Xenya
Hi. This is my first attempt
at a web page, so bear with me. :) I'm into travel, adventure, the mystical,
occult, vampires, and generally anything strange. I'm going to school at
the University of Delaware for a degree in anthropology. I'm going to double
major, but haven't decided on my second yet. I'm thinking about biology,
botany, geology, ecology, english, and classic languages. I
plan to keep going to get my Ph.D. eventually. In the meantime, I work
as a document and procedure writer, which is rather boring, but pays the
bills. If I manage to find spare time, I write, and have had poetry and
short stories published in various small press magazines. Oh, and I consume
books. :) Mostly mythology and culture books currently, but I love sci-fi,
fantasy, horror and romance. I love animals, and have 2 cats, Hercules
and Bast, and a ferret named Pandora. This picture is me holding
Pandora, but you really can't see much of her.
Travel
I'm afflicted with wanderlust.
:) I want to go everywhere and see everything and experience and do everything
and I want to do it now. That's not too demanding, is it? Well, after years
of spontaneous road trips, I finally got out of the country. My first trip
was late 1997. to Rome and Kenya. Rome's ruins fascinated me, it's people
charmed me, but Africa stole my heart. I've recently discovered Earthwatch.
Earthwatch is an organization that funds research projects and which the
public can volunteer to participate in. The expeditions are working with
endangered species and ecosystems, archaeology sites, and cultural traditions,
to name a few. This summer I'm going on an expedition with Earthwatch to
the Amazon! WhooHoo! It will be studying katydids in the Peruvian rainforest.
I went skydiving a few times, and I've been dying to go again, but saving
for trips has severely curbed my spending money. :) Next on my list is
to learn to scuba dive! Then I can work with ocean life and/or underwater
archaeology. (Earthwatch has expeditions doing both) These trips give me
fieldwork experience while I'm working on my degree. (Not to mention they
keep me from going insane and running away...)
Favorite
Links
Anthropology/Archaeology
Sites
Some of my favorite sites, lots of fascinating
information
Music and Comics 
