shinydan

So like becos of ill and like being exhausted-but-not-sleepy and how being on steroids makes are eyes want to do screen-ness less we are like listening to lots of audiobooks. We like set one to play for a chunk of time (it’s like nice if they have longish chapters* so we can set it to finish at the end of one and not having to just pick an arbitrary time) and if we drowse part way though we can like re-listen and if we are still awake we can play another chunk

We are like not quite half-way through one about the great library of Ashurbanipal - The Library of Ancient Wisdom by Selina Wisnom

Like becos the clay tablets got accidentally preserved by being “baked” in a fire the “library” includes a bunch of tablets that prolly weren’t meant to be kept along with ones Ashurbanipal’s librarians were like deliberately curating. And that includes some that are like obviously students learning to write in cuneiform. I really liked hearing that there’s one with a bite mark - they can tell from like dental analysis that the student must of been 12 or 13 years old which is not like typical toddler biting-all-the-things age. So I’m wondering if they were like maybe dyslexic and getting really frustrated and bit in anger or if they were autistic and just really needed to stim?




*sometimes the setting it to turn off after playing more than one chapter thing works and sometimes it doesn’t. Don’t know why and like don’t have spoons for trying to find a fix right now…