Damn, it's hard to remember to update this thing.
Um. Okay. Back from the South of Africa. I've been recruited by a sessional lecturer at the university of Cape Town to work as his student next summer. And for my grad thesis. And my fourth year. Why? Because he's an archaeometallurgist, impressed with my desire to become one as well, and we're both metal freaks. The only time having a forge in my back yard has worked to my benefit (the neighbors hate me, and so do the police). He wants me to help with a little-known Northern Cape site called "Dithakong", early Iron-Age of the southern Tswana. I think it's ridiculously cool. So many school obligations I'm ignoring right now, good god.
What else? Not sleeping. Going crazy. Might have found an awesome room to live in with awesome people in an awesome house. I'm traipsing over there to look at the room on this coming Tuesday. I don't want to live in Toronto, but this would make it slightly more bearable. Looking for any job at all to cover this month - I don't start working at ASI (a commercial archaeology firm) until Parks Canada lets us reopen the Peace River site in September. It's annoying, but it must be done - I'm pretty sure Starbucks-monkeydom awaits.
Went out walking last night at 2:00 a.m, sketched everyone I saw. Looking at my sketchbook now, I can only imagine the kind of crack I was on. I must have taped a napkin (?) into the thing at some point, and that's what I was drawing on - sleep deprivation is apparently my drug of choice. Click, if you really want to see the level of insanity.
Um. Okay. Back from the South of Africa. I've been recruited by a sessional lecturer at the university of Cape Town to work as his student next summer. And for my grad thesis. And my fourth year. Why? Because he's an archaeometallurgist, impressed with my desire to become one as well, and we're both metal freaks. The only time having a forge in my back yard has worked to my benefit (the neighbors hate me, and so do the police). He wants me to help with a little-known Northern Cape site called "Dithakong", early Iron-Age of the southern Tswana. I think it's ridiculously cool. So many school obligations I'm ignoring right now, good god.
What else? Not sleeping. Going crazy. Might have found an awesome room to live in with awesome people in an awesome house. I'm traipsing over there to look at the room on this coming Tuesday. I don't want to live in Toronto, but this would make it slightly more bearable. Looking for any job at all to cover this month - I don't start working at ASI (a commercial archaeology firm) until Parks Canada lets us reopen the Peace River site in September. It's annoying, but it must be done - I'm pretty sure Starbucks-monkeydom awaits.
Went out walking last night at 2:00 a.m, sketched everyone I saw. Looking at my sketchbook now, I can only imagine the kind of crack I was on. I must have taped a napkin (?) into the thing at some point, and that's what I was drawing on - sleep deprivation is apparently my drug of choice. Click, if you really want to see the level of insanity.