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Actually, this has nothing to do with boobs. I'm just making a pointless post and I thought that might trick more people into reading it.

Tihs morning I have my first session of the new class with Dr. babits. For all that I have described him as a surly jerk... I have high hopes. I think I understand better what sort of things he will expect, now, and therefore I'll be able to get a better mark. I think the material for this class will be easier to manage as well... and I need it more. Anyway. I have about an hour, so I should finish getting dressed, and, if I have time, make some kind of foood...

I also need to get a copy of my book review for Carl, so I can review it this afternoon... and think of a clever title. I'm terrible at titles.

Boobs!

Big cock!

That's for you, Jodie ^-^

I went to class. It's going to be interesting.... There are only three of us. me, a second year, and an undergrad. I have a paper due in a week or so on a small workboat. I have no idea o_O Anyway, I am going to e-mail some guy to ask him about the kind of boat that I am looking at... and pray -_- I realy don't know where to look up stuff for this. it is only wirth 50 points though. And this time, I'm going to do my presentation on something that I think will be actually interesting, which is Ethnicity in Material culture.. how/if you can determine it, and such. I need to think about what exactly I want to do, though, so I can work with Babits to see what kind of readings need to be assigned.

I have finished my paper for Carl. It is not an outstanding piece of scholarship, but it will do. I only had a week, to read and write the thing.... Well, it's decent. Tonight, I have my first three hour seminar/discussion, and *that* out to be interesting :o

I have a class at three-thirty. I came home when I was done Carl's paper, because I didn't know what else to do :o I don't have any big prohjects yet, not really, that I can start work on early... I can e-mail the boat guy from home :p Anyway... I just made a salad. i haven't eater it yet, though. I figure I shoudl have something for 'lunch', and then maybe I will need less for supper, since I haven't decided what I'm goign to do in that time period, between 4:45 and 6:30. I could come home, but it would only be for half an hour... plenty of time to find something to eat, though. See this is the problem with not having a proper lounge.... If I did bring something in, I don't really have any where to eat it, except the class room at Eller.

Also.... I am doing a Thing tomorow after Dr. Parkerson's class, which I don't want to jinx, so i won't say more. It could greatly imporove the quality of my life! I am excited! ^-^

I guess I'll eat some salad then :o

I *like* Theory. I like high level theory. It interests me. I think about it on my own time. A lot of people don't. I thik I have at least a vague idea of where I stand, from a theoretical point of view. I am, at the least, a relitavist. Sometimes, I will even Go All The Way... but then people start thinking I'm crazy. Sometimes, *I* start thining I'm crazy, or at the very least, that I'm not being fair to some people, be they alive or dead (if they actually ever existed ;) Sometimes I thik that just at the tip of my brain there is a way that I can mediate my stance, or at least explain it, but I've yet to actually get that far. I'm not sure what it would take to puch me to it. If I *had* to think about it, or if I were to really immerse myself in it, to have a lot of time to read other people's theory... that might help, or it might confused me more. I don't know. I have a nice fat expensive theory book sitting at home on my shelf that I'd like to read, but I don't know when I'll make the time. (See, I know myself, if nothing else :p)

But I'm also scared to *use* theory. I'm scared to express it. I'm afraid that I won't be able to defend myself well enough. For example, I don't like Dr. Babit's pet 'multiple working hypotheses' theory. I think it is kind of silly, at the least. I have actual real issues with it, which I won't go in to if I want to have time to get myself some dinner before class at 6:30 :p I'm thinkig Mexican. Dad just gave me some Christmas Money (thanks Dad!). End tangent. But the point is that I'm afraid that I'm not going to be good at trying to be obvertly theoretical... and yet the idea really appeals to me. Is that wrong? Is it just pretentios? Am I actually capable of it? Am I just talking out of my ass?

And what does it mean for my thesis, which is really kind of old-school. It's making a lot of those old positivist, scienced-based assumptions that I'm often wary of. And yet... do I have a choice if I want to look at pirates? There isn't anything else to work with that I've found. So, how can I take theory, and my approach to it, and happily marry it to what I want to do? Where can I find *my* middle range theory?

This is partly rhetorical, partly so that I can remind myself that I do want to try and keep these things all in mind. But seriously, if you have any advice... I'm listening.

It's so true!

There are some other good ones on the site, but enough are lame that I'm not linking directly.

There are some people who come to mind when I see this shirt

This one is funny is an ofensive way as well ^_^

Classic... and true! Oh, so terriblyl true ;_;