April 4th
by Olivia
I spoke with the GA of my stats class today about joining the field practicum course this summer. He said he’s almost 100% sure that it’s full right now, and then my professor jumped in and said she was pretty sure it was full too. But then she said that she’s doing some research this summer too that she’ll need volunteers to help out with and that I could possibly join her on that. She said it is only 2 weeks, where as the actual course being offered this summer is 5 weeks, and it’s just volunteer work, not an official credited course. But she said she might be able to work something out to where I could get like one credit for helping out in the field, and then if I wanted more credits she could set me up doing some things for her in the lab afterwards.
I think this is a great opportunity. Here’s why: The professor who is offering the field practicum course this summer is a professor that I took Forensic Anthropology with last semester, but I didn’t get to know her very well at all because it was a very large class and there were 2 GAs and 2 professors teaching the class. I think she spent a total of 3 days in class with us all semester. I’ve spent a lot more “face time” with my stats professor and I’m doing extremely well in her class, so those things are obviously bonuses… (not that I did poorly in my forensic anth. course). The only DOWN side to this would be if a) she was doing the research during the same time that I’m taking other courses this summer and b) she’s not an expert in the field I want to go into like the other professor is. She’s an archaeologist. …Oh, I just double checked and looks like I was ill-informed. The other professor is also an archaeologist. Oh well. It would have been nice if she was a physical anthropologist like I thought, so that I could ask questions about physical anth stuff, but that would have just been a nice bonus. One thing I’m afraid of if I did work in the lab, though: I’m terrified that I’d develop one of those strange passions for ceramics! D:
So I guess at this point I just need to hope that her research schedule works with my summer school schedule. I’m going to email my professor about all this soon so I’m crossing my fingers all goes well!! It would be really awesome to get to do some work in the lab too, even if it is with projectile points and not skeletal remains. I don’t think the other field course includes lab work…
I have 4 exams this week. You’d think it was mid-terms time or something. Mid-terms this semester were less stressful than this week is going. The only class I don’t have an exam in is… wait, I have an exam in all 5! AH!!
I should probably be studying and not typing here! Oh well.
I need to get back to fixing my email though – nightmare of a thing it’s been…
My grandpa is in the hospital right now, too. Since this morning when he took a fall and severely broke his ankle. I wanted to call my grandma but I wasn’t sure what to say. I’ll think about it more and call tomorrow… I hate that my grandpa is hurt. I hate thinking of that. And I hate knowing how worried my grandma must be about him now too. Jeez.
Paycheck on Wednesday.
I wanted to say some things about the appreciation I’ve developed for the beauty of the desert. I’ll get around to that another time, though. Today is one of those days where so much is going on internally that everything seems to kind of slow down to accommodate it all. I end up half-way ignoring it all and there opens up this rarely opened void for appreciation of the little things to rush in. But I’m still cranky, because of all that sits under the surface of that… Does this make any sense? I guess it’s kind of a paradox…I tend to get a little annoyed at paradoxes.
** The Featured Image is of Tivoli Village in Las Vegas, NV. They are building it on the corner of my block. Beautiful architecture, I think. Nice to see something besides 4 dull stucco walls for once.
