This Is Me Being Matter-Of-Fact

[demonqueen666]

- When you volunteer long enough with a somewhat anti-establishment professor, you develop an entire methodology to tracking him down when he decides to disapear on you...again. A research assistant and I killed the entire half hour we were waiting for him to show up today by dicussing how we had learned to listen for his jangling key ring, wait

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[eponine119]

I took an Archaeology 101 type class my senior year and I was so confused by the word "sherd." Why wasn't it just "shard"? Or was the teacher just mispronouncing it?

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[demonqueen666]

It is sherd, and I honestly have no idea why. Frankly, I've never bothered to ask :P

[kayliemalinza]

You sound so awesome. O.O

[demonqueen666]

It's really not even as vaguely as exciting as it sounds. Or, I don't know, maybe it is, and I've just become numb to it, like, "Oh gee, I get to go in and try to put really old bones back together with elmer's glue and tape, that is I can figure out what the fuck they even are."

[kayliemalinza]

I'm sure it's dreadfully boring in the daily minutiae, but when you step back and look at it, when you contemplate what archeology has done... Wow.

But then, I'm sure you knew that. ^_^

The bit about writing catalogue numbers on children's bones was very compelling for me, for some reason.