sono tornata
Mar. 1st, 2006 12:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
roisindubh211I'm back, after a mere 12 days in dublin; yesterday was probably the easiest day-full of travelling I've experienced, due in fact to the bad weather and the result that we had a sizeable (hour total, I think) delay in the flight after we'd gotten on the plane. Which means that I had a nice long nap after getting up at four am. I miss everybody again already, so I have to throw myself into work to not think about it. It seemed to make the last time here much shorter, since the middle was the horror of exams. Since I should be getting a visitor next month, I'm not too upset. Goodbyes are always lonely though.
Why are we all so obsessed with eyes? I've noticed it in my own life, and to a greater extent in literature; Its suddenly occured to me to wonder if this tendancy is less in regions where everyone has more or less the same eye color. Is it that they are the one part of the human body that can have a color not rooted in red? Do they make up for our secret regret at not having fur, or bright, iridescent plumage? Or because they are so shiny and pretty, compared to such dull things as skin and hair?
In stabbing news, I can honestly say I kicked ass last weekend at the intervarsities. I didn't win all my bouts or anything like that, but for once I only lost one bout to someone fencing worse than I did, and I think I made up for it by beating someone who's much better. I think that was my best weekend/competition/whatever of fencing ever, which is scary since it followed several months of no training at all. Maybe I'm just getting better at thinking and putting the blade exactly where I want it to be, instead of my usual frustrating attempts at wrist hits that end with a swipe through the air below someone's arm and the dull clang of my mask meeting a sabre.
Why are we all so obsessed with eyes? I've noticed it in my own life, and to a greater extent in literature; Its suddenly occured to me to wonder if this tendancy is less in regions where everyone has more or less the same eye color. Is it that they are the one part of the human body that can have a color not rooted in red? Do they make up for our secret regret at not having fur, or bright, iridescent plumage? Or because they are so shiny and pretty, compared to such dull things as skin and hair?
In stabbing news, I can honestly say I kicked ass last weekend at the intervarsities. I didn't win all my bouts or anything like that, but for once I only lost one bout to someone fencing worse than I did, and I think I made up for it by beating someone who's much better. I think that was my best weekend/competition/whatever of fencing ever, which is scary since it followed several months of no training at all. Maybe I'm just getting better at thinking and putting the blade exactly where I want it to be, instead of my usual frustrating attempts at wrist hits that end with a swipe through the air below someone's arm and the dull clang of my mask meeting a sabre.
