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Zara, I can see your love of Gilmore Girls, plus prolonged exposure to Thucydides, has taught you absolute contempt for punctuation or breaks of any kind in your stream of conscious. Cut down on both immediately. Me agreeing to play netball will be HEAVILY contingent on you finding a netball...

I'm afraid I won't be able to wear the toga to the study day, but if you're very good, I might bring my laurel wreath and wear that. Don't worry Steph, I don't watch Gilmore Girls. It happened to be on when I was channel-surfing, a since Zara had mentioned it, I though 'why not?' I eventually...

I'm sorry, I've never seen any of the Shrek films, and I've never played with barbie dolls either. I'm sure Jeremy will be disappointed to hear Shrek gets Fiona - he probably would have preferred the donkey. By the way, I found photos of me in a toga from that basketball game. You'll also...

Oh Jeremy. At least Ken gets Barbie. Shrek has his donkey. I could make a tasteless joke about you being emasculated by the Greek exam, or your aggregate results, but I won't, because that's already been done many times before. And because I'm not that kind of guy. With any luck, our school's...

I wore a toga to play basketball once. Each year we have a prefects v. masters basketball game for charity, and all the prefects come in fancy dress. I'll give you some advice - don't try to play basketball in a toga. I don't think that's what they were designed for.

The story about why I call him Shrek is a very long one - it's not just because he's ugly, green and has antennae. We went to watch the Laurence Campbell oratory competition last term, and one of the speakers had the line that Ken (as in Barbie doll Ken) wasn't a real man. Ever since, he's been...

Hello Jeremy (aka Shrek).

Your mood swings scare me.

So, this would be a bad time for me to ask how you all went, wouldn't it?

We had to hand in most of the exam papers, but if we get them back I'll bring them on that Greek day thing. In Greek Ext we had a choice of two essays. The one I did was 'What role does Circe play in the narrative of Odysseus' wanderings', and the other was something about hospitality in Book X...

Latin wasn't all that bad really - having English Ext. afterwards just made me feel crap about everything. We're used to having really easy Latin exams, with four-line Vergil unseens, so its probably good to get some sort of challenge before the HSC. Greek Ext. is in half an hour, and after that...

Latin Ext was pretty easy, except for that sentence in the unseen. I seriously suggest you study Cicero's style. There were about three extended response questions in my exam about it, for a total of about 15 marks. I ended up writing the same thing three times. Greek Cont. was surprisingly...

You have to be loose with your translation - there's no way you can be literal with Thucydides and still be writing English. Really, be as loose as you like. If anything, writing literary English shows that you understand the text better, and are more confident with it. The thing at the top of...

In capitals, the 'u' is written as a 'v'.

I'll have you know that there was no 'v' in the Roman alphabet. All they had were 'u's, which could be pronounced consonantally or as vowels. If you want to turn some into 'v's, you may as well start turning consonantal 'i's into 'j's. And then you'd end up with words like 'cujus', which is just...

Latin Ext. was yesterday. What does everyone think of this sentence: 'atque haud scio an pietate aduersus deos sublata fides etiam et societas generis humani et una excellentissima uirtus iustitia tollatur'. That's Cicero talking about what would happen if we believed the gods didn't care about...

Playing with cards is normal. Cards with ancient Greek pornography on them are not. Latin Cont. and Greek Ext. are next week. Greek Cont. is on Thursday. Latin Ext. is in 45 minutes.

Don't worry. You didn't scare me off, the trials did. And yes, you are weird. Your playing cards are proof of that.

Agnostic is okay - I would describe myself as an agnostic, but only in the technical sense that I cannot rule out His existence. On the basis of the current evidence, however, I do not think there is any reason to believe that there might be a God. So, while I admit that agnosticism is, strictly...

There's a bit of Sappho you can study. There's at least one complete poem - it's about Aphrodite - and some big fragments of others. Catullus 51 is a translation of something by Sappho, although I think it's a fairly liberal version. She's not bad, from what I've read, but I have to say, I...