You Get a Lifetime: The Chronicle of a Semester in Greece
About this blog
My favorite quotation comes from author Neil Gaiman: "You get what anyone gets. You get a lifetime." We have a finite number of heartbeats, and we never know when ours will run out. This is a chronicle of living in Athens, Greece, for three months teaching the ancient Greek arts of persuasion and rhetorical criticism for the fall semester. Just about the best use of heartbeats I could imagine.
Trip Start
Sep 07, 2008
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Trip End
Dec 09, 2008
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There are 148 entries in this blog
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Booked -
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Meditations on Sabbatical -
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Oh, is Your Husband Going With You? -
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Hunting Stories -
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Working Like a Beast -
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Behold, the Map Pin Doth Move! -
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Me Why Greece Friday, Takahiro? -
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Soaring Over Paris -
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Dawn Breaks Over Zurich -
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Nothing to Declare (I hope) -
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Philoxenia: Greek Hospitality -
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I Need a Yiayia -
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Carrying Strap for Your Convenience -
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Two Grocery Stores Too Many -
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The Story of Sunshine -
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Pah-POOTS-yah -
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Woe to Knees -
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Thirteen Septembers -
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Athenian Death March -
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Keyboard! Secrets! Revealed! -
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Dora Does Greece -
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Harry, Hermione, Ron, and Leonidas -
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Day at the Acropolis -
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This Is the Way We Go to School -
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State Quarters -
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This Train, Beach Glyfada? -
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Holy Jesus Crack -
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Observe the Sabbath and Keep It Hungry -
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The International Language of Electricians -
30
It's All Chinese to Me -
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Greek Animal Welfare Fund -
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Feast! -
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Off to the Texas of Greece -
34
The Ferry to Crete -
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Nicky, Nikos, Maria, and Nicholas -
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Rise and Shine, Troops -
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The Minoan Disneyland -
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The Heraklion Museum -
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Just Me and the Waiter -
40
Olives for Breakfast -
41
The Road to Gortyn -
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Gortyn Law Code -
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Oh THAT Titos -
44
The Patron Saint of Our Program -
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Cretan Trail of Tears -
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No Such Thing as Too Much Greek Food -
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Beautiful Tylissos -
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Mugging at Tylissos -
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The Road to Chania -
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My Dinner -
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Morning in Chania -
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Archaeologist in Action -
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Octopus Sarcophagus -
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Girls Lunch -
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Leaving Chania Harbor -
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Snorkeling -
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Pristine Beach -
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Dinner Crepes -
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George the Buckled-In Bear -
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Fun Facts of the Day -
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Operation Clean Clothes/Hungry Professor -
62
Special Day Out -
63
Pre-Funk and Tower of the Winds -
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Poodle Gauntlets -
65
One Month Lookback List -
66
Baby Turtle Beach Parade -
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For Aletheia -
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Stories in Marble and Gold -
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"Your People Are Here" -
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The BibFem Four's Perfect Day -
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The Santorini Eight -
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Bow Before the Banana Fritters -
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I Was on Greek C-SPAN! -
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Howling at the Full Moon on the Hill of the Wolves -
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Dinner for Eight -
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Moderately Democratic Ground -
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The Island of Aegina -
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The Temple of Aphaia -
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None for You -
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The Technicolor Ankle -
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A Blessing on Your Day -
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Show Us Your Belly -
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Farm Boots and Baked Fish -
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Greek Temple in the Oregon Woods -
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Twenty Eight at the Silver Mine -
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The Temple of Poseidon -
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Missing Bear -
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Rice with Curry, Peas, and Raisins -
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Fall Break Diaspora -
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That's When You Know You're in Egypt for Sure -
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Maybe You're Gonna Be the One that Saves Me -
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Welcome to Alaska -
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Papyrus Museum and Carpet School -
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Don't Worry, I Have Horn -
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The Architecture of the Divine -
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Koshary and Kahlili -
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Random Observations on Cairo -
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Charm Your Way to Better Photographs -
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Are You Egyptian? -
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On the Roof of the Stable -
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John Denver is Rolling in His Grave -
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Fun with EgyptAir -
103
Lung I Hurt -
104
Chi-Ray -
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Bed Rest -
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City of Light -
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Even the Dogs Bow Before Him at Corinth -
108
Epidaurus: Built for Butts, Not for Churches -
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Missing Apple Cider in the Orange Grove of Tyrins -
110
The Lions of Mycenae -
111
Andritsena: The Most Beautiful Village on Earth -
112
The Road to Vassai -
113
Lemons and Bananas at Vassai -
114
The Road to Olympia -
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Jane the Olympic Champion -
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Stories in Stone at Olympia -
117
Toucha Toucha Toucha Touch Me -
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Watch Out, Athens Airport -
119
Yummylicious -
120
Thank You, Robert Smith -
121
Ossios Loukas -
122
At the End of the Day, We're All Fruits -
123
Go Ask the Oracle at Delphi -
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The Critters of Delphi -
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What's Your Zombie Preparedness Plan? -
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Sweet Jane -
127
Secrets at Eleusis and Athens -
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Her Majesty's Second Annual Movie Night -
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The Last Hoof -
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The Potter's Cemetery -
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The Dawn of Godiva -
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Welcome to Athens -
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Turkey + Baklava = Greek Thanksgiving -
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Not Even an Ocean Can Cool Our Feet -
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To the Peloponnese with Papou -
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Umbrellas at Mycenae -
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Nauplion: Return to the City of Convalescence -
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Juliet at Epidaurus -
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Modern Epidaurus -
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Evzone Parade -
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Godiva on the Rocks -
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Gyro Crack Strikes Again -
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Aphrodite Funky Butt -
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The Symposium -
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Down from the Mountain -
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Persephone's Pomegranate -
147
Emotional Bloodbath -
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Goodnight, Athens
