A Sad Day indeed

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I Guess It's Been Long Enough

2 more days

So here I am, 2 days away from what will likely become to be known as "The Month I Want Back." Seriously though, I think that there have been more bite marks on me in this month than in my entire life. I probably have some form of Lyme Disease and quite possibly some Malaria. But I think overall I have learned more here than in any classroom I could ever visit. This has been amazing and I will be back on Thursday, not sure what time but definately on Thursday. This will truly be my greatest performance (Robin Hood reference #1). Can't wait to see everyone again.

With love and a lot of dirt in places I didn't want it to be,

Todd

Here I sit broken hearted, tried to crap and wound up in Menard, TX

So here I am in lovely Menard, Texas. I just got done doing the same thing I have been for the past 2 weeks. Dig 2 meter square holes 10 centimeters down at a time, fill out some paperwork, then do it all over again in the same hole. It hasn't gone below 101 this entire time and the little shade tarps are constantly having to move with the sun as the day progresses. Heres how my day goes: wake up at 6:15 am, get dressed, go eat eggs, bacon, sausage and the occasional "other thing" like biscuits and gravy, cinnamon rolls, et cetera. Then I have to leave the camp at exactly 7:00 so that we can be there by 7:15 and go to work digging with trowels, and should space permit and there aren't any artifacts around, do the occasional shovel shaving which means take a square faced shovel and take off the top layer of soil. Then we break at 10:00 for a cookie break(huzzah!) and then go back to work 10 minutes later. Do it until 12:00 and then we go to lunch. Every day for the past 2 weeks has been sandwiches, some tea, maybe some gatorade, and some chips. Eat until 12:30, then go back to work. Work until 3:00, then go to the library (where I am now) check email (which now if you guys want to talk to me Ill probably check my xanga now too) then go to camp again. Then I either go swim in the creek(which counts as my bath for the day mind you) or go to 8 mile hole which is basically the creek with moving water(and no plant life at the bottom excapt for the algae on the rocks). Then I go back, eat dinner at 6:30, write in my field journal about the day(how far down we went, who I worked with, what we found, how the weather was, etc) and then possibly read or bullshit for a while until its time to go to bed. For a picture of what the crappy 1936 reconstruction of the Presidio where Im working at looks like here it is:

Amazing huh?

Look at the splendor. That is the Northwest corner, Im on the Northeast corner where some of the Spanish families rooms were. Lot of old animal bones and ceramics and other things are. Its pretty neat, but really hard work. Anyway the library has really crappy hours and they close at 4:00 and arent even open on Fridays. Saturday they are only open from 10-12 so it sucks. But leave me little things to get me through this so I don't hurt myself.

With lots of dirt,

Todd