More pictures!; Easter

I just added about 15 photos to my photo album, mostly of my winter travels, check out the link to the right.

This year has gone by so fast. Easter snuck up on me, and now I have only two more weeks left of school before Exams (I have one final, and one project). It's really hard to believe how little stands between me and the end of my undergraduate career.

I was sick all last week and still catching up on my health this weekend, so Saturday night I watched the first 3.5 hours of "The Ten Commandments", the 1956 film starring Charleton Heston. It went on for 5 hours. Sadly that meant I actually watched the entire beginning, with Moses building cities and falling in love with the Pharoah's daughter, and then starting falling asleep by the end of the Plagues. I was unable to watch Charleton part the Red Sea. But the special effects were kind of cool, for the 50's. The Angel of Death was depicted as the billowy green fog of Pestilence, and it crept through the town; also, the Burning Bush had a glow to it, it was definitely not real fire.

My parents visited this weekend and brought me a little mini Easter basket, and Girl Scout cookies! Which made life okay when I could not find discounted Cadbury Creme Eggs on Sunday afternoon.

Indiana

While at IU I met some really crazy physicists, who told me funny stories. Or facts, I suppose?

If attacked by a bear, ideally she will bite you in a non-essential part of your body (say, your shoulder or your calf). Some bears just don't like the taste of humans, so after one bite she'll walk off. If she starts swiping at you with her claws, you're dead no matter how badly you taste.

The one business establishment in Antarctica is a bar.

In Krakow, every hour on the hour a boy appears in the highest clock tower (I think?) and plays a song on his trumpet. Each time he cuts the song off at a particular point.
Story has it that some hundreds of years ago, the very same song was being played by the trumpeter when the Huns invaded and shot him with an arrow, thus ceasing his song. And they've played the song to that point every hour since.