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Feb. 6th, 2003 08:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
anotheranonI've managed to keep myself busy at both work and home this week. Work: converting a 400+ page PDF to HTML and moving around stored procedures while listening to "Brunelleschi's Dome", a story of innovation, architecture, ego, and the lack of copyright in Renaissance Florence. Actually, it offers a lot of insight into the incredibly time-consuming building practices of 15th century Italy - just making bricks could take up to 2 years!
Home: Drafting the duster pattern until I can get out for more fabric. Manipulating the pattern has left me with hands full of papercuts and pinpricks. My hands are a wreck, and I'd go get a manicure if I thought I'd be taking a break anytime soon.
My evening reading of "Battle for God" (prior commentary) is almost at an end, but going slowly as I find myself staying up late to do other things.
D. and I watched Cold Comfort Farm, a happy, bouncy movie that reminded me of "The Secret Garden" (outsider takes gloomy family and makes them happy again). Worth it just to see Ian McKellen play a fire-and-brimstone preacher - very convincing, but if you didn't hear his voice he'd be almost unrecognizeable.
Guernica Reproduction Covered at UN - I find this just depressing. No, can't have people looking at a painting about the horrors of war when you're contemplating starting wars, heavens no...
Home: Drafting the duster pattern until I can get out for more fabric. Manipulating the pattern has left me with hands full of papercuts and pinpricks. My hands are a wreck, and I'd go get a manicure if I thought I'd be taking a break anytime soon.
My evening reading of "Battle for God" (prior commentary) is almost at an end, but going slowly as I find myself staying up late to do other things.
D. and I watched Cold Comfort Farm, a happy, bouncy movie that reminded me of "The Secret Garden" (outsider takes gloomy family and makes them happy again). Worth it just to see Ian McKellen play a fire-and-brimstone preacher - very convincing, but if you didn't hear his voice he'd be almost unrecognizeable.
Guernica Reproduction Covered at UN - I find this just depressing. No, can't have people looking at a painting about the horrors of war when you're contemplating starting wars, heavens no...
