Wow. I haven’t been able to get here for like… a day. And it’s not because I’m capped and the Inter­net is slow and I’m impa­tient, so shut up already :P

So if you can’t read this mes­sage blame a three-letter-acronym (DNS) being attacked by a four-letter-acronym (DDoS), both of which will be under­stood only by a small frac­tion of you, I guess!

Geek geek geek.

Erin’s farewell party was last night in like… Hobart or some­thing… so a bunch of us drove down there and it was good. Or, I drove down with lots of pas­sen­gers and it was a good night/trip, once we found the river under the bridge in Hob­bitsville. Thanks Selo ;-) I only dis­cov­ered yes­ter­day that dri­ving actu­ally can be tir­ing. Or drain­ing, one of the two. Any­way, enough about dri­ving. I’d post pho­tos but

a) It’d be painfully slow to upload, and;
b) … nope, that’s about all the rea­son I’ve got.

It’ll hap­pen April 1. No that’s not an April Fools’ joke. Wow it’s April already. Uni cal­en­dars suck/take get­ting used to. I totally don’t know what I’m doing with my life/when any­more. No diary can save me. It’s odd… I love paper but need my wall cal­en­dar and my uni diary and my home Exchange and work Exchange to all mag­i­cally sync with one another. Guess it’s time to buy a cheap Palm Zire… Doh. Tempt­ing, though. It’d save car­ry­ing lots of books for the big­ger days at uni!

Stream-of-consciousness blog posts are fun. I’m going Zire shop­ping tomor­row I think. Well, online at least. After I fail my Greek test, and after I get home from work. We’ve got a new guy com­ing in tomor­row called Niels (I think? Dunno about spelling… and I have a brother called Neil so it’s not that name…) so the Australian:German ratio of our office is shift­ing more in favour of the Ger­mans again. Heh. In other exciting-work-related news that prob­a­bly means noth­ing to any­one who hasn’t seen the office, everything’s been re-arranged over the week­end. So I’m going to go in on Mon­day after­noon and my PC will have moved again. I’ve seri­ously had… one, two.… two and a half dif­fer­ent desks/desk loca­tions since I started last Decem­ber! (Or was it Novem­ber?) Change is good fun.

I haven’t posted on τρανσλιτερατιον this week, have I? Prob­a­bly not. Bad­ness. I am con­stantly think­ing about that stu­pid sub­ject, it’s just that real work for it eludes me. Mark quipped this evening that he shouldn’t have done two sub­jects in a semes­ter he actu­ally wanted to do well in. I think I find myself agree­ing! Hehe. I’m really excited about our first Eng­lish assess­ment, even if it is a pal­try 1000 words and so on. Just to write aca­d­e­m­i­cally again. And I know the HSC year wasn’t about that but I tried to make it that any­way … hence my Eng­lish Advanced teacher say­ing to me she didn’t think I could get a band 6. A com­ment on arro­gance, per­haps, but I love that sub­ject too much to just let things go and regur­gi­tate. Unlike Emily I don’t just enjoy the idea of lan­guages… they’re gen­uinely inter­est­ing (irre­spec­tive of whether or not I actu­ally study them — I read this great bi-lingual English/Spanish cul­ture blog that’s pretty ran­dom but just occa­sion­ally has absolute gems of information/new per­spec­tives) in their com­plex­i­ties, irra­tional­i­ties, quirks, and asso­ci­ated cul­tures. Inter­tex­u­al­ity is great, too.

Tonight in church we were doing the last bit of Mark chap­ter 7, and there’s this bit that says “He looked up to heaven and with a deep sigh said to him “Eph­phatha” (which means, “Be opened!”).” — and I couldn’t help but won­der “why not trans­late that word?”. Turns out it actu­ally says ο εστιν διανοιχθητι, which appar­ently trans­lates as “which is “Be opened!”” or sim­i­lar. εφφαθα is actu­ally an Ara­maic word (I don’t know what char­ac­ters Ara­maic uses, even, let alone how to translit­er­ate that back!) that just hap­pened to be ren­dered in Greek in the orig­i­nal. So we’re actu­ally get­ting the undoc­tored ver­sion in the Bible, even though it’d be sim­pler to trans­late “eph­phatha” as “be opened!” and just skip that step. Good stuff.

Speak­ing of all that Greek, I should go sleep so I have time tomor­row to learn three weeks’ worth of vocab for a test at mid­day. Yay.

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