Who knows where the time goes?
Jun. 12th, 2003 05:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
altarielGosh, almost a week since I updated. I must have been busy.
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vasiliki came down for the weekend and I really enjoyed myself: it's always great fun to take people around the city, and the weather was gorgeous on Saturday so the colleges looked magnificent.
Went to two museums that I'd not gone into in the thirteen years I've lived here, embarrassingly. Firstly, The Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, which is all rocks in a box... Brilliant - the museum itself is basically an exhibit, it started with a bequest given in 1728.
The other museum was terrific: the Arch and Anth Museum. Really stunning exhibits, can't imagine why I've not dragged my lazy arse before. The three storey high totem pole is perhaps the most obviously impressive exhibit, but I was most taken with the Mexican Day of the Dead items. Top quality Catholic kitsch.
My research contract started on Monday - putting together a 'How To' guide for conducting web surveys. So I've spent much of the week getting back into the groove of that kind of literature - very easy to read, very easy to connect together. Next week I'm going to see if I can play with some of the software out there. It's great to be doing some research that's low-pressure: I can listen to music while I'm reading and surfing again! And people are giving me money to do it, woo hoo!
Wrote some fanfic. I'll post it in a bit. Big Brother is keeping me enthralled. It's been hot... don't like that... don't like it at all. Almost finishing up judging my categories in the Mithril Awards. Not read much otherwise, because I've been writing, but should be back in a reading mood next week.
vasiliki came down for the weekend and I really enjoyed myself: it's always great fun to take people around the city, and the weather was gorgeous on Saturday so the colleges looked magnificent. Went to two museums that I'd not gone into in the thirteen years I've lived here, embarrassingly. Firstly, The Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, which is all rocks in a box... Brilliant - the museum itself is basically an exhibit, it started with a bequest given in 1728.
The other museum was terrific: the Arch and Anth Museum. Really stunning exhibits, can't imagine why I've not dragged my lazy arse before. The three storey high totem pole is perhaps the most obviously impressive exhibit, but I was most taken with the Mexican Day of the Dead items. Top quality Catholic kitsch.
My research contract started on Monday - putting together a 'How To' guide for conducting web surveys. So I've spent much of the week getting back into the groove of that kind of literature - very easy to read, very easy to connect together. Next week I'm going to see if I can play with some of the software out there. It's great to be doing some research that's low-pressure: I can listen to music while I'm reading and surfing again! And people are giving me money to do it, woo hoo!
Wrote some fanfic. I'll post it in a bit. Big Brother is keeping me enthralled. It's been hot... don't like that... don't like it at all. Almost finishing up judging my categories in the Mithril Awards. Not read much otherwise, because I've been writing, but should be back in a reading mood next week.
