King of Etruria

27 February 2004

Today I spent almost an hour attempting to find a place that sells my favorite pen online. It's the Sarasa gel pen from Zebra. It's possibly the smoothest writing pen ever and it dries quickly (important for left-handers!) too. Office supply places charge too much shipping, so I'll have to go to an actual store. But I did come across someone else's blog homage to Sarasa. Yay!

 

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I found a good deal on tupperware-style stackable drawers at Wal-Mart today, so I bought two. What I didn't take into account, though, was that I had the MR2 today. After several phone calls to Patrick during which I was laughing hysterically, stuck in the Wal-Mart parking lot with no way to get my crap home, and a couple passersby offering to help, I managed to disassemble one of the drawer things and shove the pieces into every trunk and the passenger's compartment. What a fiasco.

 

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24 February 2004

Unfortunate acronym of the day: Körös Regional Archaeological Project, run by FSU and OSU professors in Hungary.

 

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23 February 2004 - Happy Birthday Juline!

While waiting in line at the UL to make photocopies today, I noticed a guy looking at this really bizarre website with a dancing flash animation of anthropomorphic bunnies. It's on par with the Quizno's Subs critters, except in French. Apprèciez!

 

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Apparently I registered myself at musicCDsettlement.com at some point. I got a check in the mail for $13.86 today with a nice note from my attorney general, Roy Cooper. Yay for our litigious society and random class-action lawsuits!

 

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And, finally, a birthday shout-out to Juline, who happens to be in Puerto Rico... the wench. ;) Blow out the candles, Juline!

 

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18 February 2004

If this truck doesn't scream "Good Ol' Southern Boy" to you, I don't know what would. Note the metal-cut faux Jolly Roger mounted to the bed of the pickup. Not shown is the bumper sticker: I Love Bluegrass. The best part about this truck is that I saw it on the UNC campus. In the visitor's parking for the Chancellor's office. I guess Moeser was receiving a delegation of rednecks today.

 

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17 February 2004

There are at least two English words with a double-v in them. Can you guess? No fair cheating with a dictionary! Hint: One is from the Spanish and is apparently something pirates say, and the other is something Yesterday's KK would do. And, no, I'm not talking about the Ukranian rock Band VV (VopliVidopliassova).

OK, here's a giveaway: both words are back-to-back on this page of retro 80s crap rock.

 

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16 February 2004

I got official notice today that I passed my MA exams in classics--not with flying colors, mind you, but passed. Also went to a talk given by a couple UNC CS profs (one of whom is Thanl's advisor) to us lowly archaeologists on 3-D imaging that was quite interesting. The scanner is called the DeltaSphere(tm)-3000 Laser 3D Scene Digitizer. Why can't archaeologists name their projects something that freaking cool?

A little while ago, I got an IM from Sara. Apparently Andy said, "And by SUV, I mean Kristina." He wasn't calling me fat, according to Sara, but rather saying I am "sporty". Man. If I'm gonna be a Spice Girl, I could at least be a pretty one.

 

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11 February 2004

Today I had a late 80s flashback. This guy at the bus stop was wearing a CB jacket. I really wanted to take a picture of him, since I haven't seen CB jackets since their two months of fame somewhere around 1989, but I figured that would be rude. I had a CB jacket--it was black with a hot pink stripe across the chest. My dad told me that if I gave up TV for 100 days he'd give me $100 to buy the jacket. Man, I was a slave to fashion. ;)

I did, however, take camera-phone pictures of the Duke-UVa game at Cameron this evening. Of course, the camera doesn't zoom or take good pictures at all, so I couldn't fulfill my dream of taking a close-up of JJ's ass.

 

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10 February 2004

How do you get rid of a Verizon representative attempting to sell you DSL over the phone? When he asks, "So, Ms. Killgrove, do you run Windows, or do you have a Macintosh?" you respond, "I run Linux as my operating system, and Gnome as my window manager." Gets rid of 'em every time. :)

 

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9 February 2004

Even creepier than having to touch your eyes every day to put in contacts is when the contact rolls back into your eye and you have to spend five minutes frantically blinking until it resurfaces.

 

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8 February 2004

In better acceptance news, I get to give a talk about Mycenaean shaft graves at the UNC-Duke graduate student colloquium in March. It'll be a nice line on the ol' CV.

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I got a letter in the mail yesterday from NC State. They wanted to let me know that they did not want to hire me at this time as a lecturer for the 2003-2004 school year. The thing is, I never even applied for this job. My mailbox must have really bad chi.

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7 February 2004

I got an e-mail survey the other day that didn't look like spam. I love answering questions about myself, so I decided to take it. The survey is from someone at the University of Pittsburgh. Everything was going fine, and I was mostly checking "skip item" because I didn't feel the questions were relevant to me: I don't publish in genetics journals, nor do I plan to. So I was feeling pretty good about being asked to take this survey until I came to this question. Whaaa?

At any rate, after checking "skip" for all the questions, I got a certificate for completing the survey. :) It's short for Eugene.

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5 February 2004

 

  This is what I think I'd look like as a ghost.

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3 February 2004

You know you've been reading too much feminist anthropology when you start to push open the door to a bathroom at your office and you think... Yeah! Female power! Someone took the Wo- off!

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2 February 2004

In the tradition of my stories of Southerners talking too much, I was at Kroger today and the cashier commented, "You must like silver. I noticed your rings. I like silver too. See this ring? It's my favorite. The middle part spins. It's supposed to bring good luck, but I haven't had any since I moved here from Massachusetts. But that one ring you have, that's white gold. I can tell. White gold is more valuable than regular gold." The cashier's name? Juan-Carlos.

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