For the general benefit of man:

"Beneficient" isn't a word, evidently. The word is "Beneficent", meaning "doing or producing good". I don't know exactly where I got the idea that the former spelling and pronunciation was the proper one . . . maybe I abstracted it from "Beneficiary" or "Convenient" . . . or perhaps it's a familial mistake, or even a midwestern inaccuracy - - - but in any case, my tutor corrected me upon this very point this past week, in the middle of class and in a rather embarrassing fashion, so I thought I'd pass on the wisdom with a bit more love. Harumph.

So, other than that my week has gone rather well. Found some funny cartoons (which reminded me of home):

and my personal favorite:

Other activities of the week have stretched from trying not to watch as Obsession #2 tries to buy necessaries for a celebration of my 21st birthaday in several months (we don't get off campus often, and never separately, so I had to intuit that I should . . . you know, go take a stroll down the cereal isle . . . ) to trying to determine whether the peace decreed by Austustus Caesar could be legitimately imputed as the cause of Rome's decline (which my seminar author seems to assert very strongly . . . I'm not convinced).

Curricular quote of the week (I'm going to have to embroider it on a wall hanging for our kitchen, darling!):

" . . . a morally good man . . . must also include his friend's existence in his consciousness, and that may be accomplished by living together with him and by sharing each other's words and thoughts. For this would seem to be the meaning of living together when said of human beings: it does not mean feeding in the same place as it does in the case of cattle." -Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics; Book 9, Chapter 8

and the tutor quote of the week features, once again, Mrs. Molly Gustin:

"When I was young, I loathed going to concerts. I just hated sitting in an audience with all those people looking so very deeply 'moved'. . . . You could just smell a frog."

Have a wonderful weekend, everyone. I'm going to be reading seminar . . . all the time . . . *sigh*

Pax Christi,

Emily