Thus begins a month of writing frantically.

If you loved me, you'd buy me this.

Alrighty then.

So today I begin my 1 month of writing frantically in a pathetic attempt to a) actually do something b) get a decently known blog so I can add that to my writing resume. There are also so many awesome things to write about and it gets all pent up and I become a small cat on crack cocaine and destroy things unintentionally.

I just spilt tea all over my bedspread. lovely.

I also just got the first of my textbooks for school. Yay for UPS men!

So today's entry is about something that's very near and dear to me. I've already mentioned that I freaking love dinosaurs. But that love does not just extend to dinosaurs. It extends to all furry or scaly prehistoric animals. Once my boyfriend made the mistake of taking me to the ROM. I believe we spent nearly an hour and a half just in the dinosaur and ancient mammals section while I rattled off every single fact I knew about each individual creature. I'm a dork like that.

Anywho I was reading another blog when I came across www.twoguysfossils.com. They sell freaking fossils. Essentially, I made a wishlist of everyhing I want from that website.

Including
1) mammoth hair
2) mammoth teeth
3) mammoth tibia
4) the lower jaw of a steppes horse
5) the tooth of spinosaurus
6) the femur of bison
7) the tooth of an ankylosaur
8) the tooth of a plesiosaur
9) the tooth of an albertasaur

My love for fossils and all things ancient is so great, I even told my boyfriend that I'd love him so much more if he proposed to me with a vertabrae from a tyrannosaur or a apatasaur. This was not a hint.

Or better yet, combine the two.


Anyways, instead of being specific about anything in particular today, I'm just going to write about fossils. Everyone knows what fossils are. But I want to call to attention why I love them so much.

A fossil is a remnant of a world past. And for the same reason that I can't watch war movies, I love them. My imagination gets carried away. To think that I'm looking at something that millions of years ago, lived and breathed and died. Something that was so gigantic, so awesome and awe-inspiring (You think an elephant was inspiring? Look at a mammoth. Or a brachiosaur, the equivalent of a whole herd of elephants.) Even small fossils. This is something that felt fear, hunger, cold. Something that lived very much the way I do (albeit without tv or microwaveable dinners). It raised young, lived, and died millions or thousands of years ago. It reminds me of my own mortality, and the enduring nature of thing. I can't say it enough, but you're looking at something ancient. I feel the same way with mummies, but closer in a species-specific type of way. And the idea that I'm looking at it, coming in contact with it, makes my brain go haywire.


Mammoth mummy. SO FREAKING AWESOME.

It's just so freaking awesome.

Plus, freaking dinosaurs.

OM NOM NOM.