It's happened again...I'm almost to the 200 mark in my email "in" box. And that's just on my personal (not my work) account.
Anybody expecting to hear from me may have a bit of a wait. See, I'm gearing up to take the Greek entrance exam in my PhD program this Friday. I say "entrance" loosely, as it's closer to an exit exam than any entrance since I'm actually pretty much finished with my in-class work at UT Dallas. But I still have hanging over me the language exam that I should have taken a few years ago.
Those who've been reading my blog for more than 14 months know I've had a couple of hip/shoulder surgeries after a failure to fly. (I fell down the steps at home, head-first, which meant months of meds that made it impossible to recall vocab words.)
The first exam is this Friday. I say "first" because I probably won't pass it. (Low expectations here.) I have no idea what it'll be like, so it's tough to study very effectively. The good counsel I received from the "powers that be" was to schedule it and flunk it and take it again every 90 days until I pass it.
So...Anabaino ton karpon ton kakon en ek ton oikon. What does this mean? Up + I throw + the fruit + the bad + in + out + the house. That's my way of saying I throw up bad fruit in the outhouse. Okay, so "out" + "house" does not equal "outhouse" in the mind of the common first-century Hellenist, but whatever it takes to remember the vocab, right? Let's just hope that when it comes time to translate, I remember that mnemonic devices have their limitations and write, "The disciples went out to the house," instead of "the disciples went to the outhouse."