tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74534355999163183582012-02-16T11:38:19.295-08:00An endlessly whiney blog about everything I find wrong with the world, told from the perspective of the most important person in my world: me.Jenny the Mightyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06506078671248177511noreply@blogger.comBlogger5611100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7453435599916318358.post-61863459407710754402011-12-11T13:34:00.000-08:002011-12-11T13:38:09.982-08:00

Ok, so I still don't have nay of these 3 papers finished. But I am getting really close with one. I just discovered that I should maybe translate the glyphs from one of the scenes, but I don't have time now and I'm gonna skip it. I hope it doesn't ruin my paper.I am afraid I'll be up past midnight working on this. Damn it.Hugo is playing with Mason, his brother who lives next door. If I flunk out

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I didn't get a picture, but Hugo pooed in the bedroom floor tonight. I saw him do it so maybe it was my fault. I was reading for Methods class and watched him wee wee on his wee wee pad in the bedroom, then he started sniffing around it and by the time he'd assumed the squat position and I realized what was happening, it was too late. But it was ok. I took him right outside and it was solid so

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How can I love this puppy so much and still want to kill him sometimes? He was just quite horrible on the leash this afternoon. He is too independent and doesn't want to cooperate and I'm trying to be patient and just give him treats for any little good thing he does and praise him to the heavens, but today is just sucking. Well. Actually it was really great until we went for a walk. And I think,

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

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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

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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

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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!

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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.

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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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I keep forgetting to post this. I went to visit Mariana in Tepoztlan. I think I've blogged about that hideous experience before. But on the way back I passed this sign. I thought it was worth a picture :)

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A nice rooster in Colonia Obrera. I shot this picture while we were waiting for the Tux-Van.

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UNPA students primarily (until they started the nursing program to make money for the school) studied sciences like chemistry and biotechnology. They have 2 labs. I have a few pictures here of the chemistry lab. It is amazing how well-equipped it is considering that it is so far out in the middle of nowhere, jungle. Completely impressive.Another factor, though, that put the blight on life at UNPA

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I took a lot of pictures of the flowers and the campus on my next-to-last-day at work. I hope I remember how beautiful this place is. It's easy to forget under the burden of the unbearable heat and hideous insects and slacker students that this is actually quite a beautiful place.

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Here are a couple of views of the actual river where it's been dammed. The water level is very low right now. I've been here before when it was so high it was all underwater. It's just beautiful no matter what, though. Very little to complain about. Except.It was very hot. And in the plastic seats at the restaurant I did have swamp-ass so bad it looked like I'd been sitting in a puddle. Ugh.

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Homero invited us to go to the presa (the dam) that is the water source for Tuxtepec. He has a car so we went. We drove there, took fab pickies, ate a great meal, and came home stuffed and happy. The scenery around Tuxtepec is always breathtaking.

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Here we have a house with wood slats on the walls of the upper part - an unusual architectural feature for Tuxtepec. But the reason for the picture is actually, if you look carefully, two animal heads mounted on the walls. I think they might be deer. Or gazelles. Or something. They are real, anyway. And mounted on an exterior wall like that, on an upper floor, they are just really bizarre.The

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There are far too many interesting things to take pictures of in Tuxtepec. So, I will dedicate a brief series of pictures from around town to this project. Since the rains have set in, the weather is actually mild enough to make walking enjoyable again. So EY and I have been walking around, looking at stuff. And it is making me like Tuxtepec again and I think I will miss it.Here I am posting a

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These kids were re-enacting something in the town square one day last week. I always walk through the square on my way home and usually something is going on. That day there were a lot of kids in various kinds of costumes.I had my hands full of heavy sacks of groceries so I only stopped long enough to get these 2 pictures. I kinda wish I'd gone back for more photos. There were kids dressed in

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Not one of my students, but a student whom I got to know while working here. Her name is Mercedes and she is a little strange. Quirky, really. I like her a lot.She had this picture as her FaceBook profile pic for a little bit. She is in traditional dress here, for a dance that the school sponsored. I'll try to post pictures from the performance sometime.Mercedes has a friend named Melina and both

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Rock carvings! These were first identified and photographed in the 30s or so by an Egyptian Egyptologist, Labib Habachi. The photos were stored in the Chicago House at Luxor. Maria Catto has been working at this site in Aswan and reconstructed the images because, since Habachi photographed them, some IDIOTS have scratched at them and almost destroyed them. Probably in a fit of religious piety,

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I saw a few articles this morning about this monkey (a crested black macaque) and some of it's buddies grabbing a dude's camera and taking pictures of themselves. The pictures are darlin' and I wanted to save this one because it's so damn cute!

