Couch 179: Even-numbered days in a year

Good luck in class tonight!

Ah well. I cancelled the T appointment for Saturday. What's done is done. I feel a little bad but I only had one thing to talk about and there's no way that was going to take 50 minutes.

art i am serious if you are feeling that drowsy that your brain needs micro sleeps the nodding off feeling. please dont drive it is dangerous. keep safe

Ricotta and pesto. 🤯 like by the spoonful each.

So why do greeks not need an excuse to hate maple syrple?

I love fruit and feta.

So I stopped for gas on the way home/to school, and my car won't start again. At all, this time. Waiting for AAA to get here. Grrr. Likely won't make it to class as they take a while. May see if son can meet me here and take me to school once the tow truck comes cuz they'll take car to the mechanic for me. Stressful day at work, continues... le sigh.

I also loathe feta. Embarrassing but true.

Oh you have to hand in your greek card!

Of course now we wont be able to get french feta anymore. Or french perfume? Are we gonna have to start calling them trump fries? the man has gone too far this time. I knew we were gonna hafta pay for brett, but the tradeoff is Champagne? do i have that right?

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I make up for it in my use of garlic.

How would they help me understand colloquialisms?

I could probably find you an ancient Greek quote that says nothing from outside Greece is worth eating.

I got another T appointment for mid October so now I dont feel so bad about cancelling. I just really wasn't up for it this weekend.

"While Jews used food to distinguish themselves religiously as a chosen people, the Greeks used food to show that they were civilised people in a barbarian world. The social etiquette rules, and diets around food reinforced this. They saw the feasts of the Persians as morally decadent. Overeating and conspicuous consumption were barbaric. Drinking wine straight up was barbaric. The Greeks approached both eating and drinking alcohol with frugality, to highlight their idea of themselves as poor but free people."

My grandpa is at the hospital and he is going to be admitted. So I went to the assisted living home and picked up some necessities for him. At the hospital, a woman at the ER in a wheelchair asked me if I could go get her some food at a fast food place down the road a bit. She was willing to give me money but I didn't feel right about taking it. So I went and got her the food and took it back to the hospital to give to her. Then on my way home I decided I didn't want to cook so I went through the drive through. As I pulled up to the window to pay, the employee told me the car ahead of me had paid for my meal! Wow! Sometimes you just get blessed!

“I [a Greek] would never be able to make an alliance with you [an Egyptian]; there is no common ground for our manners and customs to share, and great differences to separate them. You bow down before the cow, I sacrifice her to the gods. The eel you consider the greatest divinity, and we the very greatest dish.” — Antiphanes. “The Lycon.”

Are you going to cite that?

My ex BIL andhis partner said they would drop in on their way back. i was fine with that on Sunday, now i dont want them to come as it is real effrt today to besocial. Not that I dont really want them to come but just as long as they make all the effort.

I cant win in the poisoning game. its nice and still i make up the poison and the wind starts. the weeds are wild.

(((SlumberKitty))) see, how is that not karma?! i would send that story to Women's World magazine if i were you. They have a column just for stuff like that. But its not usually a double-whammy like this! So great!

Im sorry i keep bugging you about this! I keep assuming that, like me, you cannot HEAR the exact words they are saying without earphones. I guess ive read more british mystery (and other) novels. Plus i watched Ab Fab over and over (i had cable for a while).

Anyway, if i can hear the exact words they are saying, then i can either suss it out or google it. But if its an aural blur, i dont get it at all. Whereas in american english i would, because it would be easier for me to pick out a single sound.

This is a metaphor, right? You're not actually gardening?

Why does this sound like a poem to me? Like a haiku that doesn't follow the syllable rules.

No I am actually gardening, this is a new endeavour for me as my ex liked to be the man and do all the outdoor stuff while i stayed indoors, and occasionally helped with visual measuring in the shed.

I couldn't find anything in the Illiad about maple syrup. I've read it cover to cover, but it's just not there.

You're a classical scholar. Maybe you can find a relevant quote?

It is nice and still
when I make up the poison.
Wind starts: weeds are wild.

So you made up your quote? I am asking where it is from.

Also, one L in Iliad.