gilgamesh.

well..right about now is when i am supposed to be reading the 4000 year old story of gilgamesh...instead, i read the online summary, answered my questions, and decided it was about time to do something of more pertinence to the 21 century - blog.

sometimes i wonder why i am a humanities major.  this week i've...

...watched the disney movie "Pocahontas" and discussed (for a total of 3 solid hours) the effect that the movie had on history.

...read the short story  "The Nose". Let me give you a plot summary of this fine piece of prose. In short, it is about a man who looses his nose, which is spotting running about town in a soldiers uniform, then it randomly turns up at the police station (in it's proper shape and size), after being turned in, it is given back to the man who lost it, at which time it is returned to it's proper place on his face. we then proceeded to dissect the story and its "true meaning". seriously?

...read a total of almost 250 textbook pages, including (but not limited to) complete history of plymouth written by its first governor (in the type of highly complicated english that was spoken at the time), the personal history of john smith, written by none other than good ol johnny himself. gotta love it. and gilgamesh. a ridiculously long, pessimistic, depressing, Sumerian version of noah's ark. absolutely thrilling.

...learned about what the tower of babel may have looked like according to one artists depiction that was drawn according to one translation of a letter written by a man to another man describing a temple that he saw in a city around the general area of the place that historians think may have been where the tower was built in a year which is close to the year that it is generally believed that said tower was probably constructed.

the sad thing is that i have really enjoyed every second of it. stuff like this makes me smile. it makes sense to me. i get john smith. i get magical noses. i get gilgamesh (okay that might be a stretch). stuff like this makes me happy. i love my major. i really do.