The Speech of Agathon

I am sure that when I get to Socrates's speech I will be even further impressed, but as of now, I must say that I really enjoyed Agathon's speech the most. He recalls how all the Gods were no good until the God of love came to be and set everything right. On page thirty-five around 197A he says, " For you can't give to another what you don't have yourself, and you can't teach what you don't know." This was said in the context of how the Love God is a good poet, as well as good at every kind of artistic production, and how he is able to give others the good gifts that he carries. For some reason this quote stuck in my head all day long.

And speaking of sticking in my head all day long.....the story that Dr. Sexson told us today for sure did that. I can't help but feel confused about the whole situation and how he was tricked inot believeing the story that was infact a lie about being the truth, and I wonder if we are being tricked by Dr. Sexson. At any rate, Im gonna go with my instincts and say that I believe Dr. Sexson's story, but I am still a little uneasy about the whole idea of the un-opened package.....I really want to open it.....really really really want to open it. And on a side note, I really like the word "package" its just more crisp and clean and desirable then "present" or "gift." Iknow I am weird, but I just love that word.

Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus!

After hearing our fellow calssmate's converstaion with the opposite sex I felt motivated to blog a weekly occuring converstaion between my boyfriend and myself:

Boyfriend: What do you want to do friday night?

Me: Well I have to work and then I was going to swing by my parents house for dinner. Your

welcome to meet me there if you want.

Boyfriend: I thought we were going to hang out?

Me: I told you my entire work schedual on Sunday night.

Boyfriend: No you didn't. I would have remembered.

Me: Don't you remember? You made pizza and it caught on finre in the oven,

and while i made a new dinner I read off the nights I worked.

Boyfriend: I thought you were talking about someone else, I wasn't listening.

Plus the game was on. You know how I am when I watch sports....its common

courtesy if you want me to listen you have to wait till a comercial, then I am all ears.

Me: Wow! I never thought you could reach the next level of rudeness!

Boyfriend: OUCH! (I stepped on his barefeet with my highheeled boots as I

walked away)

One Page of the Much Larger Book

Out of Steiner's book, "Antigones" I chose to diesect page 222. Steiner starts off the page with a word that is unknown to me, "indeterminacies." He then jumps straight the agrue of men and women and how each would view Promethues' thunderous plunge into the abyss or Heracles' wrestling about with death. He then continued on to confuse me further while explaining how to perform externalization with music and language; and used the word"tenebrous"??? The fact that true poets and dramatisits can open the doors of speach and language and still leave us to decided if we believe or doubt what that poet is saying. All in all, and to be perfectly honest, I disected this page paragraph by pargraph and when I traslated ti and then proceded to put it all together, I know look read what I wrote and feel as though I am more confused then when I just Steiner write it.

I must admit that while in Colorado at my family reunion I had a Persephone and Demeter experience. On my way walking back to the lodge from our condo a truck pulled up next to me, it was Grandpa. He asked me to ride down to Grandjunction with him to get some files from his desk drawer, about an hour drive down. I was looking forward to cocoa with my cousins at the lodge, but I went anyways. I forgot however, to tell anyone I went with him. My mom was to follow after me up to the lodge and when she noticed I had never shown up she panicked and ran all down the mountain screaming my name and asking random people passing id they had seen me. My grandpa figured she would be worried and decided to get her back for a prank a few years past and called in the condo room about three hours later with a ransom. She freaked out and started crying on the phone, he felt bad and when we walked through the door while they were still on the phone together she threw it at him and nailed him right in the head....I laughed for about ten minutes, but the whole family exiled the both of us for the rest of the night.

Skiing in Colorado

My assignment while on my trip was to bring back some photos and tell about it all and the family. While driving to the ski condo we passed something that was sticking out of a plowed pile of snow about ten feet high. My dad made my mom flip a quick U to get a better look. As we pulled off the road we realized that it was a coyote who had been hit by a car, then snowed on and rolled up and over by a snow plow...due to some melting his head and half of his body was now protruding the pile of snow. I couldn't help but think about the coyote in mythological terms. Coyote in mythology often plays the role of trickster, although in some stories he is a buffoon and the butt of jokes and in a few he is outright evil. His personality strengths are humor and sometimes cleverness. His personality weaknesses are usually greed or desire, recklessness, impulsiveness and jealousy. Coyote is often the antagonist of his brother Wolf, who is wise and good natured but prone to giving in to Coyote's incessant demands. Coyote also plays the role of a hero, or even a culture hero, in some stories. I am however thinking that his trickster days are over with!!

Ok, so I am back from Colorado, and so excited to get back into the swing of things...however I got a little too excited and a bit ahead of myself and thought today was tuesday and went to library from noon till two thinking that I had a two hour break, but in reality I sat in the library and missed two of my three classes that I have on Mondays, and needless to say, I felt like the most air-headed person to ever exist. But don't worry all...I will be there on Wednesday no matter what!!