recalled to life

[thanate]

So due to more than usual "fun" with airlines (not on my part), I am back slightly earlier than expected. Which is probably just as well, as after two weeks of increasing amounts of air pollution from wood smoke and tiki torches, among other things, I am still swimming though bad cold symptoms, and it's just as well I'm not trying to meet grauwulf's family. I'm just about up to laundry, over a 2-day span.

Anyway, much of the pennsic. And the rain. Which just goes to show that they should not have moved it back a week, as lots of rain would have been fine for the first week when there weren't lots of battles to get cancelled from the lightning, and this week is supposed to be pretty nice. Well, high of 90 today here, but still. But it was fine anyway, although I failed to get the most out of the fighting I could have done. But this is ok.

...and in my absence, the library obtained for me an article entitled "An Anatomical Verification of the Reading of a Term in Extispicy" by one Robert K G Temple, which postulates, among other things, that the double spiral of a lamb or pig's colon (unlike people, most farm animals have a bit between the small intestine and the rest of the colon that spirals in and then back out again) may have been the inspiration for the classic spiral maze and various other spirals represented in ancient artwork. And the mini celtic art book I picked up and flipped through briefly at pennsic, belonging to a fabulous woman whose name I completely fail to be able to spell, said that nearly all celtic spirals are double spirals. It is much of the fascinating. And apparently there are clay representations of sacrificed animals which I should now go look up, along with the anglo-saxon chronicle, and the one from Mercia. Must do everything, all at once! Only not just right now, perhaps.

Now if only my sinuses would get over themselves...

Comments

[kittymaru.livejournal.com]

I heard about the Pennsic rains. I almost decided to go last-minute, but didn't and thank God I didn't, but I digress.

Welcome back and we should get together some time. Would you be up for a craft day next Saturday?

(I'm also slowly getting through those books of yours. The first one was really fun. I liked it. Now to read the second... )

[thanate.livejournal.com]

I think the first is actually my favorite. The others are really good, too, but it has kind of a simplicity that I like a lot, before she starts explaining all the weird stuff and bringing in the guardier world and things.