Fight!

OOO...A Viking Assault on England!!

http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2011/08/oxford-viking-massacre-revealed-by.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheArchaeologyNewsNetwork+%28The+Archaeology+News+Network%29

The News

So almost a year later, but let's not get hung up on that. Here is something that interests me at least, since some of you know that my Master's dissertation was on Vikings. Have a read. Also, you all may read the newspaper, i.e. the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, what have you, well this is my newspaper =)

http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2011/08/30-viking-graves-found-in-setesdal.html

Suboptimal Experience

A few torturous months into job searching and coming swiftly to two realisations. 1. that the job market is horrible and I now understand why people pay for others to search for jobs they could fill for them. 2. that I probably should have stuck with political science in undergraduate work and joined the foreign service, because that seems to be the place for jobs. In other, not so muted tones, I am tired of looking for jobs. I would give up but I need to get a job for money, among other reasons. This lack of results is dowsing my natural good humour and making me a bit more cynical about the world, though I am still trying my hardest to be up beat. As a final note I would like to say that it's not that there aren't a plethora of jobs out there to be had, simply that for the jobs I want, aka something that has to do with what I got a degree in, I am under qualified and for jobs I would rather not have I am over qualified. On top of that there are so many people out and about that are in the same boat as myself that for the employers its like being at a toys store where there are shelves upon shelves of shiny new toys and they are the owner so they can pick the shiniest and best toy for themselves. So if you aren't quite the shiniest best toy you get put at the very back of the shelf. It's very much a Corduroy story....And if America is the land of opportunity I would hate to be trying to get a job anywhere else in the world right now.

Will re-post

How funny is this?
http://histpres.com/museum/director-benicia-historical-museum-ca

P.S. will post an actual listing later. The internet here doesn't allow my blog editor to open properly. Sadness.

Pause.....

Long pause which will probably continue through late August or mid September due to Master's thesis/dissertation taking up my life. But here is something cool that has come out of my department. Take that! That's one for logic nil for the other guys. LOL

Neanderthal interbreeding debate laid to rest: (Keep in mind that Joa is one of my profs!)

Lost?

I know that some of you are wondering what has happened to me and why I have sort of fallen off the band wagon on writing on my blog. The explanation is relatively simple and probably some what close to what you have already anticipated. I have been very busy. Though that is sort of a shallow excuse it is the absolute truth. To expand on what busy is I have listed some of the things that I have been up to lately below:

Essay 1 due May 10th

Dissertation Presentation May 11th

Film Submission May 18th

Archaeology Dig at Berkeley, Dorest May 18th - June 11th

Film Screening and Unit Review May 19th

Media and Archaeology Work shop - May 20th

Film Analysis Due May 24th

Vacation to Skiathos, Greece May 25th - June 1st

Formal Dissertation Proposal Due June 4th

For those of you wanting to see pictures from the Greek Adventure I will be posting those up soon. I have some more work to do and I will write a few blogs detailing Lisa and my travels. The over view is that we had a lovely time and enjoyed the beach and the little island, even if it was crawling with tourists.

Fortune, Fickle Fortune

I came into this world convinced I knew everything. Then I learnt, I knew nothing and set out in search of remedy. As I struggled along those dark pathways, I learned to take comfort in not knowing all the things the world has to say, to see that in seeing all ends, I see only thoughts in my head. Life is about the adventures you seek and the people you meet. It's about learning to never close any door too tightly or lose the keys, except into those passageways I am certain I wish never to peek. I know that I must keep my eyes always pointed down the road ahead, but there is time to admire the scenery that lay in view of my eye. I learnt to take heed of phrases that use the words 'maybe,' 'eventually,' 'if,' 'when,' or 'someday' for they are not 'now' and 'now' is where I must always strive to stay. I will be ready for everything and nothing all at once. I will love as much as I am able and remember that to hate is never worth the minutes that it takes. I will always strive to live for right now and not worry about tomorrow until tomorrow is upon me. To have learned even these, the smallest of things, makes me feel very fortunate indeed.