Right now, I'm in a history of anth theory class, so we're reading a lot of ethnographies at the moment. Everyone is very eloquent and uses the English language well enough, but there are always a few moments where a person has to sit back and just put the book down.

We usually do get a lot of people from the history department in classes with us, and a bunch of my friends (the ones who aren't English and Intel majors) do that. The fields are not unrelated, and I like that about anthropology a lot.

The anthropology people I'm around usually can be pretty demented at times, so there are worse things that can rub off on you, coming from an anthropolgist. But the classes are so much fun. In one of my labs, we got to throw atlatls, which, if we're someday very lucky and very bored, we might get to make from the ground up. Oh, college students with ancient weapons and too much time on their hands. This sounds dangerous.

It's hard to explain anthropology to people. When people ask what my major is, I always get odd looks and people tap me on the shoulder and ask, so I can't imagine really trying to portray it in fiction. Out of context, what anthropologists do is kind of weird. "Hi, I don't know you, but do you mind telling me all your personal habits?" *headdesk* If anyone ever actually did that. . . .

But what would an anthropologist who studies vampires be called?