Almost Home
My trip has been grand, and I have a few days left even. Everyone enjoy being back in classes at OSU while I bum around London, England doing nothing until the end of the weekend. When I get back this coming weekend things are going to be hectic for me. Absolutely.
See you all on the 29th.
-Seth
The Curious Incident
I am currently reading that, and I simply want to say it is one of the funniest books I have ever read. Go read it after you finish blogging.
Once Again, Luck Kicks In
St. Lawrence was killed by being roasted to death. He is the patron saint of Cooking. That is called irony. When the Roman empire collapsed lots of technology was lost. For instance, Europe lost the technology to mine iron ore.
Italy was spectacular. On the eleventh Rebecca flew back to the states from Pisa, and I headed from Pisa to Paris. I am working and staying at the Shakespeare and Company. I have been here for two days, and tomorrow morning I hop on a plane from Paris to Dublin, Ireland.
My train from Pisa to Italy had 6 people per compartment, which was awesome seeing as I was being forced to share it with 4 very hot young italian ladies. They were full of energy and questions about America. There were only 5 of us in the compartment which meant we had extra room for our luggage.
My luck finally kicked in though (my bad luck), and the conductor came by and moved me to a different compartment because he wanted to give a mother and her son beds in the same compartment. The new compartment was filled with 4 huge smelly travelers. Not nearly as much fun as the Italians.
I think he should have made the mother and son take another train, Oh well. I got moved and there was nothing I could do.
Questions about Astrology
Question: How many of you believe in astrology?
If you do, then what makes you believe that the stars really do affect who we are or how we behave?
I have met a large number of people on this trip who takes astrological signs quite seriously (i seen nothing wrong with this), and to me I find this very, not dumb, but pointless. I am well aware there are many people who would find my believes pointless too, and that is fine.
I simply never realized how many people out there are this way. It doesn’t bother me if someone believes in something I don’t, but it makes me curious. Besides, I find it interesting to hear people expaining other people by zodiac signs. I want to know more about what they believe in.
To me Astrology is pretty illogical, not that any religion or beliefe is based on logic. Any religion or beliefe is simply based on faith. Is it simply that you want something to believe in and you have found it a fairly accurate way to deal with people and justiy their behaviours? This I could find very reasonable.
I don’t feel that stars have any reasonable physical affect on anyone though. For instance, the monitor in front of you has a stronger physical gravitational pull on you than a star does from a million miles away.
And last time anyone checked the stars were all much farther away from that. If stars were less than a million miles away we would have bigger things to worry about than astrology. We would be doing things such as trying to keep ourselves from igniting into firey masses like marshmallows in a camp fire flame.
Also, I simply find the classifications of the charecteristics of people born under different zodiacs to vague and unspecific. For instance, who doesn’t fit the following description to some extent or at some point?
The energy of the leo can be assertive, competitive, ambitious and full of confidence for the future.
Any of us fit this, even if we aren’t leo. Our pets can fit this. My cat does (she also happens to be leo).
The names of the zodiacs come from what constellation is behind the sun at that time. So for me, a leo, my constellation is behind the sun right now. Not possible to see. However, zodiacs were assigned a long way back and our earth is on an orbit that wobbles, so the zodiacs are all slightly ascew at this point.
Give me your input on this, even if you don’t believe in Astrology.
Quote:
“Happy Birthday To You!!!.
Happy Birthday To Me!!!
Today was my own Roman Holiday, seeing as it is my Birthday and I got to spend it in Rome with my sister! Awesome! No young beautiful Audrey Hepburn though. I did discover a great wine (tyler, this is the wine i will bring you a bottle or two of back… it is great).
The day was filled with all sorts of cool events… Visting the Vatican (did not see the O.P. yet… O.ther P.ope), the Pantheon, the Roman Forum, the Colosseum (walked by it, but i will visit it tomorrow for real), San Clamente (a church on top of cool roman ruins), the site where Julius Ceasar was murdered, and a wonderful birthday dinner. What a combination… crime scenes and dinner.
That will be the next CSI spin off… CSI: Rome, BC
San Clamente is a simple fairly modern Basillica. Underneath it they have found a host of ruins. The neatest of which is ruins a Mytherian ruin, which was a male only cult later eclipsed by Christianity. Technically, I think everytyhing in Rome is on Roman ruins. It is an amazing city everyone should visit.
Oh yea, and today at a cafe we met an older couple from California. Surprise, Surprise, the husband runs an Architecture company, and he gave me all his info and the offer of an internship when needed. And I made sure he “accidentally” saw my sketchbook, which he complimented.
