Bam!

Look at this. I'm not trying to be one of those people who post food pictures to be like "look at what I'm eating because you're not." No. I'm proud of this because I don't cook and this was really good. I could eat this mushroom and wine saucy goodness as soup. It's really pasta sauce basically. I now have cream in my fridge and flour! I can't bake anything because our apartment doesn't come with baking equipment, but the cheapest bag of flour at the store is also the largest. Normally that's a good thing. St. Bernard's stuff is always the cheapest. If you try to wikipedia that guy, you'll find there are 8 different ones...one of them is patron saint of skiers. Another is the patron said of everything to do with wax and also Gibraltar. Anyways, I need recipes with flour. Maybe I'll suck it up and buy a freaking baking tray. Then all cooking options are open to me.

I relearned how not to plagiarize today in Modernism. I spent two hours catching up on reading Ulysses last night and this class was pointless. LAME. The only good thing about it was that I know now, for sure, that I don't have to use footnotes and can just use the regular MLA citation rules I'm used to. Fantastic. They use cover sheets here though. I have to look up the format on those...that's another 8 cents to print though. Stupid.

In Myth the teacher recited the first ten lines of The Odyssey for us in ancient Greek. It was really cool. The point was that it's originally composed using Hexameter--a kind of 5 pattern of emphasis--but when you translate it into English that's all lost. It's also supposed to be sung, but he didn't sing it to us though thank god. He talked about how the bards were revered and considered sacred. I think that's cool.

Walking back here from the store I was thinking of my grocery buying expenses. If I spend 40 a week--which is rounding up--that's 160 a month, and if I round that up to 200 for some leeway, that's 1,600 for 8 months. Which is actually a better estimating for how long I'm going to be here. I'll be back at the end of May probably. Yay. Anyway, that's not too terrible. It's been around 30 a week really. Next week is going to be expensive though since I won't be cooking. It's alright though. That's what the leeway is for.

It's really weirding me out how The Odyssey, Ulysses, and Hamlet are so intertwined. The Odyssey and Ulysses right--same name basically, Joyce is following the outline, whatever. But there's a chapter of Ulysses dedicated to Daedalus's bizarre theory of Hamlet and today Myth man was pointing out Shakespeare's allusions to Homer. It's soooo weird. So coincidental. Good timing I guess.