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I'm sorry I've been ignoring this thing! I just really haven't had time to go on here and nothing really to update about. You all know what's been happening and if you don't, well, I'm sorry. Anyway, things are looking up again and maybe I've saved myself to actually falling into a pit as I had thought a few weeks ago. Time is flying by quickly as usual and I have gained another idea for a book that I might actually do, as soon as I figure out the plot completely. It'll be fun. Karis and I haven't worked on editing since the beginning of school. We will during breaks though, hopefully. Anyway, we should have it done over the next year or so.
I will be busy for the next five weeks with this model thing I'm doing for math. It'll be fun! Ask me if you want to know more about it, but I don't think anyone else can join the group since we already have Karis, Miriam, Sammy, Yamani and me. I think it's quite enough and we should be able to accomplish a lot. Wish us luck in the competition we will hopefully go to in December with it!
On more current news: my mom decided to educate me yesterday on the history of the statue of David. It was really pretty cool. Apparently, what happened was the church wanted a statue to put on the dome on top of its main church right after the medival ages had begun ending... if that makes any sense at all. For that, they had purchased a huge, expensive block of marble that was extremely tall and narrow. They asked two sculptors to make a statue out of it, so the sculptors looked at it and looked at it, but, ironically, said that they couldn't do anything with it because it would just fall over. So this huge block of stone wound up just lying around for about 50 years until Michelangelo came around, and, at 23, offered to make something out of it. So, he worked on it for 3 years and let the church see it for the first time after 2. He became obsessed with working on it and turned extremely sickly, having worked on it every day for 16 hours. Well, since this was still right after the medival era, the church looked at it and were extremely astonished because at that time people were still covering themselves as much as possible and all of a sudden they have this giant naked statue before them, but then they realized how beautiful it was. So, when Michelangelo finished, they decided it was too beautiful to put on a dome and put it in the town square which is even better in the sense that now the women have to see this naked statue too. Michelangelo wound up hating it in the end, along with Leonardo DaVinci.
Enough on that. My birthday is next Saturday... in about a week! Woot!
Now, I better have lots of comments on this update because if I don't, I will stop using my livejournal altogether.
I will be busy for the next five weeks with this model thing I'm doing for math. It'll be fun! Ask me if you want to know more about it, but I don't think anyone else can join the group since we already have Karis, Miriam, Sammy, Yamani and me. I think it's quite enough and we should be able to accomplish a lot. Wish us luck in the competition we will hopefully go to in December with it!
On more current news: my mom decided to educate me yesterday on the history of the statue of David. It was really pretty cool. Apparently, what happened was the church wanted a statue to put on the dome on top of its main church right after the medival ages had begun ending... if that makes any sense at all. For that, they had purchased a huge, expensive block of marble that was extremely tall and narrow. They asked two sculptors to make a statue out of it, so the sculptors looked at it and looked at it, but, ironically, said that they couldn't do anything with it because it would just fall over. So this huge block of stone wound up just lying around for about 50 years until Michelangelo came around, and, at 23, offered to make something out of it. So, he worked on it for 3 years and let the church see it for the first time after 2. He became obsessed with working on it and turned extremely sickly, having worked on it every day for 16 hours. Well, since this was still right after the medival era, the church looked at it and were extremely astonished because at that time people were still covering themselves as much as possible and all of a sudden they have this giant naked statue before them, but then they realized how beautiful it was. So, when Michelangelo finished, they decided it was too beautiful to put on a dome and put it in the town square which is even better in the sense that now the women have to see this naked statue too. Michelangelo wound up hating it in the end, along with Leonardo DaVinci.
Enough on that. My birthday is next Saturday... in about a week! Woot!
Now, I better have lots of comments on this update because if I don't, I will stop using my livejournal altogether.