how I wish to dream again

[hawkwing_lb]

One day, I swear, I'm going to find out how to kill the devil-voice in my head that says, Not good enough!

Today, I managed another 500 words on the structural archaeology of the Roman frontier. There's another two, maybe three days of work left on it, depending on how well I do tomorrow. I managed some work on the other report as well, although less than I would've liked. Then, being too sleepy to get anything else done, I came home and slept for two hours.

I've just been for a run, about a mile. I made good time, and didn't feel like death at the end of it: I might be getting back towards the kind of fitness I'd like to have, just a little. This is good news, I think. Progress.

Alas, though. Now I must be boring and virtuous and translate some Greek verses. Do not want. While the revelation according to John is interesting, and the Greek language is interesting, it's not simple. Straightforward, but not simple.

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[glinda-w.livejournal.com]

One day, I swear, I'm going to find out how to kill the devil-voice in my head that says, Not good enough!


When you do, let me know - first of all, so I can help you celebrate, and secondly, so I can get hints.

(The first step seems to be just... awareness that it's the old programming talking, and not reality. Still working on that one, but I got a late start.)

Also, I'm... not envious, exactly, but some of that, and a lot of admiration. I wanted to learn Greek, and now that I've the time, I have the cognitive function problems, affecting ability to learn much of anything. I still remember the point in 4th year Latin, working on the Aeneid, when I *knew* what something meant and also knew that the English translation was only an approximation. (Made my teacher happy with that one, too. :) )

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Rest assured, when I do, I'll be trumpeting it from the rooftops.

My Greek is very, very poor. Fortunately I have a good dictionary, and an interlinear NT, so I can cheat when I get stuck. Which is often.

(I had to go pick a subject area that requires four or five languages. I'll be teaching myself basic Latin and more French this summer, and at some point I'll need German and Egyptian. I must be mad.)

This is only my second year of (biblical) Greek, and the lecturer has been very easy on us. Small mercies. :)

[glinda-w.livejournal.com]

Egyptian??? *boggles*

I *think* I might still be able to learn basic German - sang an awful lot of Bach cantatas when in my teens. Though we sung in original language, there was the translated text underneath, and I know I absorbed some of it.

I feel very... ignorant?... that I don't know French, but oh well.

And the Latin, I've mostly forgotten, though I think I could recapture some of it; no need, though, and few "spoons".

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

I really really really want to do research on the area of religion and magic in late Dynastic down to Greco-Roman Egypt, so. Egyptian, probably not a bad idea. And since a whole lot of the scholarship on Africa, Egypt and the Near East is in French or German...

I'm doomed. Hopefully in a good way. :)

(I had to learn Irish and French in school. One day I hope to be equally incompetent in seven or more languages. That'd be kind of cool.)