She Who Dwells in the Garden at the End of the World

Isnt' that a beautiful name? Unsurprisingly, it's one which Hathor would answer to.

Writing this essay is hilarious.
Thought process -
Mastabas, yes, I think that's enough about that. Oh, woot, a reliable reference to back that up. Good. Do I need to talk about Narmer? I dunno, he was pretty cool. No. He's irrelevant. Well, you can mention him. Can you reference him? No. So don't mention him. Okay. Mention the unification of upper and lower egypt, that's pretty important. Okay, that's done. Alright. Enough about Narmer. On to the Old Kingdom! Zoser, here I come.

Trying to figure out how many years is between two BCE times hurts my brain.
Which do you think is classier to use, the traditional "Before Christ" or the new, politically-correct "Before Common Era"? although I normally shy away from ridiculous new politically correct terms, I've decided to go with BCE for this essay because adding that E just makes it kind of exotic (or something. I'm sure I'll get over it)

!!! I bother to look up dates for something and I get conflicting evidence - evidence that says the Great Pyramid of Giza was built only 8 years before the Stepped Pyramid of Saqqara!! (Which is for the record, the first Pyramid, from the THIRD Dynasty. Khufu is from the Fourth Dynasty, and separated by a good two Pharaohs. Egypt did not go through Pharaohs every four years, there was no four-yearly federal election to choose the man that would be Horus On Earth.
*grumbles*


"In c.2594BCE, a mere... LOL EIGHT YEARS"

!! halfway there

"...Tutankhamen began building a temple, and its construction was soon sufficiently advanced to set up his own statues in it. Ai, who had aquired the wife and the throne of Tutankhamen, had no scruples about appropriating the statues as well."
LOL.

Want to know why I'm still writing this essay? Because I thought to myself "there is still so much room for awesome in this essay, why not put it in since you don't feel like sleeping anyway"

CANDLES

O shit six am
O Shit seven am!


WOOO Eight AM, that's my record.
Whee, Egyptian All-Nighter. I sleep.
Like Right now.

The Great and Majestic Necropolis of the Millions of Years of the Pharaoh

(The Valley of the Kings)


You know what's funny?
It seems that no matter how enthusiastic I am about something for studio, I always manage to fall behind. Actually, it's probably because I was way over enthusiastic about the essay, so I spent pretty much a solid week on something that I could have done in... like a day. I suppose that's just the way the cookie crumbles, oh well. It'd be better if I had infinite time, or magic "transfer idea to page in beautifully rendered and presented plans and sections" (if I could do that I wouldn't even complain about how much stuff from Jackson's costs.) Oh, and "automatically determine and cut the exact shapes to make the model I am thinking of, then bring me some glue" (because I like gluing models together, just not cutting them out/figuring out the pieces)
By the way, my studio idea is a giant glass sequin suspended on a pillar of glass with a glass elevator. Apparantly, if I use *enough* glass, according to some architect guy, it will be strong enough. I'm sure this would make Engineering types scoff/cringe/shake with rage and snarl "architects" under their fiery breath, but yeah, how am I to know? It's not actually a sequin, it's a house, but that's the idea.
I must go!







(I'm working on a more awesome vector version of this, but since I've been good and worked on assignments instead it's not going to be finished in time for the grand final.)