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I have a research paper due Friday. I'm comparing the incontestable Meadowcroft data to the various contested Pre-Clovis sites. It will be interesting. I just... have no brain power left in me.

Midterms are sort of over. I have one more test on Tuesday but it'll be easy. The two previous midterms were 16 total pages of writing so my brain is shot. Which is why this research paper is ... having issues being started. But I have an outline! Three pages a day until Friday and it'll be done! I just have to... write them.

The Mass Effect 3 demo is great. I started multiplayer on Friday and have now run with a Human Soldier (surprisingly boring) and a Quarian Engineer (WHICH IS A BLAST) but I haven't tried the other classes yet.

I'm really enjoying Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning. It's a pretty solid game. It's got a ridiculously huge open world (which I normally dislike) and a decent main story (which is why I can forgive the massive world). And my character is adorable. So that helps.

I've done two of the paradox endings for FFXIII-2 and still need to do the others but first I need to get some grinding done. So that's pretty low on my vidya game priorities.

After this paper is done I'll have a little over a week to get through as much of Reckoning as possible before ME3 launches. I doubt I'll be able to beat the game since the world is SO huge but hopefully I can get through a decent chunk of it. Then it's on to killing Batarians and ruining the Reapers.

Spring break hits the last week of March so I'm hoping to get some cosplay related work done. Mom's agreed that my birthday present can be her footing the bill for most of SDCC so now I just have to deal with cosplay expenses. I may ditch my plan of doing two costumes just so I can have one really well made one. Probably going to shoot for doing Shepard's dress blues (because armor is too time consuming) and scrap 1967 Batgirl (I'm a little sad about this one). I'd like to have something more presentable than the mess that was Miranda. So I'll spend that month between classes ending and Comic Con perfecting whatever I go with instead of the 25 - 30 hours I spent on Miranda.

Other than the pain and suffering of midterms, classes are going well. I've realized that Archaeology is most likely not the path I want to take so the rest of my upper division classes (aside from the few required classes left) will be Physical Anthropology and BioArchaeology. I've also found out that I can graduate in four quarters (including this current one) as long as I take 2-3 Anthro classes every quarter. Let's just hope the rest of my classes require fewer essays.

Going back to spring break, I'm headed back to Sacramento for that week. Mostly to see The Hunger Games with mom. And hopefully I can steal the spare printer because fuck this bullshit of it costing me $0.18 for each page I print. Fuck it hard. I'll probably use that time to also bring back the stuff I wound up not needing and bringing things that would be more useful. I may also bleach my hair and go back to pink or orange. UCSC is full of neon headed kids so I feel left out.

So... I guess I should stop procrastinating on my paper now.

Updates!

I am that girl in my Anthro classes. You know the one. Today I got called out as the only person to go to H-M's office hours and discuss my paper. She scolded everyone because she only has office hours for a tiny window on one day a week which means next week everyone will get short and very brief meetings with very little discussion or research and "Had you shown up like Victoria did, you'd have gotten an hour to research with me like she did and now she has a great paper lined up."

I really do have a great paper lined up.

We spent an hour discussing sites and stratigraphy and my paper has been narrowed down to a look at Meadowcroft's stratigraphic data and the lithics found within each occupation and compare them to more recent (and more controversial) sites and see if the timelines match up and where there's deviation. So I'm basically looking at Pre-Clovis lithics and their dates and building a theoretical tool industry around the items found at each site. H-M said that if my paper is strong enough it could be published since no one has done a synthesis on all the data acquired from these Pre-Clovis sites. Which is... ridiculous. But I'm not going to try to build this paper around the idea of getting published. Because that's grossly pretentious.

My internship is going nicely. Yesterday I spent three hours cataloging fish vertebrae. It was a lot of zen-like data entry but I can now identify a fish spine, so I guess there's that.

Oceanography is great and really interesting. Early African Archaeology is a lot of review right now (which is kind of driving me crazy because upper division Anthro majors should know this shit but w/e it's easy work for me). North American Archaeology is digging into the various tool industries and sites of early occupation and looking at various methods of peopling (which is kind of review for me but this is way more in-depth and interesting).

I've had to start drinking coffee again. Surprisingly, my ulcer seems to be okay with this. The adjustment to a 17-unit quarter from a 6-unit semester hurts. And the hiking. But I'm getting better with the hiking! I made it from Porter to Ten (roughly a 20 minute hike) without stopping today and my incredibly unfit self was very proud.

So uh... That's what I've been up to. toxin may be visiting me at the end of the month! Which is great! And uh... Yeah. That's about it.

Today I hiked out to Cowell because 1) I was scouting where all my classes are so I wouldn't be lost tomorrow, and 2) I was informed that the Cowell dining hall is better. After this hike, two things happened: 1) I dropped my Aikido class because I am not hiking for 30 minutes to do an hour of martial arts and then hike back, and 2) The hike the not worth slightly better food.

So my Aikido class is dropped which means my Monday/Wednesday/Friday is only one class at 11am and now I only have to walk half as far to get to my classes. I have the feeling this walking/hiking will be enough exercise for the first quarter. If I'm not losing weight after this, I'll take a PE class.

I'm attempting a Project 365 366 again this year. You can follow it here if you want but it's pretty boring right now.

And now I'm going to kill time for the next half hour then go eat dinner.

So... I live in Santa Cruz now. Just thought you should know.

Since I covered "Still Alive", it was only right to also cover "Want You Gone".

( now i only want you gone; )

thewaterbandit posted a parody of "Tik Tok" on the masseffect community for Shore Leave Friday. So I recorded it.

This is probably one of the better quality recordings you will ever get out of me.

And I make a Ke$ha song sound good.

Scope 'n Drop.


Now I have to finish writing lyrics for "I'm in a Blight" and "Can't Conscript". ...when I stop being a writer's block lazy ass.

I saw this floating around on fb and thought it would make for an equally amusing LJ meme.

you are so BUSTED!

You and I wake up in jail together. Using only 4 words, what do you say to me?

1. Comment to this post with your username, pass on your comment to your friends.
2. Your friends will reply with their four words to you. (Be creative!)
3. ???
4. Profit.

Pimp it out:
<center><font face="Courier New"><font size="7"><a href="YOUR THREAD HERE"><font color="#A1A1A1">i am so BUSTED!</font></a></font></font></center>

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