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Four things that entertained me today:
1. #fieldworkfail (h/t Mer)
2. Roger Rees explaining why an actor should never wear lace-up boots during the last act of a play (25:51): https://youtu.be/4_r9JsBbIh8?t=25m53s. And also Noel Coward's visit to Vivien Leigh after a performance of Titus Andronicus.
3. Edward Petherbridge on arresting one's undulations.
4. My sweetie dissecting the claims on the label of the beer he is drinking.
Four reasons I had a crush on my 8th-grade Spanish teacher:
1. He wrote out exams in calligraphy.
2. He played "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" on the guitar after-hours.
3. He was really, really smart and articulate.
4. His strategies for dealing with nuisances included throwing erasers (at students) and shooting rubber bands (at flies).
Prompt 4 in the #100untimedbooks photo challenge -- the rest is history:
My brother wove the front of the pillow in art class. The book was a gift from the Spanish teacher, with the inscription "Keep interested in everything."
Four items translated from Spanish I've edited within the past year:
1. Sixteenth-century verses, by St. John of the Cross
2. Twentieth-century Mexican police reports
3. Quotations from seventeenth-century wills
4. Lyrics from nineteenth-century musical duels
Sadly, I'm not actually fluent in Spanish. I didn't stick with it beyond my second year of study. Still, someday I shall seek to soak up enough of it to speak to strangers in Seville.
[This last paragraph has been added because the BYM spotted the subject line and said, "There's always a letter..."]
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1. #fieldworkfail (h/t Mer)
Bait small mammal traps with peanut butter. Catch a herd of camels with long tongues and a sweet tooth. #fieldworkfail
— James Borrell (@James_Borrell) July 31, 2015
Accidentally glued myself to a crocodile while attaching a radio transmitter. #fieldworkfail
— Agata Staniewicz (@AgataStaniewicz) July 30, 2015
2. Roger Rees explaining why an actor should never wear lace-up boots during the last act of a play (25:51): https://youtu.be/4_r9JsBbIh8?t=25m53s. And also Noel Coward's visit to Vivien Leigh after a performance of Titus Andronicus.
3. Edward Petherbridge on arresting one's undulations.
4. My sweetie dissecting the claims on the label of the beer he is drinking.
Four reasons I had a crush on my 8th-grade Spanish teacher:
1. He wrote out exams in calligraphy.
2. He played "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" on the guitar after-hours.
3. He was really, really smart and articulate.
4. His strategies for dealing with nuisances included throwing erasers (at students) and shooting rubber bands (at flies).
Prompt 4 in the #100untimedbooks photo challenge -- the rest is history:
My brother wove the front of the pillow in art class. The book was a gift from the Spanish teacher, with the inscription "Keep interested in everything."
Four items translated from Spanish I've edited within the past year:
1. Sixteenth-century verses, by St. John of the Cross
2. Twentieth-century Mexican police reports
3. Quotations from seventeenth-century wills
4. Lyrics from nineteenth-century musical duels
Sadly, I'm not actually fluent in Spanish. I didn't stick with it beyond my second year of study. Still, someday I shall seek to soak up enough of it to speak to strangers in Seville.
[This last paragraph has been added because the BYM spotted the subject line and said, "There's always a letter..."]
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