Its all going too fast. Hours, days, weeks slide by and its March already! Damn!

Last weekend I went to the Clipsal 500 car race here in Adelaide. I got a job there as a ticket checker for the 4 days, and actually, it was a great experience! far better and more interesting than i expected it to be. The people I was working with were great, the punters were largely a good bunch, and there were F-18s and other big planes going overhead at different times… Exciting! I really love festivals; you get a chance to move into a different gear for a few days and do something quite different with different routines, but it was also another period of enforced stillness, another chance to watch from the sidelines, which i enjoy. The only bad parts were the four days of agonising standing, and the fact that every so often, I would think about the fuel consumed, the rubber burned (and inhaled), and the wastefulness of the whole race - there were three crashes right next to me on the last day!

This week has been consumed by essay reading and writing, and odd pieces of work here and there, still nothing meaty tho. Im back looking for work and placements again next week and starting the next essay too. My plans for this year suddenly a bit up in the air… A friend suggested that I might look at working at her company in the future as an anthropologist. She thinks I would be great at it, and there is heaps of work for full-time female anthros. The good thing is that mediation skills would be a bonus in this job, and frequently, if informally, used. The catch is that I have to study Honours Anthropology to qualify. So now Im thinking about how best to arrange the rest of the year. And do I really want to study One More Year? And worse, do i want to study the dreaded Honours?

Hmmm, I think I do.

• Kristen (Tokyo) said on 07/04/02 at 01:25 PM.....

  Anthropology is fascinating and if you get to be an anthropologist, you can wear an Anthropologist’s Hat!  (That’s from an old Smothers Brothers song I loved as a kid)