Sunday, March 13, 2011

I read in the National Geographic today that cats are the only animals to domesticate themselves. They changed their genes on purpose to appeal to humans! More proof that cats are aliens and we are their pets.

When I woke up I just worked on the Christianity lecture. I’m combining two lectures to talk about how Christianity grew to become an official religion of the Roman Empire in three and a half centuries, the changes in the church structure and belief and the rise of the monasteries. I then made Power Point on it. I always love this lecture. I always like to talk about how traditions develop and what people think are always true is actually part of a historical development, like celibacy of priests or power of Popes.

I also figured out the rest of the readings to put online for my students. I’ll use some Maurice Keen on Charlemagne and Feudalism and a little of Einhart. And for Spain, there was a good book scanned online on Muslims in Spain.

I need to buy new headphones tomorrow. The left one of the purple ones doesn’t work anymore.

Cross-stitch: dark pink and pink for bunny
Exercise: 35 min walk and 15 min jump rope with Kid