Up and Coming

Just started a new slough of classes. Joy...

Intro to GIS--mostly looks like it's gonna be painfully easy considering my experience level, but it looks good on the transcript.

History of Archaeology--taught by our youngest professor, Jaime Bartlett, who's finishing up her dissertation at Oxford. My fifth theory class, but I think the historical take on it will be interesting. This will hopefully motivate me to get aggressive about working with Clark on the theory text.

Southwest Seminar--totally taking this for fun, though it's certainly useful! Jim's teaching it and there're only three of us in there, so it'll be nice cozy discussion and personal insight heavy. It'll be my most time consuming class, though.

Other than that, I'm really aiming for end of the month/beginning of February to defend my thesis proposal, so I've gotta get cracking. Ultimately, this means there's no more play time in the ward. I'm going to try to preserve my weekends, but even that's looking sketchy. Next Monday's a holiday, thank goodness, so I'll try to get a jump on things.

Rather uninteresting, isn't it? Alas. But on a slightly more unique note, I start physical therapy for my lower back next Tuesday and just picked up a goodly sized run of muscle relaxants and anti-inflammatories. Also, I gave blood today for the first time in quite awhile. It normally takes me like 45 minutes for a pint, but I bled out in 10 minutes! Fabu! This is obviously a sign that I'm becoming more and more watered-down as I age...