You know, I find it odd that so many Americans have been willing to step up and donate $10 via text, or buy a tshirt, or send money to the Red Cross, or whatever else they do for Haiti, but have proven completely unwilling to pay a little bit more in taxes to help provide healthcare for themselves, their parents, their children, and their neighbors ( Read more... )

BUGGER ALL ( Read more... )

Last Wednesday, I found out that I had received full funding to attend the University of Michigan's PhD program in Classical Art and Archaeology, and today I officially accepted the offer.  After so many years of working and hoping and dreaming, it was as easy as hitting the "Accept Admission" button on the webserver.  Sort of anticlimactic, ( Read more... )

Brothers are the new black.

In a new development that probably surprises no one, Claire's brother Rhys and I are officially In A Relationship.  He's intelligent, interesting, funny, and incredibly sweet.  Minus the fact that he STOLE Project Gotham Racing all those years ago, depriving me of the only video game I ever loved.  Before Katamari.

Hello, trusty and faithful livejournal readers!

I have a new blog on Blogger!  You should read it!  It's all archaeology, all the time, at http://archaeologyinsitu.blogspot.com!

I'm still keeping my livejournal account, and may or may not keep posting on it (well, as much as I ever do).  I just decided it was time to start afresh with the online ( Read more... )

I just watched an African-American leader of state speak directly to me on a handheld device, with the crispest resolution I've ever seen, while wandering around my apartment ( Read more... )

Walking from my polling place to the bus stop in the 65 degree sunshine, proudly bearing my "I voted" sticker, I encountered 5 Concordia boys with O-B-A-M-A painted on their chests.  They were running and chanting "O-BA-MA!"

Here's to hoping this festival atmosphere continues.

Later  Less humorous, more poignant.  A group of about 20 people were ( Read more... )

Umm, so has anyone else noticed that Livejournal has temporarily (one can hope, at least) become Undead-Journal?

This shouldn't amuse me as much as it does, but we all know how I'm a glutton for puns.

In Israel this summer, for the first time, I really felt that I should know Hebrew and was embarassed on many occasions for my total ignorance of the language.  As it looks more and more like I will be spending rather significant amounts of my life in that country, the more I think this is a necessary thing for me to do.  Specifically, at Kedesh, ( Read more... )

 Hi all,

Well, Aaron has motivated me to post a real update about the goings on in my life of late.  Actually, in reality, my life for the last 8 days has consisted primarily of watching the Olympics.  But I digress.

This summer, I spent 9 weeks in Israel: the first eight at Tel Kedesh, excavating, and the last in Jerusalem doing research.  The dig ( Read more... )