I've been working so much lately, hardly time to sit down and explain my days full of learning. The main project I'm working on, which is only a side project, is my newspaper clippings. I'm going to start scrapbooking them. I'm not sure where to start though! I've never scrapbooked before. I kind of want to get some of those pretty pages they have at the craft store, but I'm just going to do it all from scratch.
I have a large paperback (9"x11"ish) on The Indus CivilizationThe Indus Civilization: A Contemporary Perspective
unfortunately Amazon doesn't have a photo for the cover of this book, but it looks a lot like this one
Same guy/statue, but facing the other direction. I used this book for an archaeology class I had on ancient civilizations so I wish I could tell you who this statue is of and why he is on 2 different book covers, but I have no idea. Hahah
The teacher of this class was so dry and boring! She was not enthusiastic at all. The subject matter was repetative, she talked over and over in a list sort of way of what each civilization had. They had houses that looked like this, they had beer factories that looked like this and were called this...
But from this class I gained the realization which is still hard for me to fathom, that people lived exactly like we do, in a world/ society/culture that is just as in depth and complicated as ours (sure they didn't have computers, but they lived in just as complex societies). The people in these societies had fully functioning brains just like us here, and it's so incredible to imagine that societies develop over and over again. For example, Mesopotamia is supposedly the first civilization to have risen, while over on the other side of the globe (Mesopotamia is right where Iran and Iraq are) the South American civilzations rose up. It's just amazing that it's human nature to create societies, build houses and have certain rituals (holidays), as well as large scale spectator events like football.
Anyway, I have this large size book that I think will be perfect for making a scrapbook collage in. I'll probably remove some of the pages so I have more space to work with and less weight. I'm not sure the best way to go about that. I think that will be time consuming. Actually, maybe I'll just cut a chunk out, and that will be fine.
Besides that, actually, I haven't really had time to sit down and read this past Sunday's paper. Maybe I will do it today. I signed up for a book swap website called paperbackswap.com. It's really awesome! I loaded my book titles into the system, and people immediately began requesting my books. It's quite time consuming, actually. What's really neat about this site is you don't have to bother with weighing out the books and estimating the postage, it does all that for you and for me it makes it so much more simple! What a relief. But the hard part is wrapping up the books to send off, that is difficult, 'specially taping the corners. I'm going to send off some books today and I guess wrap more also. When I send them off, I get credits on the site which allow me to request any book from anybody on the site and they will send it to me for free. I spent a lot of postage though, it's surprisingly expensive, but since it's just postage and I get free books in return, that's ok with me. So this is very cool. I still think the library is the best place to get any book to read, but this is good if you want to write in it and keep it, or a place to find books you might not find in the library.
