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My weekend has been a fairly mixed bag.
Determined to have a quiet night on Friday I refused to go to Josh, Ali and Jen's birthday party...until I realised that I live with Josh...I'll never get away with not going! Sometime around midnight I stumbled down to Penelope's not in fancy dress and not caring...lots of people did compliment me on my outfit though which made me smile...I should get ready to go out in 10 minutes more often...ahem ok maybe not!
It was lovely to see some friends but at around 3am, I was tired and wanted wine so went back to mine with Ruby...before I knew it I'd demolished a rather large quantity of a mysterious white substance and 2 bottles of wine! Oops...It was 8am and time to get ready to run errands in town boring but necessary, I now have blue hair! Whoop! It was lovely to see
octaneglow and Rowan too. :-D
The rest of saturday flew and I managed to get into bed at some time between 10pm and 1am...it's all a bit of a sketchy blur!
Today has been marvelous,
miss_joolz
and I met up with
echo_echo
at Negresco in Manchester before heading off to the Museum of Science and Industry. There was an enormous queue but it didn't take us too long to get our tickets and decided where to go to kill an hour. Looking at steam engines brought back some great childhood memories of being taken to the National Railway Museum in York by my parents. I wasn't so keen on the interactive section of the museum...partly due to the sheer volume of the many children...*shudder.* Some scathing comments and a short walk later (the MoSI was not made for people who wear big shoes, cobbles are the work of the devil!) We were back in the queue to get into the exhibition.
"Body Worlds" is, on the whole a great exhibition, it doesn't change ones perception of death...mearly increases ones awareness of the many wonders that our bodies hide. Anatomy fascinates me, I don't believe that anything should be hidden from those who want to learn...von Hagens is an excellent self promoter but, in my opinion that's not a bad thing as long as you take into account what he is doing, what those have done before him and what we can do in the future. Life is art, death is part of that cycle and can be interpreted and displayed as such...
The coach journey home was very trying...children...how I loathe them! Grrrr....I remember mumbling..."I hear Ritalin is very useful." at one point!
Going to bed now...
Determined to have a quiet night on Friday I refused to go to Josh, Ali and Jen's birthday party...until I realised that I live with Josh...I'll never get away with not going! Sometime around midnight I stumbled down to Penelope's not in fancy dress and not caring...lots of people did compliment me on my outfit though which made me smile...I should get ready to go out in 10 minutes more often...ahem ok maybe not!
It was lovely to see some friends but at around 3am, I was tired and wanted wine so went back to mine with Ruby...before I knew it I'd demolished a rather large quantity of a mysterious white substance and 2 bottles of wine! Oops...It was 8am and time to get ready to run errands in town boring but necessary, I now have blue hair! Whoop! It was lovely to see
octaneglow and Rowan too. :-D
The rest of saturday flew and I managed to get into bed at some time between 10pm and 1am...it's all a bit of a sketchy blur!
Today has been marvelous,
miss_joolz
and I met up with
echo_echo
at Negresco in Manchester before heading off to the Museum of Science and Industry. There was an enormous queue but it didn't take us too long to get our tickets and decided where to go to kill an hour. Looking at steam engines brought back some great childhood memories of being taken to the National Railway Museum in York by my parents. I wasn't so keen on the interactive section of the museum...partly due to the sheer volume of the many children...*shudder.* Some scathing comments and a short walk later (the MoSI was not made for people who wear big shoes, cobbles are the work of the devil!) We were back in the queue to get into the exhibition.
"Body Worlds" is, on the whole a great exhibition, it doesn't change ones perception of death...mearly increases ones awareness of the many wonders that our bodies hide. Anatomy fascinates me, I don't believe that anything should be hidden from those who want to learn...von Hagens is an excellent self promoter but, in my opinion that's not a bad thing as long as you take into account what he is doing, what those have done before him and what we can do in the future. Life is art, death is part of that cycle and can be interpreted and displayed as such...
The coach journey home was very trying...children...how I loathe them! Grrrr....I remember mumbling..."I hear Ritalin is very useful." at one point!
Going to bed now...