Fighting the Current

"A Terrible Thought can have a Terribly Long Career"

Not having a good night. Every time I try to focus on my studies, I get horribly sidetracked and lose concentration. I haven't even gotten through half the material for Latin.

So after I spend the entire evening freaking out about various things, I decide to go online... And the stupid computer won't work... And I play with settings and such for half an hour before asking for help. To quote somebody's law, "it works better if you plug it in." I forgot the little light had to go on for the network to work...

I'm not ready for my exams tomorrow at all. A friend asked me where my self-confidence was tonight. "It sent me a postcard from the Azores: 'Wish you were here.' Or rather, 'wish I was here.'"

My self-confidence is digging a hole to China right now. I wonder how long before its visa expires? Then it would probably end up in a run-down Chinese prison. That would make an interesting hostage situation. "Tonight on CNN News: Self-confidence held hostage by communist regime. More at the hour. Now for your local programming. And for those without local programming, we'll show you the amazing dancing seal!"

I'm worried I'll try to decline "president" on my Latin exam... Or conjugate the extremely irregular deponent verb of "gerrymander"

gerrymander gerrymanderi gerrymadetus sum
Can't figure out the rest. There are your principle parts though... have a ball...

And decline "president". Or maybe not. But "prime minister" is easy. (Gee, I wonder who inspired this?...)
The singular of "primus ministor":
primus ministor
primi ministri
primo ministro
primum ministrum
primo ministro

And now for the plural:
primi ministri
primorum ministrorum
primis ministris
primos ministros
primis ministris

(Disclaimer: Even if I declined and conjugated those like Latin, that is not real Latin. It's not even Pig Latin. More like Scrapple Latin.)

I want to go to bed. But I also want to do well on my Latin exam. Why do I feel it's one or the other?

It's almost ten o'clock. I don't know my Latin at all. It's no one's fault but my own...

I don't want to write a self-fullfilling prophecy, but I really don't think I'm going to do well on that exam tomorrow at all. On either exam. Civics is too confusing, and Latin is mostly write-in-yourself, so I don't even have the sort of benefit of multiple choice...

Participles:
active:
present - ns,ntis - "_____ing"
future - urus-a-um - "about to _____"
passive:
perfect - us-a-um - "having been _____ed"
future - ndus-a-um - "must be _____ed"

Okay... one part down... ?? to go...

I need a new Latin copybook. This one has enough pages to last me, but the binding is awful and I've already had to staple the Subjunctive Mood back together.

Back to Latin. I will do what I can.