All Things Dead
Dec. 21st, 2005 08:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trinityofoneMy parents are coming tomorrow, and I sense I'm close to being pretty really extremely freaked out. I want to see them, but I know it's going to be weird, and then in a week they'll leave, and I'll have to go through the adjustment period all over again. Yes, I know: way to look on the bright side, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
trinityofone! Sorry. I'm just, well...freaked out? Yes, I think I mentioned that.
Anyway, good things: yesterday I got to seesiriaeve, who I would like to inform you is more exciting than doing laundry. (I know. I just did mine.) Actually, she's a blast AND she lent me the first eight seasons of SG-1, which was pretty much the best unofficial Christmas present ever. So I may actually catch up with that half of the canon eventually. You know, if I never do homework or leave my room again.
She also took me to Dublin's Natural History Museum, which is officially the coolest museum I have ever been to, ever ever ever. Better than New York's Museum of Natural History, which I adore; better than the George C. Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits, which will always maintain a special place in my heart for still having the same video presentation I remember from, like, 1988. But this place... Let's just say that you really got a sense that this was what the monkeys in Planet of the Apes got their inspiration for their Human Museum from. I think it's sometimes referred to as the Dead Zoo--every kind of creature you could imagine, and some you couldn't, stuffed and mounted, pinned and wriggling on the wall. It was incredibly creepy and so, so awesome.
Words can't really do it justice, but you're not allowed to take pictures, and besides, my camera was broken. So here are some images I gleaned from the web:
Dude, just when you think you can't see any more dead animals, there are more dead animals. Did I mention that this place was awesome?
Birds, they will fly no more. You would feel bad, except it's all so weird and Victorian that you kind of don't.
Aww, this could be painted on a teacup! Except it's, you know, DEAD ANIMALS.
I'm kind of scared of people who go around taking tourist shots with a stuffed animal they call Mr. Monkey, and yet I feel a strange affinity with them, too. What's that about?
siriaeve and I kept giggling about Stephen Maturin was probably gaga over this place, and hey, if Stephen likes it, you know it's gotta be cool. So if you're ever in Dublin, this is now my official recommendation for the No. 1 thing you should go see. St. Stephen's Green? Pish. Dublin Castle? It's mostly rebuilt anyway. Trinity College? Whatevers. GO TO THE DEAD ZOO. Yes.
Speaking of dead things:plainsong_x, I finally finished Exquisite Corpse while I was doing my laundry this afternoon. I have no real coherent thoughts, but I would like to point out that I ate a burrito whilst reading it. *perverse pride*
And because I promisedsiriaeve that I would post it:
I Touch Myself - Scala
It's a Belgian girls' choir singing The Divinyls' "I Touch Myself." Yes, you read that correctly.
Oh, and whoever guesses what my subject line is from wins...well, my eternal respect? That should be worth something, right? No?
trinityofone! Sorry. I'm just, well...freaked out? Yes, I think I mentioned that.Anyway, good things: yesterday I got to see
siriaeve, who I would like to inform you is more exciting than doing laundry. (I know. I just did mine.) Actually, she's a blast AND she lent me the first eight seasons of SG-1, which was pretty much the best unofficial Christmas present ever. So I may actually catch up with that half of the canon eventually. You know, if I never do homework or leave my room again.She also took me to Dublin's Natural History Museum, which is officially the coolest museum I have ever been to, ever ever ever. Better than New York's Museum of Natural History, which I adore; better than the George C. Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits, which will always maintain a special place in my heart for still having the same video presentation I remember from, like, 1988. But this place... Let's just say that you really got a sense that this was what the monkeys in Planet of the Apes got their inspiration for their Human Museum from. I think it's sometimes referred to as the Dead Zoo--every kind of creature you could imagine, and some you couldn't, stuffed and mounted, pinned and wriggling on the wall. It was incredibly creepy and so, so awesome.
Words can't really do it justice, but you're not allowed to take pictures, and besides, my camera was broken. So here are some images I gleaned from the web:
Dude, just when you think you can't see any more dead animals, there are more dead animals. Did I mention that this place was awesome?
Birds, they will fly no more. You would feel bad, except it's all so weird and Victorian that you kind of don't.
Aww, this could be painted on a teacup! Except it's, you know, DEAD ANIMALS.
I'm kind of scared of people who go around taking tourist shots with a stuffed animal they call Mr. Monkey, and yet I feel a strange affinity with them, too. What's that about?
siriaeve and I kept giggling about Stephen Maturin was probably gaga over this place, and hey, if Stephen likes it, you know it's gotta be cool. So if you're ever in Dublin, this is now my official recommendation for the No. 1 thing you should go see. St. Stephen's Green? Pish. Dublin Castle? It's mostly rebuilt anyway. Trinity College? Whatevers. GO TO THE DEAD ZOO. Yes.Speaking of dead things:
plainsong_x, I finally finished Exquisite Corpse while I was doing my laundry this afternoon. I have no real coherent thoughts, but I would like to point out that I ate a burrito whilst reading it. *perverse pride*And because I promised
siriaeve that I would post it:I Touch Myself - Scala
It's a Belgian girls' choir singing The Divinyls' "I Touch Myself." Yes, you read that correctly.
Oh, and whoever guesses what my subject line is from wins...well, my eternal respect? That should be worth something, right? No?
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Date: 2005-12-22 03:24 pm (UTC)I really do want to get down to Cork at some point. (That is in Cork, right? *fails at geography, and possibly, life*)
BTW, your username totally cracks me up. It makes me think of Dylan Moran and Black Books and the fizzy good. Is that indeed the correct allusion?
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Date: 2005-12-22 03:48 pm (UTC)Yes! You win at university anagrams! Yay! Like any other Cork person will tell you, Cork is a fantastic place full of lovely people and you must visit ASAP and enjoy it and not mock (at least not loudly) our City of Culture nonsense. Ahem. But yes, do come down, and then there will be a total of three people in Cork who like SGA.
Sadly not, but I sometimes pretend it is, because along Bernard's logic: 'slashy good make feel nice' which is totally and utterly true.
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Date: 2005-12-22 04:07 pm (UTC)Do I want to hear the rest of this story? (Yes.) How did this happen? What did you do? And did they at least buy you an ice cream afterwards, something?
A lot of people have raved to me about Cork, and I really do want to go. I may actually try to drag my parents down this week, but whether or not that works out, perhaps I will make an excursion during my next reading week. (Whenever the heck that is. *so confused by school system STILL*) And do you mind if I friend you? I am immensely excited by the idea of another SGA person in Ireland in GENERAL.
And yay to Bernard logic! Well, sort of. ;-)
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Date: 2005-12-22 04:25 pm (UTC)The thing about Cork is that there is lots to see, it's just all over the place, up hills and down valleys, unlike Dublin. There's all sorts of closing ceremony festival things going on this week actually. If it makes you feel better, I have no idea whatsoever what the reading week is. Crazy TCD people. :D
I've added you back, thanks! We should form a support group or go door-to-door, trying to convert people!
Bernard logic gets you arrested, or possibly waking up drunk in Galway after popping to the shops for some bread. ::shifty eyes::
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Date: 2005-12-22 06:51 pm (UTC)Crazy TCD people. :D
So I tell myself daily. (I'm just visiting--I'm actually a crazy Berkeley person, and let me tell you, that is a very...special kind of crazy.)
We should form a support group or go door-to-door, trying to convert people!
Absolutely! So far the only people I'm
stalkingaware of in Ireland areAnd agh, the 'rents just rang--must run!