When I was a kid, I wanted to be a paleontologist and hack my way through the jungle, discovering lost cities of gold and fighting dinosaurs. I didn't have a very good idea of what paleontologists did, as it turns out.  When I got older and I figured it out, it sounded almost as cool as it did when I was a kid. Almost. So in college I spent a long time waffling between anthropology and geology. Sometimes, I regret going with the monkeys instead of the t-rexes.

It's nostalgia that crops up when I visit the Natural History Museum, or run into one of those cool CGI dinosaur shows on the Discovery Channel, and which hit me especially hard when I came across this OMG SO TOTALLY AWESOME dinosaur necklace. I cannot express to you how much it completes me--my love of shiny things, my love of nerdy things, all wrapped up in one item of shiny, nerdy jewelry. It would take a very special person to rock this necklace, and I, personally, am willing to try.