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Coffee and crossword Puzzles !! What a way to START MY DAY !!
I DO Three puzzles to go along with my TWO cups of Joe , every morning !!
There were very few cars in the parking garage of Ralphs when I stopped in early Sunday morning of Comic-Con. This bird was hanging out on the roof of one. I think he was posing.
Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce VIP START graduation ceremony at the Bolger Center in Potomac, MD on October 5, 2017. Alan P. Santos photography
I'm a third of the way into the time that we've been given to do our dissertations and I feel like I have so much to do - mostly because I haven't really done anything yet.
This was how I felt yesterday about it. A blank page.
Suprisingly I got down a load of ideas whilst sat outside a pub having a pint or two. Hung over today though!
Now that we no longer have a local daily newspaper, we just started getting the NY Times delivered to our door. Of course, there is way too much to read at breakfast and get to work on time, so we'll savor it after dinner. I'm sure the cats will have it read by the time we get home tonight.
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Science, technology and arts (STARTS for short) limn a nexus at which insightful observers have identified extraordinarily high potential for innovation.
START of 2012 Rock & Roll USA / DC Marathon & Half Marathon from C at 19th Street, NE, Washington DC on Saturday morning, 17 March 2012 by Elvert Barnes Photography
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NES (Nintendo Entertainment System)
Cuantas horas de alegria me dio en la infancia... muchas anegdotas rodea a esta particular pieza de tecnologia...
After getting clearance across the diamonds, Union Pacific AC4400CWs 6848 and 6401 lead SD70M 4353 and a manifest eastward as it heads for Chicago.
Just a little extra help to get going. Red Rider activity in Thunder Alley at the Honda Indy Toronto.
Photo reference HIT 2012 SLescard602
Graduates celebrate completing the Fresh Start Delaware program at CSC in Wilmington on June 5, 2025. The event included speeches, certificate presentations, and support from community leaders.
Clearly I'm going through a flower stage. Probably because I have 1000s of competent flower photos.
I got up this morning, started revising, and then promptly fell asleep again. Fantastic. I have little self-discipline when it comes to sleep. But I did a practise exam paper last night, and I'm not feeling so worried. I managed to do okay really, except that they ask for a page of writing for the commentaries on extracts from the different texts, and, even when I comment on every single line, explain where it's taken from, it's significance to the overall plot, and literary features, I can only manage just over half a page. But each commentary is only worth eight marks (ridiculous, right?) and so I should be able to pick up five just by doing all of that.
My translations are still the worst part. & I happen to think the Gawain-poet just wasn't a particularly good writer (and not just because of the language). He appears to plot the whole thing out very carefully, and then at the end there's this twist with Morgan Le Faye which he only explains in seven lines, and even though that was apparently the whole point of the plot it's a bit of a lame duck and isn't used very well and appears more of an add-on, which is a bit odd seeing as the rest of it is so carefully constructed. It's a bit of a MacGuffin and is kind of irrelevant to the rest of the work.
But I can't believe it's in three days. Scary. I need to get my sleep patterns sorted, because I have to be up at 8am at the latest, and at the moment I'm sleeping at 4am and getting up at 12pm.
Oh, but, while during a revision class on Wednesday, I came across what is probably now my favourite sonnet:
What length of verse can serve brave Mopsa's good to show,
Whose virtues strange and beauties such, as no man them may know?
Thus shrewdly burdened then, how can my Muse escape?
The gods must help and precious things must serve to show her shape.
Like great god Saturn fair, and like fair Venus chaste;
As smooth as Pan, as Juno mild, like goddess Iris fast;
With Cupid she foresees, and goes god Vulcan's pace;
And for a taste of all these gifts, she borrows Momus' grace.
Her forehead jacinth-like, her cheeks of opal hue,
Her twinckling eyes bedecked with pearl, her lips of sapphire blue;
Her hair pure crapal-stone, her mouth O heav'nly wide,
Her skin like burnished gold, her hands like silver ore untried.
As for those parts unknown, which hidden sure are best,
Happy be they which will believe, and never seek the rest.
We were in fits of laughter when we read it through a second time. & yes, 'twinckling' is supposed to be spelt like that.
These are the words we were given to aid understanding:
Line 3, shrewdly: severely
Line 6, Pan: god of shepherds, known by the shaggy goat-skin that he wore
Line 6, fast: steadfast; Iris is the goddess of the rainbow
Line 7: Cupid is blind, Vulcan, lame
Line 8, Momus: a divinity noted for his censoriousness
Line 9, jacinth: a blue or yellow gem
Line 10, crapal-stone: a gem believed to be found in the head of a toad
Line 12: untried silver ore is black.
Quite like "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun", really.
But whatever our unseen poem will be I will probably suck at it. I panic when confronted with poetry. I enjoy it when I'm not being examined on it, but in exam circumstances I am likely to not understand a word of it. It's terrible.
Oh, but this is kind of like the last weekend I spend in this room. After this week's exams I'm going home until the next one, and then when I come back up a little later on I'm just coming back during the week. How strange.
And Sophie bought me a ticket to Cabaret as a birthday present. How lovely! & we're going after this week's exams as a celebration of two thirds of our exams being done with. So that's nice.
But I'd really, really like to pass.
One thing that is worrying me - we have a seen paper for our LMW exam. I've written one of the answers, but I'm ridiculously stuck on the second one. I just have the title and that's it. Scary, really. However, I just got my Dad to figure out how many marks I need in my LMW exam to pass, and it turns out I only need six marks. Wow. Glad I put the effort into the assessed essays really. Though I need an 80 on the paper to get a 1st, so I'll just take a 2.1. Unless I somehow completely balls the essay up and they fail me on principle. That wouldn't be nice.
The small field of five horses still finds a way to cause traffic trouble shortly after the start of the grade 3 Sham Stakes at Santa Anita Park racetrack in Arcadia, California, U.S.A. From left: Manando, Dirty Swagg, Dry Summer, Goldencents and Den's Legacy. (Jan. 5, 2013)
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The city of Utrecht, Holland is organizing several promotional activities to celebrate the wide array of interesting features the city has to offer. As a gesture of recognition the city regularly pays an homage to it's Roman heritage in the city elements and archeological findings.
The item pictured here is a spotlight, mounted in the ground to pinpoint the beginning of the evening walk through the city center, called the "Trajectum Lumen", which takes you to several pieces of light-art hidden inside the city centre. Taking this route is free of charge, of course.
Official website: Trajectum Lumen