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Alright, suffice to say then that the vices are good here (yay for coffee, and beer for the most part - but don't get me started on the bottled alcopops they also drink!). Now on to something from the History Channel...

Today I looked at pelvises (pelvii?). We were learning to sex individuals based on skeletal morphology. (Sounds pretty smart, eh?) My first thought about school is that I need to enhance my vocab. I speak like some kind of Valley Girl, and now lost in a sea of Brit-speakers it is amplified into quasi-ditz. So I keep a little flashcard notebook. Who'd have thought at 38 (39 in a month, eh?) that I would be transcribing words from the dictionary?

I spent all afternoon reading about Melanesian prehistory. More specifically, non-Paupua New Guinean prehistory after Lapita. I'm utterly enthralled, and can't say how excited I get trying to study. There's so much work that needs to be done in this arena, and scholars of this locale constantly refer to projects yet to be done. I am so ready! Just need to learn my craft. Sigh! If only I could rewind the tape 20 years I could be out there mucking around. Then again, computers were not ready for me at that time...