I have the strangest obsessions
Hmm. Problem with developing anthropology obsession (oddly, the same I have with, say, television shows):
interest...in...everything...else...waning...must...choose...courses...must...not...take...Kings...AND...Nautical...AND...Death...
Yeah. I just want to take anthro. Eventually this will wane and I will return to being a normal person and be interested in all sorts of cool things, but right now it's anthro/archaeology. You know, I'm going to start calling it arch&anth, like they do at Cambridge (which, incidentally, is Hugh Laurie's degree). Basically it comes down to "forensics with skeletons!" and "ooh sunken ship!" and "ooh ancient dead people!" I have an unholy obsession with skeletons. I don't get it. It's kind of morbid. I'm not sure even Brennan gets this kind of enjoyment out of the human skeleton.
Doesn't help that today, while my professor was off at the national archaeology meetings which every archaeologist in the country goes to, we watched a History Channel movie on the wreck of the North Carolina in Bermuda. We all got a huge kick out of seeing our professor discussing it and diving to the wreck and being the most animated and excitable person on the show, way better than the hosts. If you should happen to catch it as a rerun of "Deep Sea Detectives," watch for Dick Gould. He's my prof!
...I get the feeling that he's rather well known in his field (and he's an incredibly versatile anthropologist), but he's the goofiest guy ever. It's so funny. He compares himself to Bart Simpson - he asks the really obvious questions that everyone else avoids because they like their pet theories. Like, No, Australopithecines couldn't live in trees, because predators can CLIMB! And of course, before I graduate, I will have taken both his class in marine archaeology AND in human evolution. Because SO COOL. Of course this guy happens to specialize in two of my favorite things in this subject.
Wow. This really IS like a television show for me. Crap. I really do have to take other subjects, don't I? And I really have to choose for tomorrow?
Crap. Going to Portugal (my first dig! Yay!) is NOT going to help this diminish to a healthy level.