I kinda miss using and checking Superstimulus so here's a Latin update:

I've finished the substantive part of my Latin textbook, and am now on the chapter about how poetry works. It's cool that I'm done with all the grammar, altho realistically I'm not sure I remember it all (e.g. there's something weird going on with 3rd declension adjectives and/or neuter nouns IIRC), so probably I should have another read-over at some point.

I'm currently reading the supplement, Fabulae Syrae, and it's pretty hard this chapter because it has a lot of verse. Should I keep slogging? IDK maybe - especially because I think the difficult verse was concentrated in a bit I'm now past? Also it's sort of good to challenge oneself? But I sort of worry that I'm being pig-headed and should just switch to something easier (e.g. "Caesar the Ethnographer", a cool tiered reader of parts of On the Gallic War that I recently got). But IDK presumably poetry is the one area where knowing the original language gives you the greatest advantage, so who knows.

I now "get" the appeal of dactylic hexameter, altho I still don't understand why it's 6. Also in practice I have to read it slowly for comprehension and that ruins my appreciation of the poetic qualities. But the start of Amores III.2 is pretty cool, I like that. Hendecasyllabic verse still seems dumb to me, but IDK maybe one day I'll get that too.

Anyway I am looking forward to the next phase of Latin learning where I just practice reading stuff at various difficulty levels in a way where I'm more selecting things I actually want to read and the readings are actually interesting. I think in the short run this looks like graded readers for actually interesting stuff and also just reading simplified texts (e.g. Ora Maritima, Epitome Historiae Sacrae).

Well I should probably get back to reading.