Tease picture! To add some color I threw this snap shot from the west bank....of course I will still upload pictures from luxor...I swear. Actually within a few weeks i will be moving back into my old apartment since Farrah and her baby are heading back. Then I will have internet again and will spend too much time online and therefore will post all pictures you have been holding out for..I swear!

We are officially done on site...all areas that I showed you in the last photo are now under sand. We have begun the torturous and boring paperwork part of post excavation. My first responsibility was to go through all of the feature forms from our area an make sure they are complete and that none are missing...in doing so I was given a new nickname. Paperwork Nazi. I chase people down letting them know that they forgot their dimensions, or their photo numbers, or that they didn't include elevations or rough sketches on the back...and this isn't just for new people, this is for all the veterans too. I was working at a table with my area advisors and I told one, Mike, that he had forgotten to include surrounding features in his matrix. He asked me to read the description on the form so that I could refresh his memory on which feature I was referring to. I said, "this mudbrick collapse, having depth .02 meters is dadada." And before he could say anything I interjected with, ".02 meters? A value that low is supposed to be in millimeters yeah?" And he just looked up at me in both disbelief and fear....we all started laughing at how strict to the manual I had been correcting the forms. Both he and Amelia assured me it was a good thing it proved that I was paying attention and that it meant Mike wanted to make sure I worked in his area again next year. That definitely made me feel proud of the work I've put into this. I went through each form...i don't even want to know how many there were, a binder's worth..and put little post its on every one that was missing information. Very anal retentive indeed!

Amelia, my area advisor who is writing the Data Structure Report, leaves on Wednesday so we have to try and get as much possible by then, so I will probably be working some serious overtime. There are other people who are also just left to sort through areas by themselves so I might try and help them as much as possible too. But it shouldn't be too long before I'm back in the lab this season learning the exciting world of flint working and sourcing.

One final note for today is that I got a different cell phone which works with my American sim so my regular number works in case of emergencies if my family wants to call or text. It's expensive for me to use of course, but I'm sure it is at least comforting to know that I can be reached now.

Hope everyone had a good and safe weekend!