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It's silly that I happily listen to Christmas music all year round, but as soon as December roles around I tend to avoid it like the plague.
Archaeo-osteologist in my pathology lecture today was kinda annoying. I was asking some questions about the validity of determining head shape types since it seems rather useless to me due to individual and cultural variations, and then I mentioned the thing that had been bothering me reading all the site reports for my dissertation - about how you can determine a person's 'race' by examining their cranial features. She immediately assumed I was talking about American site reports and studies, which I wasn't and dismissed me, and I'm wondering if she's just embarassed that British site reports used to seriously include that, or was just annoyed I brought it up and that fobbing it off as an American obsession would be a good way to shut me up. I guess I'm just always annoyed when people assume I'm interested in American archaeology, since I would have found a program that suited me in America if I were interested in it in the slightest.
Cold is making me very sarcastic with real people.
Have to see dissertation supervisor soon to sort out a minor crisis of when I should draw the line and stop researching. Have so far surveyed 40+ sites and actually have enough to write dissertation now I expect (with the other ten I'll do over the weekend). Just not sure what to do about the 50+ sites or so I haven't surveyed, especially since site reports outside books get very spotty in places. Tis confusing.
Hex is a very stupid tv series, but I'm downloading the second episode. Why? To mock.
Archaeo-osteologist in my pathology lecture today was kinda annoying. I was asking some questions about the validity of determining head shape types since it seems rather useless to me due to individual and cultural variations, and then I mentioned the thing that had been bothering me reading all the site reports for my dissertation - about how you can determine a person's 'race' by examining their cranial features. She immediately assumed I was talking about American site reports and studies, which I wasn't and dismissed me, and I'm wondering if she's just embarassed that British site reports used to seriously include that, or was just annoyed I brought it up and that fobbing it off as an American obsession would be a good way to shut me up. I guess I'm just always annoyed when people assume I'm interested in American archaeology, since I would have found a program that suited me in America if I were interested in it in the slightest.
Cold is making me very sarcastic with real people.
Have to see dissertation supervisor soon to sort out a minor crisis of when I should draw the line and stop researching. Have so far surveyed 40+ sites and actually have enough to write dissertation now I expect (with the other ten I'll do over the weekend). Just not sure what to do about the 50+ sites or so I haven't surveyed, especially since site reports outside books get very spotty in places. Tis confusing.
Hex is a very stupid tv series, but I'm downloading the second episode. Why? To mock.
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Oh, hardly. There is such a thing as too much of a good thing. It's probably because you get sick of the overexposure.
(Personally, I find the fact that I mostly don't go shopping other than for essential items is a big help.)
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Argh. I've been reading a lot of very respected British scholars for my past few assignments, and let me tell you, there is no way that a large chunk of them are working without a very obvious bias. Even if they don't mention race, there's still class and gender, because let's face it, the vast majority of European history has been written by rich white men. Do not make me break out the post-modernist theories on your teacher :/
Hex is a very stupid tv series
Thelma is cool, but as far as the rest of it goes? Omgwtf, where is the logic? Where? Also the bit where the name of wossname, fallen angel guy who can't act or look sexy, when it appears in a cartouche? Made me foam at the mouth.
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You and me both. The majority of professors get so upset when you suggest post-modern interpretations of everything. Apparently, you need answers to everything, no matter how wrong those answers might be. *huggles post-modernism*
The biases are really amazing to see at times, and while I'm sure we have our own, it somehow has to be better than all the assumptions about "traditional" roles and subsistence rituals etc.
Also the bit where the name of wossname, fallen angel guy who can't act or look sexy, when it appears in a cartouche?
I kept assuming someone had hit him in the face with a board before each take. It was better than assuming that was his sexy look. It's bad when a guy looks much more attractive as a fuzzy apparation at least 500 metres away. Will not even touch the cartouche thing...
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File it under the heading of 'We don't have a clue, so let's say it's ritual!'