Just saying hi.

Time's flying away.

I'm alive! I evacuated to a friend's house in Baton Rouge, which ironically got the worst part of the storm. It was wonderfully exciting. During the hurricane, we all were on the porch barbequing--listening to music and the sound of exploding transformers. Trees and tree limbs were falling all around us, being pushed over by cat 2 winds. 2 ( Read more... )

Apparently, I am about to be destroyed. I'll know in 12 hours. Wish me luck.

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Texas is terrible.  I've never had an archaeology job that I hate so much.  List of grievances: every transect is a wall of briars, giant spiders keep landing on my nose, there are poisonous snakes hiding under the pine straw,  the dirt is as hard as rock, I keep falling into cancer creek, and there are bombs going off all around us.  And all that ( Read more... )

Kathy paced back and forth on the sidewalk, tapping her bloody machete nervously against her, also bloodstained, thigh.  It had been twenty minutes and her nerves were on edge.  When working with the forces of evil, twenty minutes was plenty of time to get yourself killed.  Or worse, eaten and then killed.  She had to think of something fast.

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It was so great to see all my girls this weekend!  I miss everyone dreadfully.  Saturday was awesome ( Read more... )

Yarr!  For Talk Like A Pirate day,  I dressed in a lacy shirt, red Jolly Roger bandanna, and black skull socks;  strapped a machette to my waist; and went forth into the woods of the great state of Texas talking like a  pirate and searching for buried treasure, literally.  

From New Orleans to New Mexico, it makes no difference.  Cactus are prickly; it's cold in the mts; there are sites here--that's it.

This weekend I danced around an alter for the Vodou Queen with at least twenty white-clad believers; had my head washed with a potion (consisting, mostly, of coconut cake) by a machete-welding priest that looked like Stevie the Pirate from Dodgeball; and watched three people become possessed with the spirits of the undead.   And I went to Whole ( Read more... )