I officially finished my last square of the season! Yay!

Guess what I get to do until the site closes....

DIG DIG DIG

Excavattttteeeeee :)

Nothing but digging~! I'm so happy.


Despite such eagerness that I hold in regard to this, and the general excitement I do legitimately carry with my opportunities and experiences here...somehow I have been dubbed, "The Girl Who Hates Everything" by Mark Lehner. Of course this was a comment was made largely in jest and mostly in reference to how picky I am. We were all talking at second breakfast and this conversation ensued.

Me: "Richard even talks to his dog on the phone."
Amanda: "...i talk to my cat on the phone..."
Mark: "Kelly do you like animals?"
Me: "I don't like having to be responsible for them, but yes I like animals"
Mark: "Oh my gosh, Kelly actually likes something....what about people do you like people."
Me: "No."
Mark: "....I'm starting to appreciate this girl more and more every day."


I've also officially finished my third book here. And I highly recommend it. highly highly highly. It is so beautifully written. i cried my eyes out. It is about a family in India and a tragic sequence of events as seen through the eyes of a young twin brother and sister. It draws upon politics and social difference as well. here is a passage, that I think captures the style and some of the ways it just drags at your heart, but doesn't give too much away

Rahel froze. She was desperately sorry for what she had said. She didn’t know where those words had come from. She didn’t know she’d had them in her. But they were out now and wouldn’t go back in. They hung about that red staircase like clerks in a government office. Some stood, some sat and shivered their legs

“Rahel,” Ammu (her mother) said, do you realize what you have just done?”
Frightened eyes and a fountain looked back at Ammu.
“It’s alright, Don’t be scared. Just answer me. Do you?”
“What?” Rahel said in the smallest voice she had.
“Do you know what happens when you hurt people? When you hurt people they begin to love you a little less. That’s what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.”

A cold moth with unusuall dense dorsal tufts landed lightly on Rahel’s heart. Where its icy legs touched her, she got goosebumps. Six goosebumps on her careless heart.

The author, Arundhati Roy is a well known political activist and received the booker prize, a prestigious literary prize. It's also a really quick read. Took me all of about 2 days.

Now I'm flipping between starting either The Blessing Stone, or Little Children. it's Slim Pickins in the Villa Library.

Also...my apartment was fumeeddd for bed bugs :( But I didn't have bed bugs...or at least I haven't been bitten. ah well. Dinner is over, time to go shower and sleep. First day back at work and I am quite exhausted. The site is only open for 11 more days though! Eeek!