Allison’s blog

 

Jesse and I recently bought the Spore creature creator. A prelude to Spore, an online game made by the creators of the sim games, in which you create and evolve creatures from simple organisms to complex space-age civilizations. The creature creator lets players get a jump on their creations before the acctual game comes out later this year.

I cannot get enough of making creatures! Its soooo fun! I have recently decided to specialize in mythical creatures and cryptids (animals as of yet undiscovered by science, bigfoot and the like). Here are some of my favorites.

Also any one who knew me in highschool will recognize these critters.

Eventually when the full game is released, people will be able to visit each others planets and trade creatures. I cant wait!

I am typing this blog on my new computer! it is glorious!

Well it's st. Patrics day and that can only mean 1 thing...

 

Corned beef and cabage!

And not too bad for a first attempt if I do say so myself. It was pretty funny, we had to buy cabage at the asian market because they were completely sold out at the grocery store! 

 

Anyway, about 3 more days left of school for me before Im done. Its very sureal. For now Im just trying to plow through this last little bit and my last 4 shifts at work befor Hawaii! I cant wait.

 

As I have said in the past, it is only when you really start to stress about something that things end up working out in your favor.

I went to talk to my prof tody. And for the record, even though I dont respond well to her teaching methods, she is a lovely person and extremely helpful. One of my group mates came with me and he is, if not well versed in athropology, at least enthusiastic and willing to put forth some effort. Thats one problem solved.

And for the glorious news: The mid term due date got pushed back until tuesday so I have all weekend to work on it and can now properly enjoy my valentines day.

I hope all is well out there in vox-land, and that you are all enjoying the fruits of love, or at least feeling pretty damn good about being single.

much love

Allison

I am currently enrolled in the class from hell.

I took this stupid class because I thought it was going to be easy and its my last quarter of school. how wronge I was.

first, the teacher does not lecture. She shows slides on the OVERHEAD!! and expects us to learn all the information that we need out of the text book. I have never been one to read the book and having to depend on it soley for what we are graded on is torturous. Oh and did I mention the worksheets? There are reading question work sheets. What is this elementary school?

Next the TA is an idiot. She constantly interupts the teacher, and she seems to think that the fact that she has taken the class previously and spent a summer in the middle east on a dig sight makes here the queen of archaeology.

Third: GROUP PROJECT!!!! the death knell of any class, and any chance of getting a good grade. As if that wasnt bad enough, my group was composed of myself, one other anth major and and two meathead jocks. Dont get me wronge thier nice enough, they just have NO idea about archaeology. THEN I get an e-mail from the other major in my group saying that he's dropping the class because.........

REDICULAS MID-TERM! Thats rigth folks just when it looks like it couldnt get any worse! Its not bad enough that the mid-term is 4 short essay questions, drawn from the book readings (most of the stuff was never even mentioned in class). I had been working on it, things were progressing slowly but I was making progress, THEN one of the adorably stupid meat heads in my group had to go and ask what the length requirement was! WHEN THE TEACHER DOESNT ASSIGN A LENGTH REQUIREMENT, ACCEPT IT!!! DONT ASK HER WHAT IT IS!!!!!!!! and do you know what she answered? 3 to 5 pages PER QUESTION!!!!. One of my answeres was three pages, the other was about 1 and a half, and I was feeling pretty damn confident about it. Now It doesnt seem good enough because some idiot couldnt keep his damn mouth shut! Im not changing it, but I'll be damned if a get a bad grade in this class my last fucking quarter. Anyway this whole feasco is due tomarrow so guess who gets to spend her valentines day answering essay questions? THIS GIRL!

Long story short this class makes me want to die. OH and I was up at 6:30 thismorning becaue the class starts at 9AM and I have to ride the god damn buss!

sorry about the rant, I just had to get this out.

oen more.. hopefully

 

David bowie

I finally have them! Here are ALL of my halloween costumes from 2007!

There Im pretty sure thats all of them. from left to right top to bottom they are: Princess Leia; Margot Tenebalm; gypsy; Chinese outfit; flower; I put this one in because my butt looks awsome; Mod/60's outfit; Hippy; Valkyrie; Kali; Dead Geisha; Walrus.

I hate doing homework. especially boring long pointless bussy work type homework. and I really really really hate it when the text book has information in it that is flat out WRONGE! I mean really who edits this shit. My archaeology text book had collecting vs. foraging strategies of hunting and gathering backwords! I recognized this mistake imediately but I feel sorry for the kids in my class that have not taken other arche classes before. the worst part is that the teacher has been using the same book for THREE years. You would think that someone should have caught that by now, but I guess not. Now Im going to seem like a total know it all when I point it out in class tomarrow. maybe I'll just e-mail the teacher. sigh.

Happy Christmas everyone!

Here our chirstmas turned out great! We slept in til almost noon and I think that may have been the best present of all!

when we finally woke up we had a great time opening presents and I think that everyone got something that they really liked!

Jesse gave his face a christmas present too.

 

thats right.... it's funny mustache time!

After all that sillyness we dug in and made ourselves a pretty fantastic Christmas dinner. We had ham, potatos and artichokes. As always we didnt manage to get everything to be done at the same time, but 10 mins in the microwave for the artichokes cured all.

 

Much love to the family and friends who were unable to be with us today! We miss and love you all. I hope that everyone out there had as wonderful of a Christmas as we did. Lots of love

Allison

 

Allison's happy thought of the day is: The Mayan calandar ends exactly five years from today on 12/21/12 (ah patterns).  Some believe that this event will herald the end of the world, or at the very least civilization as we know it. Im not overly religious in anyway, but Im not one to fuck around with ancient prophecy either. Therefore I think it would be best to live as if the world really is going to end in five years, and if it doesnt no real harm done. All Im saying is why wait to take that vacation of a life time, or go back to school and get the degree you always wanted, or drop this whole capitalism thing and go live with tibetan yak herders? There's no time like the present. After all there may only be five years left!  Now Im aware that some of you might not welcome the end of civilization (obviously you don't have degrees in anthropology. long story.) So I envite you party poopers to live as if you really don't want the world to end. Maybe take your own bags to the store, wash your clothse in cold water, turn you heat down a couple of notches, ride the bus more and maybe.. don't vote for people convinced they want to blow everyone up! But you know, that's only if you don't want the world to end. Up to you.

And now for something completely different: HAPPY SOLSTICE (tomarrow) to all you wiccans and sun worshipers out there! In the words of the Beatles, HERE COMES THE SUN!!!!