crafty victorians

i admit it. i was wrong about george eliot. funny that after failing so pathetically with 'middlemarch' i was so completely won over by the novel which she wrote last.
not that i'm surprised;-)

and there you have it. k. is off to revise her reading list yet again.
'night,
k.

{sigh}

just heard my friends in tel aviv are already spending weekends on the beach.....me? i am sooo done with this picturesque winter of ours.
it looks like i might not make it there this year...
somebody please shoot me.
k.

guest post by cara the temp

Hello, your guest blogger today will be me. Kas is huddled under a desk in the fetal position and can't come to the computer. Must be too much squash (or maybe it's a thesis writing thing). So I get to write stuff! Yay me! I thought I'd start off with something funny. Shifty squirrels make me laugh, 'nuff said.

lesson #2: run much and speedily you will

aah, the world of a young apprentice is filled with wonder...

archaeological magic

more fantastic objects from the safi lab! safi restorer dina has been working hard as you can see. i've met her during my first season at the dig, amazing woman. i could watch her dancing hands for days and weeks as she recreates vessels out of dusty sherds... (photos by julia iatesta, i think)
k.

science high

sometimes it's hard to tell which side of the glass you're on...

(photo by c.e. dunn)

falcon

swooooosh!

yesterday was my first squash lesson with cara. i think it might become addictive. what a way to release your hidden rage!
excuse me, i must go examine the muscles in my buttocks. they seem to be a bit spasmotic...
k.

wow

just want to inform that "the dancing bubble kiss time 2006" was a complete and utter success despite even k. and her dark light aura. k. is now off to make souvenir tshirts in shocking pink or else electric blue...more details to come.
maybe.
k.

the things i'm subjected to at my place of work

scapy pretends he is a useful and handy scape goat, holding up cara's bones for her so she can take photos of cutmarks...actually he was making obcene remarks in my direction the whole time! just look at him. little perv.
and all this because i gave him a nice scarf out of the goodness of my heart.
*sigh*
k.

that's what you get for complaining that i don't post everyday

just listening to the shins here...and frou frou and iron and wine and others....thinking about zach braff...staring at the screen...what will become of me?
oh the suspence. can you handle it?
k.

k.'s one claim to coolness

o.k. so i know most of you don't give a rat's bum but i so like to brag about my safi connection. these pics are from the new lab the team and the collection moved into about a year ago...the guy in a dark shirt with a kippah on his head is aren m., the director, the other guy is semour gitin, and the lady is trude dothan (if you don't know them don't worry, if you do...pretty groovy, eh?) yes, i know it is not *my* lab but i can't help myself, i'm so proud of it, *snif, snif, snif*...














this of course is joe on the right showing off his LB material

all the photos are from the new safi blog, maintained mostly by joe, with some input from aren

portrait of the father as a young man

it's also my dad's birthday today. many happy returns dad! he's 57.
the pic above was taken, i think, on one of his hiking trips. no idea whether my mother was with him already. maybe not, cause he looks kinda sad;-) the cig is totaly for show (that's what she says now, anyway)

for m.g. and the rest of the fan club

back by popular demand, jacob c., the belle of my family.
enjoy ladies, and try not to drool on your keyboards...computers don't like aquatic environments.

you're welcome,
k.

blah

anyway, lately i've been thinking that the only thing that's been geting me out of bed is 'its excellency the looming thesis' also known as 'the chip on k's shoulder'.

everybody else seemed to be victims of their apala conference papers/presentations today...cara didn't even turn any noise on.
me? i had fun calculating the relationships between the percentages of human remains, vessels and small finds in each of the levels in Tomb 1...if only i knew how many imports in each as well. i bet it makes perfect sense to you, eh? eh?

nisse gave me a drawing of alice and the caterpillar (a copy of one from 1904).
chris m. gave me a ring from atlanta to gloat about how much he loves his new job.

oh and if you haven't heard already, meagan has joined the blogging community;-) m. check out boris akunin's detective novels (tzarist russia).


k.

sisters are a controversial choice

bookbar

now that's what i call inventive recycling! apparently these were discarded books from the stanford library...you all know what i think about ppl who throw away books, so i won't rant here.
k.

new love

i'm in love with hayao miyazaki films. i've seen several in the last few weeks thanks to the tcm channel and they've now joined other dvds and books on my very long wish list;-) i always forget i'm watching an animation and just sit there with my mouth open!
the one on top is from 'porco rosso', a huge favourite, not in the least due to miyazaki's love of old planes (which i share). and i don't know of anyone else who could make a flying pig believable.
i've seen 'spirited away' and 'pricess minonoke' before i knew anything about studio ghibli and loved them but i think i like the 1980s films the best. if i could only get my hands on the storyboards...apparently they publish them in japan as comic books.
this one is from 'my neighbour totoro', which is more a children's movie. but extremely charming and not corny at all. and as always there are strong female characters and concern for the evironment. i think it's set in the 30s, judging by adults' hairstyles. and the little girls' father is an archaeologist!

miyazaki-san just turned 65 this month. hope he lives to a 130 and keeps making movies to his last breath!

k.

make me happy

o.k. so you know how when you go to comment there are 3 options there: a) blogger b) other c) anonymous?
well, how about you start commenting as 'other'. that way you don't have to have a password and i get to know who's commenting here...
sounds like a good deal, hah?
i think so too.
thanks!
k.

mr. k.