Someone told me last night that I was the first person they met up here who "sees everything completely, and thinks about things diferently", and that "in fifteen minutes I was more entertained by you than by everyone I'd known for weeks". Hah! High praise, good to have those little boosts.
I'm sitting in my lab right now, "working" on a migration period paleo Native American site. I'm sorting through soil samples right now, with micro artifacts that have been relatively dated to around 7000 years ago. It's not that interesting - most archaeology isn't.
Two tables up from me, Dr. Darwent is working on the lithics (yes, that means rocks) from a Nor Cal site; I'm not sure the time period on it. Dr Bob Bettinger just left a few minutes ago, he's currently on sebatical and likes coming in and chatting, or as much as Dr Bob ever chats! He's a funny guy, I rather like him and his old boy spitfire. I remember sleeping through his hunter-gatherer theory classes, but not because he wasn't entertaining, simply because I was running on low sleep that particular quarter. I don't think he remembers that, so I think I'm safe...
The other day I went to a pre-conference prep conference on the UC Davis Research Conference coming up in April. Yes, it took me a while to figure out how to say that right ;-) I'm supposedly presenting my personal obsidian research for this conference, but the ironic part is that by the time I get all my data back from the lab I'm sending it to, I'll have a mere ten days to synthesize everything before this conference! Hell, that's just going to be fun.
So that's just a little update into my academic and work life at the moment. Now then, back to soil samples!
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