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the_dala at 11:42pm on 16/06/2006
the_dala at 11:42pm on 16/06/2006I will do a catch-up post, but right now I feel the need to do a Right Now post, because I had quite a nice day. We got our ceramics midterm out of the way this morning and I think I did fairly well. I missed the nail and glass questions, but had the types of ceramic organized into early, mid, and late centuries in my head, so that came pretty easily. I'm thinking a B, maybe a high C -- which might worry me except that the grade's mostly field work. Tim made us go straight to the site after we went over the answers, which sucked, but the hole I'm digging at the moment is in the shade, so HA! It was really hot today, too, and it'll get worse tomorrow.
Lydia collected money and ordered $60 worth of pizza for lunch, which we ate all but three pieces of, which I think is pretty damn impressive pizza-eating. The afternoon might have passed slowly except we keep finding really cool stuff. The hole's practically swimming with iron, and there are what looks like two whole half-bricks still in the ground. Best of all -- maybe the coolest thing we've found so far -- was this long strip of metal with a loop in it. The first thing I thought when I saw it was 'PISTOL!', but I didn't say anything in case that was completely stupid. However, when we showed it to Tim and Henry, they were both pretty sure it was once part of a wee derringer. Which, I'm sure you will agree, IS AWESOME. Way better than potsherds, even late 18th-century incised Rhenish blue and gray.
I was musing over what to get my dad for Father's Day during work, and Shannon suggested the key lime pie place in Solomons Island, so I battled the traffic over the bridge and bought a pie. It better be good, because it was bloody expensive. The price covers time spent in Solomons, though. With the water, the bridge, the boardwalk, the little town -- 'pretty' doesn't even begin to cover it. When I got back, my roommate was still missing, so Maria and I wandered over to the first River Concert of the summer. I had no idea the concert series was such a huge deal; it was insane. The whole townhouse green was covered with people, and the road was closed because it was paved with trucks selling BARBEQUE and SHAVED ICE and FUNNEL CAKE. All of which we will be scarfing down instead of Great Room food every Friday for the rest of the summer. We didn't really pay much attention to the concert because we were walking around looking for either Anne, who I vaguely remember saying she had a friend in the orchestra, or Ian's red Phillies hat. Finding neither, we came home and hung out with the boys for a bit. Maria is good people. Wish she could go to school here instead of...Kansas. I realize her parents have a house there, but really, Kansas.
And now I'd kind of like to go to bed, but Anne still isn't back, her cellphone keeps beeping, and her boyfriend's left five voicemails in the last hour. Ehhhhhh. It's rude to turn off somebody else's phone, yes? I wonder if I should be worried that she's still out there somewhere.
To close, a few Quotes of the Day.
(discussion of tattoos)
Laura: I have a black profile of a butterfly I got in Italy.
Lydia: I have the tree of life on my crotch.
Tim: Lydia. T. M. I.
(this is much funnier realizing that Lydia's our TA and Tim's the boss man)
(Ian's feet are all dusty and sunburned)
Ian: Man, my feet hurt.
Chris: Want me to rub them for you?
Ian:...Yes.
(Chris's hands hover over Ian's feet)
Dala: You guys have the most touching relationship.
Chris: I was really just gonna dig my thumbs into his sunburn.
This isn't so much a quote, but we were playing Twenty Questions post-afternoon water break and Shannon had us stumped for twenty solid minutes with Mike Ditka. DA BEARS!
Bahhh, my paid account expired. At least I still have my Grey's icon.
Lydia collected money and ordered $60 worth of pizza for lunch, which we ate all but three pieces of, which I think is pretty damn impressive pizza-eating. The afternoon might have passed slowly except we keep finding really cool stuff. The hole's practically swimming with iron, and there are what looks like two whole half-bricks still in the ground. Best of all -- maybe the coolest thing we've found so far -- was this long strip of metal with a loop in it. The first thing I thought when I saw it was 'PISTOL!', but I didn't say anything in case that was completely stupid. However, when we showed it to Tim and Henry, they were both pretty sure it was once part of a wee derringer. Which, I'm sure you will agree, IS AWESOME. Way better than potsherds, even late 18th-century incised Rhenish blue and gray.
I was musing over what to get my dad for Father's Day during work, and Shannon suggested the key lime pie place in Solomons Island, so I battled the traffic over the bridge and bought a pie. It better be good, because it was bloody expensive. The price covers time spent in Solomons, though. With the water, the bridge, the boardwalk, the little town -- 'pretty' doesn't even begin to cover it. When I got back, my roommate was still missing, so Maria and I wandered over to the first River Concert of the summer. I had no idea the concert series was such a huge deal; it was insane. The whole townhouse green was covered with people, and the road was closed because it was paved with trucks selling BARBEQUE and SHAVED ICE and FUNNEL CAKE. All of which we will be scarfing down instead of Great Room food every Friday for the rest of the summer. We didn't really pay much attention to the concert because we were walking around looking for either Anne, who I vaguely remember saying she had a friend in the orchestra, or Ian's red Phillies hat. Finding neither, we came home and hung out with the boys for a bit. Maria is good people. Wish she could go to school here instead of...Kansas. I realize her parents have a house there, but really, Kansas.
And now I'd kind of like to go to bed, but Anne still isn't back, her cellphone keeps beeping, and her boyfriend's left five voicemails in the last hour. Ehhhhhh. It's rude to turn off somebody else's phone, yes? I wonder if I should be worried that she's still out there somewhere.
To close, a few Quotes of the Day.
(discussion of tattoos)
Laura: I have a black profile of a butterfly I got in Italy.
Lydia: I have the tree of life on my crotch.
Tim: Lydia. T. M. I.
(this is much funnier realizing that Lydia's our TA and Tim's the boss man)
(Ian's feet are all dusty and sunburned)
Ian: Man, my feet hurt.
Chris: Want me to rub them for you?
Ian:...Yes.
(Chris's hands hover over Ian's feet)
Dala: You guys have the most touching relationship.
Chris: I was really just gonna dig my thumbs into his sunburn.
This isn't so much a quote, but we were playing Twenty Questions post-afternoon water break and Shannon had us stumped for twenty solid minutes with Mike Ditka. DA BEARS!
Bahhh, my paid account expired. At least I still have my Grey's icon.
cranky