Most of my posts on this blog are about a specific thing, because I find those things to be more interesting than the things that are going on in my life. However, I know there's a whole fleet of people back home (what up, Beaver Valley Ward Relief Society!) who read this and probably want updates, and I guess I do have some things going on, so here they are:
- I have a grad-school interview at Michigan State University for their PhD program in Anthropology in less than two weeks. This was the most last-minute I've ever bought a plane ticket before; and I was very stressed about it until I wrapped my brain around the idea that it was a good thing. East Lansing, here I come (at least for two days, anyway)!
- I gave a lecture at the BU Academy All-School Meeting last week. The title was "Forensic Anthropological Age Estimation Using the Pubic Symphysis: Traditional Methods and New Technologies." It was basically the part of my thesis that I'm presenting at the American Academy of Forensic Sciences meeting with some extra background about what pubic symphyseal aging methods are all about, adjusted to appeal to high school students. They actually liked it and asked a lot of really good questions. I think I can get used to the whole lecturing thing.
- I am currently only working two jobs now, as the course I TA'd for was just a Fall Semester course. I'm still on-call at the preschool, and they might need me on the occasional Wednesday, but I do like having a day-off, especially since I have to put together my presentation for the AAFS meeting.
- Boston is cold! This is my third winter here, and I keep forgetting how awful it is. I think New England winters are like childbirth in that respect, though I have no first-hand experience with the latter. I haven't yet frozen off my bottom, and thankfully there's been no snow, either (though I've just jinxed the heck out of myself and the whole of Massachusetts by saying that).
- I had a dinner-date last night and ate Indian food for the very first time. I know what you're thinking: "but Alex, you're twenty-six years old! and an anthropologist! and 'Temple of Doom' is your favorite Indiana Jones Movie! How have you never eaten Indian food before?" For some reason, it always terrified me. I was always afraid that it would be burn-your-face-off spicy or somehow else unpleasant, but I should have known better. I mean, how can one go wrong with saucy things over rice?*
- I have a cold. Again. You know how normal people are healthy for most of the year and maybe spend about one month per year being sick? I feel like I probably get about one or two healthy months per year. Fortunately, all of my health insurance paperwork is finally done being processed and I am now allowed to enroll in some sort of cheap health plan.
So that's my first few weeks of January in a nutshell. In unrelated news, this is my 99th blog post, which means that the next post I write will be my 100th blog post**. That means it has to be something spectacular. Stay tuned.
*The one downside: my coat and everything I wore last night now smell like Indian food, and I feel like that smell has spread to every permeable surface in my room (including my hair a little bit). It's probably more in my head than anything else. I guess it's nothing that a load of laundry and a little Febreeze can't fix, right?
**Bring on the trumpets. (Okay, I'll admit, that one I stole.)
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