Finally done with my paper! Huzzah! Now, onlz the presentation to go next Tuesday...I hope that goes all right...I'm off for Germany later today so more on that afterwards...
But it was not all work and no play. On Monday I went to the National Museum with Tom and truly, it was all a National Museum is supposed to be. The building is absolutely opulent and stuffed to the gills with busts of old dead men, pseudo-Greek pillars, chandeliers, gorgeous murals and well tiled floors. Score ten points for Narodni Muzeum. Then, it to make it even better, it is truly a proper Olde Naturale Historie Museum because it has 4 rooms filled with absolutely nothing except cases and cases and cases of minerals, gems and crystals. FANTASTIC. We spent maybe forty minutes perusing the minerals and arguing about which minerals are the superior ones. THEN there is the zoology display with cases and cases of expertly taxidermied animals posed in the most ferocious and/or adorable positions one can imagine AND there is a dead whale skeleton hanging from the ceiling AND a dead MAMMOTH HEAD MOUNTED ON THE WALL. PLUS a buffalo. DEAD. YES. Then there is the Ye Olde Anciente Slavs and Celtics display, title my own, with tons of bronzeware and pottery and cult figures and Olde Toys and random artifacts from Greece and Italy strewn around for good measure. There is also a ridiculously awesome paleontological display that consists of jazillions of fossils crammed together in glass cases. YES. I LOVE THE NARODNI MUZEUM. And best of all, Czech museums all feature security people dressed in dapper suits who INSIST you follow an exact route of museum viewing and sometimes they will just start giving you the lowdown in Czech and you just have to say "Yo, yo, dekujeme, uh huh, vyborně."
I also went to the Zbraslav Asian art museum which was great and a Beethoven string quartet concert in an old monastery.
How can I leave this country? Sigh...
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