My mother had told me so much about how hard that project was for her.

Maybe I'll wait for another time. I am somewhat happy with my Hadrian's Wall in the days of the Romans book. The drawings are admirable, although sometimes I do enter a strange hypnotic state while looking at them. I have only vaguely heard about, like, the Picts and stuff, but ( Read more... )

Also, several years before yesterday, Prof Cai had walked me through many museums in China. Museumming, as it were, is something that was highlighted on the Cambridge website, where I remember myself as web-traffic yesterday.

Well, here is a clearer link.

It didn't remark on the same things that were available locally, i.e. that one's library card ( Read more... )

I have fourteen books out from the library at the moment which I haven't finished. This includes one audiobook I have unfortunately misplaced. It is called Infinite Jest. I will renew it on 4 May if I haven't found it by then, since it is incredibly expensive to replace (by $45, so the $332 of the $377 is still coming out of my going-abroad account ( Read more... )