MOSI fun and more
Jan. 18th, 2005 10:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hel_anaThis being a childed weekend, and a long weekend at that, we had three whole days of fun this weekend.
Friday night we picked up the child, and then headed out to Ichiban, managing to make it there just before everyone else was about to leave. Most of them stayed a bit while Ross and I ate, before they headed out to the Globe. We finished, then went home to read a bit before bed.
Saturday we went to look at an apartment that we *both* really liked, went to the library, then did a bit of shopping. The boys had a father/son evening while I went out to the Clearwater Cinema Cafe with spuriusfurius and cous_cous to see Shall We Dance. Personally, I thought it was a bit cruel to cous_cous, but she did suggest the outing, so who am I to complain? Loved the movie, want to take dance lessons very badly. Realized in the discussion on the way home that the time/money cost is about the same as Ross' (mostly) weekly poker sessions. If I have many more of these realizations when hanging out with cous_cous, of course, I may not be allowed to do so anymore. Hee.
Sunday was church, then some breakfast, then just chilling at the house. Sunday night Ross cooked dinner (yummy chicken and couscous with salad). More reading, and then bed earlyish in prparation for Monday's adventure.
Monday morning, Ross made breakfast, and then we headed out to MOSI to see the new space exhibit. It was much fun, though much of it was aimed at a more adult audience. The Mars simulator was super cool, though. We also saw the IMAX Space Station movie, which rocked. Or, at least I thought it rocked, but then I'd been in and IMAX dome theatre before. John was not so keen on the whole thing. We then headed up to Holiday, and then home for a nap before Sam's very, very excellent gaming session.
I mentioned we hit the library. Probably a good time to mention what I'm reading:
The Search for Nefertiti : The True Story of an Amazing Discovery by Dr. Joann Fletcher -- If you watched the (incredibly overwrought) Discovery Channel special Nefertiti Resurrected, you know who Fletcher is. The Egyptian wig specialist who believe's she's found the mummy of Nefertiti followed the special up with a popular (which is to say aimed at the populace) monograph about the theory, and the history (both her personal history and the subjects' history) behind the search. I'm about halfway through, and I've currently got two main impressions of the book and author -- she's incredibly chatty and perhaps needed a bit more editing, and the reason her theory is rejected by many Egyptologists is probably a mix of two things:
- that she herself is neither an archeologist nor an anthropologist. She's essentially a historian.
- that she writes a lot of "popular" non-fiction. Her writing is fairly breezy, and there aren't footnotes.
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norell by Susanna Clarke - I'm only 50 pages into this one, but so far she shows an uncanny grasp of the language (unlike a certain nameless "author" whose purple prose caused me to foam at the mouth a few months back). So far, so good. This, for the record, is what I was doing during the Great LJ Blackout of 2005.
On tap I have Sharon Shinn's Angel-Seeker (since finding out that it exists), and Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss.
Friday night we picked up the child, and then headed out to Ichiban, managing to make it there just before everyone else was about to leave. Most of them stayed a bit while Ross and I ate, before they headed out to the Globe. We finished, then went home to read a bit before bed.
Saturday we went to look at an apartment that we *both* really liked, went to the library, then did a bit of shopping. The boys had a father/son evening while I went out to the Clearwater Cinema Cafe with spuriusfurius and cous_cous to see Shall We Dance. Personally, I thought it was a bit cruel to cous_cous, but she did suggest the outing, so who am I to complain? Loved the movie, want to take dance lessons very badly. Realized in the discussion on the way home that the time/money cost is about the same as Ross' (mostly) weekly poker sessions. If I have many more of these realizations when hanging out with cous_cous, of course, I may not be allowed to do so anymore. Hee.
Sunday was church, then some breakfast, then just chilling at the house. Sunday night Ross cooked dinner (yummy chicken and couscous with salad). More reading, and then bed earlyish in prparation for Monday's adventure.
Monday morning, Ross made breakfast, and then we headed out to MOSI to see the new space exhibit. It was much fun, though much of it was aimed at a more adult audience. The Mars simulator was super cool, though. We also saw the IMAX Space Station movie, which rocked. Or, at least I thought it rocked, but then I'd been in and IMAX dome theatre before. John was not so keen on the whole thing. We then headed up to Holiday, and then home for a nap before Sam's very, very excellent gaming session.
I mentioned we hit the library. Probably a good time to mention what I'm reading:
The Search for Nefertiti : The True Story of an Amazing Discovery by Dr. Joann Fletcher -- If you watched the (incredibly overwrought) Discovery Channel special Nefertiti Resurrected, you know who Fletcher is. The Egyptian wig specialist who believe's she's found the mummy of Nefertiti followed the special up with a popular (which is to say aimed at the populace) monograph about the theory, and the history (both her personal history and the subjects' history) behind the search. I'm about halfway through, and I've currently got two main impressions of the book and author -- she's incredibly chatty and perhaps needed a bit more editing, and the reason her theory is rejected by many Egyptologists is probably a mix of two things:
- that she herself is neither an archeologist nor an anthropologist. She's essentially a historian.
- that she writes a lot of "popular" non-fiction. Her writing is fairly breezy, and there aren't footnotes.
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norell by Susanna Clarke - I'm only 50 pages into this one, but so far she shows an uncanny grasp of the language (unlike a certain nameless "author" whose purple prose caused me to foam at the mouth a few months back). So far, so good. This, for the record, is what I was doing during the Great LJ Blackout of 2005.
On tap I have Sharon Shinn's Angel-Seeker (since finding out that it exists), and Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss.
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Date: 2005-01-18 05:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-18 06:33 pm (UTC)Yes, I've not been impressed with the general quality of Discovery specials, to tell you the truth. They're always about twice as long as they need to be, because they've included the same bits two or three times.
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