I'm really very into dragons right now

[crantz]

Currently my life consists of:

- studying for my final exam (I studied anthropology of food this term and my GOSH that was a fun course. I successfully avoided the teacher feeding us bugs like she kept threatening to!)

- yuletide (assignment in beta, three treats written! So far!)

- Flight Rising which I keep playing like a rat hits the green button for treats. It's terrible. I can't stop. I just keep ending up there fighting like, mutated hummingbirds. And avoiding eating baby owls.

- Pokemon: Alpha Sapphire (thanks to fandom there was no way I was taking Omega Ruby) has just entered into hour 34 and I'm somewhere in Victory Road wondering if I'm going to be lost forever and have to eat my wailmer.


I'm not doing winter term because I live in the country and the idea of driving into town regularly for classes in Manitoba's January weather fills me with an unnameable dread, so I'm going to sit at home and try to teach myself the science I never learned in high school and read a lot.

I have a few self-education things picked out as well as the current textbook for the biology courses taught at my university, so that should keep me busy! Right? Right.

Dragons.

Comments

[dorothy1901]

I studied anthropology of food this term

Did you read anything by Raymond Sokolov? What kind of reputation does he have? I've read a bunch of his stuff for fun, but not having read anything else on the subject, I don't know how accurate he is.

[crantz]

nope! He didn't come up at all during the course. What we read were essays about food as it related to religion, ethnography, gender, relationships, sex, and history. It was a textbook full of essays and articles which was pretty darn neat. I'd have read it for fun. The one about how holy women were more prone to having fasting miracles and how they would give up food because they had nothing else to give up was particularly interesting.

Especially when it got to the lactating Jesus stuff.