It's been awhile. A lot has happened. Highlights include...
First, I'd like to acknowledge the completion and success of my anthropology thesis. (Actually, I still have to edit and format the final final copy for publication in the library, bummer.) Whatever, it is like 130 pages and awesome.
After the thesis defenses, my best friends and I went on a road trip during senior week (the week before graduation when people like to have fun because they've been working hard for four years). We took tents, snacks, and a friendly old Grand Marquis station wagon with a dreamcatcher hanging from the rear view mirror and drove 2,703 miles to Graceland and back. It was an awesome vacation and we learned a lot about Elvis, Memphis, soul music (on Beale Street and at the Stax Studios museum), civil rights (at the Lorraine Motel turned museum), and the South. Here is a kind of goofy picture of the four of us (Liz, Becky, Emily, and me) at the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee.

Next, we returned to the chaotic celebration that is gradutation weekend. There are many nice traditions and overall, it was crazy, bittersweet, and rainy. My brilliant friend Claudia gave the commencement address. Also, I graduated cum laude plus praestantem in anthropology, yesss. Here is a picture of me in my hip robe plus Nina, Sam, and Shawn.

Now, I am apparently leaving for Vermont in about one week to start working for UVM's Consulting Archaeology Program. It looks like I will be working in Burlington, then Rutland or Middlebury, so if you will be around those areas, especially for the 4th of July or my birthday (the two best holidays of summer!), please let's share phone numbers. I will also share my address, once I get one.
Well, I miss my friends but I think they are all doing well too and I can't wait to see them.
Peace out.