Long Time Livin' Underground

I'm sitting here listening to one of my roommates' laundry attempting to expunge the odours and other abuses it absorbs from daily wear.

I'm hoping that this window into my enthrauling nightly life doesn't bore myself into scrapping this post.... hmmm...

Alright, moving on!

                                Where am I?

Another basement suite.

On the verge of failing all 3 classes.

Getting ready to peace out on my underpaid slave job.

Oh! Best of all: In a worth while relatinoship w/ my awesome fella :)

Let's see if I can get things done now!

Whoa... I've changed locations!

End of term, how LOVELY!

Ok, so I'm not out of the clear just yet, but you know, there's only about 3 more papers left to write and 2 exams to jump on and scream "This is SPARTAAAAAAA".
*sigh* I for sure failed tonight- or rather, yesterday evening's -osteology exam. Trust me. When I state that I have failed something, I have legitimately failed it and I just have those spidey senses attached to failure, and I know it's terrible, but... I know me.

Anyways, I won't dwell because the course is offered on steroids during summer! In other words it's a fucktonne of information crammed into one month as opposed to 3 months, holy mother of God, I HOPE I PASSED :S

I guess I ought to tell you that at this precise moment I am standing in a room with low ceilings, interestingly crooked design, with boxes, clothing, and other random crap strewn all about.
'Why?' you might ask, well TADA! I no longer live with my parents! Instead I am now living in a basement suite with my darling Joe-bro (aka Hosephekina) and Jamesy (aka Ali's older brother).

This will be an interesting experience:
a) because my multiple High-interest No-fee Savings Accounts all pretty well say $0.00 and it's only been 3 days
b) because I am getting my wish of not having to live with crazy, emotional, psychotic girls
c) but at the same time I am now living with two boys (who by the way if you ever read this then I am telling you now, don't make a mess or I'ma dump it on your bed while you're sleeping!)
d) because I will probably end up getting sick of eating just pasta, otherwise I will have to start learning how to cook :S oh my
e) .... I'm just too tired to go on, but w/e there's a pub around the corner :)

Alrighty then... what else, what else?
Really, there's nothing?

I found out I own a lot of junk..
I HAVE PENGUIN CUPS AND MUGS! They finally get to be used after years of chilling in the Narnia of my jump the bump closet.

Also, for the month of December I allowed my employers to schedule me for graveyard shifts. So now I show up for work all zombified in the infant's department in Walmart from 11pm-7am. On my first shift I arrived feeling the effects of Mary Jane and sat down in the diaper aisle to chat it up w/ my drunk friend on my cellphone.
GOOD EFFICIENT & PRODUCTIVE TIMES!

Since it is about 2:50am I believe I have enough reason to complete my room arranging so that I can clear the crap off my bed and sleep!
Hopefully by the time I wake up, Joe will be off his night shift and we can go buy cheap, interesting art to fill the crusty walls of our new home and make the place look less crusty, empty and junky.

Good morning to all! And good night to moi!

SkooooooL

Yes Interwebs, it has begun, yet again!

What's up with that, right?

I am beyond excited because I am officially in 5 classes, one of them being the only one I REALLY wanted to be accepted into (dum da da dum!!!!): Human Osteology!!! *woot* *dances around*

So Frack YEEEEAH!!!! Now the course load will involve a lot more evenings of me dieing over papers, labs and readings, but you know what? I am fine with that!

...

Ok, I lied, not fine with that, but right now nothing is killing my "Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy!" So jog on!

It'll be a new kind of semester for me: My duet partner to Air Supply's "All Out of Love" will be attending school at the University of Exeter while I continue to rot away at the University of Victoria :( wah.... alright it's not THAT bad.

I will still have my friends within our main group and some old HS friends and Walmartians to get into random shenanigans with but it will still feel different!

On top of the school work I will also be working, and on top of those two together I will be volunteering both at the Royal BC Museum and at the school with one of my Profs!

Oh... I forgot to mention I will still commuting from the depths of Nowheresville to Victoria... so 2 hours one way... How I cannot wait for the nodding off to sleep on the bus moments... Yay life :/

Now off to not sleep and continue screwing with my system! YAY!

Life

The wheels on which this body runs are freshly greased and greatly worn

From start till end the week goes on, tightly knit into the next

No full stops, just short breaks, pauses result from overload

When thoughts wander, hours later, I find myself lost in something unrelated

Distractions of my wants for things, restricted to my student status

Priorities of student life yield not to socializing nor to experiences longed for

Once my degree has been achieved, once post-secondary is behind me: hope

It floats sweetly near this end: hope

A pause, long enough to embrace what I have been yearning

Maybe then breath can find its way back into my lungs, winding in and out of passage ways

Maybe then the neediness of studying can be forgotten, draining hours

Devoted to achieving an end

Thinking

Good afternoon, Interwebs,

The Fall term has begun and before it had, I felt completely unmotivated to return to school and get on with the beginning of the rest of my life, or whatever. Side note --> I'm finally off the prednisone so my spirits have lifted--

It wasn't until this past week at school where I got excited.

