fun weekend. last night was good bands and 80s dancing. saw lots of friends, too. i paid the price today, but oh well.
saturday i played soccer in 40 degree weather. got clobbered and tripped, almost got in a fight, lost 4-2, but at least i didn't end up in an ambulance like 2 other people. went to a nice little grad school party later with amber (she is kinda almost like my girlfriend but not exactly) then came home, snuggled up to carnivale, then went to bed early (but, alas, alone).
friday i took a 2 hour nap after getting home from work. then people came over to play board games. minty and i talked archaeology for a while, as we had our last class that same day and did presentations. yes, i'm lucky. drinking ensued and i ended up being awake until 5:00.
test on southwestern archaeology on wednesday. here's an archaeology minute. due to the climate of the American Southwest, lots of organic materials are preserved and there is a very long, well-established tree-ring sequence for much of the area. thus, there is an obsession with dating there that overrides larger questions of the hows and whys of cultural development. this is exacerbated by the nature of some of the excavations there, which are done as Cultural Resource Management digs in areas that are being developed (or dammed). CRM is not bad work, but by necessity it is done as quickly and cheaply as possible, and only the most basic of information is gathered. it's quite a change from the Mesoamerican archaeology that i'm used to.
in conclusion, screw flanders.
saturday i played soccer in 40 degree weather. got clobbered and tripped, almost got in a fight, lost 4-2, but at least i didn't end up in an ambulance like 2 other people. went to a nice little grad school party later with amber (she is kinda almost like my girlfriend but not exactly) then came home, snuggled up to carnivale, then went to bed early (but, alas, alone).
friday i took a 2 hour nap after getting home from work. then people came over to play board games. minty and i talked archaeology for a while, as we had our last class that same day and did presentations. yes, i'm lucky. drinking ensued and i ended up being awake until 5:00.
test on southwestern archaeology on wednesday. here's an archaeology minute. due to the climate of the American Southwest, lots of organic materials are preserved and there is a very long, well-established tree-ring sequence for much of the area. thus, there is an obsession with dating there that overrides larger questions of the hows and whys of cultural development. this is exacerbated by the nature of some of the excavations there, which are done as Cultural Resource Management digs in areas that are being developed (or dammed). CRM is not bad work, but by necessity it is done as quickly and cheaply as possible, and only the most basic of information is gathered. it's quite a change from the Mesoamerican archaeology that i'm used to.
in conclusion, screw flanders.