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Bothersome Job and Troublesome Anthropology Essays
School, Work - - Posted on November, 2 at 2:31 am
I swear, I was never so happy to think that this is my last semester working at athletics as I was tonight. Yeah sure, usually when I get in that funk I shrug it off and I’m a-okay with the job again. But tonight I actually counted down how many more work days left. 
Yeah, it was that bad. Every time I turned around more laundry kept getting turned in that had been forgotten. You know, they bring me two white jerseys after all the white jerseys are washed and in the dryer and all I have left to wash are the maroon ones. This of course means I get to start another new load for two friggin jerseys! Unbelievable! Add to that the stress of having to type a paper and oi vey, I was ready to kill someone.
I’ve got a paper due in Physical Anthropology tomorrow that I’m just getting started now. Hey, don’t get mad at me. Even for me this is a little last minute. 
You see, on the syllabus it clearly states:
The critical essay will be a thoughtful review and analysis of a recent physical anthropology research article published in 2006 or 2007 from one of the following journals: American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Journal of Human Evolution, Folia Primatological, International Journal of Primatology, Primates, American Journal of Primatology, or Human Evolution. Please note: the NMSU library does not currently subscribe to all of these journals…[]
Ya gotta love those requirements. Well, here’s something else the professor neglected to mention. The only journal that NMSU seems to be subscribed to that was displaying any articles that fell within the 2006 and 2007 time frame (that didn’t have me writing about Chimpanzees and Bonobos like everyone else) is the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, and then they only have subscription service from 1980 through 2006. There are no 2007 dated articles. This made my search difficult, but eventually I found one that caught my eye from this journal, and because we have to have at least 3 to 5 citations including the main article I found some other good articles to support the finds in my article.
As I was jotting down notes and deciding how I wanted to attack it so that I could just type it up when I got home I came upon a glitch. The article I chose, AMS Radiocarbon Dating of Middle and Upper Palaeolithic Bone in the British Isles: Improved Reliability Using Ultrafiltration, despite being found in the NMSU article database as an article from the American Journal of Physical Anthropology and being available from said journal’s website was actually published in Journal of Quaternary Science. Since I retrieved it from AJoPA I assumed it was published in their journal. Never assume. So all of that hard work I did was shot to pieces. And try as I might I couldn’t find another research article (it had to be a study and not a review) on the same topic from one of the approved journals to be my main article.
So back to the library I went and I had to conduct a new search, but hey, at least now I’m on the right track. My new focus is mandibular morphology in Neanderthals. I’m assessing Nicholson and Harvati’s Quantitative Analysis of Human Mandibular Shape Using Three-Dimensional Geometric Morphometrics. This time when I selected an article off of the AJoPA site I made sure to double check the full article and see that, yup, it says it was published in AJoPA and not another journal. I learned my lesson…belatedly.
My only problem is that now I just don’t feel like doing all my work all over again. 
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cramming is such a thing people always do. :] and oh, you’ll be an anthropologist or maybe, you are an anthropologist? that’s cool. my mom too. but she turned into an archaeologist.
Yikes, so there was no way to wait until another load huh? That job does not sound fun. You’re no laundry latina! I’m glad it’s almost over for you too. Wow that’s a lot of work for that essay. Good luck and kick it’s ass. I just love how the prof gives you requirements that the school can’t even help with. It’s like, sure, let me just go find some other school or library that carries these because obviously you are not providing us with the materials necessary *hates on evil profs* It sucks that you ended up having to research again but at least now you have your data and can write write write, right? Good luck!
Daniielle,
Yup, it’s a habit of mine that has proven quite difficult to shake. It doesn’t help any that the papers I write at the last minute always yield the best results as well. =/ I work good under pressure, and I know this, so it’s difficult to change it.
I’m majoring in Criminal Justice with minors in Anthropology and Forensic Science. I hope to someday see myself as a forensic anthropologist, but we’ll see.
Julie,
Nope, no way to wait, and sadly that wasn’t the only time they did that. They also neglected to mention that there were more towels in the locker room and didn’t give them to me until I had already folded half of the ones turned in and was putting them away. Imagine my dismay to see towels being brought to me when everything else was in the dryer and I was, essentially, finished!
Haha, I got my butt to work, eventually, but I was so tired that I went to bed around 4am, then got back up at 15 to 8:00. But I finished it! I’m just re-reading it over and over to catch grammatical and spelling mistakes before printing it out.
Wow, that’s so horrible! I’d hate to have to do all that work for nothing! Oh goodness. At least you figured out in time, yes? Better late than never!
Seriously, some people just don’t understand that washing only two jerseys takes a whole lot of resources. Jeez people, consideration would be nice!
Maria,
Better late than never is right! That paper is 150 points. That would have really hurt!
I was tempted to just continue and turn it in since I did pull the article from one of the acceptable journals’ website. But I figured he would either not accept it, or dock me a lot of points. And given how much it’s worth, I couldn’t afford that.
No they don’t understand what the significance of turning in two late jerseys is. I mean common sense says that if all the others are done and other loads are being done that those two can’t be combined with then those two have to get a load all to themselves. *bangs head* To make it worse, they’re all guys and can’t comprehend why I couldn’t mix the loads up anyway.