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[velvetpage]

I was planning to hit the teacher store for a resource about Ancient Civilizations - specifically, Mesopotamia - but the snow is falling and blowing out there to reduce visibility as much as it can. Hence, I'm not leaving the comfort of my home today.

I wrote another five hundred words. Now I'm going downstairs to read more Patrick O'Brian in an effort to learn enough ship vocabulary to write with some level of intelligence and believability about life on a pirate ship. After that, I'll try to apply what I know, writing a scene where Treeden sits in the rigging and plays with his air spells which will soon save his life. I'll probably write it by hand, because Piet will be on the computer writing his contract all afternoon.

Elizabeth is under the weather, I feel like I might be soon, and all in all, I'm glad we don't have to go anywhere tonight. None of us got much sleep last night, because she kept waking up and calling us.

I've just changed my mind. I think I'll try a nap for a while. Five hours' sleep isn't enough for a Saturday.

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[redstorm.livejournal.com]

The Robin Hobb 'Live Ship' Trilogy is also highly recommended :o)

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

*adds to "to-read" list*

[georgiaskydiver.livejournal.com]

Naptime sounds like a great idea!! Especially if it is cold and nasty outside. Please take some pictures of the snow for us down here in the South.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

There you go!

[r-caton.livejournal.com]

Brrrrr. On the form of the past few years we in London will get about an hours actual snowfall sometime in the next 4 - 5 weeks and the M25 and North London will be rendered helpless.

Wow!

[georgiaskydiver.livejournal.com]

That looks pretty serious. How much snow do you have?

Thanks for the picture.

Re: Wow!

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

Actually, the picture is deceptive. It's taken from the office window, which is on the second floor and overlooks the roof of the back room addition. The snow is not, in fact, piled up to the top railing of any decks.

It looks to me, as I glance out the same window, like we have about 10 or 12 centimetres - 4 or 5 inches. It's very blustery, though, and it's hard, cold snow. So, while it may be 4 inches in a sheltered corner of my backyard, it will be more like two feet in a wide-open corner of the school yard across the street as the wind sculpts it into drifts.

Seriously, I would rather live in a place where I get snowed in once or twice per winter than live in a place where hurricanes turning houses into kindling was not uncommon. It's all relative, right? If this storm had happened yesterday, I'd have gotten a day off out of it, with pay. Not bad, really.

[r-caton.livejournal.com]

I was thinking of History classes at my Grammar school....
We had a book called "from Ur to Rome" (there was another called "from Tudors to Stuarts" but I only did History for 3 years we never got that far)
Ah Ur of the Chaldees....Abraham's home town IIRC and noted for its Ziggurat. Which looked like a stack of Ziggurat packets. *boom**boom*
My Grandad was out in Mesopotamia in 1917....

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

Okay, let's cover some three thousand years in the first book, then about two hundred in the book after that? Then again, I suppose all history classes do that to some extent. I get the next five months to cover Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Rome, China, the Incas, and the Mayans. Of course, I only have to cover the first four, Eurocentric as we still are around here, but I can throw in as much as I want from the others, and if I can find a resource, I may even include the Zulus just for the coolness factor.

This is why I wanted to teach grade 5.

[r-caton.livejournal.com]

Look on the bright side, Mayan history will not be required after Summer Solstice 2012 so I hear...
Cetewayo was quite a fellow...I seen mention of him in Punch 1882, 1884 but they are from a European...no ENGLISH, Damnit! viewpoint, what?

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

If the Mayans were right, I won't be teaching history of any kind after that. :) I kinda hope they're wrong. I don't want a rapture of any sort yet. there's too much to do.

I'm feeling more myself, can you tell?

[r-caton.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear it.
I'm in two minds about the "Rapture". I work with a J.W and he's always willing to agree that the world is getting worse....But he don't try to convert me and I don't try to get him to sacrifice on the workbench....

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

I'm still of two minds about it myself. I'll let you know when I come to any conclusions - but don't hold your breath, it could be a while.