*drools* Biblical archaeology...

*steals this week's TIME magazine and hoards it*

Uberspiffy article on Mary Magdalene. VERY uberspiffy. My precious...

I should've kept the issue on Abraham they had a few months ago. There are a couple issues I should've not let gotten recycled... *sigh*

I love biblical archaeology. It's so interesting. I generally dislike Christianity, and especially people who continually say that various things are true because God said so ("Really? Well, he never told me that... next time you see him, could you please ask him to send me an email about that, 'cos you see, I'm not entirely inclined to trust you considering I don't know who the hell you are..."), but biblical archaeology is dead fascinating. There are people who take the Bible as a history book, and I'm afraid I can't say anything nice about them, and then there are the people who research stuff to find out how much is true, but don't assume it all is. These people are called biblical archaeologists and I bloody LOVE them.

On a related note, there's something about finding the tomb of Nefertiti on Discovery Channel at some point this month, and I really hope I haven't missed it, but I have to go find out when it is/was....

And on a note related to that, I need a good book of Egyptian mythology. I know a lot of random stuff about Egypt but only about three of their myths.

On a COMPLETELY unrelated note, Dour K posted "Lord Celeborn Kicks Butt... With Style" today, the third in the Kicks Butt series, following "Good King Thranduil Kicks Butt" and "Genuine Prince Legolas Kicks Butt". I looooove the Kicks Butt series. *worships Dour K*

Sigh...

I pull myself out of my historical bubble and my mood crashes... I'm sick of schoolwork, I don't want to accomplish anything, I don't want to read and think about it, I don't want to write, I'm getting fidgety and lonely and if I can't see any of my friends than I just want to curl up with some soft fantasy novel, nothing deep, I don't want to read Tolkien or Shakespeare or Ivanhoe or Beowulf or History of the Ancient World, the books I have sitting on my desk at the moment; no mythology or historical fiction, I don't want anything pertaining to this world, and I sure as hell don't want any thinkwork. I need a break from think-reading, a social break would be nice, but there's nobody around... Matt, Moody, Ella, Packy, Beky, and Chris are all away, and Ella the only one of the lot that I could talk to online, and she'll probably be on later but that doesn't help me now. Thalia hasn't been on a lot lately; I haven't spoken to her in a while... same goes for Ben, no LJ, no IM, no RL contact. I've had a depressingly un-social summer... I spend the time when Matt is here hanging out with him and Moody, the time he's not here never leaving the house. I only see Ben at the Jacoby's. Packy's been gone all summer, I can only talk to him online but he's not very conversant online. I've gone and gotten Eddy mad at me so I don't have her to talk to either; Beky's been gone; Chris I've seen twice all summer--Mideival Times, and when I went to see Beky. I remember near the end of school, Chris and I whining about next year, how we won't see each other as often... well, I seem to have gotten a good crash course in complete lack of contact with him, so next year'll be a blessing in that I'll get to see him more often than I have this summer. Assuming he actually cares to talk to me.

I really don't want to think about school starting in the fall; school is generally hateful... school is why I'm doing so much damned thinkwork in the middle of summer vacation; school will be lonely with friends gone... although I hope it will never again come to where I just don't have anybody to talk to, no reason to speak a word the entire morning, to where I sit curled up with a book in front of my locker during lunch. I don't believe I realized that I was depressed last year until the depression lifted; I didn't realize how alone I was until I found people again. I remember the spring more than I remember the rest of the year; the fourth marking period, with all its strife, seemed a blessing to me, because it was preceded by the first three marking periods. And I'm just praying that never happens again.

So now I am here without my two main means of escapism, friends and light reading, and can either continue working or continue feeling sorry for myself. Gaaaah.

-Claudia, wondering where everyone's gone

Quiz.

You excel at History of Magic. You seem to have
the mind for history, while everyone else is
getting a little shut-eye you're alert and
taking notes.


Which Class at Hogwarts Would You Excel at?
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