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Wow I have no energy today. -_-;
Books!
11. Night Comes to the Cretaceous: Comets, Craters, Controversy, and the Last Days of the Dinosaurs, James Lawrence Powell
I confess I didn't read all of this book; as there is only so much I can read about rocks, I admit I skipped a couple pages here and there. But even so, this is a really interesting book about the Alvarez theory (that the extinction of the dinosaurs was caused by a comet or an asteroid) and the scientists who attempted to corroborate or disprove it. There's actually surprisingly little in this book about dinosaurs -- it's mostly about the scientific community --, but it's written really well and at a really comfortable level for people like me who have no knowledge of science. :3 I would recommend it.
As an added bonus, I am now quite convinced that it was a comet or an asteroid that killed the dinosaurs (and Powell's description of what that must have looked like was pretty awesome, in a crazy action movie sort of way). Fun fact: all through elementary school I was taught that it was an ice age that killed the dinosaurs, despite the fact that the Alvarez theory had been out for over a decade! Did anyone else have this experience, or was it just me? :X
12. Making Money, Terry Pratchett
FICTION?!?!?!! aha, I actually only started reading this because I was feeling sick and wanted to read something light enough that it would distract me from how gross I was feeling. I didn't have any books of my own that fit the description so I went over to my mom's bookshelf and grabbed the first thing I saw. :X While it made for a very good distraction, it was apparently not quite good enough to break me out of my non-fiction phase. >xD;
Movie!
33. God Grew Tired of Us, 2006
Augh, I never have the words to write about documentaries. :X This one follows three Sudanese men who fled as children from the civil war in their home country. After something like a decade of living in a refugee camp, they are given the chance to move to the U.S. So there is definitely a sequence showing the men as they try to adjust to the various different technologies that can be found even just within their new apartment. Actually, sequences like that were kind of the highlight of the movie for me. Seeing (North) American culture through the eyes of these men who come from somewhere so different is both really interesting and at times amusing -- I liked when one of the men, all excited, exclaimed, "We have this drink in Africa, but there it's called Coca-Cola and here it's called Pepsi!" haha, cute. ^^;
But for the most part it's a pretty serious but really interesting documentary and I actually kind of wished it was longer, because near the end they started skipping entire years and I didn't care for that. Aaaaand you should just go watch it for yourself, because I have no idea how to talk about it right now. :X
All right, time to eat and then go to work! I definitely do not have the energy to work today, but at least it is a short shift. I have been back at the movie theatre for a full month now (three and a half months left of my promise to stay through the summer xD; ) and so far I am not hating it yet -- yay!! Well I think it definitely helps that I have been making better use of my time off than I was at this time last year. :) For example, on Friday![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
the_wykydtron and I went to the British Museum exhibit that's currently at the local museum, and omg I LOVED IT. <3
Books!
11. Night Comes to the Cretaceous: Comets, Craters, Controversy, and the Last Days of the Dinosaurs, James Lawrence Powell
I confess I didn't read all of this book; as there is only so much I can read about rocks, I admit I skipped a couple pages here and there. But even so, this is a really interesting book about the Alvarez theory (that the extinction of the dinosaurs was caused by a comet or an asteroid) and the scientists who attempted to corroborate or disprove it. There's actually surprisingly little in this book about dinosaurs -- it's mostly about the scientific community --, but it's written really well and at a really comfortable level for people like me who have no knowledge of science. :3 I would recommend it.
As an added bonus, I am now quite convinced that it was a comet or an asteroid that killed the dinosaurs (and Powell's description of what that must have looked like was pretty awesome, in a crazy action movie sort of way). Fun fact: all through elementary school I was taught that it was an ice age that killed the dinosaurs, despite the fact that the Alvarez theory had been out for over a decade! Did anyone else have this experience, or was it just me? :X
12. Making Money, Terry Pratchett
FICTION?!?!?!! aha, I actually only started reading this because I was feeling sick and wanted to read something light enough that it would distract me from how gross I was feeling. I didn't have any books of my own that fit the description so I went over to my mom's bookshelf and grabbed the first thing I saw. :X While it made for a very good distraction, it was apparently not quite good enough to break me out of my non-fiction phase. >xD;
Movie!
33. God Grew Tired of Us, 2006
Augh, I never have the words to write about documentaries. :X This one follows three Sudanese men who fled as children from the civil war in their home country. After something like a decade of living in a refugee camp, they are given the chance to move to the U.S. So there is definitely a sequence showing the men as they try to adjust to the various different technologies that can be found even just within their new apartment. Actually, sequences like that were kind of the highlight of the movie for me. Seeing (North) American culture through the eyes of these men who come from somewhere so different is both really interesting and at times amusing -- I liked when one of the men, all excited, exclaimed, "We have this drink in Africa, but there it's called Coca-Cola and here it's called Pepsi!" haha, cute. ^^;
But for the most part it's a pretty serious but really interesting documentary and I actually kind of wished it was longer, because near the end they started skipping entire years and I didn't care for that. Aaaaand you should just go watch it for yourself, because I have no idea how to talk about it right now. :X
All right, time to eat and then go to work! I definitely do not have the energy to work today, but at least it is a short shift. I have been back at the movie theatre for a full month now (three and a half months left of my promise to stay through the summer xD; ) and so far I am not hating it yet -- yay!! Well I think it definitely helps that I have been making better use of my time off than I was at this time last year. :) For example, on Friday
the_wykydtron and I went to the British Museum exhibit that's currently at the local museum, and omg I LOVED IT. <3