Reunion time

Green · Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 12:37 Post subject: Reunion time

what's new with everyone? I am not particularly certain of my last time here...

I graduated with my degree this spring (missed the boat on that whole honours thing though, never did write that paper...), worked my first paid archaeology based job doing bitch work in a conservation lab, and now I'm going into a technical program so i can specialize very highly in maritime archaeology, but not before i milk the oil and gas industry for enough money to get to grad school and not live poor as dirt (Texas A&M!) (holy shit I think I know what I am going to do with my life)

Other then that:
-New apartment because my friend bought a house (holy not a dump batman)
- Experienced my first summer single since i was 16 (summer of skank anyone?)
- Went to my first wedding EVER. And learned that my family is truly crazy.
- More tattoos. It might be time to stop soon....
- I've lived for over a year now without cable tv. I kind of like it

dsuki · Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 01:33 Post subject:

I'm engaged. Wooooooooooo.

Though I doubt anybody on here besides maybe 3 or 4 remember who I am.

arailt · Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 04:53 Post subject:

I never had any idea in the first place.

Beuk · Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 04:57 Post subject:

Green hiiiiiiiii Green!

And a sup to Diane.

dimwit · Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 15:30 Post subject:

Um.. back in Chicago after a 10 months in Tennessee. Still with the Tim-boy (holy crap a year and a half now!). Back working at REI still taking classes though my sights are aimed lower at an AofS degree and then probably/hopefully, a dog trainers school near by where I can learn to train police puppies.

intelekshual · Git yer draws off! Joined: 01 Dec 2002 Posts: 5824

Diane! Congratulations. I think I said that on Facebook already, but again!

Green · Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 20:08 Post subject:

Holy shit Diane! Congratulations!

That is definitely big news.

Come on, absolutly nothing new is going on with anyone at all? Not even a small homicide?

Der_Kommissar · Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 20:17 Post subject:

I have a new job! I'm a lab tech for health and welfare. I spend a lot of my time logging specimens into the system (lots of H1N1 and stds from public clinics). Everyone is really excited that I'm there because it means less work for them.

dsuki · Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2009 01:45 Post subject:

ooooh, sounds neat. Bet you'll never get bored. Who knows though, with every job I'm sure there's a level of tediousness involved.

Oh and thanks ya'll! Yeah, he's a special kinda guy. Not the kind that needs a helmet, either. The kind that rubs my feet every night and is made from awesomeness and the goodness chocolate-chip cookies bring.

Scott · Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 05:13 Post subject:

I still work full time at a home improvement store int the electrical department.

I have two boyfriends and they are awesome.

I cut my hair last week?

angered_lutraphobic · Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 23:46 Post subject:

I am still archaeology student. Year and a half left, then teaching certificate time. Woo. I went to Europe for nearly a month this summer and played around in Sweden with viking stuffs for half of that. The other bit was spent staying at Helen's house, though I rarely saw her :( I also bought a new car and an iphone and finished up the prettiest foot tattoo ever.

Joanne we should probably meet sometime and freak out over anthropology and tattoos. It would be grand.

ubergaladababa · Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 13:20 Post subject:

I lived in Ghana for five months ,during which I interned with a human rights law organization, traveled every weekend, and took some less-than-challenging classes.

Now I'm back in US school and interning for a social business called One Mango Tree. We sell bags and purses and jewelry and things made by women in Northern Uganda in a fair trade model. We're having a sale. Buy stuff! www.onemangotree.com.

I'm also ramping up to take the LSAT this fall.

Cat! · Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 15:42 Post subject:

I haven't really made much progress towards the figuring out what I want to do with my life thing since I graduated from college a year and a half ago. I have quit smoking cigarettes and pot though, and I've started working out and I've lost nearly 20 pounds and will be losing much more.

Green · Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 01:55 Post subject:

intelekshual · Git yer draws off! Joined: 01 Dec 2002 Posts: 5824

Uber, it's weird that you work for OMT. My company does some partnering with them and also buys goods from them woooooo.

ubergaladababa · Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 02:42 Post subject:

Really? That's awesome. They're a pretty great organization. Where do you work? A retailer? I know we have deals with a few around the country but none in Washington. It's not really my job, but I'd love to find a place nearby that would stock our stuff. The website is great, but I think we'd have a lot more appeal in stores. The batiks would really stand out when on a shelf to the bags you usually see in the states.

