Rain, anthropology, and dogs

It's been raining all day here. I love the rain. It's been a little excessive lately, but I still love it.
I've been nominated for a fellowship. I don't think I'll get it, but it's still so cool that my old professor nominated me. I love anthropology...most people don't really understand what it is, but that's okay. I love that I get to use it everday and no one even realizes I'm doing it. I love that we are a weird group of folks, and I love chatting with fellow anthropologists that love it as much as I do.
I'm thinking about getting a new puppy. I don't want to be the crazy animal lady, but I think Salem needs a buddy.
Off to look at animal rescue sites :)

Anna

D&D Delight

I was never a D&D nerd. (sorry if I just offended any hard core D&D fans out there). Never played it or Magic or any of the other magic/acting games. I've never owned a medieval princess dress, dated an ogre (actually that one is debatable), or jousted anyone. However, apparently this sort of activity makes a lot of people happy. There is a group that gets together every Sunday at a small local park in my city. There's usually about 30 people, dressed in full gear, bashing the heck out of each other with fake swords. I think it's hilarious. I'm happy they're enjoying themselves and they give me a good chuckle every time I drive past them.
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I was looking for a pic to post to go with this post and ran across pics of the cartoon series from the 80s. I had forgotten all about it, my dad and I used to watch it every Saturday. I guess maybe I am a D&D nerd.

Blog Surprise

Well I had intended this post to be about the incredible weather and my love of college football, however, while viewing old posts I noticed that I had comments. Did you read that? I had comments! Someone other than me has read my blog. Yay!!! That totally made my day.

Add that on top of a trip to Target (only mildly enjoyable, Saturday at Target, enough said), goregous fall weather, babysitting my cousin and college football...it simply doesn't get better than that!

Maybe it's genetic

This one is really silly, but it's truly one of my favorite things and it got my Monday off to a good start this morning....
I am addicted to caffeine. I gave it up cold turkey for about 5 years but picked up the bottle of coke and fell off the wagon (everyone has to have an addiction....at least it only caffeine, right). So part of my morning ritual is to drink a coke or dr. pepper. I'm not a coffee drinker so that's my caffeine fix. From a very young age I learned from my wise father that the very best way to drink a dr pepper is when it's semi frozen right out of the freezer. I wish I had a better digital camera so I could take a picture to illustrate....but essentially, the soda of your choice isn't frozen solid...it's just slushy...not all the way through, just about the top two inches. It is the best!!!
I actually remembered to put my dr pepper in the freezer this morning. Yum! I have to remember to do this every morning. Thanks to my dad for the tip.
A couple others from dad...
Put a pixie stick in a coke icee (never done this one)
peanut butter and pickles on a cracker
always cut a grilled cheese diagnally, it just tastes better that way
you can never have too much chocolate and white chocolate doesn't count (except in emergencies).

On the road again...

Well good friends, I apparently have not improved my posting schedule. Which is really pretty bad considering that I even have one post that's already written and just waiting to be uploaded. One reason for my delinquency has been my recent schedule. I have been travelling a lot lately. This is not a bad thing (other than the fact that I'm not posting). I love to travel. Most of my favorite memories stem from a trip to somewhere or another. In less than a month I've been to Washington DC twice, a spa town nearby, and am currently sitting in the airport waiting on a flight out west. It's wonderful. Give me a ticket anywhere and I'll go. However, I do miss my house, pets, family, and friends (not necessarily in that order).
I am very excited about this trip. It is to California. I've never been to CA and am excited to be some place new.
So to everyone out there (I guess this means Charlotte and my office mate) have a great week and do something new this week.

Random Observations

Again I must apologize for being remiss in my writing duties. I am once again in our nation's capital (unless you're reading this from another country, which would be really cool). I have several snippets to write about but not much time so tonight we'll do a bullet point version...

• life long reminders of great friendships, in this case in the form of a star tattoo
• truly enjoying your work
• great food with great people
• chocolate
• new experiences
• people watching in airports (sorry cute dude in the ATL airport, but you look stupid carrying a toy shih szu)

All for tonight

Best Mom Ever

Your author has been under the weather this week. She, however, drug herself to work for a day of meetings and coordinating very important things. By lunch, I was hungy and just didn't have enough energy to go get lunch. It was a very sad situation. I called my wonderful mother who was dining with my father and brother. She agreed to bring me some lunch after a minimal amount of begging. This alone made my day, but the very best part was the six random corn chips that she put in the container with my chicken strips. It was so sweet and unexpected and it made me laugh.