The Pantheon was incredible to visit. We are still not sure how they poured the concrete dome that sits upon it measuring (approx) 146 feet across. The largest of its kind to this day. Huge and beautiful from the front. What was more interesting was seeing the other three sides of the Pantheon, which no longer have their beautiful sidings and are simply bare mortar and brick.
The day was void of birthday suits, which is appreciated by everyone. I would type longer, but you will all have to wait until I get back for a big final update, because using the internet here in Rome costs about 8.00 euro an hour!!! Until then simply keep telling me Happy Birthday! And when I get back there will be a more wonderful post on Italy and Ireland.
Quote:
“Life is to short to get comfortable, Yet to long not to fall in love.(in sharpie marker)
You hippie fag (in blue pall point)
John Upton, June 5, 1999
Sault Ste. Marie, Canada
Hotel California
They must have been expecting me at this hostel, because when I arrived the desk clerk said “Ah, we have a special room for you. You will be by yourself.” He sent me down a hall, and at the end of the hall was a room with a door that said “Infirmary” on it. I looked at the tag on my key and it also said “Infirmary.”
I have never had a sign on my door like that before. I wish it said something like “Police Chief Hardiman,” or “Egg Rolls, 3 for $1.00,” but “Infirmary” works though. I can use the fear factor from it.
The room is very bare and it has high ceilings as if there are hidden cameras up there with night vision to watch my every move. They are on to me. I fully expect to wake up tomorrow minus one kidney. Maybe I will get a hot nurse though (along the lines of kylie minogue).
There is a big window I can open up. I haven’t tried going out it though because I bet it has a secret force field that will shock me into submission. Just like the electric fence mom and dad put around me when I was still young and a cow.
Shingle While You Sit
The bathroom down the hall is strange because when you turn the light on this loud sound like an air compressor, the heavy duty kind they use on construction sites, comes on. I half way expect to go in to the bathroom and find half the place shingled. If someone walked out with a high power air compression nail gun, I wouldnt be surprised.
Cool Super Power Belt of Frankie Avalon
The car hops at Sonic have those neat change dispensing devices. I want one, that way I could display my mentally tallying powers or prove my lack of said mental power.
Actually I dont think I want one. In school an old man came in with one (the teacher thought it would be neat). Yea, my school was full of equally exciting opportunities and moments such as these. Anwyays, you would tell him an amount of change, and (surprise) he would make it. I asked for $20.37. He couldnt do it. He left after that.
Presidential Memoirs
The first presidential anything I remember was Bush versus Dukakis. Rebecca and I made signs, sat in the living room, and rooted on Dukakis. He had a military uniform. He probably had a gas mask, a gun, and and stories too. That was better than a change dispenser. I didnt have a gun, but I had lego.
He and I would have got along.
Free Food For Thoughts
In an effort to free up the tighten economy of Ninjas, I believe the Pope should release all Ninjas protecting him and let God do it. Besides, I think God does a good job with things like that. And the rest of us could all use a few ninjas.
I am going to get married on a December 20th, that way my honeymoon is on the longest night of the year. Sorry if I used that one in a post a few days ago. I cant remember and am frankly to lazy to go check.
Australian money is very plastic like. If I had some I would use it as a coaster, because it is almost as worth as much as a coaster.
If the Popes hat were filled with helium I would want the job of shooting him down with a pellet gun whenever he floated off. I bet he has a dispenser belt like the Sonic car hops, except his dispenses communion hosts and juice.
A line from a play I will someday penn…
Person 1: “Whoever stole our Chirstmas presents will have a nice Christmas.”
Person 2: “Yea, nicer than ours.”
Friday night I learned two new things….
1.) Yogurt after eating pickels is a bad sequence of events and tastes.
2.) My fried egg mustard sandwich is unstopable. If it were a bad guy, it would be someone like Lobo. Lobo killed Santa in one of the comic books, because he is unstoppable. Good thing my fried egg sandwich isnt a bad guy because then we wouldnt have Christmas because it would have killed Santa. But if it were a good guy it would be the Tick, because it is very enthusiastic about being eaten. And the Tick is very enthusiastic about things in general.
Do you think people ever gather around the candels in Cathedrals and make smores?
Last night I watched the following movies at the hostel (none of which I had seen before): Platoon, Aliens, and Full Metal Jacket.
Coconuts have no nut, which is kind of interesting. Unlike most fruits which have a pit (seed), the entire cocount must be the seed.