Scarborough Fair, redux.
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osprey_archerThis is why you should go to a school with a conservatory:
"War and Peace?" I said.
"Shaiza!" Jessica shouted - she'd promised to bring it to Russian class. "Come by my room after class," she said - "I live in Rosemary."
"Um," quoth I, who have lived four years on campus without realizing we have a Rosemary.
Jessica took pity. "It's one of the decommissioned frat houses," she said. "By Sage."
And our ethnomusicologist piped up: "Are you going to Scarborough Fair? Parsley sage, rosemary and thyme!"
***
Also, a tidbit from geology class. (Which, btw, is awesome. We have weekly field trips. I LOVE FIELD TRIPS.)
The Earth's core is iron, mostly molten with a solid center. The molten iron flows around the center, and the current creates the earth's magnetic field which makes life possible by protecting us from space radiation.
But when scientists first tried to figure out the composition of the earth, they miscalculated. They had thought the Earth was hollow, and now concluded it was incredibly dense: so much so, that the core must be solid gold.
"War and Peace?" I said.
"Shaiza!" Jessica shouted - she'd promised to bring it to Russian class. "Come by my room after class," she said - "I live in Rosemary."
"Um," quoth I, who have lived four years on campus without realizing we have a Rosemary.
Jessica took pity. "It's one of the decommissioned frat houses," she said. "By Sage."
And our ethnomusicologist piped up: "Are you going to Scarborough Fair? Parsley sage, rosemary and thyme!"
***
Also, a tidbit from geology class. (Which, btw, is awesome. We have weekly field trips. I LOVE FIELD TRIPS.)
The Earth's core is iron, mostly molten with a solid center. The molten iron flows around the center, and the current creates the earth's magnetic field which makes life possible by protecting us from space radiation.
But when scientists first tried to figure out the composition of the earth, they miscalculated. They had thought the Earth was hollow, and now concluded it was incredibly dense: so much so, that the core must be solid gold.
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Date: 2010-09-17 09:15 pm (UTC)LOVE IT!
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Date: 2010-09-18 03:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-18 03:23 pm (UTC)She had a math requirement to fulfill. My daughter is NOT a math person. But, thank all the gods and goddesses on Olympus! She went to an art school. Her math requirement? "The History of Math." Yup, it counted.
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Date: 2010-09-18 03:50 pm (UTC)My school has a lab requirement, which can apparently be fulfilled through a class called Chemistry of Art, in which students mix paints and make color wheels.
I think the class is apocryphal. Probably.
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Date: 2010-09-18 04:01 pm (UTC)