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Last 4th of July I was at Giza climbing around on the pyramids and goofing off with Lindsey. How freaking cool, huh?This 4th of July I was at work. At UNPA. In the sweltering jungle of Oaxaca near Vera Cruz.We didn't get the holiday.We did go out for a couple of beers afterward at the Happy Place. I'll post pictures if I can remember.

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So, I don't have any actual photos of ME with Ruben, the lead singer of Cafe Tacuba. But I did meet him several times and hang out with him. I have been to his house many times and we even participated in a group therapy session together one afternoon (family constellations - interesting but with an evil, patriarchal perspective). I didn't know he was so bloody famous when I met him and he was

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I love living in the castle. It really makes me want to get on with my life and build my own castle at the farm. Even though it's hot and buggy here, sometimes the beauty is just almost crushing.

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When I was at Mariana's one of those times that I went to get Firulaisa spayed, I stopped for a sec at the gateway to the cathedral and got my picture taken in front of this wall mural made of seeds. It's pretty cool!I wish I'd had time to explore more and climb the mountain to the temple. But staying with Mariana is difficult. She is very hard to get along with because she has to be in control

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My students took their final exams last week and during the first class - the 9am nursing class - I confiscated THIS!I noticed a piece of paper sticking out from under the test of one student and she was holding her arm over her exam in a suspicious manner. So I walked over and picked up her paper and this little, tiny, cheat sheet was smiling up at me.I think that more of them had a copy of it.

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at the risk of making myself crazy hungry, I'm gonna post a few pictures from the local market in Tuxtepec. I rarely shop here because the shopkeepers are very aggressive and they yell at me when I walk in and talk fast and don't shut up to let me think. It makes me confused and I'm likely to walk away without buying anything. So their stupid hard-sell tactics don't do them any good. But still,

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You can even get the Virgin Guadeloupe on a key here.So you can call upon divine help to get your locks open, I guess :)

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Tuxtepec is a pineapple producing town. And they use the pineapple in a lot of their iconography - although the name really meas Rabbit Hill in Mixtec. But the pineapples do grow to enormous proportions here. And they use them as props in the most popular and famous local dance they have, the "Flor de Piña." I'll post pictures of the Flor de Piña later, for right now, here I am in front of the

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Or something like that. They call these birds peaches. They must be in the corvid family, because a guy was telling me this morning that they can really tear up a corn field.But they look to me like dinosaurs. I'll try to get a good closeup eventually, but this little group was pretty cute. The people here don't really like them. But to me they are totally precious. And dinosaurish :)

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This cute little shop is on the way home from the Tux van. We walk by it almost every day. This is where Maggie buys her coffee and I usually buy my garlic. I think I'm gonna start buying my granola there too. But I want to talk a minute about peppers. Seeing the big bins of peppers everywhere here, makes me think that a lot of women are doing a lot of cooking with these peppers. And I have no

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I can't remember the exact day, but one day last month I was sitting at my desk in my office in the morning, talking to my mother on the computer, when the floor started to slide back and forth a bit. The building was shaking and I thought it was a big truck going by outside, but there aren't any roads or big trucks. So I realized it was an earthquake and probably a big one. When I heard

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I want to write about tortillas. There is a trend in Mexican tortillerias to add flour to the corn meal, adulterating the tortillas. This is such a problem that I have seen many tortillerias with signs proclaiming their tortillas free from additives, "100% puro maiz!" In the market in Tepoztlan, though, they do things the old fashioned way. You can go there and buy handmade, real, 100% corn

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This one might make me cry. But I went to visit my friend Mariana back during Semana Santa. She lives in Tepoztlan (pictures to come in a subsequent post) and she had this dog living at her house that she called Firulaisa. Firu is a wonderful, sweet, awesome dog and I decided that if I could, I would bring her home with me. I bought my ticket to come home in July and the guy said that I could

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I keep having these epiphanies that I need to use this blog instead of stupid FaceBook. So I'm gonna try to get back into the swing of it.This is a store that we pass every day coming home from work in the Tux Van. I love the Mr. Egg sign. And, you can't see it in the picture, but there are bins of ground corn alongside the sacks of dog food and animal feed. If you want to make corn bread, you

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I didn't win the liquor. But I thought this was about the coolest illegal maneuver anybody could pull at a popularity contest voting booth. As you came into the Chico y Chica UNPA finale dance venue, you had to put your ticket into one of these receptacles to vote for your favorite. One of the contestants, Isis, had a crony holding this sign: After you vote for Isis, Ariadna will give you a

