So it's time for the cabbage, trichinosis, and reflective holiday to grace us once again with its yearly dawning...New Year's has always been an odd holiday for me...it's that one day that I think we are all forced either by our culture or some unconscious tradition to consider our lives and the direction in which they are going.  I am not so sure ( Read more... )

...and we sorta kinda won!  The battle of the red state-blue state has finally come to an end and for the first time in my life I voted for a winning presidential candidate (if you don't count Gore that is, but I'm not going to go there).  Florida, that pathetic excuse for a fountain of youth, took eight years to redeem itself, but alas.  And Ohio ( Read more... )

I just finished week two of classes...and I am exhausted.  Today I go into the lab in the morning to work on organizing the remaining Hawaiian artifacts that my GA advisor collected during this summer's excavations....Meanwhile in a house across town, I am beginning to process my soil samples collected this summer in Southeastern Ohio at the Patton ( Read more... )

I finally have my internet hooked up at the new house and at last I can post again on livejournal...of course it is 1 AM so it promises to be brief ( Read more... )

I returned Sunday from the hills of Southeastern Ohio to find that the civilization of the city was without power.  So has been the last two days which Kati and I have spent wandering around in search of internet and food.  After two nights of Bob Evans, we finally found a Panera with power so I can catchup on the internet thing ( Read more... )

The path that once bended and led to my return to Athens now almost ten years ago is quickly shifting to a new destination.  By early next week, Josh and I should be settling into our new home on Bryden Road in Columbus and I will be preparing for the last official leg of my education.  Many of you have already made the great journey away from the ( Read more... )

Late last week, I sent out an email on the family listserv that contained a letter from Conservative activist Larry Hunter arguing why he would be voting for Obama.  Considering that most of my family, especially my grandparents, are die-hard liberals, I expected it would be well received.  My Aunt Linda and Uncle Wilbur, the born again neocons ( Read more... )

On Friday afternoon, my cat Lola began getting sick again.  Josh and I have probably had her into the vet about 10 times over the last month and a half.  By Saturday morning she was lethargic, immobile, and pretty bad off.  Her head was wobbly, her eyes dialated to different measures, and there was a little blood in nasal passage.  Because she ( Read more... )

New polls released today show Obama leading in the major swing states of Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Florida!!  I plugged all the most recent state polls into the 270towin.com electoral map.  If the election were held today based on the newest state by state polls, Obama would win the electoral college vote 344 to 194.  If these trends hold, LANDSLIDE ( Read more... )

Lastnight on my way back from Athens, I veared off onto one of the backroads that I like to take.  Josh was following me and decided to stay on the mainroads to get home because he needed to stop for gas.  The result of taking the backroad was well worth it.  There was a snake in the middle of the road probably fifty feet ahead of me.  I of course ( Read more... )