"Peace for the hats, ruin to the palaces"
Well, I spent until six o'clock with Volume Two of "The Russian Provisional Government 1917" and have drawn the conclusion that the Russian peasantry should not have been allowed to become literate, because literacy enabled them to leave behind some spectacularly mad documents. (In legal terms, workers were peasants... as were soldiers who were originally peasants... once a peasant, always a peasant...)
I have now made notes on all the documents from that volume we have to read. I need to do the other two volumes though. *lesigh* Oh, and about a squillion other things. Because yes, our primary sources stretch to more than 1,760 pages of documents. That we need to know - or at the very least, be conversant with - for our gobbets paper. Lovely. I am now part-way through going over the notes & trying to find out what all the unfamiliar bits are about. Cos they're the sort of things you might need to KNOW in an exam...
Tea this evening was potatoes & brocolli. Mmm, brocolli... And then I had a vair scrummy pretend-icecream thing for pudding. It does seem a bit weird I rely on health food shoips for my junk food but... *happy noises* Tea was also good in terms of conversation as I saw Rachel and I'd not yet seen her this term, so we caught up a bit. And avoided work... which is always a bonus and a plus...
I am a bit worried I may forget I am going to Rainbows tomorrow. Half five at the hut. Must not forget. Am going to help plant sunflowers & make cress caterpillars. Very exciting stuff.
I have now made notes on all the documents from that volume we have to read. I need to do the other two volumes though. *lesigh* Oh, and about a squillion other things. Because yes, our primary sources stretch to more than 1,760 pages of documents. That we need to know - or at the very least, be conversant with - for our gobbets paper. Lovely. I am now part-way through going over the notes & trying to find out what all the unfamiliar bits are about. Cos they're the sort of things you might need to KNOW in an exam...
Tea this evening was potatoes & brocolli. Mmm, brocolli... And then I had a vair scrummy pretend-icecream thing for pudding. It does seem a bit weird I rely on health food shoips for my junk food but... *happy noises* Tea was also good in terms of conversation as I saw Rachel and I'd not yet seen her this term, so we caught up a bit. And avoided work... which is always a bonus and a plus...
I am a bit worried I may forget I am going to Rainbows tomorrow. Half five at the hut. Must not forget. Am going to help plant sunflowers & make cress caterpillars. Very exciting stuff.