I can accept my nerdliness prize at any time.

At the last second, I switched up my whole schedule to make room for Ancient Greek and Middle Egyptian, because I have had my eye out for Middle Egyptian for the past 3 years, and of course the one time I don't check is when it gets offered and all 5 seats snapped up. Why 5 seats? It's a class taught via ( Read more... )

I am surprised that I have been keeping up with the sunrise yoga at 7-8 every MWF. Maybe later in the semester I might sacrifice one or two of the classes for other time requirements, but I'm hoping to stick with it. Sam - I will try to record more of the classes and see if I can email the files to you... I just need to load the program onto my ( Read more... )

So the exhibit at the Field Museum in Chicago was _awesome_. Before actually getting to his tomb artifacts - it was preceeded by the earlier dynastic line of pharaohs (his great-grandparents, grandparents, and father...) which was a nice lead-in.

The crowds were absolute murder; it would have been so much nicer without the hoards of ants people ( Read more... )