Sorry for the hiatus - had a very long and very busy couple of days, and no internet access over the weekend. Wednesday was a tough one, during which I was feeling quite overworked and underappreciated, but it's all better now. Things haven't exactly gotten less busy, but many people have let me know in one way or another that they've noticed how hard I've been working. Eve bought me dinner the other night, for example. And I got to know some of the grad students on the Archeology program, which gave me people to talk to that I could relax a bit around. Unfortunately they all left today to go to their digs (at Pompeii and Ravenna).
Thursday and Friday were really long days - I left my house by 8, and got back after 11:00 both days. Thursday Eve and Dr. Leach and I did two museums, the Palazzo Massimo and the Centrale Montemartini, in prep work for the field trip this coming week. On Friday, we went to Ostia, which used to be Rome's major port city (pictures coming soon). There we visited a real live dig in progress with the Archeology program, which was pretty cool. They literally just started the dig last week, so they hadn't uncovered much besides mosaic tesserae and a single illegible coin, but the woman has been working on getting to this point for years. It was way out in the countryside, too, outside the excavated part of town, and it was startling to realize just how much hasn't been uncovered.
The program participants have started to arrive today, so soon we'll be right into the swing of things. I've still got some reading to do, but for now, I'm sitting in the cortile keeping watch for more of our people.
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Thought of you today. There were lines of freshman orientees walking around everywhere with one or two very nervous high energy people barking at them constantly.
I'm behind on my research, but I'm trying desperately to finish in time to get to see you. I'm keeping Grandpa informed, so if you have anything he'd appreciate, lemme know.
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