heraldry

[luciab]

My household name (Casa Bellini) and badge have passed Kingdom and been submitted to the College of Arms. The change to my arms passed, too. I'll give you all this in English rather than herald-ese: The household badge is a black background with white brush and a quill pen crossed, and a gold bell at the center top. My arms will be a black background with a white cat rampant and three white bells across the top, and a gold border around the whole thing. Whee!

In less exciting news, I'm reading for my mid-term tonight. To be specific, I'm re-reading an araticle he said we should be familiar with. It was written in 1944, and I don't know if we've gotten dumber since then or what, but I"m having a hell of a time with this thing. Some of the sentences are 100 words long. To give you an easy comparison, that first paragraph up top is only 86 words long, and it's four sentences and an exclamation. Sigh.

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[luciab.livejournal.com]

Well, and I have trouble with multi-tasking anyway. The problem I was having with that text was that I had to hold several different parts of the sentence in my head at once, and be able to sort out which one modified what. I think I should have diagrammed the damn things.