Puppy again

And here he is at 4 weeks and 5 days old.

Puppy

I am going to get a puppy if it lives. Dawn's dog had 7 big puppies but nobody knows who the daddy is. I have mine picked out and I'm thinking of calling him Skipper or Biscuit. He's blond and surfer-looking. I hope he doesn't get something bad and die before he gets big enough for me to take. Jade took this picture of him on September 16. He was born on August 21, so he was 3 weeks and 5 days old here. He seems to be getting blonder over time. He was much darker when I first saw him (about a week after he was born).

Emily Lau with Istanpitta

This little clip lets you hear Emily Lau singing. Her voice was so beautiful. And I loved the vielle (the medieval violin) that Shula is playing. It sounds so much nicer than a modern violin. She said that's because the back is flat so it isn't as shrill.
I had dinner with Emily and Shula and Al last night, and I enjoyed talking to them so much, but I sort of feel like they think I'm retarded. Anyway, the video is not as good as they were in life.

Istanpitta again

OK, this little clip is just a section from a longer piece, but I love the way I can hear Celtic AND Sufi music in this!

Istanpitta in Atlanta

I begin to understand. This is music from Jewish, Arab, and Celts from Gaul. That's why contemporary Celtic music sounds like Sufi music to me! It all mixed together in 13th century Iberia! Rock and Roll. I get it now.

More Geocahing with Al

So, Al had a phone with a GPS and we set off looking for the cache. It was supposed to be in an ammo box, somewhere near the ruins of an old house. We found the ruins and then Al triangulated an area with his phone so we just walked around and looked. I found it! Yay me! It was hidden pretty well, in a hole and covered with leaves and sticks. It must be all my woodsy skills that enabled me to penetrate the disguise and find the thing. Since you are supposed to leave something, and we weren't really prepared, Al left an Istanpitta card and I left a picture of Sayed :)
It was totally fun to find the cache. It had a lot of weird things in it: a little kaleidoscope, a few tiny rubber animals, a small robber statue, a couple of pens, and just random small things. But it is SO COOL to find buried treasure! I might be addicted, except I don't have a GPS cell phone.

Geocaching with Al

Al came to Atlanta because his band Istanpitta was playing at a church downtown on Sunday, so I met up with him on Saturday to hang out. We went to Sweetwater State Park to hike around and that's when Al hipped me to this wonderful thing called geocaching! It's apparently very popular - so how have I not heard of it before?!?!?! Anyway, people hide random things in weatherproof boxes in the woods and in other public places and put the coordinates online so if you have a GPS phone, you can track them down. And when you find a cache, you open it and sign the list. Some of them you can take from and some of them you are supposed to add to. I found this one!

Emory

Another epoch in my life is beginning. I got moved from Tuxtepec to Atlanta and have been going to school at Emory for three weeks now. It's a lot of work and a ton of reading and I'm not sure how I will do in Dr. Robin's 18th Dynasty Tombs class. But, here are some cute pictures around campus. I am so afraid I'll flunk out my first semester.

Ginger Seal

Ok, this one almost made me cry. And it kinda made me wish I were adopting a stray puppy instead of taking one of Dawns. But I believe that taking one of Dawns counts as rescue.