anthropology: what the dreams are made of.

I think it’s a fact that no one can survive by doing only what he or she loves the most (or that means you are the luckiest guy on earth, which is quite improbable) so we always have to choose between being extremely happy by doing what we want or make something that we don’t love that much but that will provide us enough money to survive.
Such is the case when you choose to study and work in anthropology. There’s not much work field in this country for anthropologists and archaeologists, basically because we have to be honest: nobody knows what the hell we are doing.
That makes quite hard to find a work as an anthropologist or archaeologist, and basically has to do with the fact that there’s not a preoccupation for teach, at the university, what make anthropologists special between the rest of social scientists (by the way, that thing that make us special is to consider the cultural factor when explaining social behavior and practices), so when an anthropology student is searching for a work, he or she doesn’t know how to explain what makes them a good acquisition.
In my personal experience, I had plenty of certainty that I wasn’t going to make any money by being archaeologist (the main reason why I decided to sign in the degree) and that my only chance to find a work was in a University-related project (if I was lucky and had enough determination to not to quite the degree at first year) or if I was even more lucky, hoping that the architects that my mother works with would recruit me to work in issues environmental-impact-related with their building projects.
Now is quite different because there’s a third option at the degree: Physical anthropology or biological anthropology. I didn’t like its field very much, basically because I thought it was very mathematics-related. But this term I’ve been working at the physical anthropology laboratory and I really like what they do there, especially the phylogenetic study. The best of this new (new for me) option to considerate is that I even could have a good payment by working in specific fields like forensic anthropology. Nevertheless I think that I would study archaeology no matter how hard it would be (which proves that I’m quite stubborn).
That’s all for this post. Be good and take care.

about my university

I’m not really sure about the administrative situation in my university, basically because the most of the time I’m here, I’m studying, playing in my NDS, looking for the texts I have to read or working at the biological anthropology laboratory.
I guess that’s for this reason that the things I think that need improvement, are things related with the laboratory and the way that we have to work in [because is the university instance where I participate with other people the most]. For example, there are neither labels nor materials to label the boxes at the underground storage, and the collections are in a complete mess because of that, including boxes that disappeared forever or that suddenly are empty in the middle of the corridor.
The first step to deal with the situation is to recognize that there’s a problem and in this case is a priority to save the bones’ collection, and the artifacts’ collection from getting rotten or suffer any kind of damage. Unfortunately only the people that face the problem directly every day [like the people from the laboratory or even the students] know how serious this is. The real benefits of improve this situation are pretty obvious:
- I t would be easier identify some specific pieces of bone material amongst the whole register.
- It would be easier to localize specific pieces to analysis and research.
- There would be a better register of how many materials to work with we have.
- There could be more publications about researches that are made in a well conserved material.
About the next step? I don’t know, but first we have to start by organizing everything.
See ya.

A song that you lol

Hello everybody, today’s post will be about music. Although I really like the subject of the post [I even voted for it], I don’t know from where to start writing about, so I guess I will make an exception in my habits and will follow the suggested order of questions-answers.
I have a really assorted set list of music that I like, from Hard Rock to electronic Japanese remixes from indie videogames, including tango, Tchaikovsky and some songs just for joking with my friends [such as Samwell and Günter’s stuff… or Chocolate rain that gives me lots of laugh when I listen to] so I only can think about a criteria to pick what not to listen to: I don’t like tropical music, or reggaeton [I’m not really sure how to write it, anyway], and boleros, I hate boleros with all my heart.

As my tastes are really assorted, I really haven’t a single favorite band or singer, so I’ll try to write about a few choices from East and West.

- Guns N’ Roses: My favorite rock n’ roll band ever. I know every single song they released, every single solo project they tried to do and I guess you get the concept of how much I love them. I love how much strength they used to put in all of their concerts, songs and statements. I can’t think about only one favorite song, but I guess that the one I listen to the most is Locomotive.

- Miyavi: Also known as MYV or Ore-sama [Lord]. My Japanese deity. I like how elegant and original he is in every aspect of his music. He uses to say that there’re no cannons to make styles of music and that it’s okay if we put together rock, kabuki and rap at the same time. My favorite song of him: Kimi ni negai wo [When I wish upon you]

- Aerosmith: My second favorite band, and I guess that’s the only rock n’ roll band that I like and that still alive now on. I love the exotic mixtures they do in their songs, and the awesome Steven Tyler’s voice. I love Get a Grip.

- IOSYS: Is a Japanese music ensemble, they basically make independent music remixes for several games, such as Touhou [my favorite game, by the way]. I love how they can put together the artistic sense of music with tons of inner jokes about the subject of the game. My favorite song of them: Fragance of Oriental Sunflower

And I exceeded the amount of words for this post, so adieu~~.

Huge pizza is huge

Hello everybody! Today we had to pick one topic to write about, and the chosen one is as follows: “Good Food”
To pick a favorite food it’s kinda a hard task for me, not because I like too much kinds of food, but basically because I usually don’t notice that much what I’m eating (I mean, you can give me a dish full of spaghetti and worms and I would never notice the difference), especially if I’m hungry (like when I wake up or after a marathon of Harvest Moon in my DS lite, or after take care of my two nephews).
But there’s a dish that’s particularly tasty for me, in every combination of ingredients: That’s pizza. It’s easy to cook, easy to buy, easy to eat and is an awesome way to make a break when I’m playing videogames with Za Girudu (“The Guild”, also known as my group of friends). For that reason, eating pizza is also a motive of reunion and share with friends and beloved ones. In one opportunity, one of our friends (Rosa) came to my house at 3:00 a.m. from her work at a restaurant and brought a huge pizza (huge pizza is huge, bleargh) full of stew, cheese, onions, tomatoes, and even more cheese.
Nevertheless I can cook, and I’m not as fail as you can think after you know about my silly taste with spaghetti. When I was about 12 years and my father was living with us, he taught me how to make simple meals to our big family. These are not master pieces but I can help my mom if it’s necessary, or feed to my lazy friends that really don’t even have idea how to peel tomatoes.
Geez, I think that’s almost all I have to say about pizza as my favorite meal or something like that, so now I'm gonna choose an awesome 3 course meal tehehe:

-As starter, I'd like miso soup.

-As main course I want avocado rolls (basically your sushi of always, but with avocado)

-As dessert, I want cherry pie (i think)

Ok, that was quite simple, but consider that I like pizza.

Bye bee~