Hmm, not too much has happened the last couple of days in the Pauly universe LOL. Work has been OK, big reshuffle going on - from the staff being good at everything to being specialised at something, the whole 'front of house, back of house' thing. I got my first preference, on the phones rather than the various types of email work - and any complex work that gets taken over the phone gets sent to one of the other teams... where on earth did that sort of phrase get mixed up with houses anyway? The place where I am currently bulges out more to the side than front and back LOL - why don't we just say entrance and back yard or something if we have to stay with the house analogy :)
Watched the papal funeral last night, well to be more exact I had it on in the background while I was doing other stuff. I could have should have gone out for drinks or something with workmates, but for some reason I stayed in with a ceremony which I couldn't understand (they had translators for the TV stations, but it's not the same LOL), and half way through it clashed with American Idol LOL. Which this week in Australia was the musicals one and OMG apart from perhaps Clay Aiken no Idol TV show should ever try a musicals week again LOL. The singing was TERRIBLE, and made me think of turning it back to the coverage from Rome even BETWEEN the ads. Nikos went, and none of the faves or at least my faves were in the bottom three this week, so no pain on that front :)
But I have to say the Italians and Vatican did it well, what with five days organising time it wasn't like the burial of Yasser Arafat or anything, which I half expected it to be - that's the thing of forgetting there was a back door entrance to St Peter's basilica LOL.
I remember going into the Vatican and being awed inside St Peter's - not religious or anything, but if I have felt the hand of God anywhere, it was there. This is an excellent article from earlier in the week, saying how Michelangelo thought 'outside the box' as it were...
'When he [Michelangelo] was asked to complete St Peter's he replaced the neat, harmonious designs of Bramante and Sangallo with a sublime, colossal idea whose almost unimaginable scale expresses his own wonder before creation, his personal sense of helplessness below the might of heaven.
The dome of St Peter's is not like the dome of St Paul's in London, whose rational design reflects a Newtonian confidence in an orderly universe. Michelangelo's dome induces vertigo and bafflement - it's hard to believe human beings actually built this, but they did. And one man designed it.'
I agree very much with that assessment, it is a colossal and baffling place - I remember wandering around the basilica even more than the Sistine Chapel in fact...
Was on the train the other day (surprise surprise) and the women around me were talking about one of them just coming back from a trip to Europe. I listened in as well as I could with my Empire movies magazine to occupy my eyes LOL, and from what I could hear, she was on a Contiki trip - and it took me back to the wonder of my travels, both in Europe and further afield, and thinking oh mi god that was soooo long ago, and feeling old and trapped and now unable to travel... hmm, what can get that out of my system lol, was also thinking that I am still in the Contiki age range (under 35) so I still have a few years to play with before I am pensioned off travel wise LOL.
Found the names of all the former popes, finally LOL, will do some reading up on Catholic history I think, in the background here. I don't think the next pope will be John Paul III, too intimidating a forebear to compare yourself to just yet. I was going to say something else about this whole topic, but has slipped my mind - will come to mind no doubt later and will perhaps slip it in :)
Next topic, is Charles and Camilla's wedding. Not even going to go into the thing that all the English/British VIPs decided to go to the papal funeral instead of the royal wedding (for an heir to the throne who will become Defender of the Faith for Anglicans) - Henry VIII is rolling in his grave I am sure - but want to start on surprise surprise the Diana angle. She has been in the grave for seven years, but why oh why do people still have such poison in their veins towards Charles? She played away just as much as him as it were. Why on earth say such a silly thing as 'it's what she [Diana] would have wanted'?
If she was alive, yes she would be entitled to her opinion blah blah, and Camilla probably wouldn't become a Mrs Windsor for a while yet, but she died in a car accident, not by SAS troops ordered to by the Queen or anything. Why the conspiracy theories??? Thousands of people die in car accidents each year, is every one of those a conspiracy? LOL, I will get off my soapbox now :)
More later - am busy reading about five sites at once now LOL
Pauly
Watched the papal funeral last night, well to be more exact I had it on in the background while I was doing other stuff. I could have should have gone out for drinks or something with workmates, but for some reason I stayed in with a ceremony which I couldn't understand (they had translators for the TV stations, but it's not the same LOL), and half way through it clashed with American Idol LOL. Which this week in Australia was the musicals one and OMG apart from perhaps Clay Aiken no Idol TV show should ever try a musicals week again LOL. The singing was TERRIBLE, and made me think of turning it back to the coverage from Rome even BETWEEN the ads. Nikos went, and none of the faves or at least my faves were in the bottom three this week, so no pain on that front :)
But I have to say the Italians and Vatican did it well, what with five days organising time it wasn't like the burial of Yasser Arafat or anything, which I half expected it to be - that's the thing of forgetting there was a back door entrance to St Peter's basilica LOL.
I remember going into the Vatican and being awed inside St Peter's - not religious or anything, but if I have felt the hand of God anywhere, it was there. This is an excellent article from earlier in the week, saying how Michelangelo thought 'outside the box' as it were...
'When he [Michelangelo] was asked to complete St Peter's he replaced the neat, harmonious designs of Bramante and Sangallo with a sublime, colossal idea whose almost unimaginable scale expresses his own wonder before creation, his personal sense of helplessness below the might of heaven.
The dome of St Peter's is not like the dome of St Paul's in London, whose rational design reflects a Newtonian confidence in an orderly universe. Michelangelo's dome induces vertigo and bafflement - it's hard to believe human beings actually built this, but they did. And one man designed it.'
I agree very much with that assessment, it is a colossal and baffling place - I remember wandering around the basilica even more than the Sistine Chapel in fact...
Was on the train the other day (surprise surprise) and the women around me were talking about one of them just coming back from a trip to Europe. I listened in as well as I could with my Empire movies magazine to occupy my eyes LOL, and from what I could hear, she was on a Contiki trip - and it took me back to the wonder of my travels, both in Europe and further afield, and thinking oh mi god that was soooo long ago, and feeling old and trapped and now unable to travel... hmm, what can get that out of my system lol, was also thinking that I am still in the Contiki age range (under 35) so I still have a few years to play with before I am pensioned off travel wise LOL.
Found the names of all the former popes, finally LOL, will do some reading up on Catholic history I think, in the background here. I don't think the next pope will be John Paul III, too intimidating a forebear to compare yourself to just yet. I was going to say something else about this whole topic, but has slipped my mind - will come to mind no doubt later and will perhaps slip it in :)
Next topic, is Charles and Camilla's wedding. Not even going to go into the thing that all the English/British VIPs decided to go to the papal funeral instead of the royal wedding (for an heir to the throne who will become Defender of the Faith for Anglicans) - Henry VIII is rolling in his grave I am sure - but want to start on surprise surprise the Diana angle. She has been in the grave for seven years, but why oh why do people still have such poison in their veins towards Charles? She played away just as much as him as it were. Why on earth say such a silly thing as 'it's what she [Diana] would have wanted'?
If she was alive, yes she would be entitled to her opinion blah blah, and Camilla probably wouldn't become a Mrs Windsor for a while yet, but she died in a car accident, not by SAS troops ordered to by the Queen or anything. Why the conspiracy theories??? Thousands of people die in car accidents each year, is every one of those a conspiracy? LOL, I will get off my soapbox now :)
More later - am busy reading about five sites at once now LOL
Pauly
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