The lovely Joe decided to use his work bonus to pay for my fall tuition so i wouldn’t have to bug my relatives about it.  Turned out fairly well.  i listed the classes i’m taking- two of them i already have the books for- the Communications is a required class and this will be the third (and final) time i’ve tried to take it.  I’m not opting out this time because for once, the teacher is actually making sense and i am learning the same old stuff in a completely different way.

 Foundation to drawing: LOTS supplies required.  Sheesh. + a book.  We’ve only been doing technical stuff so far like 1 and 2 perspective cubes and grids, etc. but we will get to freehand later on- which is what i’m more comfortable and interested in.  It is cool to actually understand these techniques though.

Anthropology- very interesting.  We’ve been watching this film made between 1912-1917 about the Nanuk Inuits (eskimos) and speaking a lot about culture in both this and the communications class (the teacher is Nigerian in comm. and most of us thought the Anth professor had a lot of Native American in him but today we learned he is about 20% Afrikaans.)  He took off his shoe and sock and plopped his foot down on a desk (not mine thankfully) to show us the “evolutionary adaptation” of parts of his culture- in the form of a 6th toe on one of his feet.

Weird.  Interesting and unexpected.  This reminds me of this :

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/10/baby-born-with-second-pen_n_106316.html         

..not to mention this:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2631016/Chinese-cats-grow-wings.html   Cats growing wings!

In the case of the boy with the additional penis on his back, (yes, i am aware of the amount of spam i am going to get from that single word) who’s to say that isn’t an adaptation of some sort instead of FIF? Maybe at some point his culture would’ve adapted in that way for whatever reason. Too bad they cut his off. 

There have been a lot of these sorts of articles lately- the baby born with two heads-

http://www.thelondonpaper.com/cs/Satellite/london/news/article/1157154820368?packedargs=aid%3D1157154820368%26suffix%3DArticleController

 another example of what they called FIF- course, (they)/he died because of lack of medical care due to his parents poverty.  There is a fairly well-known case of this in the U.S. and the girls are pictured here with some information:

http://community.livejournal.com/randompictures/4092017.html

What am i going on about? Evolutionary adaptations, conjoined twins, physical malformations?  i don’t know.  It’s all very interesting to me though.  Perhaps i’ll major in Criminal Justice with a specialty in Forensic Anthropology.  Hrm..  can i even do that?