For those who lived it, and those who heard about it!
I was teaching Beginning II when suddenly everything went completely dark. For a split second I thought I had fainted or something!
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/02/26/florida.power/index.html
See you all tomorrow; and bring your cell phones, apparently they work as flashlights too...
EM
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Some of us will do anything to get out of having to deal with Latin pronouns or certain verbs like ponere (especially when they are in the perfect and pluperfect)
Both my kids, one in New Port Richey at PHCC, the other at Tampa Catholic lost power at the same time.
Extra points go to Sarah as she stood at the bottom of the steps and held the door open to give light for those that followed. (laudare, 1st conjugation, infinitve.... o gees, should it be laudamus)
Noli laudare, Tracy. Holding open the doors gave me something to do while waiting for my next (and incredibly dull) class, Theories of Culture. Why, oh why, couldn't the power have gone out in that class instead?
But Dr. Manolaraki should be proud; I spent the rest of the downtime declining the Latin slang in my Requiem for Rome book. Now I can say "blood-sucking prostitute" in all the cases I may ever need, ;)
You guys ROCK! Ambas (=both) maxime laudo benevolentiae hilaritatisque vestrae! Thank you Sarah for keeping those doors open---I had never been happier to see the daylight; it was so primal...
Now you know I had to put Milton here---some will say that it describes Latin class itself! To me it was more our descent four floors in the dark that made me think of this:
"A dungeon horrible, on all sides round,
As one great furnace flamed; yet from those flames
No light; but rather darkness visible
Served only to discover sights of woe,
Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace
And rest can never dwell, hope never comes
That comes to all, but torture without end
Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed
With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed."
Paradise Lost, 1.60-68
PS. Sarah, I think the blood sucking prostitutes would feel right at home in Milton's hell!
all I have to say about the blackout is:
Haec fatua subito desiit videre.
but thanks to my pedagogue...
-Anne
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