And I'm BACK!!!

Really. Don't all rush in at once there....


I don't think I've blogged since, ah, January. And I think it was same equivelant of a sign that says "Back in 5!" on some shop door and despite knowing that its going to be more than five minutes you wait anyways. And then the person never comes back...

So. What have I been up to? The usual grad student life - scrounging for money, doing piles of reading and attending classes.

I have to say, I'm especially pleased about the combination of class that I have this term. They are, if not about archaeology, about a lot of the issues that surround archaeological practices and heritage resource management in today's world. Land Use Law, Native & Non-Native Relations in Canada, Resource Management in Recreation and Tourism, and a University of Waterloo class that tackes Heritage Planning.

This is a big change from last semester where, being new and overwhelmed and not sure of how to pick out my path, I took stuff that was not as related to topics near and dear to my heart as I would like.


The down side of this was a lot of stress as I learned a huge pile of information about stuff I'd never really studied before and that a lot of the time, I just felt overwhelmed.

The upside was that most of what I learned gave me an environmental framework to use as I continue to put together my next plan of study draft. I learned how to relate my interests (archaeology) to other disciplines. That can only be good.

This semester is almost a relief, because I recognize so much more of the content. I'm also having some of those cool experiences where one class feeds into another.

But I fear I'm catching "gradschool mouth" that horrible condition where once you start on a topic, you keep going on and on... instead I'll just post a picture of one of my assignments. I'll tell you about it tomorrow.