Ah picking courses for next year makes me so anxious! At least so far there are no complications this year. My schedule looks pretty heavy though: Plagues and People, Key Ideas in Archaeology and Bioarchaeology, Human Osteology and Forensic Anthropology (I have been waiting years to take this!!), Cell Biology, and Laboratory DNA Forensics. And I still have to find about 4 more courses!
So yesterday was my 20th birthday! I can’t even believe it. I’m in my twenties. But I think I’m ready. This is a new chapter in my life, a time to change and grow and become the person I want to be, and I’m going to do exactly that.
In the morning at my dad’s all of us kids made pancakes, and…
Steph, you are an amazingly talented and beautiful woman and I can’t wait to see what your future holds! I just know your twenties will be full of surprises and many more awesome nights like last night. The world better watch out—you’re going to take them all by surprise (except for me because I always knew you had it in you)!

Tattoos still visible on the skin of a Tarim Basin mummy. The Tarim mummies are a series of mummies discovered in the Tarim Basin in present-day Xinjiang, China, which date from 1900 BCE to 200 CE.

Geiranger Fjord, Norway by d.dk on Flickr.