Sick of FaceBook

I would much rather just keep this little blog with nobody reading it than deal with facebook crap.
Here I am in Mobile, AL. I went to see Ginger and Mommy. Ginger and her friend Amy ran in the Azalea Trail Run, a 10k thingy. It was fun. Unfortunately, Mommy's dog was dying - we thought- and I missed seeing Ginger fly across the finish line.
The dog lived.
But it was a very good trip away from the horrors of thesis writing here.
I finished my thesis, btw, and passed my defense and now am just waiting to get it back from the grad school so I can make the necessary corrections. Blah blah blah. Everything seems blah today.

Dendara set 3

Nut on the ceiling.
Pronounced Noot like toot, not "nut" like Tut.
She is the sky goddess, sister of Geb the earth god.Born from air and moisture (daughter of Shu the air god and Tefnut the moister goddess).
The sky goddess was all over the ceilings of this place. Beautiful.
But it was very hard to get a picture of it because it is very big and you can't get further away than the floor. My camera doesn't have a wide-angle setting, so I could only get one section of Nut's body at a time.
I walked to the roof before my little group and when I got there I was the only one there so I walked through a rope barrier and tried to climb up onto the very top. But of course a guard saw me and yelled at me so I had to come back down.
But I made him take cool pictures of me on the roof. And he didn't even get me with my eyes closed. Maybe I should've traded AJ for him?
I could have stayed here all day I think.
I added the paranormal label to these pictures because there is something really divine about this place.

A Taste of India in Luxor

We met Dani and Katja and Dr. Onstine at this Indian Restaurant I believe called "A Taste of India" and the food was very very good. Luxor was decked out for Christmas so I had to get this picture from a tiny park-like area beside the road. Like Alice in Wonderland on acid in a happy kind of way. I love it, love it, love it!!!!

Arty-Farty Amsterdam Pictures

Some pictures from around Amsterdam that just look kind of cool. Kind of, I said. Note the multiple layers of meaning in the first one - the reflection of the buildings in the window is particularly effective. Bwaaaaa-Hahahahaha!

Pretty Amsterdam

Some pretty pictures of Amsterdam. I wish it were quicker to upload photos on this thing.

Amsterdam 2009

We had a 9 hour layover in Amsterdam. Mariam wanted to sleep. So AJ and I went into town. We bought tickets from some girl who wanted to offload the ones she and her boyfriend had just used. We don't know if we got ripped off or not because the train service in Amsterdam never checked our tickets. Anyway, we rode from the airport into town and walked around in the central area and I made AJ go to the Red Light district. We got our pictures made in front of all kinds of dens of sin :)
I wanted to stop at a "coffee" shop and smoke a joint, but for some reason we just didn't. We walked by several of them. We did stop for sandwiches at a tiny little cute place. It was really cold and it rained some. But Amsterdam is totally cute. I'll post the less controversial sights of Amsterdam in the next post.
I forgot to say, I saw this poster for Living Colour and was surprised that they are still around. I had to get a picture :)