I just got back from peeing. That is not the important aspect of my story- regardless I was in the bathroom, and i saw this pretty big spider on the ground. Now like I said...I've pretty much been trying to let go of these petty little hang ups, ie bugs since bugs are everywhere here, so I ignored precious little charlotte as she wandered about beneathe my feet...but then I flushed the toilet...and that fucker jumped...I kid you not, like 10 inches off the ground and I ran really fast out of the bathroom...some things you just cannot get used to, no matter how hard you try.
And actually, I was thinking about this the other day, bugs and spiders that is. As I was, again peeing, out in the desert, I watched these big ole wants scurry about. The ants here are kind of funny looking, their back ends aren't straight they stick up in the air, so they kind of look like spiders themselves. And then I just started wondering why we dislike spiders so much, ants are weird looking too, they bite, some of them are poisonous...sure they don't get that big, but if i saw a tarantual sized ant, I would probably think it was cute...who knows, I will work on not being so bugmental.
I definitely spoke too soon when I talked about how quickly I was getting through the material. This morning after getting a lesson in phase differentiation from the lithics guy, Tim, I sat down to start sorting more bone.
I struggle with fish a lot because of how many different bones there are. In the fish skull alone there are 130 bones. They are also variable between different species. Given that, I cannot learn fish the way I did mammals. With mammals, I learned what each bone was, and then learned species..with fish I need to learn bones and species at the same time....and they have a bunch of different parts that mammals don't have...it's all very confusing...I was very distraught.
Another thought that occured to me today, for those that have known me a while, remember how much I longed to be a marine biologist back in the day, and then i changed my mind once I found out that most marine biologists don't work with whales, they spend all of their time in the lab dissecting fish- well look at me now, spending all day in a lab sorting fish bones.
Okay, well that about does it for now...I really need to start doing more of the reading research aspect for my thesis. Everytime I try to now, I always fall asleep. I'm reading Barry Kemp's Ancient Egypt, Anatomy of Civilization.
I'm sorry I don't have any pictures today either, so instead here are some of just me being stupid, hiding in my closet and blowing you guys kisses!
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those pictures make me smile
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