Oh yes, I’m still here…
Posted by Fyse on Friday, 13 January 2006
I don’t have time at the moment for even a quick-fire update. This is just to say I have loads of posts I want to write, but no time due to exams starting on Monday 16th. I am typically unprepared, and will therefore be performing extremely badly in the tests, but am working hard to avoid complete failure. Perhaps having exams after one term will help boost me into industry for the rest of the year. The fear will still be fresh.
PS Just before I go, I’m intrigued by the random hits to my photo site, showing extended visits from a variety of far flung countries. Someone in Morocco took a long hard look through most of my theatre photos, and I also have fans in Italy and the Czech Republic. None of them came via a search engine. Very strange.
PPS One final point. Check out this crazy art installation. A glorious waste of time even I would have been proud of.
PPPS Friday the 13th. Oooh, spooky…
It’s interesting to me that Friday the 13th is considered an unlucky day just because of that movie by the same name. I haven’t seen the film - was it really that bad?
I have to say, I think Friday the 13th is considered unlucky, and that’s where the film got it’s name. Not the other way round. Dunno why the day got it’s reputation though. Perhaps I’ll do a little Googling…
Google never fails.
Fear of Friday the 13th is known as ‘paraskavedekatriaphobia’. There are many theories on the origin of this superstition, including that there were 13 people at the last supper before Jesus was killed on Friday, or that the Norse god Loki gatecrashed a party of 12 other gods before killing one of them, or perhaps that the Grand Master of the Knights Templar was arrested on Friday the 13th of October 1307 by King Philip IV of France.
Go figure…
Your exams start today: good luck!
Cheers Oz!