Prosaic news: I am working in Illinois again, back in Jacksonville. Jacksonville is still boring, but work currently is. This is because we are working in picturesque Pike County, which is located on the western edge of Illinois, between the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers but a bit north of their actual confluence. This area was prime real ( Read more... )

Well, maybe. Uncertainty rules in CRM. I never know what is going to happen. Days like today--which is to say days in which the ground is frozen solid and the wind chill is below zero--aren't good days for archaeology. Getting paid even though I didn't do any so-called "work" is pretty cool from my perspective, but it makes little sense from an ( Read more... )

1. The other I went and read a whole lot of my old Livejournal entries. Any of you ever do that? I'm not talking about reading my two-year-old entries, I'm talking about your own. My old entries tended to alternate between making me laugh and making me totally cringe ( Read more... )

I like how Livejournal made it so you can type in the location your posts are coming from. This is convenient for me, because my location often changes fairly quickly and I'd get behind trying to keep my profile up to date. Currently, I'm working in Jacksonville, Illinois, which is not a very exciting place, but then again most places aren't. ( Read more... )