first entry in a long time
It's been nearly two semesters since I've updated this thing - so much for me doing a more consistent job with it. I'd like to boast that I have grand ambitions to post more frequently now, but I'm not sure how well I can follow through on that, so I won't say it. But, given that it is the first day of a new semester, I'll try to be a bit ambitious, and at least start the semester off with a post.
I just came back from my Med-Commonwealth Lit class. The prof seems nice, though he goes so fast and I get distracted listening to his accent. He was talking about Ancient Anglo Saxon history, and the way we've been taught history, and how we really don't know much about it - at best, we've been taught semi-plausible guesses. Then he read us this article about 9,000 year old bones found in a cave in England and some scientists ran DNA tests on it and then tried to find living descendents. The man they found with this blood line lives half a mile from where the bones were found. Can you imagine! All those thousands of years, all that history and rumored travel, and the final distance is half a mile. That's kinda boggling, and a bit eerie. I wonder whether that living individual ever had thoughts to move, and if so, what changed his mind. Talk about feeling connected to a place.
I called Smith about parking for my class there this semester and was told that I have to find metered street parking somewhere. Ugh, street parking in NoHo two days a week for an entire semester, it's gonna be such a hassle, especially once the snow banks reappear.
So I'm done with classes for today. I don't really feel like starting reading for this class, so I have to find something else productive to do.
Does anyone still check/read this thing?
I just came back from my Med-Commonwealth Lit class. The prof seems nice, though he goes so fast and I get distracted listening to his accent. He was talking about Ancient Anglo Saxon history, and the way we've been taught history, and how we really don't know much about it - at best, we've been taught semi-plausible guesses. Then he read us this article about 9,000 year old bones found in a cave in England and some scientists ran DNA tests on it and then tried to find living descendents. The man they found with this blood line lives half a mile from where the bones were found. Can you imagine! All those thousands of years, all that history and rumored travel, and the final distance is half a mile. That's kinda boggling, and a bit eerie. I wonder whether that living individual ever had thoughts to move, and if so, what changed his mind. Talk about feeling connected to a place.
I called Smith about parking for my class there this semester and was told that I have to find metered street parking somewhere. Ugh, street parking in NoHo two days a week for an entire semester, it's gonna be such a hassle, especially once the snow banks reappear.
So I'm done with classes for today. I don't really feel like starting reading for this class, so I have to find something else productive to do.
Does anyone still check/read this thing?