I am kind of nervous for what my hairdresser is going to have to do with it in order to make it healthy again. It is so damaged right now from the weather, from not being cut in a while, and from the water here. I figured out that it may also have had a hand in how terrible my skin has been lately. I'm broken out all alround my neck, so now I have a new hair policy...at no point while I'm here is my hair to touch any part of my neck or face. This requires sleeping with it up, which is something that I normally hate, but it really is helping. I don't know if my hair has ever been this long before, and so it makes sense that the oils and dirt from it being all over my face could be clogging my pores more than usual. I also switched to a different shampoo and conditioner at Richard's suggestion. Like I said, so far it is helping a lot.
My work is actually moving along very well...what at first seemed like it was going to be very difficult and daunting, has actually turned out to be not so hard, just tedious and annoying....but it is my job and I do love it. Today i realized one excellent perk of my job...no customers...i never wake up considering how busy or slow etc my day is going to be. It's a job where I just sit and think and figure things out. It's essentially just putting together a big puzzle...which is funny because even when i'm not working i am just doing other puzzles...crosswords, sudokus and others from this big book I have. Everyone makes fun of me for doing them during breakfast and lunch...but I don't know, i like keeping my brain occupied. Plus it's what my dad always did. Another habit I have picked up here, similar to my dad's, is that I started writing in all capitals. It just looks so much neater on my data sheets...my hand writing was getting a little out of control for them, but capital letters slow me down enough and force me to write more legibly. Speaking of data sheets...richard asked me how far along I was in entering mine...at first i was a little embarassed to admit that I had only done like 5.. (no I didn't do any last night like i said i would) he reassured me that i could do it whenever i wanted and that he usually waits until he gets home to enter his...that was a relief. I will probably save it for some bigger computer screens as well as a mouse...this macbook is just too tiny to navigated between 8 different excel spreadsheets.
Today i only had to work untik 3:30. At 4:00 a zooarcharologist from the American University in Cairo came over with a student of hers to go over some material with Richard. She is a delightful woman, very articulate. It was very weird though, to have this cluster of 4 zooarchaeologists discussing at length the differences between horse and donkey molars...but it was actually very neat...I wasn't treated like a student, I was treated like a peer. This also happened yesterday. Richard asked me if i knew what a certain archaeological bone he had was...not because he was trying to test me, but because he wanted to know my opinion...unfortunately i didn't really know...well I kind of knew, by default. It was an unfamiliar looking metapodial, and by default you should always check a pig if it doesn't look right...but when I thought that, I assumed that he operated under the same standard, since he is the one that taught me it, and I assumed he already considered and dismissed pig...i really just should have gone ahead and said it...could have really wowed the crowd.
Because of the high winds, all of the flied are migrating indoors and are worse than usual. Frequently i went on fly patrol with the swatter. I killed two that were having sex...fly and maggot birth control, i just spared us 3000 additional flies.
Also with these high winds, whatever is making me sneeze, wheeze, and sniffle is being blown into my face with much greater intensity. I took two benadryl and its helping, but on that note, I am tired and must lay down. Goooodddnight!
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