Where has all the time gone?!

I can't imagine what happened to it; there used to be plenty to go around!

So my big toe is still extremely displeased with my shifts at the museum and is visibly protesting my involvement like so:


Luckily, it hurts a lot less, although my lower half in general (and my back too, sometimes) still get really sore at the end of a 6 1/2 hour shift. Mom says when she starts teaching again after a summer off she's in pain too, and it just takes time to get back into shape. I'm jealous of her, she at least gets to sit down and take attendance every class period!

Classes have been going a little better: my first remote sensing test didn't go so well (I got an 82, le sigh) but I blasted through two labs today so I'm now ahead of the game and am very excited about that.

Naturally, I got an excellent score in my Anthro test (a 95), even though I was convinced Dr. Lipo wouldn't test on the sites at all and therefore barely glanced at them; I'm sure you can imagine my horror when I found there were three sites on the exam! Fortunately, I pay attention in class so I got two of them, although one was from the textbook, and just glancing at site data once does NOT qualify anyone other than a genius/flypaper memory to get that question correct on a test.
Apparently everyone else in the class did really badly - the average score was a 60 or something awful like that. It's slightly reassuring that my Cum Laude BA really did teach me something.

One of the things on the test that made me really laugh was that we were tested on prehistoric environments and one of them has "Riparian" in the name. If you're a fan of Keeping Up Appearances, you'll know that Hyacinth invites some "select" friends to a "Riparrrrrrian Dining and Entertainment" also known as a "riverside picnic".
It came up on the test as well as in the study guide, and it took all of my self-control to not bust up laughing. A vision of Hyacinth on the telephone calling Elizabeth to inform her of the Riparrrrrian Entertainment, and Elizabeth and Emmit's faces when they realize it's a riverside picnic...well I'm giggling now, and I'm sure you can appreciate how HARD it was to NOT laugh.

I think I was sniggering though.

The thesis is still kicking my ass. I'm making dinner now (that is, it's in the oven and almost ready), and watching the news, but once BBC World News is over, it's time to get back to the grindstone.

One day, I will be retired and sit back and think, "Yes. It is now time to relax." and I will immediately begin writing a new book. Or something!