The Art of Cool: Class 3, Period 2 (Friday, January 25)

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( Babies: The Gift that Keeps on Crapping (1 of 2) )

[ooc: OMG yes there is homework again! And scary OCD!]

Art History, Period 1, Class 2 [1-25]

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"I promise," Steve said at the beginning of class, "I will have your syllabus ready next week. I've had a lot on my mind, not that that's an excuse for not doing my work properly. I'm sorry. Now, moving on into today's topic." Steve handed out another packet before he started the lecture. "By 8000 BC--or BCE--agricultural communities were already established in Mesopotamia, and were beginning to be established elsewhere. That is, people had stopped being hunter-gatherer nomads and had become farmers who lived in one place. This was a huge shift. Think about that timeline I gave you last week. It encompassed twelve thousand years of humans wandering around, and then, more or less at the same time...they stopped. Not all of them, of course; some people are nomadic to this day, but a lot of people did, and this new lifestyle kept spreading. Your packet goes into more detail. With this new lifestyle, people had more free time, and more energy to expend on things other than basic survival, and so naturally art flourished and became more complex. So there's a lot more going on, worldwide, but I'll try to hit the ( high points )

Library [25/01]

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Karal was late, and he bolted into the library from the stable, robes flying and dusty. He skittered to a stop behind the counter, got everything ready, then opened the library.

That done, he settled behind the counter and started checking in books. Why yes, he was trying to pretend he'd been completely on time.