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8 years ago @ The Toast - Cocktail Hour: Open Th... · 0 replies · +5 points

YAY! Enjoy it, I'm sure you'll have the best time!

8 years ago @ The Toast - Cocktail Hour: Open Th... · 1 reply · +8 points

I signed up a few weeks ago and I'm SO looking forward to getting matches to write to! :)

8 years ago @ The Toast - Cocktail Hour: Open Th... · 0 replies · +2 points

Happy birthday!!

8 years ago @ The Toast - Cocktail Hour: Open Th... · 2 replies · +4 points

Note 1: I finally successfully reset my IntenseDebate password? It's been locking me out and not letting me reset it for so long for no reason. But today I didn't get an error message so I have my actual profile back!

Anyway. Today is going to be very busy. It's prospective student weekend, so I have prospies to herd all day, and a party to host for them tonight. They're lovely, but it means time away from work. And I have so much work to do.

I have to work on my IRB to be allowed to use human subjects. I have to finish and submit a grant to go to Argentina this summer. I have to present my current tomorrow for the prospies and a bunch of professors. I have to continue to revise the paper I want to submit. I have to somehow fit 20 hours of programming on language corpora into the next 5 days. AND I apparently have to have a first draft (a mini draft, really, but still) of my PROSPECTUS to my advisor in one week. Which is terrifying.

And I have to remember to breathe through everything. I can do this. I can do this.

8 years ago @ The Toast - Dogs I Would Like To O... · 2 replies · +83 points

My favorite part is the idea that all these dogs are only *probably* dead now. They may yet survive for to be snuggled.

8 years ago @ The Toast - The Writer Does The Wo... · 0 replies · +26 points

when i woke up this morning, i had benchpressed my bed in my sleep. i can't stop lifting things above my head and then flinging them to the ground. if i don't grunt when i lift something, it wasn't really lifting.

8 years ago @ The Toast - Let's Talk About The B... · 0 replies · +5 points

that is such a good articulation of how i felt about Snuff. reading it was really hard when i realized how different it was - up until that point i'd hoped unseen academicals was a fluke...

8 years ago @ The Toast - Immediately Buy This B... · 0 replies · +2 points

i found that just a year or so ago! the doctor is there too :D

8 years ago @ The Toast - Questions I Have For J... · 0 replies · +1 points

"really wow" is the best way i've ever heard to describe that entire plot line with connor. like. what?

9 years ago @ The Toast - Cow Teeth or Human Tee... · 0 replies · +2 points

After my senior year of college, I worked on a dig/field school for a summer in the middle of nowhere, USA. I learned so much, including the fact that while I loved doing archaeology, it wasn't what I wanted to do professionally. (Doing linguistics is just as much fun, and there's a much smaller risk of having to touch worms...)

One of my friends was digging in a separate midden pit next to ours one day, and she had gotten down to a really interesting layer where there was a turtle shell, so she's going slow, clearing layer by layer around the shell. When it was clear enough, she tipped it over to bag it, and we just heard her go "shit," really quietly. It wasn't a turtle shell at all, it was the top of a (human) skull. So we had to put a bucket over it, and call the county coroner (because apparently it could have been a recent murder victim? Buried a thousand years deep in undisturbed soil?).

The field school ended that week, so I never found out if the whole dig got shut down for NAGPRA reasons or not. The culture we were looking at wasn't definitively claimed as ancestors by any of the local tribes, but that probably shouldn't have made a difference...

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