You know how people used to ask you, as a child, what you were going to be when you grew up and you had many answers made up from your dreams and hopes? Well, when you're a kid your answers are adorable, acceptable and potentially possible, but once you finish high school and get yourself into the young adulthood stage of life the question becomes more serious and based on what you know and can do your answers have to fall into the category of reality. Basically what you want to be has to be attainable within your abilities, skill sets, and willingness to work for it.

Up until now I've been indecisive about what I wanted to do. All I knew was that Anthropology interested me enough to jump in to as a major. So for two years I went along with the classes finding out which sub-fields of anthro really peaked my interests. Now that I am in my 3rd year of post-secondary and first attending year at a university, I have the hindsight that it isn't really until at least the 3rd year when you CAN decide what jobs you'll want to take with the major you have chosen. Everything within the first two years is too general to really decide what is going to keep you satisfied career-wise for the rest of your life or part of the rest of your life. In my first two years I figured "meh, anthropology will give me something to do, but in the end what will I do? I don't know." Now, however, I find myself getting more and more excited over the physical and archaeological sub-fields of Anthropology. And when I say excited I mean on the edge of my seat, smiling like a I've just inhaled copious amounts of nitrous oxide and laughing histerically over anthro jokes.

This year I hope to do my best in all my classes and actually study myself silly to the point where I can just snap and say something all anthropologically insightful. After taking the Archaeological Field Assistant Program this past Spring, it helped me actually see how anthropology is applied, so I have gained some experience and am not ONLY getting stuck with armchair anthropology. If I can really kick butt in my studies this year then I hope I can also get into a field school this upcoming Spring.

I have also just realized that I miss the "new" feeling I used to get whenever I moved as I grew up. Side note --> I've moved tons of times to different countries and continents up until the age of 14-- Only after leaving the nomadic lifestyle for a more sedentary one did I miss the constant moving about and always having to learn a new surrounding. This is why I am so excited to apply for field schools and maybe even study abroad? I'm not sure if I could go so far but I am 20 years old now and just feel like I need the independence from my family and the roots I have laid down in British Columbia, I need the "new" feeling again, I need to feel out of place again, I need to be learning like it's the first time again.

Well I suppose I will get there eventually. I finally feel like I can visualize a career in Anthropology, no longer just a thought or a filler in life, but an actual tangible thing that I can achieve and work with for as long as I can.

On that note, I should get back to studying and reading and colour coding my notes.

Meh

Work, work, work.
Wonderful Walmart

Type, type, type.
Internet Social Life

Think, think, think.
Hermet-Crab Alone Time

In a way I am glad that the summer is dwindling away. I will spend less time getting paid and more time spending hours to think up impactful papers. I will focus less on the dramas of other people's lives and focus more on the dramas within my academic life. This end stretch is all about final relaxation, calming down before I turn up the stress levels, and just having fun.

Confessions to the Internet

Good evening Internet,

So first confession:
I should be writing 2 papers right now and studying for a quiz and a test, but instead, I have once again allowed myself to be easily captivated by time-dwindling distractions... That damn procrastination!

My second confession:
the 100 Monkeys

If you do not know who they are:
http://www.100monkeysmusic.com may educate you in their existence
Also, for some tunage
http://www.myspace.com/these100monkeys may pleaseth thy ears
Furthermore, visit their YouTube channel to see some music vids
http://www.youtube.com/user/official100monkeys
Of their three official music videos, I uber heart "Sleeping Giants" and "Ugly Girl"
They are very contrasting music videos and songs in their tone (atmosphere) but are both A-maze-ing-guh-guh-guh-guh.

This group of fellas I would very much like to hear live! One day... some day.

Wrapping up my splurge, I must admit that my first attraction to the band was Jackson Rathbone. And I am certain that in later entries I will gush more over him. People head for the hills if they hear me speak of him because I'm nearly brought to tears by what I perceive as his immaculate beauty.

Anyways: my day!

It was boring, that's really the majority of what it was. All it involved was sitting in classrooms getting lectured at about various subjects in which I am studying. Exciting? Not so much.

However, lunch was a far more interesting part of my school day. My quirky friends and I acted like children laughing at ridiculous innuendos and watching Rejected (located also on YouTube).

I am rather certain that we are seen as creatures with some spine-deforming disease as everyone in our caf avoid us by all means and throw confused and/or irritated gawks our way. Only a select few venture near us: those who wish to survey and get a representative sample of the campus population, those who were brave enough to tell us about some fanshy-shmanshy shin dig being held at various locations around campus, or a fun activity being hosted by a department of our school where free food will also be provided.

Any-shwut, I really need to study for a test and write some papers here.

Noytee Nite