updates:
1. I finished school in Salt Lake. I can now identify dead animals based on their skeletal remains. I also learned some interesting things about humor and what it is. One popular notion among humor theorists is that something is humorous if it is a) relatable and understandable, and 2) that it violates an established moral or social order. This idea about humor lead me to an interesting thought today… If you have sense of or a belief in morality and social order that is more heightened than most people (the norm), are more things humorous to you? Could this be an odd incentive to have high morals, and to act within cultural boundaries? Hm.
2. After I finished school I jumped on an aeroplane to New York City to visit my super awesome sister. Together we destroyed deadly molds and gutted houses that had been affected by Superstorm Sandy. Helping people feels good. We also walked around a lot and gawked at beautiful and fascinating things and did a whole lot of anthropology. Including the anthropology of living in a poorly constructed dwelling with a large number of strangers who are all extremely different, but have in common altruism and free time.
3. After New York I went to Cedaredge to spend some time with my family. It was amazingly refreshing to be in the gorgeous Colorado mountains, eating delicious foods with some of the greatest people on earth.
4. After Cedaredge I moved to Durango (sort of) for field school. My move here was supposed to be permanentish, but I had some difficulty finding a dwelling place and almost 5 days after I arrived I wanted nothing more than to make like a tree and leave. Durango has changed a lot since I lived here last. People I love have moved on, I have grown up, and I grew out of a few friends (see The Office S:9 E:13). The adjustment period sucks. I’m going to go home after field school and gather some emotional/mental courage/energy so I can handle it better.
5. My purpose in coming here this summer was to participate in archaeological field school. I spend 45 hours a week working in the dirt by a lake with a whole bunch of super crazy people. Sometimes I really like them and sometimes I wish they would all go back where they came from (Eastern Colorado). Today I removed appx 200lbs of dirt from a 1m by 1m square in arbitrary 10 cm levels. Me and my partner found 11 ceramic fragments and about 7 pieces of flake stone in roughly 15 cm of sediment. We also do other things, watch Indiana Jones if you would like to know what. He is an archaeologist too.
That’s all for now… maybe I’ll write something more philosophical later. I have lots of time to think while I’m digging in the dirt.
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