So...I think I am kind of running out of things to say. I live in a nice place, which gives me a hell of a lot less to complain about...my work is almost done, and the parts of that which I could potentially vent about, I'm not technically allowed to discuss...I guess in short, the material i am sorting right now is just kind of "uninteresting" not in terms of what it is or what it means to be at the site, but just doesn't require a lot of thought process. Right now I'm just in a little "slump" which probably corrosponds appropriately to the phasing, but as a result just isn't really fun stuff to look at...but thats the thing with archaeology.,.a lot of the stuff you are looking at, is just crap.
When I was first learning how to sort bone, I was working with fauna from Turkey, and it was some of the best preserved material one could find. My professor of course did this on purpose since it would be the easiest to learn from. Then, this past year he had me working with fauna from Yemen, which was just absolutely awful...a lot of junk...but it was still challenging for me because i was not really good with the material yer and so the entire process still kept me engaged. The stuff I have now is inbetween the two, however now that I am really good at knowing what crap looks like, I get more cranky about having to sort and weigh and write about it...but I've already sneaked a peak at some of the last features I have to sort and they are much much better.
Today I saw my first snake- a viper. The egyptians killed it outside of the coffee tent. It was a female, and Richard showed me the characteristics so that I would recognize them in the future. That guy was probably what was keeping the mice away from our bones though...so now we have to guard the bones once again!
I haven't seen the gecko around either. I miss that guy.
My cough has improved a lot. It was really set off by that sand storm we had last week, so now that things are winding down I am doing much better.
It is supposed to be 104 on tuesday...Yuck!
Today is the Third already and here are some lovely countdowns brought to you by June 3rd:
Days left of work: 8 (at the most!)
Days until I leave for Zurich: 11
Days until I arrive in Detroit: 12
look at those numbers, so close but still so far..so fast but still so slow. Such an overall sense of the bittersweet.
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