Current mood:

exhausted

My first week of field school is over! I love the people there, and I'm building up some muscle... but damn I'm tired. It felt so good to take a real shower when I got to my parents' house this afternoon. Except for the artifacts that were exposed on the surface, we haven't found jack so far, which makes it frustrating. We reached 50 cm today in our pit, and still haven't reached anything.

Like I said, everyone there is very cool. There's 16 of us crowded into 2 clasrooms at this elementary school, and we've had a lot of fun "bonding" together, everything from celebrating Katie's 21st birthday and innapropriate after dinner conversations to watching Hocus Pocus in the boys' room. Most everybody is from KSU, although there is one girl from Singapore, and one guy from Texas.

I don't have internet access while at the school, but I do have phone service, so feel free to call me anytime after 6pm and before 10pm (damn curfew).

Current mood:

determined

Oh my bike. My beautiful, beautiful bike. OK, it's not beautiful, but it's a classic, and it got me where I needed to go. Until I hit a bump. Now I have scrapes and my bike makes a scraping noise. I got it mostly bent back into shape, but I still had to walk back home. Incidentally, it takes 17 minutes to walk from the Beach Museum to my house. I think my bike is fixable. I just need to learn how to fix it.

Current mood:

annoyed

GRRR. I just got an e-mail from one of the department professors about a financially feasible, one month, HISTORICAL archeology fieldschool. http://www.moval.edu/Faculty/baumannt/joplin2006.htm And I can't do it. I am already committed to do K-State's field school. So instead of excavating a house and billiard hall in order to expand a historic site, I will be digging up arrowheads. Not really the same. But oh well, got to make the best of it I suppose. Field experience is field experience. Still... wish I had known about this before.