9/17/97 - Id Intellego.

     Been somewhat busy with schoolwork as of late.
     Ah well, you knew I wouldn't be able to stay
     on time and post content regularly for very
     long, right?  I'm not the sort who can say
     something new every day.  The reason I can't
     do that is because I want what I write to be
     WORTH reading.  Not some summary of the day.

     I need a slant.

     I'm feeling really good right now.  Very
     confident, actually.  Anna soothed my concerns
     today (she is very good at that) and she
     reminded me yet again why I love her so much.

     I'm also finally pulling everything together
     in my Latin studies.  Before, and I've taken
     many years of Latin, I've known bits and
     pieces of Latin.  It wasn't like I wasn't
     interested.  I love Latin and the whole
     atmosphere about it.  It wasn't a lack of
     effort.  Well, it was at times, but I also
     just didn't see the point in the grammar of
     Latin.

     I'm funny like that.  If I don't understand
     WHY I need to learn something, I just won't
     learn it, no matter how hard I work.  It
     has to come on its own, and I have to embrace
     it without struggle.  Similar to my jaunt
     with learning Java.  But now it's all coming
     together and I'm understand why this happens
     when that happens and why I should use a
     future more vivid here or how I should form
     an active periphrastic.  I see that that's
     how the Romans spoke and wrote.  I see that
     there's common Latin and there's well-written
     Latin.  I see the point in learning the
     formalities now.  And those bits and pieces
     I have engrained in my head are now joining
     with others and so I predict my improvements
     to come exceedingly quickly.  My professor
     will probably think I'm cheating.  But he
     doesn't know Ben very well, does he?

     Everything is coming easily right now.  My
     studies are coming easily, my work habit is
     coming easily, my love for Anna is coming
     easily, pleasurably, and ideas are coming
     easily to me.

     This man ain't in a slump any longer.  You
     get few chances to keep me down.  Looks like
     you missed another brief opportunity.

       "Look now how mortals are blaming
        the gods, for they say that evils
        come from us, but in fact they
        themselves have woes beyond their
        share because of their own follies."

                             -Homer
     
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