Incoherence, intelligence & insects
Jul. 3rd, 2003 01:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
twilight33This has been a very, very bad week. Sleep is inconsistent at best with an ubercranky teething baby, and on top of it he woke up crying at midnight with a fever. It's come & gone since, but in general something just doesn't seem right with him (hunch is some sort of infection, possibly UTI) so off to the dr. he goes at 4:30.
Nothing in my life has made me feel as worthless as when Kieran is really sick. He can't tell me what's wrong yet of course, so he gives me these soul-piercing looks of 'Mommy? What the hell is your problem, HELP ME!' as the tears roll down (both his & mine).
Apparently all this sleep deprivation pays off as far as college is concerned though. I loathe speaking French because I used to really suck at it (plus have an Italian accent due to a bizarre high school teacher), yet I got a 97.5% on my oral exam. Go figure. In my Japanese art history class last night (where I was certain I'd pass out from lack of sleep), I completely stumped the prof with a question he said was of the type he would ask as a student, yet he hadn't thought of it before & no one else in all the classes he both attended & taught had asked it before either.
So, anyone out there have the answer to how we actually know they used beetle wings on the Tamamushi Shrine (considered Japan's oldest existing architecture from the 7th century) since it isn't in written documentation from the time & they obviously decomposed well over a thousand years ago?
Nothing in my life has made me feel as worthless as when Kieran is really sick. He can't tell me what's wrong yet of course, so he gives me these soul-piercing looks of 'Mommy? What the hell is your problem, HELP ME!' as the tears roll down (both his & mine).
Apparently all this sleep deprivation pays off as far as college is concerned though. I loathe speaking French because I used to really suck at it (plus have an Italian accent due to a bizarre high school teacher), yet I got a 97.5% on my oral exam. Go figure. In my Japanese art history class last night (where I was certain I'd pass out from lack of sleep), I completely stumped the prof with a question he said was of the type he would ask as a student, yet he hadn't thought of it before & no one else in all the classes he both attended & taught had asked it before either.
So, anyone out there have the answer to how we actually know they used beetle wings on the Tamamushi Shrine (considered Japan's oldest existing architecture from the 7th century) since it isn't in written documentation from the time & they obviously decomposed well over a thousand years ago?
