3 posts tagged “fall 06”
I think a large part of my easy awaking this morning had to do with the snow. I always want to get out of bed when it's a snowy morning. Something about snow and school cancellations and subsequent good feelings from my wasted early youth. Unfortunately the snow stopped by the time I got outside but I did get to class early and have felt chipper ever since.
I want to show you pictures of our Christmas tree! A large part of the joy of my living situation is that my friends (whom I live with) feel like family. On Friday afternoon, Kira and I sent Aaron and Tom out to find us (collectively, and Sarah) a 5' Christmas tree while we made room for it in the common room. They came back with a hulking mass of perfectly-conical Christmas Tree that measures a bit over 7' if you count the flourishes at the top. While we were somewhat stunned and highly amused, they attempted to get it in a base which was too small. Check it out:
The experience was awesome. We went to the Christmas Tree Shop for ornaments, lights, and whatnot, first stopping at Bertucci's for a nice dinner. Kira, Sarah, and I strung together hundreds of pieces of popcorn as cheap garland. We listened to Christmas music while trimming the tree and drinking sweet dessert wines a la Tom. By the end of the night, we were exhausted, finishing at 11:45 PM. Then we watched Love Actually, a fantastic holiday movie that Aaron hadn't seen. So it was a generally awesome night.
My pictures of the tree are far inferior to Aaron's basically professional job, but I will post both for an embarrassing comparison. My snapshots:
And Aarons photographs, for which I give him all credit:
Today - American Pop Culture Paper on iPod Advertising Campaigns (submitted)
Tomorrow - Oral Exam Spanish
Wednesday - Written Exam Spanish; All Homework Due in Spanish (finished); Final Archaeology Paper Due
Thursday - blissfully, nothing
Then a week of nothing, which will be spent in preparation for my two remaining final exams. This week is coffee-fueled and smothered in frantic productivity following a liberal dusting of procrastination.
Excavations at the First Baptist Church in America, Providence, RI went really well today. Aaron and I were reassigned to a trench on the western side of the property, at the base of College Hill. We went through 3 levels, corrected some incorrectly oriented maps and notes from the previous group (magnetic north labeled wrongly), made a drawing of level 6, and made the first discovery of bone yet found at the site. Aaron first picked up a bit of calcified faunal bone, handed it to me to examine, and we realized that we were dealing with bone. By the end of the day, we had found bone in levels 6 and 7, including 3 teeth fragments, one of which is a big ass tooth, probably of a horse or an elk. Maybe even a moose. No, just kidding, no moose. Was about 5 to 7 cm long, I'd say, most of that length being roots. We found quite a few other fragments of bone, many of which large fragments, along with glass shards, pottery sherds, lots of brick fragments, metal, including a badly rusted metal disc which may be a coin or a pendant, and shell.
Very cool, altogether. Aaron does have photos, and so I'll post those later. We were also interviewed while we worked, although I didn't think to ask by whom, probably Providence Journal. Daylight savings complicated things a bit, as by 5:00 it was too dark to do any effective sifting of artifacts from the dirt fill. We packed up early and left, for that reason. Unfortunately the ground dried off while we were working and now I have dust-filled lungs.
Kira and I went to the party at Art House tonight, concocting costumes out of face makeup and black dresses (costume = a free drink). Kira was very trusting of me to let me do her makeup, although it's always infinitely easier for me to do my own. October is my very favorite month. And that's my face.
