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I should have started that homework earlier -_- I just spent an hour an a half witht he arcaheology software for my methods class. I'm over the fact that it makes annoying noises, and now annoyed at myself for a: not ever paying attention to names (not so good whern they have excercises asking toassociate pple's names with their achievement) b: waiting until almost midnight, and then continuing once I realized that there was actually stuff to *submit*, even though my brain is fried after game, and reading too much arcaheology crap. ohh, the irony. On the otherhand, I did read a quite interesting article by Henry Glassie - "Meaningful Things and Appropriate Myths: The Artifact's Place in American Studies" Although I sometimes want to just sort of politely tap him on the shoulder and remind him that I am not an English major or and art historian, and thus know little about Thoreau, or Holman Hunt. :p

Anyway, I will try to be more away for these things in the future. I'm still behind, but I shoudl be able to catch up tomorrow. I only got the CD late last week. And now... I'm going to bed.

I have sent of the presents that I had. They should be arriving fairly soon, I expect, since they are all going air-mail. I tried to insure Juli'es present, but it was too light! Even though it was in a huge box, if I'd wanted to insure it, it would have cost 15$ to send! ridiculous! Well, it is uninsured, but well packaged, so it should be finr. I did insure the Jodie/Cat package, but it only cost an extra buck or so... and that one was just expensive because it was *heavy* -_-

Well, I guess I should have some lunch and get to work, hmm? I still have to finish my book for tomorrow, and finish my archaeology homework. Bah. Well, if I get it done, I can work on porn, or on my character background for Rob's game. But maybe first, I'll get some lunch, hmm? I am thinking pancakes and bacon. And cake. Just because I have sooooo much cake :o Molasses is good for you, right? ¬_¬

In other news, my house is looking much more like someone actually lives here now. I have things on my wall, I broke out my Barbies (Merlin and Morgan Le Fey! Don't look at me like that, they're pretty! adn they were a present), now that my extra bookshelf has let me make space for them. I have a chair! A papasan, even, it is V. comfy, and I covered it over with an old quilt, so it looks even more welcoming. I put up character art on my bedroom walls. I put up the bunny quilt, which my mom made and won an award for... and was small enough to bring. It is in my sewing area. I've made space for the futon, basically. And I still have a lot of open space for dancing or whatever.

Oh yes, speaking of character art, I would always like to ahev more, hint hint! Right now I have pieces by Hazel, Julie, Bronwen, and Derek (Yes, I have a picture of Kain in his armour that you gave to me... and if you like I can scan and send it to you, since I don' know if you have a copy!). Mooooooore!

Anyway, it made me think of a description I read in The Armada by Garett mattingly, when he was talking about an exiled English Catholic priest living in Rome. it talked about how his home was sparse and bare... because he was hoping, if not expecting, that he wouldn't be there long. It made me realize when I read it initially that I was doing the same thing. I dn't expect, or want, to be here long. but since I don't know where I'm going next, I may as well try to be comfortable about it, right? better than never setting, and never being comfortable. I may as well own my space while I've got it. But really, this is the same reason I put off buying living room furniture for so long - I don't want to invest too much in something I'm going to abandon, especially since, after Greenville, my future is pretty uncertain. I'm trying to balance the desire for personal haven with the cautious impulse not to get too attached...

In other news, due to recent debates with Steve, and also other class bits, I just re-read something by Marvin Harris about science and anthropological theory (specifically cultural materialism). There are things I don't like about his actual work (or that I remember not liking, anyway), but I do like his atitude/theory, basically. Hmmm....

I was just breaking in my new chair, andwhen I got up, I don't know what I did, but my knee really really hurts ;_;

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(This is so that I can have something to kill time with tomorrow, see ;)