Rex et inspirator
Apr. 2nd, 2009 09:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tilly_stratfordOkay, I feel a bit of a git re: the paleography exam. I was going to do the formal exam, then earlier this week I found this wasn't really a good time for writing another exam and decided to drop it, then I had a bit of extra time and decided to give it a shot, and now I realize that the bloody thing's supposed to be delivered tomorrow and I'm only close to finishing one assignment when there's supposed to be two.
Cock. Should have just stuck with one plan or the other, now I feel bad without knowing if wasted time making an attempt, or wasted time I should have spent on writing the exam on other things. Or something. In any case, the exam isn't going to get finished on time.
Like I mentioned earlier there isn't any practical outcome at all; I didn't need the points, and anyway I've learnt a ton from this two-week course. I'm just too good at fretting.
So fretting aside, I took a ton of pictures today. The main Bergen picspam must wait for another day, but I did make a few discoveries while strolling today.
This is the Museum of Natural History:
I walk past it just about every single day, and have done so for eight months now. It's a lovely building and a lovely, creepy, run-down museum. Most days I look up at the whale bones just about visible in the main windows.
And yesterday, for the first time, I also noticed the bust of Athena above the windows.
I can understand it's no big deal for you, but all I can think is HOW ON EARTH HAVEN'T I SEEN THAT BEFORE? It's so obvious, and I look up just about every day anyway. I hypothized that maybe it wasn't there before, but that's insane...
On the same line, there's Outland.
My soul belongs to this shop. It's the only place in town where you can buy graphic novels (yes I know we're supposed to call them comics, but when you say comics people immediately think about Donald Duck and Nemi and the like).
And only while looking at today's batch of photographs did I notice that above the shop's sign, another name is barely visible: AVALON. This Outland outlet used to be an Avalon! (A few years ago, before Outland shops popped up, Avalon was the go-to shop forgraphic novels comics).
And oh! I might have mentioned His Majesty before. He's a statue of a humble woodland animal standing close by the University grounds, and the students venerate and love him. When I was new in town I was puzzled by it and asked older students what the deal was.
"Oh no no no," they'd say in hushed towns. "You don't ask about His Majesty."
And now, eight months later, I find that I do really hold a great deal of respect for that statue. And so it pleased me to find that someone had newly decorated him.
With the colours of the Norwegian flag, appropriately.
The text reads: "Bergen's student society's great protector / H.M. The Hedgehog". As well as that bit about him being our king and inspiration. I love that bit.
Cock. Should have just stuck with one plan or the other, now I feel bad without knowing if wasted time making an attempt, or wasted time I should have spent on writing the exam on other things. Or something. In any case, the exam isn't going to get finished on time.
Like I mentioned earlier there isn't any practical outcome at all; I didn't need the points, and anyway I've learnt a ton from this two-week course. I'm just too good at fretting.
So fretting aside, I took a ton of pictures today. The main Bergen picspam must wait for another day, but I did make a few discoveries while strolling today.
This is the Museum of Natural History:
I walk past it just about every single day, and have done so for eight months now. It's a lovely building and a lovely, creepy, run-down museum. Most days I look up at the whale bones just about visible in the main windows.
And yesterday, for the first time, I also noticed the bust of Athena above the windows.
I can understand it's no big deal for you, but all I can think is HOW ON EARTH HAVEN'T I SEEN THAT BEFORE? It's so obvious, and I look up just about every day anyway. I hypothized that maybe it wasn't there before, but that's insane...
On the same line, there's Outland.
My soul belongs to this shop. It's the only place in town where you can buy graphic novels (yes I know we're supposed to call them comics, but when you say comics people immediately think about Donald Duck and Nemi and the like).
And only while looking at today's batch of photographs did I notice that above the shop's sign, another name is barely visible: AVALON. This Outland outlet used to be an Avalon! (A few years ago, before Outland shops popped up, Avalon was the go-to shop for
And oh! I might have mentioned His Majesty before. He's a statue of a humble woodland animal standing close by the University grounds, and the students venerate and love him. When I was new in town I was puzzled by it and asked older students what the deal was.
"Oh no no no," they'd say in hushed towns. "You don't ask about His Majesty."
And now, eight months later, I find that I do really hold a great deal of respect for that statue. And so it pleased me to find that someone had newly decorated him.
With the colours of the Norwegian flag, appropriately.
The text reads: "Bergen's student society's great protector / H.M. The Hedgehog". As well as that bit about him being our king and inspiration. I love that bit.
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Date: 2009-04-02 10:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-03 09:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-02 11:50 pm (UTC)That hedgehog is adorable. He's all cuddly and protective. I wonder what the story is behind him.
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Date: 2009-04-03 09:44 am (UTC)I wonder what the story is behind him.
I used to as well, but these days I find that this cult of not knowing is so much more fun. He's become far more than a mascot to the students here.
Athena
Date: 2009-04-03 10:17 am (UTC)Re: Athena
Date: 2009-04-03 12:40 pm (UTC)