'm shrinking!" The doctor calmly responded, "I'm busy… you'll just have to be a little patient."
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Today’s word: Cattivo