Retail Therapy
Oct. 6th, 2006 11:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theyellowhobbitEvery so often, when something goes badly in my life and there's nothing I can do about it but accept it, I buy myself something nice so I can feel better and take my mind off of whatever it is that's bothering me.
This time it was a patiche. I finally ordered it, and got the 40mm one.
I'm such an archaeological dork. Words cannot express how archaeologically dorky I am. It's beyond measure. (Normal people buy clothes or jewelry or something.)
So hopefully when I get back from Sukkot, or in the middle of next week, the patiche will be in. And then I'll be a real archaeologist (TM).
(Though I'm already doing a good job holding my own in my Historical Archaeology class, despite me not being a historical archaeologist. My very basic knowledge of Biblical/Near Eastern stuff is still more than Dr. S.'s. The first week he showed us a pot with a depiction of Rebecca at the well, and he didn't know what the biblical story was! So I told him at the end of class. And yesterday he asked me about when Hebrew inscriptions started. That I'm less familiar with, but at least I know that Hebrew is older than Aramaic and that they use the same characters. [At least in Jewish use of Aramaic. Maybe other people wrote it with different characters. I need to look into that.] And just in general I'm good with the whole common sense thing, and can take part in the discussions even when I haven't done the reading. [Maybe I have an archaeological mindset, if there is such a thing...] Go me!)
This time it was a patiche. I finally ordered it, and got the 40mm one.
I'm such an archaeological dork. Words cannot express how archaeologically dorky I am. It's beyond measure. (Normal people buy clothes or jewelry or something.)
So hopefully when I get back from Sukkot, or in the middle of next week, the patiche will be in. And then I'll be a real archaeologist (TM).
(Though I'm already doing a good job holding my own in my Historical Archaeology class, despite me not being a historical archaeologist. My very basic knowledge of Biblical/Near Eastern stuff is still more than Dr. S.'s. The first week he showed us a pot with a depiction of Rebecca at the well, and he didn't know what the biblical story was! So I told him at the end of class. And yesterday he asked me about when Hebrew inscriptions started. That I'm less familiar with, but at least I know that Hebrew is older than Aramaic and that they use the same characters. [At least in Jewish use of Aramaic. Maybe other people wrote it with different characters. I need to look into that.] And just in general I'm good with the whole common sense thing, and can take part in the discussions even when I haven't done the reading. [Maybe I have an archaeological mindset, if there is such a thing...] Go me!)
