the light at the end of the tunnel

rocking out to:
the darkness - i believe in a thing called love


Deadline - Program

• Nov 6 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
• Nov 14 Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowship
• Nov 20+21 SUNY StonyBrook visit
• Dec 30 Graduate Record Exam (GRE) - great depression
  
• Jan 1 Washington St. Louis application deadline
• Jan 2 Harvard University
• Jan 5 George Washington University
• Jan 10 University of Missouri - Columbia
• Jan 15 SUNY Stony Brook

I see the light, and it rocks like big-haired 80's bands.

• Jan 13 - flight to London
• Jan 14 - arrival in london: drinks with UCL friends, possibly meeting up with Emily G, MEETING LEAH'S NEW FIANCE!!! and hanging out with Saskia's lovely Courtald pals
• Jan 15 - Borough Market (and Portobello Market if I can help it)... mmm epicurian fantasies...
• Jan 16 - MADRID!!! ...possibly running to meet with the Alcala folk!!!
  
• Jan 17 - Saskia & Museums!!! a date with the madrilenos (and re-enacting excavation summer...ie. tapas and lots of liquor)
• Jan 18 - ...
  
• Jan 19 - mmm, escaping to Granada (Marisa has been informed) yay mini-holiday with the *ahem*
• Jan 20 - happy birthday poet!
• Jan 21 - back to madrid
• Jan 22 - back to ny
  

muppet the cornsnake

Feeding time at the museum. Ugh... also known as a terrible distraction. Muppet is one of three. He/she is, by far, my favorite. Mostly because he handles so well, doesn't hiss, and is so damn PURTY!

I may like snakes. In your face Indiana Jones!

AMNH Bone-terns LineDance

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

AMNH Bone-terns Party

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

language is a living thing

The Daily Show With Jon StewartM - Th 11p / 10c

Mike Huckabee Pt. 2

Barack Obama Interview
John McCain Interview

Sarah Palin Video
Funny Election Video

Prop 8 and its denouncing gay marriage as a human right is absolutely ridiculous. As an anthropologist, I find that the 68% of the American population that voted for the ban on same sex marriage are masking their homophobia for a conservative belief that the word marriage is strictly restricted to a life-long union between heterosexual couples.

Really? A 5000 year-old definition should be upheld? Well then, 30-year old men should be allowed to force 8-year old children to marry them. Men should still stone a 15-year old female to death because she was raped.

"Religion is far more of a choice than homosexuality…we protect religion, and talk about a lifestyle choice."

People get so hung up on the definition of a word that they forget languages are living things. It changes over time with the norms and standards of decades, cultures, and societies. It is all hypocrisy in my eyes, and when people finally begin to admit that Prop 8 is just one more way for close-minded folk to spread hate and hang on to their prejudiced hateful beliefs, then a true conversation about equality and basic human rights can begin.


Disappointing.
The worst part is that I'm related to these people.

Begin at the beginning...

...and go on until you come to the end: then stop. - The King, Alice in Wonderland.


Why I adore my friends:
-because when I start a conversation saying a random line of a random song, they continue it but reciting the rest of the song like it was a real conversation.
-because food excites them.
-because they know food excites me.
-because warm and fuzzy feelings are understood to be induced by warm and delicious goodness.
-because they appreciate it when I nerdily insert random information about the human body, human evolution, and bipedalism into everyday conversations about, say, fixing shoes at the cobbler.
-because we talk dirty about good food.
-because they know I love "appreciating" dorks/nerds...and they still hang out with me. hahaha.
-because they share my irrational fears.
-because they come up with random -isms like "It's like when a clown car rolls in, and 40 clowns come out" and use it as an everyday metaphor.
-because they appreciate my macabre sense of humor sometimes.
-because they share my appreciation for irony and sarcasm.
-because they get why I dislike Metamorphosis because it pains me to see unfair things happen to unsuspecting people, even if they are only fictional characters.
-because they totally ARE the coolest people in the world.

Why I <3heart<3>

-because with you guys, the HIGH FIVE is still alive.

-because none of us want to wear jeans and will happily go on living our winter lives with tights if only our asses wouldn't grow out in all kinds of directions like J-lo.

-because we all complain about our extra weight, but still love to love food.

I <3 my friends.


Happy holidays!
FYI: this list is only going to get longer...and longer...and longer.

just a little heartbroken

Ughhhh!!! #$%@$#$%$!!!

Oh sure, the ONE chance to see The Ting Tings live, be filmed for New Year's Carson Daly, and party it up FOR FREE, and I can't do it. Sadness. Boo not having a life and freedom. Boo.

boo-hoo.

And boo-hoo, Anne is leaving for Chicago. :-( I like wasting my time in Gisselle's office chatting with Anne about the crazy men she meets in NY and our ideal wedding dresses... and how awesome our outfits and bags are. Booooo.

Enjoy the monkeys, Anne!

Sadness. Heart brokenness. Boo. Boo-hoo.

rocking out to: The Ting Tings

That's Not My Name (Acoustic-awesome)

Shut Up and Let Me Go (Stripped-down sexy)

The Great DJ (ah-ah-ah ah ah Acoustic and still rockin')