elspethdixon | Weekend with Rosa

Have finished and submitted Reference class assignment, and cannot go see Terry Pratchett sign books in DC because car was stolen and I'm too afraid of DC to wait for metro buses in the dark.

seanchai(formerly known as pixyofthestyx) came down for the weekend, and we hung out and did some more work on Egyptology! We were originally suposed to go to SHarecon and a Renfaire, but thanks to the stolen car, had to settle for watching my Staksy & Hutch DVDs and taking the metro to the Museum of Natural History. My new favourite part of it: The hall full of display skeletons from various families of species (cats, canines, seals, cetaceans, hoofed mammels, birds, fish, and primates--including a human skeleton). It was like a giant "fuck you" to the anti-evolution people, though not quite as glorious a one as a the display of all the various equine ancestors in chronological order in the Brooklyn Museum.

I always find myself wishing that human display skeletons came with names, you know, like, "This is Joe Smith, born 1872, died 1923," so that you'd know who they were.

Also fun was the geological section.
Me (standing in front of a display of metiorites): "Too bad there's no kryptonite."
*Elspeth and Seanchai round the corner and behold a display case full of rocks that are glowing bright green under ultreviolet light*
Seanchai: "Look! Kryptonite!"

And we watched Captain Blood, which was surprisingly faithful to the book, and utterly glorious. Jeremy Pitt's crush on Blood was, if anything, even more obvious than it was in the book; he practically had the word "uke" stamped on his forehead. Errol Flynn is apparently the 1930s' great undiscovered treasure trove of woobie (I'm telling you, if he were a modern-day actor, slash and RPS fandoms would spring up around every film he was in, much the way they do for Orlando Bloom). And Basil Rathbone played Captain Levasseur!