New ethics class week starts on Tuesday and this week we have the topic of Archaeology for the younger students. I spent this morning writing up the lesson plan. It was fairly easy, as I had a lot of questions and supporting background material based on Howard Carter and the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb, the Lake Mungo fossils, and the Elgin Marbles. With three classes this evening I quickly found I had plenty of material, and didn’t get to cover it all. Which is good – much better than running out of material partway through a class, let me tell you.
It rained heavily this morning. I took Scully for a walk in what I thought would be a break in the rain at lunchtime, but it started raining moderately heavily a few minutes in and was steady throughout the remainder, so she was pretty wet by the time we got home. (I took an umbrella, but my shoes and socks were wet.)
Also today I booked the final hotels for our trip to Japan in June, in Kyoto and Tokyo. That’s everything booked in advance, so we can relax a bit now before departure.
New content today:
Did you ever read Steven Brust’s short story, “The Desecrator”? In this fictional context, tomb looters actually have the job title of “desecrator”.
No, haven’t heard of that story before.