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chairman_wow) wrote2010-05-14 06:39 pm
chairman_wow) wrote2010-05-14 06:39 pm
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Rapidly approaching academia.
[So maybe I'll try cross-posting here? I do quite like DW.]
It's suddenly only a small number of months until I start at UCL! And just when I've just about figured out how not to let myself drown in a sea of ennui and depression when I have nothing to do. What a waste.
I got an email from the Institute of Archaeology (IoA?) this week asking me to tell them what options I'd like to do with my MA, so they can gauge interest. Unfortunately these two, which I really wanted to take, aren't running next year, so I spent forever deciding which of the alternatives to pick. I ended up with these:
• The Near East from Later Prehistory to the End of the Iron Age
• The Archaeology of Early Egypt and Sudan, c.10,000 to 2500 BC
• Archaeology of Late Pleistocene and Holocene Hunter-Gatherers
And as second choices in case any of those are cancelled, The Mediterranean world in the Iron Age, Anthropological and Archaeological Genetics, and The Aegean from first farmers to Minoan states.
I wasn't sure whether I should put one of the Mediterranean ones in my preferred options list instead of the hunter-gatherers one, but in the end I went with hunter-gatherers because the professor co-ordinating it has the more interesting research interests. I think that's a legit reason.
Ffff guys, I am so excited.
Speaking of Archaeology, I've been reading about the MASS Project today. I heard about it vaguely just before I left Durham, but then I completely forgot about it until recently. It's a super-badass project that involves modelling prehistoric settlements to see how they interact with, affect, and react to their environments. I've not finished reading all the stuff on the website yet, but like I said, it sounds super badass.
In other news, my parents and I went to see Robin Hood yesterday, and it was... really, really lame.
They just kept piling on more and more story elements none of which congealed into any proper kind of plot. An element was introduced (all the prepubescent children have run off to live in the woods!) and then eventually "resolved" (crossdressing Cate Blanchett leads them into battle) with nothing in the middle to lead from one to the other. The story with the orphans the most extreme, but all of the plots were similarly half-arsed. Nothing flowed properly. It felt a bit like scenes from three different films cut together into one. And the action scenes were pretty uninspiring, too, unfortunately. I wouldn't recommend it.
It doesn't feel right somehow to make a post without a single picture or drawing in it, so here's an animated gif of a cat that I found on the internets:
It's suddenly only a small number of months until I start at UCL! And just when I've just about figured out how not to let myself drown in a sea of ennui and depression when I have nothing to do. What a waste.
I got an email from the Institute of Archaeology (IoA?) this week asking me to tell them what options I'd like to do with my MA, so they can gauge interest. Unfortunately these two, which I really wanted to take, aren't running next year, so I spent forever deciding which of the alternatives to pick. I ended up with these:
• The Near East from Later Prehistory to the End of the Iron Age
• The Archaeology of Early Egypt and Sudan, c.10,000 to 2500 BC
• Archaeology of Late Pleistocene and Holocene Hunter-Gatherers
And as second choices in case any of those are cancelled, The Mediterranean world in the Iron Age, Anthropological and Archaeological Genetics, and The Aegean from first farmers to Minoan states.
I wasn't sure whether I should put one of the Mediterranean ones in my preferred options list instead of the hunter-gatherers one, but in the end I went with hunter-gatherers because the professor co-ordinating it has the more interesting research interests. I think that's a legit reason.
Ffff guys, I am so excited.
Speaking of Archaeology, I've been reading about the MASS Project today. I heard about it vaguely just before I left Durham, but then I completely forgot about it until recently. It's a super-badass project that involves modelling prehistoric settlements to see how they interact with, affect, and react to their environments. I've not finished reading all the stuff on the website yet, but like I said, it sounds super badass.
In other news, my parents and I went to see Robin Hood yesterday, and it was... really, really lame.
They just kept piling on more and more story elements none of which congealed into any proper kind of plot. An element was introduced (all the prepubescent children have run off to live in the woods!) and then eventually "resolved" (crossdressing Cate Blanchett leads them into battle) with nothing in the middle to lead from one to the other. The story with the orphans the most extreme, but all of the plots were similarly half-arsed. Nothing flowed properly. It felt a bit like scenes from three different films cut together into one. And the action scenes were pretty uninspiring, too, unfortunately. I wouldn't recommend it.
It doesn't feel right somehow to make a post without a single picture or drawing in it, so here's an animated gif of a cat that I found on the internets:
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(I was thinking I'd take my son to Robin Hood, but it just seems too stupid.)
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I've actually seen people praising Robin Hood for its "layered storyline" and so on. I don't know what film they were watching, but it wasn't the one I saw.