Mars · Oldbie. Joined: 03 Mar 2003 Posts: 25085 Location: USA

I'm actually quite happy with my life at the moment.

I have a job that doesn't involve sitting at a desk.

I swim three times a week.

I go out to bars and always meet someone new.

I don't worry about materialistic things anymore. I know the American Dream will bore me. I don't care what I have and as long as I have:

1. Running water,
2. Refrigeration
3. The ability to make fire.
4. Internet access, in part.

I will be happy.

I'd be happy out in the mountains in a cabin.

I'm single and loving it. I can go out and easily get a chick. Though, it can't possibly compare to Scott's two boyfriends, but still. I'm happy with it. I'm tired of my happiness being dependent on whether or not I'm in a relationship. That's so fickle.

So, my career plans have changed. I no longer care about profit, but what the job is working for. I want to start a company for itself, not for money and something that will better humanity. So, it's probably going to be an alternate energy company or a humanitarian company that provides food to hungry people.

dsuki · Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 15:56 Post subject:

ubergaladababa · Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 22:18 Post subject:

I just tried the link and it worked, so I guessing we had technical difficulties for a while?

I'll pass your link on to our marketing guy.

Thanks!

Happy AHmed · Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 22:23 Post subject:

It is kinda funny that so many people do archaeology. I have just been in southern France working on a Gallo-Roman bathhouse dig for 3 weeks. Archaeology is BORING. I guess I just see it as digging a hole in the slowest way possible. I found some interesting stuff, but it was seriously tedious.

I suppose I could update things. This yeah I am working. I got a silly pay rise to continue to engineer buildings, I am getting a lot of interesting work through contacts from my masters, and am about to architect my first house, even though that's not what I actually do at the moment.

Academically, I have just finalised a journal article which is being published next month and is the cover story, and I'm about to start writing a chapter for a book on things in my thesis. I have also been offered two tutoring jobs at the university which I had to turn down because I was out of the country.

I traveled to New York and then on to Europe for a couple of months of relaxation with a delightful young lady who is now my girlfriend. I met up with Mani in NYC, Gail in Rome, and again in London with Helen, and I saw most of the architectural bits and pieces which I have wanted to experience since I was very small. Also I drank a lot of foreign beer.

Now I've just come home, found a place to live, and back at work, thinking about ways to escape and see more of the world while getting paid silly amounts to do things that I love. Any suggestions?

frecklypeach · Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 02:00 Post subject:

Hi guys

Uh well, I've been on a year out, worked in Central London for a bit, setting up and running a brand new section in a supermarket, was pretty cool.

Then I worked in a summer camp in West Virginia from May through til September, which was 80% awesome, 15% poop and 5% what-the-F.

Then I've been in Chicago for a week with friends, which was amazing. I spent my days riding around on the back of my friend Dan's motorbike, playing softball and being introduced to frisbee golf and cookouts in alleys behind apartments. It was perfect.

Now I am back in England, and I am moving to Cardiff on Tuesday to start university. I would be around an extra week, but after finding that most of my best friends are either at university or still travelling, and being ditched yet again by this idiot I decided to date, I'm moving in a week early.

I'm studying Interactive and Motion design, kind of a blend of Animation and Filmmaking, which I landed a place on after my portfolio accidentally ended up on the tutor's desk. He hijacked my interview for another course and invited me to join his, I accepted, and history was thus made..

intelekshual · Git yer draws off! Joined: 01 Dec 2002 Posts: 5824

Copperfungus · Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 11:25 Post subject:

well- nothing much is new with me, I'm still at university in 4th year of medicine will fingers crossed be a doctor in July 2011 but this year is a killer so we'll see.

Consonant · Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 05:21 Post subject:

I'm picking up Seth's slack.

There's so much.

R · Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 20:40 Post subject:

I'm a bum.

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