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Dec. 18th, 2010 11:53 am
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I'm alive! Wow .. six months. This must be some sort of record! I don't have anything as interesting to add to the last post's info about the immortal jellyfish, except that I am done with my fall semester and am now enjoying a bit of bliss which is the Christmas holiday :)
So far I think I've slept more than Sasha.
Currently I am trying to catch up on all the reading I can't do during the schoolyear. I've read Ken Follett's "Pillars of the Earth" and am almost done with "World without End". So far the interesting parts have been the architectural details and the characters. The writing is ok, not great literature or anything, and the author is *really* obsessed with sex. Like, weirdly obsessed. So much so that at points I felt sort of like I was reading a cheap romance novel ("my wife just died .. oh no problem, let's make love in the bushes RIGHT NOW!" "My wife just died .. and gosh all I can think of right now is how much I'll miss her breasts." "This man is raping me .. but darned if I'm not aroused anyway!") It got tedious after awhile.
I *was* reading David Starkey's biography of the wives of Henry VIII, but Mom stole it and now I don't know where it is. It's extraordinary how medieval and renaissance life existed solely for the purpose of power and war. People often complain about how violent our lives are today, but the notion of the purpose of war has truly changed drastically (at least in this country). It always strikes me how peaceful Elizabeth I was able to make England--to focus on prosperity without war for fifty years, fines rather than indiscriminate religious persecution.
My old computer died two months ago, but this week I finally got my Dad's big monitor hooked up to my laptop, installed Jared's copy of XP, and am able to play all my PC only games. I hate Windows. It took me less than 1 minute to hook up my Dell monitor to the OSX on the mac side ... and more than four hours to do the same on the Windows side. However, it all seems to be working out nicely now.
So far I think I've slept more than Sasha.
Currently I am trying to catch up on all the reading I can't do during the schoolyear. I've read Ken Follett's "Pillars of the Earth" and am almost done with "World without End". So far the interesting parts have been the architectural details and the characters. The writing is ok, not great literature or anything, and the author is *really* obsessed with sex. Like, weirdly obsessed. So much so that at points I felt sort of like I was reading a cheap romance novel ("my wife just died .. oh no problem, let's make love in the bushes RIGHT NOW!" "My wife just died .. and gosh all I can think of right now is how much I'll miss her breasts." "This man is raping me .. but darned if I'm not aroused anyway!") It got tedious after awhile.
I *was* reading David Starkey's biography of the wives of Henry VIII, but Mom stole it and now I don't know where it is. It's extraordinary how medieval and renaissance life existed solely for the purpose of power and war. People often complain about how violent our lives are today, but the notion of the purpose of war has truly changed drastically (at least in this country). It always strikes me how peaceful Elizabeth I was able to make England--to focus on prosperity without war for fifty years, fines rather than indiscriminate religious persecution.
My old computer died two months ago, but this week I finally got my Dad's big monitor hooked up to my laptop, installed Jared's copy of XP, and am able to play all my PC only games. I hate Windows. It took me less than 1 minute to hook up my Dell monitor to the OSX on the mac side ... and more than four hours to do the same on the Windows side. However, it all seems to be working out nicely now.