Today I tasted what it's like to feel good about myself. Not especially proud or empowered, but good: feeling that I am, as I am, all right. A certain calmness accompanies that feeling, and it feels dissonantly serene. Did the Latin Olympiad today. In Russia, an olympiad is an intellectual multilevel contest that tests one's knowledge on a single subject. Our uni group is doing very good as far as Latin is concerned, so we were exempt from today's class in exchange of us all partaking in the olympiad. The results will be out on Monday, April 18th. We were promised rewards based on our performance, one of them - for those who reach the national level - being the automatic final mark for the subject. Thanks to jadedog, byonic and OftenBen for pushing me to treat myself like a good person, as well as to Henry Rollins for the badass creed from his song Shine.