I got the Biblical Archaeology Review grant! For those of you not in the know, BAR is a nationally published magazine so this is EXTRA exciting. Also, now all my expenses are covered for the excavation in Israel ( Read more... )

I got the Jewish Studies Summer Travel/Research Grant! Yay! That's another $2000! I'm totally going to Israel!!!!

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Good news! I got one of the travel grants I applied for in order to dig in Israel this summer! That's &1000 down. Only $3000 more to go ( Read more... )

Last night, while on my way home from a concert and full of vodka, I approached my apartment building and thought there was some strange statue in the middle of the sidewalk. Then I realized it wasn't a statue. It was a deer. She looked at me for a long time and then calmly walked into the adjoining yard ( Read more... )

I'm all about more modest swimwear, but this just amused the hell out of me.

http://www.wholesomewear.com/

On Saturday night Scott and I went to Triple Rock with some of my school friends and concocted our plan for when Greenland or Antarctica melts and the entire Bay area is under water and/or the Hayward Fault finally has its long overdue major earthquake and we are living in a post-apocalyptic world ( Read more... )

School's in. These are my classes.

Ugaritic
Elementary Biblical Hebrew
Gilgamesh: King, Hero, God
Israelite and Contemporary Religions
Pottery of the Southern Levant (or something like that).

I think my classes are much better this semester, but I'm having a hard time getting back into the school spirit. I just want to sleep.

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