A good meeting with Ben
Dec. 15th, 2006 03:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theyellowhobbitDespite not having the materials done, the meeting with Ben was good. He didn't want me to worry about interpreting the sites yet, though he does want me to integrate the artifacts when i talk about features, which is hard since they're written up separately in the site reports.
The independent study with him sounds really fun. Besides the readings, he's going to teach me how to draw pottery!!! And then also I get to enter some of his Islamic stuff into a database. So now I'll get to meet with Ben every week next semester, alternating between thesis meetings and independent study meetings.
So by the end of the semester I'll be really good at pottery drawing, I'll know GIS, I'll have managed a database (as opposed to when I helped Debbie for a day at Safi and did the entry stuff for her, which was really easy) and I'll have the experience of working on 2 excavations. And I know recording. An I have my own trowel, patiche, and Indiana Jones hat. So although this summer I won't have my expenses paid, by next summer I should be good enough to be staff!
And I have to work on my application for Harvard Divinity. Ben is letting me not do as much on the thesis, though, so I can get that done and do my Jewish Studies work as well. And I can do the Tzippori stuff over break and talk to Katy Galor!
And Ben got me a hot chocolate. Though next semester we're back to meeting in the museum, so no more free coffee for me.
I'm surprisingly awake after only having had 2.5 hours of sleep. This is weird. I'm sure I'll be dead by dinner, though.
The independent study with him sounds really fun. Besides the readings, he's going to teach me how to draw pottery!!! And then also I get to enter some of his Islamic stuff into a database. So now I'll get to meet with Ben every week next semester, alternating between thesis meetings and independent study meetings.
So by the end of the semester I'll be really good at pottery drawing, I'll know GIS, I'll have managed a database (as opposed to when I helped Debbie for a day at Safi and did the entry stuff for her, which was really easy) and I'll have the experience of working on 2 excavations. And I know recording. An I have my own trowel, patiche, and Indiana Jones hat. So although this summer I won't have my expenses paid, by next summer I should be good enough to be staff!
And I have to work on my application for Harvard Divinity. Ben is letting me not do as much on the thesis, though, so I can get that done and do my Jewish Studies work as well. And I can do the Tzippori stuff over break and talk to Katy Galor!
And Ben got me a hot chocolate. Though next semester we're back to meeting in the museum, so no more free coffee for me.
I'm surprisingly awake after only having had 2.5 hours of sleep. This is weird. I'm sure I'll be dead by dinner, though.
