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study leave - autumn 2020

just over a week left until exams start, and then as soon as they are done we move into our new house!! i am so excited for it all to be over

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03072020 • it's finally friday and that marks the end of my first work week in my new #hobonichicousin ✨ so far i am really liking it, but the hourly format is going to take a bit of getting used to. hopefully it's going to be a nice productive weekend for work as well

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20062020 • finally finished updating my study timetable for the three month delay caused by covid, so that i can actually start studying again without being paralysed by indecision about what to do!! it is also 6pm and my day passed without any time for the studying i'd scheduled, so i guess this is how we're spending saturday night

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in case any of you are interested lol

hello hello!! inspired by the lovely @phdiaries and @soap-stones i have decided it's time for a bit of change of pace for me on tumblr. i'm leaving @maryplethora somewhat behind, and from now on it's gonna be a whole lot of low key original content, probably a lot of mini rants, and me being nostalgic about academia - you're welcome to come along for the ride. as the title says, we're in it for the long haul

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Unmute !

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the real victim in Pride and Prejudice is Georgiana Darcy, bc u know her brother spent at least two weeks lying around in his Regency Jammies eating Benjamin and Jerrold’s out of ye olde carton feeling sorry for himself bc his crush not only didn’t like him back but tore him to shreds in the process and Georgie had to deal with that and then said crush shows up at their HOUSE and she has to live w both of them probably stealing lovelorn yearning glances at each other the whole damn day while knowing if she even SUGGESTS to her brother that maybe perhaps his crush doesn’t hate his entire guts anymore he’ll just be all tragic about it bc “you don’t KNOW her Georgiana she dESPISES me and i DESERVE it”

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this is 'bright and sunny but deadly cold' erasure

hey all my peeps from northern climates you know how sometimes ya look outside and it just like has this Look and you just Know it’s cold out like there’s no obvious signs no ice no snow you just KNOW it’s cold because you’ve lived here long enough that u look at the sky and you’re like ‘it’s cold’ how fucked up is that

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i hope this email finds you a broken husk of a man

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This is what happens when white guys listen to Indian music

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This is an absolute religious experience that I was not prepared for

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*RARE* John Denver & Johnny Cash - Take Me Home Country Roads

Found this while going through my granddad’s VHS tapes and couldn’t find it anywhere online, so here it is.

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my favorite out of context quotes from my archeology professor so far in no particular order

and floridians are just as human as you and me!

and the moral of the story is that there are no deadly snakes native to alaska

you might know this guy as one of the only archaeologists cool enough to be mentioned by indiana jones

it’s my dream to have my name said by harrison ford

i’m not going to apologize for having this class at 6am because you paid for it and it’s your fault. 

we don’t all dress like lara croft. i tried to get it to be a thing on a dig and my colleagues yelled at me. 

they were pretty good archaeologists except they were too racist to realize anything they found. 

i take back what i said about us not dressing like lara croft because lewis binford here is wearing nothing but short shorts and a cowboy hat. take notes for an academic halloween costume!

archaeologists can be good artists! not me, though. or anyone i know. but if you can draw just know you have options.

sometimes you find dead bodies when you dont really expect it and you just have to deal with it

archaeologists are the only people allowed to get exited when they find corpses. 

once i ruined thanksgiving dinner when i told my family i had gotten my degree in archaeology and my uncle commented he liked dinosaurs too

the closest i’ve ever been to a grizzly bear is when i left my glasses in my tent on a dig in alaska,  saw a big rock in the distance, and almost screamed