Ancient Greek virgins. Sounds crusty. It was my topic for my five minute audition at the Princeton Review this evening. I arrived almost ten minutes late, even though I left my house over half an hour early, but I don't think it mattered too much. I also ended up paying $7 for 37 minutes of parking. My presentation followed one on defensive patterns in soccer. He faced the board the whole time and lectured. I got three of the four people present up to participate as visual aids. I also had pictures of Athena, Artemis and Hestia - the three goddesses I was using to demonstrate my point. I actually wrote a little something on my website's blog when I got home, more or less explaining the points I tried to make in my audition. I had fun. I am pretty darn sure they'll hire me. I think they'd be foolish not to, with my teaching experience and my scores on the tests (if not their practice test).

I got a call earlier today from one of my Identity kids in tears. She asked me to come over, and I almost dropped everything (including the interview) to do it. Instead, I went after. Thank goodness. The girl's been through a lot of crazy junk in her life - it doesn't help that her dad was recently being held in a border prison in Texas, or that he was deported to a country where he had testified against military men currently holding power - but when I arrived and asked what was going on, her answer was that she wasn't allowed to borrow the car and her older brother was. Sure, she's overstressed and tired because she works seven nights a week and goes to school during the day, and her mom is having trouble coping and finding work because she's too honest to lie about her legal status. Plus, the real issue is a breakdown in communication, not the car. But part of it is just being a teenager. Which is somewhat reassuring.

I want to start looking for volunteer work in anthropology. I've looked at a couple of museums in the Smithsonian (like the National Museum of the American Indian - super cool cuz it's working with living cultures), but I can't really come up with much beyond that. Any ideas, buddies?

Today was less than my most successful day of writing. To compensate for such a lack of accomplishment, I spent my night creating a new quiz for paleothea.com. So now, for your meme-ing pleasure I present:



I attempted to take the last quiz's critiques into account, showing all of the questions on one page, and trying to give options that seemed either funny/obvious OR relevant, rather than some middle ground of both.

As this is also a shameless attempt to get the word out on the quiz, therefore helping spread word of my site and justifying its existence on the Interwebs, PLEASE feel free to post your results in your own journal, inspiring your flist to do the same. If you are SO not going to do that, I'd still love to know whatcha got, so just post in the comments.

I know we're not in college anymore, but can people please do me the favor of taking my new quiz - Which Mythic Queen Are You?

I'm trying to use it to amp up traffic to my site and experimenting with a new quiz format. Take it and let me know what you think.

Really, it's not that hard.

In my dream a young woman who did not know me found out that I was the creator of paleothea.com. She was NOT impressed. And I tried to explain to her that I haven't really worked on the site in four years, that it was a phase, a fun place for stories that interested me, but that now I had moved beyond it. I told her, humbly, that I am very strongly considering taking it offline because now there are better sites out there that do what I did, but better: www.theoi.com for the informative and extensive (plus pictures and easy maneuverability), mythweb.com for funny contemporary explanations with lots of accessible images, and a whole slew of sites dedicated to various goddesses. The young woman nodded severely, as if to say, "well see that you do take it offline!" and I was sad that she did not defend it.

( Old website, new website ... )

I love it when people say I'm masculine. Even a silly LJ thingie.
I'm way tired cuz it's 6:47 a.m. and I've been up ALL night working on my website. And people say I don't put enough effort in it! But anyway, got a couple things done I really wanted to do. Got a LOT MORE to go. Oh well. One fun and visible thing was I wrote up the Aristophanes' (Plato) creation/soulmate myth. Yay website. And poop on all hosty people who are making my life hell. And come see my happy place. :) www.paleothea.com. My heart and soul. And if you are a Classics major, yes, I am aware that there are some mistakes, but it's a damn big site, and I can't remember where they all are (since I've had it since I was 13), so if you want to critique it for me, I'd be thrilled.
In the meantime, a few thoughts about Kirk's paper tomorrow. Hmm. I should look at the assignment. Well! That's enough thinking. Good night!

My journal says I'm 51% masculine.

What does your LJ writing style say about your gender? UsernameCommunity

LJ Gender Tool by hutta

Hey! I MADE MY OWN QUIZ!!!!!! I'm so proud. It's "Which Greek Goddess Are You?" It only has eleven questions, but dammit, they're MY eleven questions, and I did it without ANYONE else's help (except for the care bear quiz from which I stole the format since I don't actually know java script.
So yeah. EVERYONE should take my quiz.

Now that I've plugged my site . . . let me just take a moment to bitch about how I always get Aphrodite. Why do I always score as a ho-bag? I mean, even on my OWN tests. That's just pathetic.

See which Greek Goddess you are.