Continued

The last post sort of ended abruptly (I had a phone call), so, here's the rest. Dad and Rob (mainly Dad) managed to sheet rock one of the walls in the den (the one that leads to the kitchen). It looks nice! They should start mudding that sometime today or tomorrow afternoon. Rob starts summer classes at the college tomorrow (a developmental English and general psychology). That means my mornings at the house will be free and quiet, so I'll probably be getting up much earlier in the day so I can enjoy them. I finally saw Happy Feet (funny) and The Inside Man (brilliant even if hard-to-follow). I saw this history channel special about the undergrounds of Paris. Paris is my city - if I had it to do again, I'd have taken French in high school and minored in French at State - French is such a beautiful language, and it would greatly improve my chances of marrying Gerard Depardieu! Anyway, I had no idea that it was once a Roman town called Lutetia and that the remnants of that town still existed under the square before the Notre Dame Cathedral. Or that the Romans dug these huge tunnels into the limestone foundation of Paris to harvest the limestone, and that if the citizens of Paris hadn't stabilized and supported those tunnels sometime through the 13th to the 16th centuries, Paris would have sunken into the ground long ago. Then I watched a special on Boudica the other night - very fascinating - learning about a woman who led armies of britons (the natives of the UK) against the Romans. The fact that she was a woman added insult to injury to the Romans once Londinium and other roman cities had been sacked by the britons (Boudica). Either she is buried at Kings Cross station (of Harry Potter fame) or a monument to her stands at Kings Cross Station. So, it's been a very illuminating week for me. Next weekend, my family and I are going camping somewhere above Raleigh for Memorial Day weekend. All I want is a chance to roast some marshmallows. I love roasting marshmallows. After that weekend, I'll start looking for that internship-thingy I have to do. But now, I'm going to clean house and do something constructive.