Okay.
The past few weeks sucked.
First we were sick. As in, too-sick-to-go-to-school.
Too sick to do much of anything, actually.
Both of us!!!
Then we had to catch up on everything, of course. (We're still not quite done with that... we're such lazy procrastinators. In fact this is our break from reading neuroscience. JUST 4 MORE CHAPTERS --out of 18-- ( Read more... )

YOU HEARD RIGHT!

READING WEEK IS UPON US!

You know what that means? Do you? Do you??
WE GET A WHOLE ENTIRE WEEK OF DOING ABSOLUTELY NOTHING BECAUSE WE WORKED OUR ASSES OFF TO MAKE SURE WE WERE AHEAD IN ALL OF OUR READINGS!

And the last two midterms went well. More than well.
[Charlotte] I think I may have liked the anthropology of meaning questions a ( Read more... )

So damn tired.
We slacked off last week after the midterms, and now it shows.
Second wave of midterms coming up next week, and teachers are compensating for the fact that last week had fewer readings than usual (due to midterms).
Result: last week's readings + this week's overload + upcoming midterms = death.
It wouldn't actually matter that much if we ( Read more... )

OMG.
Cultural phylogeny project!
IDEA!
BRILLIANT IDEA!

WHERE DOES THE CUSTOM OF SHAKING HANDS COME FROM?

Origin of the idea: we played a nice duet together (Polonaise Brillante op. 3) and when we finished we shook hands as a joke... which led to one of those completely shocked "oh dear, are you thinking what I'm thinking?" moments.

This is great.
We have ( Read more... )

Literally: bloody morning.
I woke up with my nose bleeding.
CHARMING.
And it wasn't just the 'dry nose bleeds a bit'. Oh no.
It was 'dry nose bleeds all over your pillow'.

... It's only me, because Lloyd is already licking his wounds and brooding in the library (where I will be adjourning shortly because there's a nice warm fireplace lit just for us in the face of our misfortune, which I will proceed to describe as the topic of this entry) and I had to send an email to a TA anyway.

Let's just say our decision to go ( Read more... )

Sooo.
Our last class of the day is a review session (i.e. we refuse to attend).
It is SNOWING. Big puffs, lots of puffs, and multidirectional puffs (i.e. it's heavy, condensed snow being blown around wildly).
And mom had an appointment to get her hair cut so now we have to wait before venturing out anywhere than this stupid hallway.

Life sucks.
We could ( Read more... )

Alright ( Read more... )

Okay. We love the legal anthropology reader.

The more we read, the more we love it.

So here's a shout out: GO READ "LAW AND ANTHROPOLOGY: A READER" EDITED BY SALLY FALK MOORE.
It's fantastic. It's extraordinary. It's great. It's grand, it's marvelous, it's wonderful, it's perfect, flawless, amazing, fascinating, and a variety of other adjectives.

Here' ( Read more... )

Okay... So we did watch the lectures, but we still haven't read the legal anthropology stuff from yesterday.

May we be publicly shamed.

Whatever. We still have the whole entire weekend. Who works on Fridays, we ask you?

Hmm yes. So the lectures were fun. One of them was about language and meaning (and the prof makes adorable little jokes, so it was ( Read more... )