license to Ill
One of the exciting things about my job is that I get to travel to all sorts of places that I otherwise would not have an opportunity to visit. The downside to this is that sometimes I end up in places like Decatur, Illinois, where I am now. We are surveying in an area east of here where every available plot of land is either a cornfield or a soybean field. Trees are few and far between, the land is perfectly flat, and the roads are all perfectly straight and arranged in a grid. It's like a big chessboard.
My job consists of wandering through cornfields while staring at the ground looking for artifacts. It gets to be a surreal experience, because I can hear the other people around me, but I can barely see them. Today I stopped for a minute because I thought I might have found a flake. While I was contemplating it, everyone else got ahead of me, so briefly I was all alone. It can get pretty scary, even if you aren't claustrophobic.
We are finding sites with regularity, but we are also finding a whole lot of uncomfortably large spiders.
My job consists of wandering through cornfields while staring at the ground looking for artifacts. It gets to be a surreal experience, because I can hear the other people around me, but I can barely see them. Today I stopped for a minute because I thought I might have found a flake. While I was contemplating it, everyone else got ahead of me, so briefly I was all alone. It can get pretty scary, even if you aren't claustrophobic.
We are finding sites with regularity, but we are also finding a whole lot of uncomfortably large spiders.