From ev23@umail.umd.edu Wed Mar 8 09:04:13 2000 Received: from mxu2.u.washington.edu (mxu2.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.9]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.09/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id JAA10548 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 09:04:12 -0800 Received: from umailsrv2.umd.edu (umailsrv2.umd.edu [128.8.10.76]) by mxu2.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id JAA09567 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 09:04:11 -0800 Received: from umail.umd.edu (mmount-116.umd.edu [129.2.52.116]) by umailsrv2.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA02232 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 11:59:12 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <38C686B7.CCB264DD@umail.umd.edu> Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 11:58:32 -0500 From: Elizabeth Vandiver Reply-To: ev23@umail.umd.edu X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 (Macintosh; I; PPC) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: classics@u.washington.edu Subject: Unexpected rewards References: <12.2287f6d.25f7c8ce@aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Last night I was idling away some time in DC before seeing the Shakespeare Theatre's production of *Coriolanus*. Olsson's bookstore, near the theatre, has a cafe, and I wandered over to get a cup of coffee. Taped to the front of the cash register was a question: "In Greek mythology, who was the goddess of righteous anger?" "Nemesis," I said absentmindedly, not even really meaning to say it aloud. The young woman behind the cash register hailed me with her generation's highest accolade of approval: "YOU GO, GIRL!!", summoned her fellows over to hear me say "Nemesis" again, and beamed upon me proudly. She said she was "psyched" that I got it right--people had been complaining all day about how tough a question it was--and presented me with my prize: A free (and very tasty) chocolate chip cookie. So there it is, folks: A material reward for being a Classicist! I knew there had to be one, if I just waited long enough... ;-) EV .