Wedneday March 12th

Another fairly standard day though some exciting stuff.

First off I finished digging my feature! I actually dug a bit further than I needed to (read: was supposed to) but it was okay...the cross section gave me some really great layering to look at. Now I just need to finish up some sketches of it and it's all done! I wound up bagging 330 liters of ash and silt :( Today I wasn't nearly as dirty though it did look like I was sporting a mustache.

I did find a reaaaallly nice limestone bowl fragment in my deposit...it really was an exciting find!

Tomorrow we only work a half day, and I don't really know what I plan to do for tomorrow night...maybe I will head to the pool for the afternoon and just relax and read. I also do not have any big plans for Friday. Working out in the field really takes so much more energy and effort than the lab so again, I'm basically left feeling that I want nothing to do with shopping or going into town or anything like that.

Today I managed to get my hands on a book richard wrote a long time ago and never looked into having it published. Its about 300 pages and is all about his experiences in the field. I might read that after I'm done with the wind up bird.

I am having an allergic reaction to something...red bumps on my legs and knees...boooo. Perhaps from working for days in a giant desert litter box.

My tan lines are wicked awful right now as well....despite the fact that I wear sun screen, you can still see the various different sleeve lengths of my shirts outlined on my arms. Still, the back of my neck is the darkest part of me from me staring down at the ground all day long. Henry Wright from U of M used to say you can always tell when someone is an archaeologist because they are constantly staring at the ground.

Looking at the ground you see a lot of things on the Giza Plateau. One thing you see a lot of are scareb beetles...which is funny because they are these huge ass bug beetles that normally people would be freaked out by...but I think because scarebs are so common in the heiroglyphs and you see little molds and statues of them all over gift shops, you just associate them with being cute...and so when these big beatles crawl near me I don't even flinch...in fact I kind of want one as a pet.

I think that's it for now....I am going to go sketch and read. Good night!