he's going to kill me

he will, he will kick my lilywhite bum, but i love this pic so much i just had to share it with the world;-)
j., if you're reading this just remember that you're the only individual in this solar system who can make me pee in my pants from laughing on my way to getting my head cut off!

and now for something completely different

this just in -- the centrist kadima and the labor parties seem to be winning in the israeli elections.
ha!
btw, the election day is a day off from work and school for israelis and many people go for a breakfast at their favourite cafe before heading to the voting stations and for a picnic afterwards, on the beach or in a park...now that's what i call taking your civic responsibilites seriously.
wish i were there...
k.

ah bien, la vie...

"Even if our efforts of attention
seem for years to be producing
no result, one day a light that is
in exact proportion to them will
flood the soul."

Simone Weil

well, i certainly hope so.
here's what's happened over the weekend:

1. my favourite store, ragtime, is closing
2. i've realized the world has not changed one bit since the 1930s depression
3. i've aquired a nickname -- 'peppermint k.'
4. i went for a walk! (and did not freeze to death)
5. i found out that reassuring others makes a raging optimist out of me
6. then i fall right back into my old sad self
7. i'm getting a d.c. as birthday/graduation present from my family!!!!
8. my family likes me;-]
9. er...life is weird

k.

btw, on saturday heather f. and i went to tour different bridal shops in search for a bridesmaid dress for me, for an upcoming august wedding of a friend...i must say, i know now how carrie bradshaw felt in that episode where her and miranda went and did a similar thing.
scary.
so glad it's not me.

i must apologize for posting so very sporadicaly lately...life sure is crazy around here.
this week only we have meaghie's defense on monday, then two days of committee meetings for everyone else, then carrie's and mine 990 presentations...blahblahblahblahblah....
anyway, i'd like to extend an invitation to 'guest post corner'.
in the past we'd had 'cara, the temp' here, which turned out to be rather a success;-D
so, hold on to your keyboards...and send me the results for their blog-premiere!
k.

ps. for those with dig. cams or artistic skills, illustrated entries get priority;-)

check this out:
red nose studio

iwd

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY, DEAR LADIES!
your strength always amazes me and your minds inspire me.
thanks!;-)))
k.

ps. and best wishes for natalie m. who travels to australia today. way to go, sweetie!

hmm

we're in globe&mail
news travels fast. who knew

waste of educational material

c.e.d returned from her recent visit to the clinic with little gifts for us all. this is the one i got. i just want to say, i still think public toilets are more gross than giving head...and in spite of the wild rumours circulating in the dept., k. does not have to do anything special to get good rental squash rackets & goggles. she just smiles. with her mouth closed.

in today's news

this is the manuscript of the final scene of Act IV of Le nozze di Figaro, signed by Mozart.
!!!
some filthy rich guy donated his music manuscripts collection to the julliard for this venerable institution's 100th birthday...
i mean, w.a. actually touched this piece of paper.
!!!

ha! i knew it! chocolate for all!

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.

book travel

Beauty and the Book

this is the exhibition i visited last summer when in jerusalem...the link will take you to a virtual tour.
i wanted to live in there.

reread this afternoon

in a man's life

In a man's life

the first temple is detroyed and the second temple is destroyed

and he must stay in his life,
not like the people that went into exile
far away,
and not like God,
who simply rose to higher regions.


In a man's life
he resurrects the dead in a dream
and in a second dream he buries them.

-- Yehuda Amichai

(some consider him the greatest poet in hebrew lit.)

Princess Royal Patricia D'Nisse

so yesterday opened what is to be a birthday week for nisse. lots of ppl showed up. unfortunately none of them had a camera. so this is from ages ago when she still had rapunzel hair.

today

there was a prof. lecturing in the classroom next to the library who sounded just like jim carey doing stefano, the scientist in 'lemony snicket's the series of unfortunate events' !!!
that must be where jim got his inspiration...
k.

that beatrix

another day in the lab

today cara played with her bones and the microscope...

while k. played with the camera...she's addicted to that thing

cara's scape goat, scapie, looked on with a sardonic yet kindly eye...check out her swanky new scarf!

rocky I-V

cara decorated my paperweights when i wasn't looking...she called them 'a gender neutral family unit'

ps. in case anyone's wondering, we did get work done today.

the others

finaly, solid proof archaeology building IS haunted...

aah, nothing like pop culture

found this in 'the guardian'...more to come!

right now

insomnia has me in its grasp yet again...
too much gin? too much honest conversation?
three weeks of holiday break and i'm rather shellshocked after the first outing of the new year. nisse, cara, talina and i, the slightly shabby familiarity of alexander's on friday night...
there is always an awkward kind of dance people perform after they haven't spoken to each other on things that matter for a longer period of time. close friends, in particular, try to balance on the edge between decorum and plain old truth. strange how the more you care about someone the more that edge resembles a razor.

anyway, i'm writing nonsense, as usual at this time of night.
hope you are sound asleep right now.
k.

new quarters!

i did something today i should've done a long time ago. i went to the head of the arch. dept. and asked for better lab space.
guess what he said.
"o.k."
?!
ha!
those of you who know him will know what i'm getting at here. those who don't, well, it's too much explaining.

so, cara and i are now labmates (though i still have to get the key). she's been putting up a brave face all day today...we'll see how soon she'll go begg ernesto to kick me out.

first thing i did was to move mr. vedder here off my desk and put him somewhere where he can't glare at me (i wonder which crazed star wars fanatic left him behind and what happened to him/her as punishment).

hey nisse, wanna adopt him? i believe he's house broken.

new toy, sort of

Picks&Playthings:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/96534586@N00/

i've opened a flickr account and put some stuff in it.
but it'll take me a while to make it interesting, with loads of images and art...
i'm slow, what can i say.
but at least you know about it now, and so you can check once in a blue moon when you're really bored;-)
k.

i've just watched 'my life without me'...the next person who tells me that we don't make fucking amazing films in this country will get a slap the size of the rockies.

thanks nisse for recommending it!

7 and 6

here's my kerem berem lighting the hannukah candles (7th) on new year's eve (06)...she's getting so big, and lovelier every day.
c., notice the huge new kitchen;-)