Why Penguins Have Short Legs (and other such silliness)

[melayneseahawk]

All of Saturday's snow that melted on Sunday froze overnight, so the campus is icy where they didn't move all the snow or salt beforehand. Thus, most of the back paths are solid sheets of ice in varying thickness, often with a layer of sandy slush on top (some braintrust decided to salt and sand after everything froze). Decided last night, on the trip back from the Diner, that the reason penguins evolved all but legless is because long stride + ice = bad idea. Continued to ponder this between classes today, and when I wasn't paying attention I stepped on a sheet of ice, slipped, and landed on my non-padded arse. Ah, irony, how I have missed you.

Also, since when is something spelled Taliaferro pronounced Toliver? WTF, Britons, wtf?

Also again, I really don't like being used as an example of a certain anthropological concept. Not fun, that

So, for the Shakespeare Fest this weekend, should I take the second part of the acting workshop, or the workshop on playing the Shakespearean fool? Votes, please.

Comments

[kashmir-ki-kali.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I bet Tux would just slide along that ice. Our snow here (all 17.5 inches of it) seems to have decided to slush in the roads.

The reason I can't deal with anthropology at a certain point is that I can't do the whole "Yes, I'm studying them to learn about them, but they're still human beings, but I'm still treating them as subjects of study...grah" I'll stick with dead stuff.

[kashmir-ki-kali.livejournal.com]

Whichever is most helpful to you, I guess. I personally think the fool one is interesting, but if I were an actor I might want to bring my own interpretations to the role of a fool, as opposed to how a bunch of people telling me how. So I guess I'd pick the former.

[lannamichaels]

The Taliaferro/Toliver thing is, iirc, a Southern thing, not a British thing.

I vote for the second part of the workshop.