Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Wife in Labor?

Despite my title, today was a pretty uneventful day, which, actually, was kinda nice.

Newgrange and, as you can see, I did not take this photo
Class was fascinating, we talked about Megalithic tombs, particularly Newgrange, Knowth, and Dowth.  Their entrances are linked up with the sun in different ways, which gave me a certain theory about the tombs, particularly who would be buried in them, but it's kinda crazy and has very little support.  Pretty much I think that Newgrange would hold the highest elite as its entrance is lined up with the sun at sunrise of the winter solstice, Knowth would have the next highest as its entrance lines up with the sun at the equinoxes, and that the lowest level (possibly even people considered evil) were in Dowth as its entrance lines up with the sunset of the winter solstice (the beginning of the longest night).  Like I said, kinda crazy.

The title of this blog comes from when our professor's phone rang in class and we all thought that was the call to announce his wife was in labor with their second child.  Alas, it was not, but we all know that that time is coming up soon (this week or next).

Tomorrow is our first field trip so expect a lot of photos tomorrow, but I don't have anything from today as it was just a day to do some practical things (Tesco, wireless set up, and checking out a book from the library) and roommate bonding.

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