School starts in a couple days! During intersession, I’ve been preparing for classes in statistics and geology by watching YouTube videos on statistics (thanks, Crash Course and Khan Academy) and taking a free Open University…
With coronavirus infections continuing to rage out of control, I was wondering when the on-site field excavation class I was taking this spring was going to get canceled. Yesterday morning I got the email: field…
Pandemic aside, 2020 was a year of real progress for me in my pivot away from advertising and toward archaeology. Archaeology? This time last year it was Shakespeare/literature, and I was looking into master’s programs,…
A couple posts ago I talked about my planner, and how I’m ecologically against buying a new partly plastic planner every year when my refillable leather planner folio has been going strong for 30 years…
A batch of sunflowers volunteered in the flowerpot by our front door, and I feel very much like this bloom. I’m not yet fully formed, but I’m on my way. It’s been a meandering journey…
The cool people who make college student life vlogs always do these big “school supplies haul” videos showing all the stuff they got for going back to school. I’ve watched a bunch over the years and…
I’m done with finals! I had planned to sit Biological Anthropology Friday and Cultural Anthropology Saturday, but my studying took longer than expected and by the time I was done it was time to get…
This summer I’m taking two online Anthropology classes at the local community college. But I wasn’t officially enrolled at the college as an Anthropology student. For that, I’d need to set up an appointment with…
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I was born for social distancing. For quite a while, I was happily and voraciously consuming all the online streamed theatre I could get, and could…
Time for a look back on 2019 and a look ahead at 2020. In 2019 I saw 12 live plays, which is more than I thought I would see. Three were for a college class,…
