Productive Day

After writing the Ben outline, I e-mailed it to him. I also e-mailed Dr. Hellerstein, who had e-mailed me and Simone yesterday giving us a schedule for the senior seminar and setting the thesis due date in December, which is when Simone graduates. I though that a senior thesis takes 2 semesters, and that's what makes it a thesis. So I e-mailed her back.

She e-mailed me back. Yes, I was right. But also she thought that I didn't have enough classes for my major (I didn't take biblical lit or history, because a double major only needs 12 out of the 14 credits. I have nothing against Bible, being a Biblical Archaeologist* and all). She asked if I could take JWST 157, which meets at the same time as my ANTH 451 class. So no. That and I'll barely fill the anthro requirements as it is.

So I e-mailed her telling her a. we had talked previously about this and she had conceded that I could get away with what I was doing, since I do have the double major. And I told her about my schedule.

So she e-mailed me back. Yes, I was right, she had just forgotten. And Biblical Archaeology counted as literature somehow! (Yay for having an A in it.)

Ben also e-mailed me back, saying he liked my outlines (I also showed him the Jewish studies one) and my bibliography, and that by the end of writing bothe theses I would be an expert on the subject. Hah! I wish. I'm just an expert compared to the rest of the anthro department, and that's only because we don't have anyone else who studies Israel, and none of the archaeologists in the department are observant Jews. So they wouldn't know a miqvah if I built one in the museum courtyard, filled it with water, and threw them into it. (Not that I would ever do that...) And of course, he ended his e-mail with Shabbat Shalom. He's probably the only non-Jew I know who will wish me a good Shabbat. (Well, maybe plus_c would).

I also shopped for shalshuddis w/A.B. and levana_b. And okazu_kangaroo and I got our books. I didn't go cameraing, since I didn't want to risk not having time to get ready for Shabbat.

Now I'm here, typing. I think I know what I want to wear. Of course I always have to have the prettiest outfit possible, because it's me. (I've gotten random compliments on my haircut. You'd think people would be used to me cutting it myself by now, since I've been doing it since senior year of high school...) I'll wear my white hippie dress (which I wore when I went to alanscottevil's house for Shabbat 2 weeks ago. And I wore it tisha b'Av day. So a bunch of you know what I'm talking about, in theory.

So much for a pre shabbas nap. I still have an hour to get ready. Whee!


*Or an aspiring one. Depends who you ask. I think either alanscottevil or boroparkpyro said that I could call myself an archaeologist even if I don't have a PhD. Or maybe it was someone else. But that hardly seems fair, considering there are actual archaeologists who have spent the time to get their PhDs. maric23 would be a "real" archaeologist. I'm just on my way to becoming one...