oloriel | Randomity

Yesterday, when I brought

shiverdl home after the belated Christmas party at the WG, I said that it was time for Spring. Either Spring, or a decent snowfall; not, at any rate, the lousy cold grey raininess we've been having these past weeks.
Accordingly, it's snowing today. Speak of the devil...

Speaking of 'speaking': Is it bad that today in Middle English, when the question came up whether there was a common root to Old English queþan ('to speak') and Latin quaerere ('to ask'), and if so, where it would come from, that my first thought was, "Duh, Quenya. quet-, of course."?
I think it is. Fun, though.
Eru, I love my Middle English class. I'm so grateful for Mr Kohnen - finally someone who gives mediaevistic classes! And luckily, there'll be some interesting seminars in the new semester: Medieval English Literature, Early Middle English, Historical Pragmatics and Shakespeare's sources. AND registration won't begin before Feb. 1st, so I actually have a chance to get into those classes! *insert excitement here*

Speaking of the belated Christmas party yesterday:

eliathanis painted Fëanor for me. Soooo pretty. I got lots of other lovely presents too - sealing wax and an eraser pencil and a beautiful Paperblank and a pocket calendar and an address book, the latter two decorated with old maps, and a LotR bookmark, but the painting is the best. (Not to slight all the other gifts, I hope you don't misunderstand. I love them all. But... Fëanor! Gosh, I'm so ridiculously easy to please.)

And the Anthro exam preparation made me want to play Age of Empires again ~~even though it's evil and evolutionistic but at least it's not eurocentric~~. So that's what I'll try now, briefly, and then I'll start writing my termpaper on French Colonialism in the Southern Pacific (*yawn*). At least I already have a detailed outline this time.