Catching up
We just finshed watching Henry VIII. Loved it. I just wish we had it on DVD so that I could have occasionally stopped the program to listen while elisabetta36, the art history major and historical fiction fan, provided context and answered my questions and helped me keep track of the intricate web of characters. Unfortunately there was no dead space in the show to stop and absorb it all.
I find myself thinking about my inability to take in history. I recently finished reading Thomas Cahill's How the Irish Saved Civilization, one of the liveliest and most attainable history books I've seen... the second time through... and though I can remember that St. Patrick was originally Patricius, a Romanized Briton from the south of what is now England, I still can't remember when he was born, when he first established a monastery, or who was Caesar in Rome at the time. Some people I've known can just sit down with a book, absorb facts, and remember them at just the right time to turn a conversation in a more interesting direction. Why can't I?
A sinister voice whispers in the back of my head that this is a skill I could perhaps have learned long ago, but I was too busy drawing pictures of spaceships and monsters.
Speaking of drawing... eh, no point in trying to exlain it now. You'll just have to wait until I get a new scanner.
The only other thing worth noting is that I've stumbled upon Magnatune's ambient selection. An assload of free music, ideal for drawing spaceships and monsters by.
I find myself thinking about my inability to take in history. I recently finished reading Thomas Cahill's How the Irish Saved Civilization, one of the liveliest and most attainable history books I've seen... the second time through... and though I can remember that St. Patrick was originally Patricius, a Romanized Briton from the south of what is now England, I still can't remember when he was born, when he first established a monastery, or who was Caesar in Rome at the time. Some people I've known can just sit down with a book, absorb facts, and remember them at just the right time to turn a conversation in a more interesting direction. Why can't I?
A sinister voice whispers in the back of my head that this is a skill I could perhaps have learned long ago, but I was too busy drawing pictures of spaceships and monsters.
Speaking of drawing... eh, no point in trying to exlain it now. You'll just have to wait until I get a new scanner.
The only other thing worth noting is that I've stumbled upon Magnatune's ambient selection. An assload of free music, ideal for drawing spaceships and monsters by.