I was nominated for another inspiring blogger award!! This time by Twisted Princess of Darkling Dreams! (Thank you!!)
This means five more odd habits for you guys to digest!
1. I love dead languages! I was obsessed with runes in my teens and I have studied Middle Egyptian grammar at uni.
2. I love sleeping and I LOVE dreaming! I sometimes have lucid dreams and I use that to make those dreams really awesome and strange!
3. I am fascinated by preserved human remains, like mummies, bog bodies and frozen bodies like the Iceman or the Inca children... My favorite preserved human (right now, it varies) is The Tollund Man, his face just looks so peacefully asleep even after almost 2500 years.
4. I am also morbidly fascinated by diseases, genetic disorders, epidemics and stuff! I love reading about pandemics like The Black Death or The Spanish Flu and I love really icky and disturbing diseases and disorders, like Harlequin ichthyosis, Noma, Ebola... and so on...
5. I make up fantasy stories and fantasy worlds in my mind, but I never write them down, because I hate writing. But I love building the worlds and populating them, creating cultures, mythologies, maps and all the little details that makes a world.
Here are a few more blogs that inspire me! Consider yourselves tagged and give me some odd habits:
Baroque Boudoir
Juliet´s Lace
lostpastremembered
studiomaison
Tuppence Ha'penny
Hexotica
Liber Vix
Speaking of human remains, I had this evolutionary anthropology lab when I was in college where we were able to study human bones hands-on. We would make measurements and such. I think you may have enjoyed that class!
ReplyDeleteI would DEFINITELY have enjoyed that one!! When I studied archaeology we only ever got to work with old items, not bones.. I wish I could have studied osteology, but for that I would have had to move, and I didn´t want that after settling in Uppsala.
Deletehow neat...pretty much all of those are things I've been interested in myself during different periods in my life. Except the not writing part, because I do love writing :) OMG, if my crummy college had had a class on ancient Egyptian anything I would have been beside myself with joy!
ReplyDeleteI was totally obsessed with ancient Egypt all troughout my teens! I actually moved to another country just to study egyptology! Then I studied egyptology for one semester and Middle Egyptian grammar for half a semester... after that my obsession kind of abated. I´m still interested, but not obsessed anymore.
DeleteThat's amazing... I was turned into an Egyptian fanatic in the 7th grade after seeing the (admittedly cheesy) film Stargate. I wanted to be an Egyptologist through most of high school but I never had the guts to really act on it. I also am still quite interested, but not obsessed anymore. I did write a huge research paper in college on Ahkenaten though I was quite pleased with.
DeleteAkhenaten and the whole Amarna period is seriously interesting stuff! I loved the dna study that was done too and what that one uncovered about Akhenaten and his family... and I´m so intrigued by the mysterious mummy of KV 55! The results from that dna study triggered a total geek out in me!!
DeleteIt really is! It's been a good seven years since I've done any proper research, I will add that to my list of things to get caught up on :)
DeleteHere is a really good blog post about that, but you might need some background infor before you read it... and it is quite dense and full of genetics. But if you are like me, you´ll love it:
Deletehttp://www.kv64.info/2010/03/dna-shows-that-kv55-mummy-probably-not.html
Oooh, new blogs to check out!
ReplyDeleteYeah! Can you follow too many blogs? I haven´t sensed a limit yet... ;)
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