Santa's Workshop

As the Christmas holiday approaches and I am working too hard, as usual. Here is one of the things that I am working on. Well...not really working on. I am actually submitting a paper that I wrote in graduate school about excavating naturally mummified human remains and looking at them as a cultural landscape instead of a dead body. Happy holiday subject, obviously hahahah. I might have to do a bit more editing before I submit, prior to the 15th but hey it's already written so why not?

http://www.bu.edu/archaeology/files/2011/10/2012_BU_GSF_CFP2.pdf

in other new I am buying my first Christmas Tree this weekend and will post pictures once I have put it up and decorated it =)

Click, Click...

As a second post for the day I wanted to put up some pictures that I have taken over the last few months, some of which I would say are really excellent, by my standard anyway. I noticed that I have this affinity for taking pictures of statues, but to be honest they are pretty exceptional. I mean, if someone can make stone feel as if it is breathing then it deserves to be photographed.

Probably will be away for awhile again, but hopefully not too long.

The Living Space

Here are some pictures of my new place. Well, it's not that new, nor are these pictures... sorry. When I finish it and have all my furniture, which is on the horizon, then I will post more up to date pictures. As an aside, I am sort of casually shopping for another place since the walls here are paper thin and I don't like other people hearing me sing while I am jamming to music in the morning, whilst getting ready lol.

I don't really have much to say other than I have been working stupid, crazy hours. I doubt any of you have ever pulled 3, 20+ hour shifts at work in two weeks. Not to mention that a normal day of work for me is somewhere around the mark of 12-15 hours, since I have two jobs. Yes, it will kill me some day; no I am not ok with that; but we do what we have to do and I am getting great experience. Plus, from having no job for 7 months, to being so busy I only have time to eat, sleep and shower; I will always pick the latter. What can I say? In that respect I guess you could accurately call me a glutton for punishment (masochistic) if you so choose.

Anyway, back to laundry and vegging on my one day off. =)

Fight!

OOO...A Viking Assault on England!!

http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2011/08/oxford-viking-massacre-revealed-by.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheArchaeologyNewsNetwork+%28The+Archaeology+News+Network%29

The News

So almost a year later, but let's not get hung up on that. Here is something that interests me at least, since some of you know that my Master's dissertation was on Vikings. Have a read. Also, you all may read the newspaper, i.e. the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, what have you, well this is my newspaper =)

http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2011/08/30-viking-graves-found-in-setesdal.html

Suboptimal Experience

A few torturous months into job searching and coming swiftly to two realisations. 1. that the job market is horrible and I now understand why people pay for others to search for jobs they could fill for them. 2. that I probably should have stuck with political science in undergraduate work and joined the foreign service, because that seems to be the place for jobs. In other, not so muted tones, I am tired of looking for jobs. I would give up but I need to get a job for money, among other reasons. This lack of results is dowsing my natural good humour and making me a bit more cynical about the world, though I am still trying my hardest to be up beat. As a final note I would like to say that it's not that there aren't a plethora of jobs out there to be had, simply that for the jobs I want, aka something that has to do with what I got a degree in, I am under qualified and for jobs I would rather not have I am over qualified. On top of that there are so many people out and about that are in the same boat as myself that for the employers its like being at a toys store where there are shelves upon shelves of shiny new toys and they are the owner so they can pick the shiniest and best toy for themselves. So if you aren't quite the shiniest best toy you get put at the very back of the shelf. It's very much a Corduroy story....And if America is the land of opportunity I would hate to be trying to get a job anywhere else in the world right now.

Will re-post

How funny is this?
http://histpres.com/museum/director-benicia-historical-museum-ca

P.S. will post an actual listing later. The internet here doesn't allow my blog editor to open properly. Sadness.