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[yuuago]

Here, have something cool: Ultraviolet light reveals lost details in Giotto's artwork

I feel a lot better today than I did yesterday. Many thanks to everyone who said things to me. Think I needed that.

Had a presentation for medieval this morning. Getting ready for it involved lots... and lots... of flailing. And I ended up printing off five copies of my version of the notes, rather than the prettied-up handout version, ughhh. But even with that, and the fact that I slipped and fell twice on the icy sidewalk on the way to the bus stop, things were mostly okay. The presentation went well. Gods know I can tl;dr about Malory and Vinaver for a long, long time.

Came home. Powernapped. Spent the rest of the day feeling sick from staying up all night, haa, but it's fine. Oh the things I put myself through. I did do some French today so it's not a whole loss. Though I haven't been practising it as much as I should, I'm still having fun with it. At this point most of it is still review... we'll see how it goes when I start learning new things. Might be a while. I've forgotten so much. I do hope I'll stick with this - finish the workbook at least, get my money's worth from it (though now that I think on it, I didn't pay for it. Yay, gift cards). After that... ehhh we'll see if I continue with it, or try a different language. Spanish? Or maybe go back to the ~rebellious teenage years~ when I tried to teach myself German? Who knows.

I'm still bummed about various things, even if my mood is lifted a bit. My left hand hurts from fingertip to mid-forearm. Fucking. Well, I guess I'll just have to go easy on it for the next few days. I'll probably be like, almost completely incapable of doing much after I get my teeth out anyway. :| I'm probably going to spend a ton of time reading and watching movies. We'll see.

SIGH

Comments

[thecapturedspy.livejournal.com]

That's really cool about Giotto's artworks! I've always liked his stuff, him and other artists who use the chiaroscuro method.

Hope you feel better!~
And learning languages is always cool, woot. :3 I found Spanish easy to pick up, although we were taught Spain-Spanish as opposed to Mexico-Spanish (which makes no sense because I live in Arizona, and we're right. above. Mexico :| ).

[yuuago]

Yes <3 And I find it just so awesome that they're developing ways like this to recover what's been lost. Aaahhhhh~

I took one year of Spanish in undergrad. It was all right but I've forgotten most of it. I'm pretty sure that we learned Latin-American Spanish, though I'm not sure if we learned a specific type of it. Siiiigh. I lose so much if I don't keep practising it, hmmm.

[thecapturedspy.livejournal.com]

Yes, totally! I know there's always a bunch of controversy surrounding the restoration of different art, buuuut I still think it's important for people to be able to fully experience the art as it originally looked.

Oh yeah, same here. I am so glad one of my roommates is Hispanic; it gives me some opportunity to practice so I don't forget everything I learned in highschool. And about types--I guess it is kinda hard to teach languages in school when there's so many different dialects.