Yesterday I wrote my end-of-term test for my Mythology class. It was an in-class sort of thing, not a full-blow essay, not that I know the difference. I’m pretty sure that I did quite well.

I guess this is probably the class combines doing well and enjoying it the most, so I’ll call it my favorite, though I don’t really like picking favorite things. This is strange because, as I’ve probably said elsewhere, I took this class in my failed university attempt and it was terribly boring that time around. Fortunately an improved model professor was all I needed. I still don’t like doing the essays and stuff, but the class is nice.

So far the only full-length text we’ve covered that I hadn’t already read is Bacchae, a play by Euripides. I liked it. It made me want to check out some more Euripides sometime anyway. But while reading up on the Bacchae, I looked up one of the characters, Tiresias, on the Wikipedias. There I found that he is the father Orlando from the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen comics. Well now, why didn’t they bring that up when they assigned the Bacchae? That’s the sort of thing that’ll get my interest.

Hey, it’s the last of Little Choy’s year of insulting aliens. How about that?

Also, Phone Guys:

Again, I only have Phone Guys for you. Here it is.

This is a simple one. It’s Windsor Castle in 1841 and we have a discussion between the Queen of England and some guy named Lord Melbourne (Though I always heard “Lord Melvin” in my youth) about letting Canada have a “responsible government”. I’d be a lot more interested in this if the term “responsible government” meant that we’d finally be getting a government that knew better than to do things like leaving the door so the cat can get out or spending all our money on toy skeletons, instead of the political meaning it actually has, which is something about us being allowed to elect folk from Canada to govern. Sounds like too much work to me. Interestingly, this piece has a discussion about Canada, but it is not set in Canada and features no Canadians. Why should Canada pretend that anything that happens elsewhere is important? Doesn’t that defeat the purpose of nationalism?

I must say that this one is a goldmine for great quotes that I would never find a useful in daily life. Many of the best Heritage Moment quotes are just unspecific enough that you can apply them elsewhere. These ones are all pretty directly about the debate at hand. That’s a shame. While the Queen has a lot of good buts, pretty much everything Lord Melbourne says is golden. My favorite is the bit about “some obscure politician from Montreal… or Toronto.” You tell them Melbourne. Also, your facial hair is godly.

I feel I can only justify Three and a Half Pieces of PDR’s Reviewing System Cake. This isn’t a bad one, but it is just lacking enough to be awesome.

Anyway, I assume the handmaiden who said “Pity Ma’am” was later murdered for pitying the Queen. Queenie don’t need your pity, handmaiden.

Tomorrow’s page of Secret Government Robots is not going to be done on time. I figure I’ll put it up in the Saturday slot. It’s still two in the one week, so it isn’t like I’m falling desperately behind. I didn’t want to be missing days now that I’ve started another storyline, but it isn’t too bad. I’ll still be hitting my arbitrary weekly amount, just on a different day, right?

It’s just that I’ve got these two essays due tomorrow and they are stealing my time. And one of them is going to be crappy anyway. Oh well. In a few weeks I’ll be at the Christmas break portion of the year and I’ll have time to get the whole current SecGov story done in one go, I hope.