"If He Did, He Would Break Your Heart..."
Mar. 29th, 2008 11:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
psalm_onethirtyoneThe bevy of fascinating things I did to-day includes: sleeping until twelve, putting in a full school day, going on an illegal salvage mission*, shooting target**, and falling fast asleep over my history book, which, considering that I slept until twelve, says something about my history book***.
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*by which I mean scavenging all the scrap metal that we got in the flood. It's washed up around the trees all down by the creek, sometimes up in them, and we got about twenty pounds of mattress springs, twenty pounds of iron gutters, a bathtub curtain rod, an iron spike some four foot long, and a stepping stone for the garden that's only missing half its shiny pieces. It's a hummingbird! There's also a lot of scrap metal that's too rusted through to be any good; but a considerable quantity of sellable material! So, win. I felt JUST like Kaylee, though, especially as I was wearing my Kaylee overalls. ^___^
**not very well. I am not meant to learn to shoot, clearly, if to-day is any indication. I fired off twenty-five shots, and the first five missed the target completely; then five too high, and fifteen within the target but none in the centre. Maria got about six through the centre, for comparison. Oh, and you should have seen the horses run when we fired! We weren't anywhere near them, but they took off like we were shooting right into them.
***or about me. But oh, lord! I hate the Industrial Revolution.
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*by which I mean scavenging all the scrap metal that we got in the flood. It's washed up around the trees all down by the creek, sometimes up in them, and we got about twenty pounds of mattress springs, twenty pounds of iron gutters, a bathtub curtain rod, an iron spike some four foot long, and a stepping stone for the garden that's only missing half its shiny pieces. It's a hummingbird! There's also a lot of scrap metal that's too rusted through to be any good; but a considerable quantity of sellable material! So, win. I felt JUST like Kaylee, though, especially as I was wearing my Kaylee overalls. ^___^
**not very well. I am not meant to learn to shoot, clearly, if to-day is any indication. I fired off twenty-five shots, and the first five missed the target completely; then five too high, and fifteen within the target but none in the centre. Maria got about six through the centre, for comparison. Oh, and you should have seen the horses run when we fired! We weren't anywhere near them, but they took off like we were shooting right into them.
***or about me. But oh, lord! I hate the Industrial Revolution.
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Date: 2008-03-30 01:52 pm (UTC)(Sounds like a good day, though.)
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Date: 2008-03-31 02:07 am (UTC)(it was.)
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Date: 2008-04-01 02:57 am (UTC)2. Industrial Revolution in England, I'm assuming? Yes, I agree with you, there are only so many ways to say "misery and woe and terror". But it's still better than my least favorite period of any country's history ever, America's motherlovin' Gilded Age. I was supposed to take a test on that at the end of February and I'm still putting it off because I can't bear to re-read that textbook chapter. Auuuugh.
3. Why am I not surprised that Maria takes well to shooting?
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Date: 2008-04-01 03:07 am (UTC)2. Yeahhh. Oh, lord. It IS. It's just EVERYTHING SUCKED. And I haven't read anything on the Gilded Age yet.
3. XD I guess it could have been predicted.
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Date: 2008-04-01 03:46 am (UTC)2. The Gilded Age is that time in American history when the railroad companies took over everything and screwed everyone over. It's a lot like the Industrial Revolution, but with more legislation to memorize.
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Date: 2008-04-01 03:57 am (UTC)2. Ohhh. Ew.
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