I'M DONE.

IT'S CHRISTMAS.

Odd

This is weird.

Here I go again...

You know you're sick of your essays when you find yourself Googling "how to become a private investigator."

Whatever will I think of next?

Ok, so it wasn't totally random. I mean, I went through several different detective phases when I was a kid, but I think everyone goes through that. I got excited because I solved a mystery today: The Case of Where the Hell Did I Put My Eyeliner? Also, my roommate told me yesterday I should be a detective when she heard about my freakish memory. Yeah, maybe if I actually paid attention to the real world and could lie without smiling.

X-MAS LIST UPDATE: Munsell Color Chart. Needed for senior project and life. Way more money than Richard told me it was. Figures. Also, I want a contour gauge. Man, I'm expensive AND boring. :/

Irony: The history paper I whined so much about? DONE, and kind of enjoyable in the end. Senior project stuff is now the most painful thing on my agenda, while a few weeks ago it was my favorite. Oh how finding out you're doing everything wrong can destroy your love for an assignment.

I missed Music Monday because all my music is on my computer whose display won't turn on. Sorry. It would have been carols anyway.

Now back to the horrible senior project proposal / preliminary analysis of nebulous doom.

Mel Gibson for the fail.

Part of me really, really wants to see Apocalypto. It's not just my sense of duty as a New World archaeologist, or the lure of controversy, or morbid curiosity, though maybe it's a little of all these things. I kind of just want to see it.

Frankly, I'm pretty sure I couldn't handle it. I happen to rather like blood (god I'm so weird), but organs, now, that's a different story. Once you bust out the organs (quite literally in this case, I imagine), you've lost me. So when the inevitable question comes, and I say I haven't seen it, it won't be because I'm boycotting Gibson's historical inaccuracy or his intolerant existance, though believe me, I've noticed. It will be because I'm a wuss.

Since I don't have the constitution to watch this controversial behemoth of a flick, I'll content myself with reading as many reviews as I can until I feel like I've seen the thing. And in doing this I learned that at some point the hero is spared a grisly death because of a surprise solar eclipse. A surprise solar eclipse?!?!?!?! Deus ex machina aside, these are the MAYA we're talking about. The Maya. If you did your homework, Mel (and you must have to have gotten the costumes and the rituals and the freaking language right), you'd know that the Maya had both a lunar and a solar calendar, both extraordinarily accurate. If there's anything that should never happen in movie about the Maya, it's a surprise eclipse. FAIL.

I will never stop making fun of my mother for swooning over this guy back before he revealed his lunacy.

Findings

First: I found a new cartoon to watch!!

Second: Today in lab, I opened up my third box of ceramics and found this, scrawled on the back of an artifact tag:

Friday No. 25 '94

:) Hello/Hi/Hola: I am George Miller's daugher he had a visiting professorship here at Yale as an Arceologist (sp?) in the fall semester of 1994. If you would please send this to him when you find this, years from now, it would make us very happy. 1410 Spruce St., Berkeley, CA 94709. Thanx, love you! Creagh Miller :)

Cool, huh? I'm going to double check the address with people here who know this Miller chap, and mail it.

Music Monday

Mostly mellow stuff this week. Enjoy.

Rocky Votolato - White Daisy Passing : I got this for free via Apple via Facebook. It's exactly what I need when I get home from school. Or when I need to relax, which is kind of all the time.

Cat Power - Cross Bones Style : Indie folkish. Popular among people who don't want to like "popular" things. Wonderful for writing, getting dressed, and life in general.

Belle And Sebastian - Dress Up in You : From their newest album. There's always one track that sticks in your head the whole day when you hear a B&S disc for the first time, and this is it.

Mika Nakashima - Glamorous Sky : Surprise, love from Japan. I first saw this song in video, which may be one reason I find it so addictive. This is more energetic than the past three. I listen to it about three times a day.

Also, today I spent the day almost 100% positive I wanted to be an archaeologist. Yes!

Absurdity.

The "X" key on my laptop broke off. The weird thing is, it got taken out by a runaway wad of post-its. I guess paper does beat rock (or at least plastic) after all.

Also, as I typed that sentence, a rain of what could quite possibly be urine decended from one of the floors above. It wouldn't be the first time.

Random thoughts...because paragraphs aren't happening.

I can't believe it will be 2007 in a month.
And I'll be 22. Seriously, my 21st birthday feels like yesterday.

I'm in the Christmas pageant again, playing the bitter feminist aunt (last year I was the senile aunt, and I have never gotten to play the drunk aunt). Emily and I sang Christmas carols in the streets today. I won't be satisfied until I've had my first eggnog of the year, though.

I wish I had a credit card, kind of a little

I labbed again today. I really like my ceramics!

One of my friends has scarlet fever. I didn't know that existed anymore.

I would like a little snow before I leave.

The Christmas list in the right-hand column is growing. Check it.