catching up: Sunday
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aryanhwySunday morning ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
fosveny, amykb and I had our roadshow, my first, their second. I'd forgotten how interactive roadshows are; I found it a bit frustrating. In many cases, if people had just let me say my entire piece before interrupting me, they would've found I'd already answered their question or addressed their point. I guess I've gotten too used to giving academic presentations, where except for minor clarification questions, which are rare, everyone knows that they need to save questions until the end of the person's presentation.
After that we went to the British Library, where Duchess Nerissa gave us a tour of the "treasures" room. Wow, treasures indeed!
* One of the four extant copies of the Magna Carta, and other associated texts which had all of the scribes pointing out all the errors and how they were fixed. :)
* A signature of William Shakespeare.
* A letter of Elizabeth I.
* De re metallica by Agricola.
* the ship's register of a Napoleonic ship (this was something that was more interesting to Joel, he knew the significance).
* A Jane Austen MS.
* maps, neat maps.
* Milton's commonplace book.
* A Galileo book with a diagram of the milky way.
* A leaf from a da Vinci notebook.
* A Gutenberg Bible.
* The Beowulf MS.
* Original music scores by Beethoven and others.
* The Codex Sinaiticus.
* Other things I don't remember now.
* And.......
The Dering Roll and The Balliol roll -- the oldest extant roll of arms from England and its close contemporary. OMG. Hedgehogs! The Dering Roll has hedgehogs! So cute! We should've been told to bring hankies with us so that we could wipe up nose prints on the glass as we all tried to get a really close look.
After the BL trip, most everyone else went on a walking tour of London but Joel and I went back to Astor where we ended up infosveny's room to use his internet; I fell asleep for about two hours. In the evening the Laurel team went out to dinner at a good dim sum restaurant, where my fortune cookie had the best fortune, made me laugh: "Your modest will shame those with lesser knowledge." amykb and shaunacarrick's were also appropriate for them.
More work happened in the evening but we weren't up too late. And that brings us to Monday, and Monday was Hamlet....
fosveny, amykb and I had our roadshow, my first, their second. I'd forgotten how interactive roadshows are; I found it a bit frustrating. In many cases, if people had just let me say my entire piece before interrupting me, they would've found I'd already answered their question or addressed their point. I guess I've gotten too used to giving academic presentations, where except for minor clarification questions, which are rare, everyone knows that they need to save questions until the end of the person's presentation.After that we went to the British Library, where Duchess Nerissa gave us a tour of the "treasures" room. Wow, treasures indeed!
* One of the four extant copies of the Magna Carta, and other associated texts which had all of the scribes pointing out all the errors and how they were fixed. :)
* A signature of William Shakespeare.
* A letter of Elizabeth I.
* De re metallica by Agricola.
* the ship's register of a Napoleonic ship (this was something that was more interesting to Joel, he knew the significance).
* A Jane Austen MS.
* maps, neat maps.
* Milton's commonplace book.
* A Galileo book with a diagram of the milky way.
* A leaf from a da Vinci notebook.
* A Gutenberg Bible.
* The Beowulf MS.
* Original music scores by Beethoven and others.
* The Codex Sinaiticus.
* Other things I don't remember now.
* And.......
The Dering Roll and The Balliol roll -- the oldest extant roll of arms from England and its close contemporary. OMG. Hedgehogs! The Dering Roll has hedgehogs! So cute! We should've been told to bring hankies with us so that we could wipe up nose prints on the glass as we all tried to get a really close look.
After the BL trip, most everyone else went on a walking tour of London but Joel and I went back to Astor where we ended up in
fosveny's room to use his internet; I fell asleep for about two hours. In the evening the Laurel team went out to dinner at a good dim sum restaurant, where my fortune cookie had the best fortune, made me laugh: "Your modest will shame those with lesser knowledge." amykb and shaunacarrick's were also appropriate for them.More work happened in the evening but we weren't up too late. And that brings us to Monday, and Monday was Hamlet....
