I am so out.

[kiya]

teinedreugan and I went out to see Daredevil. With plans to stop at the Museum of Science first because I wanted to see if they had the first volume of the heiroglyphics dictionary that they only had Vol II of when I went to the Egypt exhibit with autumnesquirrel and sstaten.

We parked in the Galleria lot and went through Borders on the way because teinedreugan wanted to look for CDs, so I went and lurked in ancient history (picked up a nicely illustrated book about heiroglyphics while there). The MOS only had Volume II but I know what it was now (the Dover dictionary of heiroglyphics by Budge).

We went to the movie. We were going to go out to dinner but I was teh fried before the movie, and afterwards I was all tottery. I would like to have my emotional reserves back, please. I'm all out.

We put in A Slight Case of Overbombing on the way home -- that being one of the discs that we picked up -- and had a slightly incoherent discussion about "Vision Thing" that means I have to look up the lyrics. And then I came away with the impression that the Sisters of Mercy were sounding a lot like Midnight Oil, and an urge to pull some tracks off Diesel and Dust off onto Menage, which I'll do at some point.

Today's song lyrics, though, are from Erasure's "Star", from earlier song-stuck-in-head:

God is love, God is war
T.V. preacher tell me more
Father help me am I pure?
As pure as pure as heaven
Sent you money sent you flowers
Could I worship you for hours
In whose hands are we anyway?

Comments

[brooksmoses]

Hmm. Well, Dover's got an online site, presumably. And ... gracious, but Budge wrote a lot of books! This one, Divine Origin of the Herbalist, looks like you might find interesting as well.

Did you buy the second volume, or leave it there waiting to find the first one first?

- Brooks

[kiya]

I actually saw Vol 1 when I was in Borders, pointed to it, and said, "Hey, I think this is volume one of what I'm looking to see if they have both volumes of!" Didn't get it there.

I figure the Dover Egypt books I can find anywhere.

And yeah. Budge did a wicked great lot of stuff on linguistics. When we got home, teinedreugan pointed out that my copy of the Book of the Dead is a Budge work.

And you know me so well. *kiss*