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Feb. 12th, 2009 05:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethI was not late for class this morning.
Well, technically I was, by about five minutes, but the teacher was still stuck trying to make the DVD play properly. I don't think it counts if the teacher takes ten minutes to get organised after you arrive. I had time to get the computer set up before I had to take notes, so that's okay.
The renaissance is interesting. I must email my answers from the lesson to the teacher. I shall first leave the computer to defrost. I just got in and computers don't like temperature changes.
I've done a bunch of reading and it's all interesting.
After the lesson I got a vegetable pasty and a cookie (and the cookie froze in my pocket, which was an interesting taste sensation). I looked in the shop for Doctor Who audios but there were only 4 I don't got yet and I wasn't sure I wanted them. I think they're endings and I want beginnings.
Then I caught a bus to the UEA. Talked to E from the S3. Then took books back to library.
Well, book. Overdue. But hey, it's back now.
Then I spent the afternoon in the oversize art books section looking at the Renaissance art. I looked at one book all about jewelry. Because I know what will hold my attention. It links to what we were saying in class today because the half of the jewels that didn't hark back to the Bible were linking to Ovid. Oh, and there were some boats, some jewish engagement rings, and some portraits of royal people.
Then I looked at portraits in other books. Royal people don't look very consistent. Their jewels are more consistent than their face. Some artists must have been very flattering, or else some were rather unwisely unflattering. It's interesting.
I caught the bus back home from outside the UEA.
I listened to the BFA Dreamtime on the bus today. It was a bit... well, I don't know much about Australian aboriginal cultures and Uluru, and I'm not thinking I know more after listening to this audio, but it fits poorly with most other DW. I mean, usually there's science and logic to find out about. In Dreamtime there's an old guy in a rock and everything everyone believed turns out to be trueish. That's... wonky. I dislike it. Even if the solution was to get everyone talking to each other, which is always a good one.
Then there was snow.
I have decided snow is much better the other side of glass.
I have also realised that I should check the severe weather warnings *before* deciding to spend the day in the library, because they were all orange and getting snowed on was predicted, so it wasn't very clever.
But I am home now, and warm, and I will shortly have pancakes.
win.
Well, technically I was, by about five minutes, but the teacher was still stuck trying to make the DVD play properly. I don't think it counts if the teacher takes ten minutes to get organised after you arrive. I had time to get the computer set up before I had to take notes, so that's okay.
The renaissance is interesting. I must email my answers from the lesson to the teacher. I shall first leave the computer to defrost. I just got in and computers don't like temperature changes.
I've done a bunch of reading and it's all interesting.
After the lesson I got a vegetable pasty and a cookie (and the cookie froze in my pocket, which was an interesting taste sensation). I looked in the shop for Doctor Who audios but there were only 4 I don't got yet and I wasn't sure I wanted them. I think they're endings and I want beginnings.
Then I caught a bus to the UEA. Talked to E from the S3. Then took books back to library.
Well, book. Overdue. But hey, it's back now.
Then I spent the afternoon in the oversize art books section looking at the Renaissance art. I looked at one book all about jewelry. Because I know what will hold my attention. It links to what we were saying in class today because the half of the jewels that didn't hark back to the Bible were linking to Ovid. Oh, and there were some boats, some jewish engagement rings, and some portraits of royal people.
Then I looked at portraits in other books. Royal people don't look very consistent. Their jewels are more consistent than their face. Some artists must have been very flattering, or else some were rather unwisely unflattering. It's interesting.
I caught the bus back home from outside the UEA.
I listened to the BFA Dreamtime on the bus today. It was a bit... well, I don't know much about Australian aboriginal cultures and Uluru, and I'm not thinking I know more after listening to this audio, but it fits poorly with most other DW. I mean, usually there's science and logic to find out about. In Dreamtime there's an old guy in a rock and everything everyone believed turns out to be trueish. That's... wonky. I dislike it. Even if the solution was to get everyone talking to each other, which is always a good one.
Then there was snow.
I have decided snow is much better the other side of glass.
I have also realised that I should check the severe weather warnings *before* deciding to spend the day in the library, because they were all orange and getting snowed on was predicted, so it wasn't very clever.
But I am home now, and warm, and I will shortly have pancakes.
win.