Procrastination. And icons!

[bedlamsbard]

Things I am so totally supposed to be doing right now: research for my military history paper. And I am doing it, my attention's just divided. And I'm getting so sick of taking notes that I may just start writing the damn thing. It's on military organization, and I'm doing the Mongols. And oh holy God were they ever effective. No WONDER they had the second largest empire and the largest contiguous one. The Romans have NOTHING on them.

Also, I found out that my image manip program survived the attack on my computer, so I don't have to go figure out which one it was and reinstall it. You have no IDEA how happy this makes me. So, I made icons from pictures I took during the New York/Boston trip last year.

New York

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Boston

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Miscellaneous

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*prods at Habeus Corpus ideas* Oh, now you show up, huh?

*goes to work on paper*

Comments

[mentalhygiene.livejournal.com]

I just really, really liked the city, and it drew me in the way Seattle or New York or Vancouver never did, even before I got into the idea of a city has Something You Can Actually Live In.
Something else I've noticed about Boston is that we do, in fact, have wild things-- and not just parks, and not the same kind of neatly clipped and manicured and mulched lawns and public spaces as other cities-- there's random tufts of grass growing out of absolutely any patch of dirt a seed can find, be that the leftover winter road sand or between the rails on the Green Line. It's not even like it's fighting the city, it's just like an old friend that's crashing on the couch or something.