Leavin, on a jet-plane...

[prairie_grass]

The last week has had some of the most insane consecutive days in the history of my universe. I haven't slept properly or for long enough since Wednesday. @_@ Anthropology exam went okay, hopefully will get a decent mark for that one. Right now I'm trying not to scream at my flatmates, trying to organise packing and organise things that need to be prepared pre-leaving and all that stuff. Meanwhile I've got one of my best friends leaving the country in like, 3 hours and I've been helping her prepare and pack for the last 36 hours, so we're both completely losing our minds and fuck, I just want to crawl into a ball and cry.

Meanwhile, it's just occurred to me that not only am I going to be stuck in Tauranga for 6 weeks, I'm going to be away from my computer, only able to use my Dad's dailup-connection computer which has a PORN GUARD program on it! I'm not going to be able to access ANYTHING!!!! I don't know if it'll even let me access my LJ, so I'm letting y'all know so you don't freak if I disappear for an unknown amount of time. Don't fear though, without my internet or (possibly, if I don't find one) a job, I will be getting a lot of writing done which I hope to be able to post as soon as I get back here in the first week or so of January.

I will miss everything muchly, pray for my sanity (although not too much, preferably) and if I don't manage to visit till I get back, I hope everyone has a great holiday and Christmas/New Year, etc. Love love love love!

~Peeji

EDIT - Nov 27: Just popping by to say that I've finished the draft for BtS_08! Only like, 10 months later! It's all written up by hand so it's going to take me a while to type up and edit, but um, YAY, right? I'm estimating that the finished product will be about 5,000 words long, and at this point I'm really hoping that upon second read-through I'm not going to say something stupid like, 'this really needs the next scene added on the end now, instead of the scene waiting till next chapter.' coz that would be really, really stupid. Okay. I better go before my Dad spontaneously appears behind me, but all is reasonably well, save for frustration and pending RSI due to me typing out too much of the aforementioned chapter today. *looks sheepish* Ta for now!

Comments

[krm--authoress.livejournal.com]

Not really sure. I enjoy anything to do with forensics as well as the sciences, but when I learned that combining forensics and anthropology in one field I just " :D Dream job!"

That, or whenever they "do the forensic anthropology thing" on something like CSI/NCIS or a more documentary crime show it interested me the most. Guess I'm fascinated by the fact that you can tell how a erson lived, parts of who they are and where they lived just from the bones.

Think the last part has to do with teh support from my family. At first it was a ballernia, then a firewoman, then a vet. Each time while they showed interest and support in it, it was just.....I dunno how to say it....tried to talk me out of it or something. But now with this one its like "Go for it!" That, and its held my interest the longest besides vet.
One of my grandfathers got me this surprisingly through forensic kit thing from the DiscoveryStore thats mean pretty neat, Mom suggested to me that she could bring home medical books from work to learn how to sketch bones, and even my science teacher is taking a special interest in what I'm working for (suggesting books and sites to read, and even pointing things out in Biology last year and Chemistry this year that has to do with anthropology)

Yay! I rambled, sorry about that. *huuuuuuuuuuuuuggggggggggllllllleeeee*

[prairie-grass.livejournal.com]

Do you watch that show, 'Bones'? That's like, one of my favorite shows on T.V. I don't know much about forensic anthropology in reality though. I would have thought it was used more for trying to place ancient anthropological finds like items in tombs and stuff than for crime investigation...

It's cool that your fam supports you. Are you going to have to go to a really specialized college to study that though?

[krm--authoress.livejournal.com]

Yes! That's one of my favourites too, also helped me a bit in deciding which field I wanted. "She can tell all that just from a few bones?" (That, and I totally want to be nicknamed Bones :D)

I think you can have it for both archeology and for crime investigation, though you do have to take classes in archeogecial recovery for both as well. I've been checking around, I might have to go to a specialized college later on, not quite sure though