Kiko Martinez loses in his first defense

[Kev]

Yeah, you were off cavorting with Czech whores right?

By the way how's your course going now. Did you decide to stick with it or jack it in?

Nah, I folded like Zab Judah under pressure. I just decided it wasn't worth it, I have 2 awesome opportunities coming up though - 1 program, which I've already been admitted to, is an Archaeological Field Technicians course, which will be awsome and qualify me to work as, well, an archaeological field technician/assistant. The other opportunity is for an archaeological field school (which is very important), I'm going through the application process at the moment. The prof. who's running it has had me in 3 of her classes and really likes me, she solicited me to do some volunteer work for her (she now works for Parks Canada) regarding some artifacts/lithics she has, so I've got a decent chance of getting in. If I get both, I'll be set and I'm only 1/2 done my degrees. There are only 15 spots in the field school though, and its open to anyone, so I don't know if I'll get in. Then again, there were only 12 spots in the other course so who knows.

That sounds great news. I wouldn't feel bad about dropping a minor course anyway. Hopefully the field work will get you out of the classroom and in the outdoors which will no doubt be a welcome change of scenery.

The course sounds ace, I envy you, should be really rewarding work to painstakingly reimagine an ancient settlement and put all the pieces back together. I'd love to get onto something like that.

I was talking to Sharla last night and afterwards started looking at open university courses. I think I'd love to combine psychological studies with anthropology.

Not at all sure how to go about trying to get on a course, especially as I already have outstanding student loans from a previous failed uni attempt but I imagine if I try hard enough opportunities always open up.

I can gain entrance to any uni course as I have straight A's on my A levels, I just need to force myself to follow through with it this time!

I'm going on a second stag weekend next week but when I get back I'm going to take stock of my life and start doing something productive on here.

People like you, Sharla and Dizaster actually really inspire me. It's great to meet so many people on the boards who have such great interests.