Yet another mind-numbing day. I barely got through teaching today. I had another hour long make-up lesson tacked on to the end of my day. At least he was a cute University student. He was a nice kid. The rest of the day was the usual. It's days like these that will make me glad to not be teaching anymore. Last Saturday was a day that made me feel like I was going to miss teaching the kids. Today was succesful in reversing that.
I came home to some tuna on salad with wine and some downloaded History channel. A show of the first emperor of China. It's pretty good, very interesting. It's kind of cheesily done, but it's still really interesting. It's one guy who takes over the rest of the states within China and he unifies them. He's ruthless and takes over everything and kills his own family (half brothers and such). He gets all paranoid so he makes a whole "spiritual" army out of terra cotta who could take care of him after he dies from the souls of those he's sacrificed. Full sized and everything. Pretty rad. Once he takes over and then makes everything peaceful, he nees to keep things that way and he takes all the de-conscripted soldiers and such and starts to make a barrier to seal in the empire. A wall, if you like! He totally goes nuts. The legend goes that he was buried in a mosoleum that had a map of his empire around him with the rivers made of mercury. Seems that they've found it (near the army statue guys) and there's large amounts of mercury in the ground that has seeped in the same formation as the bodies of water are in the area of China the map was to represent. So far it looks like the legend has some truth to it. It's all done with digital imagine and such. The Chinese government doesn't want to go all nutso in to digging the place out because they don't want to disturb it. They're waiting for better technology to come along. Sounds like a good idea to me.
