• All my classes this week have gone really well. (I still bitch-and-moan to some friends about management issues, because that's what you do, but really.) With the exception of Tuesday morning, which never goes well. Gonna work on fixing that.

• T-7 until
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Home!

It's 12:30 in the morning and I had a lovely last day in Rome, including dinner at the Centro, but now I'm nervous and freaking out about tomorrow-- I reorganized my stuff as much as possible, and confirmed as best I could that the baggage rules for my flight are actually 2 bags at under 23k each, but I'm not totally certain that my bags are under ( Read more... )

So I'm in Rome, which simultaneously feels utterly normal and familiar and incomprehensibly strange. My Italian has come back easily (though I have to override the urge to say 'hi' and 'thank you' in Greek, those being the two phrases I used most commonly), and I feel as comfortable in the city as I ever have-- a little more, in some ways, since I ( Read more... )

Digging is over, and I'm going to get ready to depart-- the season ended really well for me, and I'm quite happy. Full recap will need to wait until another day, though, since right now, I need to finish making my last-minute Athens travel arrangements. I'm leaving Corinth for Athens a day earlier than I originally meant to, so as to get two full ( Read more... )

The heat continues, with the temperature easily over 100 in the shade and over 115 in the sun every day. It's making the last week of digging even more intense than it might otherwise be-- and the last week of digging is, by nature, somewhat stressful. There's not a question of whether or not we'll finish digging the "collapse layer" in our ( Read more... )

Have booked a hostel room in Trastevere1 for the two nights/one day I'll be in Rome due to flight-and-Centro-schedule wonkiness. I believe this concludes my Heinous Travel Days scheduling. Eep ( Read more... )

Ok, rapid-fire post fun:
• Twitter is now working with my phone, but I'm having trouble configuring LoudTwitter to post to lj. My Twitter username is katealaurel; feel free to read updates there if they don't show up here the way they're meant to. Hopefully I'll be able to update you all about my adventures more regularly that way ( Read more... )

So I'm excavating on the surface instead of the ground again, which is on the one hand nice-- I see the sun, I accomplish more physical moving-of-dirt, I don't have to work in incredibly contorted positions-- but naturally as soon as I moved out of the tomb they found three more coins and an ivory hairpin. So it goes. On the surface, though, we' ( Read more... )

I just bought a plane ticket home, which is a disorienting thought. In exactly a month, in the evening, I'll be back in PDX. Can someone pick me up from the airport?Itinerary in a nutshell: July 8, morning, Athens --> Milan, arriving around noon. Train ride to Rome, arriving around 5. Cannot get my annoying baggage until the next day (sigh), ( Read more... )