Sammy the little lamb and the newest addition to the Adinolfi clan!!!!
He is now 9 days old!!

Feeling Nostalgic and Adventurous:

My cousin Carolyn has come to visit on her way back home to Sydney. She has just been vacationing around Greece, Turkey, London, Ireland (to visit all of our relatives), and now she has come to California to visit the Adinolfi's. It is great to see her (since the last time i saw her i was a mere 14yrs old) and it is great to talk about Greece, New Zealand, and my family with her. I hardly ever get the chance to hear the dish about my cousins. I envy my cousins really. In Europe they get 3-6 week holidays in which they all travel abroad and have exciting adventures every year, if money will allow it. I guess I am itching for another grand adventure!

Last night we had a barbeque at my house and Stephanie and Michelle came over. It was great to see them again and we had some major talking to get done! hehe. Steph told us a little bit about life in Germany. It sounds soo great! I hope i get the chance to visit there one day!

All of this, plus seeing friends graduate and leave to travel (like Marc and Mo) leaves a girl thinking about doing the same when she graduates. Oh well, for now I have my senior year to get through!

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Hello!
Below I have posted just a few of the many pictures I have taken of my new dog Amber. Enjoy. In the photos with her are my sister, my mom, and my dad, I have not yet been able to maneuver holding her and snapping a shot at the same time! maybe some of me to be posted soon.

Study Break:

Today I took a little break from my homework to do a little surfing on the Internet and found something quite incredible for a Queen fan like myself! In a place called Montreux, Switzerland there is a statue of Freddie Mercury that I would some day like to see! It is a beautiful statue of him as you can see from the picture, what a neat tribute!

Hello All!
So I have not posted to my blog in a long while and I have a moment to breathe for now, so I thought I would write a little update. I usually post when I have just had a big event and I am not really one to post about my feelings and usual goings on. However, today for a special treat I think I will write an update about my silly life.

We are admist week eight right now and as week eights tend to be this one is as burly as ever. I have a lot of big projects coming up including a paper for friday, a paper for next wednesday, two ten page term papers, and three finals, plus an anotated bibliography for my thesis to do. How I ever get through the work I never know. Really it is amazing to me how right before it starts to get bad I always think "there is no way I am going to get through this without an extension!" but for some reason and by some combination of hard work, luck, and fate I always get through it and have never asked for an extension (although I sometimes feel that I do not put out my very best work! :(
I am coming down from a vacation high right now, I spent two weekends ago in Vegas and I went home last weekend. Both trips were a blast and spent in GREAT company. I LOVED the chance to go home last weekend and I really needed it emotionally. I feel that I have not had enough time with my family since leaving for Greece and starting school back up this year. I had a little time with them over Christmas and New Years and that was it. My family is in a wonderful transitional period right now. We have just moved into a new house, which for us is extremely weird since I have lived in the same house since I was four. We are taking on a new life style of ranchers, farmers, fruit keepers, and sheep lovers. And we have a joke that we are going to make a family t-shirt with a picture of our ranch on the front with a BIG avocado and then a picture of our sheep on the back with some funny slogan. hehehehe. I can't believe that I live at Crazy Horse Ranch!
College was really hard on both my parents but especially my dad who I feel has not been completely his lovable, goofy self since sarah and I left home and maybe since his father died. Now though he seems to be coming alive again and it is one of the greatest feelings on earth for my sister and I to see. I think that our new house has a lot to do with it and the fact that my sister and I are graduating soon. All is glorious on the home front and I can't wait to spend time there this summer and when I graduate.
I was inducted into the Anthropology society Lambda Alpha today and it was exciting for me because it was something that I have been looking forward to since I was a freshman. It was a relaxed thing, we all just had lunch with some of our professors and talked about our possible theses and where we see ourselves in the future. It is amazing what great things anthropology majors do! some of my fellow students there were talking about doing such great things this summer and when they graduate and it fills me with hope for my future.
I am excited about my dig this summer at the Santa Barbara Presidio and hopefully in the future I will have the opportunity to go on more digs. I can't believe I signed up for camping for six weeks!! but if I want to be an archaeologist I need to get rough and out in nature!!!
My professors announced who the new chair of the Anthro dept. will be next year and it is Professor Kealhofer. This is an ominous thing! I have never taken a class with Professor Kealhofer but I have had meetings with and she is a nice lady. She is tough though and it will be rough to have her as the chair when I am doing my thesis. I am going to have to take BIG breaths next year. I am sad to see Professor Westermark step down as chair since I admire him so much and respect him so much, but maybe Professor Kealhofer will do good things for the dept.
Okay, well that is what is new in my life!! Have a good wednesday everyone!!

CHARACTERS: AN EXAMINATION BY CATHERINE ADINOLFI

THE ARCHAEOLOGIST:

The Archaeologist shows up to parties with a little bit of dirt under her nails. She isn’t afraid to
wear a hard hat, and in fact, has one to match each of her work shirts. When she is out to lunch
and asked what she does for a living, she is commonly mistaken for a geologist or a
paleontologist. Her closest friends are a pickaxe and a shovel. And her greatest fears include
cave-ins and spiders. She has never been any where near the Temple of Doom nor does she
carry a whip. She prefers to work in a unit rather then a cubicle. And although she dreams of
discovering something great, it seems the person working next to her always finds it first.

THE CLASSICIST:

The Classicist knows all the hot places to go, if you are fifth century Greek. She loves to be up close and personal with antiquities, even if it means climbing under the foundations of the temple to Apollo. It gives her pleasure to read Ancient Greek and Latin. And she can quote lines from the Iliad off the top of her head. She knows that you shouldn’t use some god’s as guidelines for how to live. She gets all of Aristophanes fart jokes, and never blushes at a stolen flute girl or erect phallus.