elanya

I am ridiculously tired today, and it should be about bee time soon, so, yes. Tired ;_;

last night i went over to Carlos's place with LeeAnn and earis. We watched The Mummy :D Well, first we watched L'Annie's video on the building and launching of Lynx ( a war of 1812 Privateer replica ship on which she has worked). I can't believe how many people haven't seen the mummy, though. it is so so sweet. It is the movie with the greatest replay value for me, though I am not sure I would put it on the top of my list of favourites. Good times were had, in any case. tonight is movie night, and I should probably call about getting a ride. And maybe bring a snack. maybe baking would wake me up. Or I could do more reading...

I have read and skimmed a lot of stuff since Wednesday: both volumes of Barlow's Journal (about 600 pages total), a 650 page book on life in the navy, Uring's journal, and I'm now 150 pages into Dampier's first voyage. The journals are really interesting, with all sorts of cool bits, and it is had to stay focused on just skimming for stuff useful for my paper. Dampier, especially, is a character and a half he has all these really rich descriptions of various fauna of the exotic places he'd been, and notes about how they taste ;) This is quite common in all the journals, but Dampier is more detailed about animals. He is seen as being an early naturalist, but really I just think he had a mission similar to fritzleonhardt's: to eat one of each of God's creatures ;p

I also planned to work on my Fluyt presentation this weekend, but I haven't yet. Blah! I anted to ask tethys123 about how she makes those cool powerpoint backgrounds... Are you going in to school on Monday perchance?

I just fell asleep with a belly full of acidic juice, and am living to regret it, bleh.

In other news, I have posted the latest complete chapter of Shadows, but don't expect me to have any time for typing more (let alone writing) before next Monday!

Not going to copy it out, but the next page talks about how after they sold all their slaves at Nevis, they were caught in a storm, and in the middle of furling the spritsail, and the foot ropes broke and the only thing that kept him from being lost at sea was the fact that he held on to the gasket and it took them like 20 min to get him back on board safely D:

Okay, enough procrastination stories from me!