More babies!

Beards and Laura got their referral yesterday (after 18+ months)!! I don't even think he reads this blog anymore, but I want to give them a hearty and long overdue congrats. The '07 family grows...

Southwestern Studies I, August 2004-December 2004

I must lighten my load of notebooks I tote around every time I move, so I'm doing the painful and picking through B.A., M.A., M.F.A. to see which ones can go in the recycle bin. It's that nagging in my brain that keeps this from being an easy process, "but what if, at some point in the future, I need to know the nuances of difference between stem succulents and leaf succulents, drought deciduous species and indicator species."

Anyway, I feel some tribute must be paid. Here's a list of my favorite gems from my notes for Southwestern Studies I in 2004, a class I only managed to stay awake through because you, Jack, and you, Amelia, helped me through it:

"Cuaranchuia- cannibals. The Europeans are the ones who ate each other. The civilized taught the uncivilized cannablialism."

"berdache- man taking on dress, role, status of the opposite sex. Anthropologists interested in this ongoing tradition, primitive people engaged in long history of homosexulaity. Cyclone Covey translation= bad!"

"deserts have sparse vegetation."

"D.H. says for next week's reading, 'don't bother with the footnotes, just the text.'"

"Conquistadors: 1) wore sombreros 2) were magic 3) liked coffee in the mornings"

"Cancer is unnatural.
The unnatural infringes on birds.
A man made lake.
First atomic test-New Mexico."

"American cowboy-one of the most iconic America figures."

"Change-Hall, Montejano
Imagine that you are __________."

"Geronimo was an Apache. Apaches either killed or corraled."

So what does everyone else do with all of their old paper? I'm interested. Are you keeping all the notebooks, keeping a select few; are you the type who can dump them all wholesale into the bin?