Downtime? LJ, why you do this

[yuuago]

Skull of medieval pirate stolen from German museum

"It wasn't clear how the exhibit was stolen, or why."

The why is something I wonder too. It's certainly an odd thing to steal. Aside from being morbid, it isn't the sort of thing that one would be expected to steal. I can understand people stealing paintings or gold or carved boxes or whatever, as that's the sort of thing that is generally given some tangible value. It's worth something, and we know it's worth something, so even if you hide it forever, you still have bragging rights. But a skull with a nail through it? That's just strange. Well, maybe the person(s) who did it - or the individual who hired those persons - just had a thing for pirates.

Anyway. Today did not go quite the way I planned it. I ended up not sleeping well (again) due to the heat, so when I had to get up in the morning to go to my 9:30 AM doctor's appointment, needless to say I was quite a zombie. Oh, well! Who needs sleep and breakfast and a proper shower, anyway? Anyway, the appointment went well. The doc was pleased that my hand seems to be doing marginally better, and she gave me a referral for physical therapy, and another referral for further medical... stuff (more examinations etc). So, I'm going to get that taken care of on Monday, I expect.

To be perfectly honest I wish my hand would hurry up and heal already. I'm quite annoyed with having to restrict myself from both knitting and writing. It's driving me downright nuts, actually. :| Not pleased. Definitely not pleased. Mostly the knitting... I love doing it, and I was looking at gorgeous hand-spun yarn while LJ was down, and I just. Argh. Okay, so I can't afford that, sure. But I wish I could at least finish the scarf I was working on; it was nearly done. :| So not awesome.



On a lighter and more frivolous note, I was going through and cataloguing my cologne the other day. Good gods, I have more of it than I thought. The main issue is that for a few years, my mum kept giving me cologne for Christmas and such. Now, this wouldn't be a problem in itself, but she has absolutely no idea as to my taste, so I keep ending up with large bottles of stuff that I never wear, haa. Most of it just smells like perfume to me. I don't have a very good sense of smell, and I can't pick out individual "notes" in scents. This is why I like stuff by Demeter; it smells like something specific, and it definitely smells like what it's supposed to be.

Those big bottles, though - they're awfully annoying. I much prefer the small sample-sizes. To be honest, I don't know why in hell someone would buy a person a huge bottle of cologne if they don't know for a fact that person would like that scent. For me, cologne's a rather personal thing. I'm picky about it. I know other people are particular too. Ah, well. I'll make my way through the bottles eventually. They don't smell bad, just not to my taste. Then when one or two of the large bottles are finished, I can get something else. I have a lot of Demeter scents already, so probably not that. But I've had my eye on Lush's "Karma" for a while, as well as Lolita Lempicka's "L", so we'll see.



In other news, I'm reading Sir Walter Scott's Waverly - actually, have been for a while, but it's taking me some time to get through because it is rather long and was written in 1814. I'm sure you all know precisely the style I'm dealing with here - needlessly thick with description and with rather meandering prose, though not as bad as the stuff put out in the 18th century. It was actually assigned to a class last semester, but nobody actually read it. Though I did read a few chapters, and I kind of enjoyed it in spite of everything, so now I'm continuing. It started out really dull, but right now I've just passed a part involving an Incident between our party and some Highlanders, and after a peace-deal with the aggressors is formed, our Hero sets off to meet with their chief. So it's starting to get rather exciting - moreso than I thought it would be, anyway.

I do hope that tomorrow will be more productive. I'm such a lazy ass. :|

Comments

[mumumugen.livejournal.com]

Odd thing to steal, or awesome thing to steal? I mean, it almost seems to have been done for bragging rights. I mean, it's likely that will go to the black market or something but can't you imagine some rich collector or simply the bandit himself having that as a paperweight on his desk. "Oh, do you like that? It's an authentic pirate skull. Guess you could say one man's craneum is another man's treasure, EH?"

[fishlove.livejournal.com]

Who wouldn't want a nailed pirate skull? Coolest paper weight ever.