And, as always, life continues miscellaneous

[kiya]

Egypt miscellany, part 1: Michael Atherton's Ankh: The Sound of Ancient Egypt arrived today. This is an attempt to reconstruct Egyptian music and instruments; it's about 10% Egyptian archaeology, 10% comparison with things that are better known in other archaeological records, and 80% complete guesswork. It's also pretty cool.

Egypt miscellany, part 2: Someone over in kemet posted some links to various hieroglyphic fonts, which I have cheerfully installed on my machine. Wheeee! I can type M and get an owl! (Those of us who are easily amused have more fun.)

Parcel miscellany: autumnesquirrel, your box arrived, and will get opened when I can find something to get through the tape other than explosives. ;)

College miscellany: Have written a note to Boston University admissions. Now, I don't do phone calls in part because I freeze up massively in a stage-fright sort of way when trying to; it's not often I get the same problem with email. It did, however, lead to some amusing conversation with the gang:

I say "Argh. How do I start this thing?"
Tesla (oneironaut) says "You pull the cord?"
Whitney (me) breaks into a million tiny pieces.
Eastman (annwyd) says "Whoops."
Eastman sweeps them up into a hopefully Whitney-sized pile.
Tesla says "It's always the completely offhand comments that you seem to find funniest."
I say "Think of that as very carefully and delicately smacking the overtaut mass of stress with a hammer. SPANG!"
Eastman, as opposed to being an overtaut mass of stress, is an out-of-tune harp constructed of styrofoam and rubber bands, with every rubber band vibrating frantically.
Whitney tries to come up with a way of plucking Eastman that isn't obscene.
Lavoisier (erispope) says "With tweezers?"

Also, thanks to oneironaut and tiassa for helping me tweak the letter for maximum usefulness.

I don't think I'm going to get work done today, but I'll keep trying. And going, "Agh! Talking to strange humans! Agh! Agh!" even though I've sent that email.

Addendum:

Whitney gets an autoresponse from BU.
Tiassa says "Thank you for writing BU. Your email is very important to us. Please hold."
I say "Basically, yeah."

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