It is definitely time to make some serious updates to kirilisa.com, particularly to Faces of Nadia.
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I will not go into our experience with U-Haul this past Sunday. Suffice to say, my sonnet was well-deserved. Suffice to say, we did not get a truck at all, period. Suffice to say, it is a 60 mile round trip from our old place to the new, and it takes 5 trips in my car alone.
Suffice to say, there is one U-Haul truck in the lot with a good, Kirilisa-sized dent in the passenger side door.
I definitely must learn to control my temper.
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In brighter news, ->insert hidden entry here<-. No, honestly, in other brighter news, The University of Queensland has accepted me into their Masters Program in Ancient History. Of course, as soon as I got the acceptance letter yesterday, I went into a panic and decided I have definitely applied in the wrong course, what was I thinking???!??! I should have applied in Anthropology!... No... Geology!! Astrophysics? Wait, that's totally off, I hate Physics. So right now I'm in a big fuss trying to figure out if I have applied into the wrong program, because I don't actually have a burning interest in Ancient Greeks and Romans and Egyptians (I would like to learn about them, and study Ancient Greek again, yeah! but I don't want to do thorough research on any of them) -- my interests go farther back than Ancient Greece and Rome.
And yet, I went again to UQ's site, and I couldn't even find that they had a Masters in Anthropology. They definitely have a Bachelor’s, but no Masters! And the PhD’s seem to be completely open, there is no list of flavors of PhD you can achieve; I guess you can pick your own research absolutley, as long as you have a professor to work under? And then I vaguely remembered that the reason I applied in Ancient History in the first place was because I couldn’t find a Masters in Anthropology when I first searched the site.
I don’t know how this stuff works. Maybe Ancient History is fine, and I can do that for a year and a half while defining to myself what my PhD research is going to be? Is Ancient History a decent background if my ultimate aim is something more like Social Anthropology but I’m not exactly sure what and I don’t believe that humankind is very ancient anyway?
Maybe this costs too much. AUD $8000/semester (USD $6100). Are PhDs always stipended? What’s that word?
Oh, I’m all frazzled about this. Someone tell me something useful.