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Ahhhh, the joys of Mexican University life! Here, it is completely normal to have a popularity/talent contest to elect a Boy and Girl UNPA every year. The last round of the competition is a dance routine competition where the contestants rope their most graceful friends into doing a disco-dance spectacle. I knew I couldn't miss this.But before we went, we met up with some of the other professors

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We got to work yesterday to find this giant iguana dying on the steps of the Centro de Idiotas. We all had to poke at it and take pictures, but then some Mexican professors who knew NOT what they were doing came out and decided they needed to pour peroxide on it's ass because it looked wounded. Something was protruding, anyway, like hemmorhoids or something. We thought it was awful that they kept

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I took this out the window of the Tux Van on the way to school one day last week. The sun was looking really good, but I never was able to get a clear shot at it. The driver was driving like a maniac as usual. But I figure I'd post this picture because I see this landscape every day here and I'd like to remember it. It makes me realize I'm in a strange and foreign place.

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Little Dancers.In the main plaza in Tuxtepec there is a stage. And a bandstand. But the stage is where they mount public productions on the weekends. They have a lot of events: music, fashion shows, speeches, and traditional dance. I was coming home one day and passed this group of kids. They were a little shakey in their performance. Like kids do, they stood around some and stared at each other

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I found my next dog. Or she found me. Her name is Firulaiza, a word that in Spanish in Mexico means Stray. It sounds like Fertilizer to me, so I'm trying to figure out what to call her. I think I'll just call her Liza. She lives at Mariana's house right now in Tepoztlan, but I will get her in July and make her into a Gringa. If she survives that long. She walks in the street some. She reminds me

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The token pineapple in front of the gates of la UNPA.Who will get to eat it, I wonder?

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Nothin' says lovin' American-style like Mexican Banda musicians in Indian costumes. I was, and remain, amazed.

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It took awhile and I'm still not satisfied with this one, but you get the idea.

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Well, I labeled this under Jenny Winny Wino, but it might not exactly qualify. These are some pictures from a local bar called Mascaritas, "The little masks." Joe and Cita go here often, but I don't drink like those fish. I go sometimes. The bar is tiny but has the best jukebox in Tuxtepec. It is hot and the blood-sucking bugs get in, but it can be a fun place. They serve peanuts with chile

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My landlord is a Swiss named Billy. He designed and built the castle. When I first met him, he walked through the castle with me and showed me the spiral stairs that lead up to my floor from the tower. He explained that there is no rail and no center because he wanted to achieve a symmetric aesthetic, like a caracol. I can dig it. He also said, "Don't worry about falling - just keep to the sides.

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OK, I shouldn't say I have a favorite student, but I do. Her name is Heidi and she rocks! She studies quantum chemistry. She is totally cute and awesome. I do have other favorite students, I guess,, now that I think about it. And I have many many lug-nut idiot students that I hate. But I don't have pictures of them. Here is Heidi in traditional dress, for a Chemistry Fair the school did. She had

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Carnaval:Tuxtepec StyleThe first night of Carnaval in Tuxtepec opens with the burning of the witch who represents all the bad feelings from the previous year. All the "mal humór."We watched and took pictures and OF COURSE I was on the wrong side of the street to get a frontal view. Damn it.But the witch was stuffed with fireworks so it got exciting and we had to stagger back as the little bottle

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When you cross the Papaloapan River coming into Tuxtepec from the direction of the UNPA, at the first major intersection you find the Piña Lady. They recently repainted her - which makes me think that they repaint her every year. Before they repainted her, she looked pretty Anglo - now she's darker, but still not as brown as the real people here. There ARE still women who dress like this, but you

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We got a taxi to the very cheap hotel that Sayed had found. It was clean and the beds were comfortable and was only 54EP per night. It had the added advantage of being next door to my favorite beer hall, El Horeyya. The next day we slept late and then walked around Cairo some. I love and miss Cairo when I'm not there. Funny to think now that everything is different. The revolution centered

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The nightmarish Atlantic crossing and plane swapping from Houston to Cairo in coach class, passed in a sort of blur for me. I have no memory at all of my short layover in Frankfurt. I finally arrived in the Cairo airport at some time in the evening of the next day, only to meet with a ridiculous problem that had me screaming at an airport security man. When you fly into Cairo International,

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I really do live in a castle. It houses a laundry on the ground floor with a few apartments above. It has a real tower with spiral stairs and I have a balcony overlooking the river. Now, what can I complain about....? There is a bug problem. Not roaches or anything nasty. Well, all of Tuxtepec has ant problems. They get everywhere and they carry away dead bugs and bits of food and all, but

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I miss Gilligan!!!!He has been dead for about 2 years now. Well, let me think. He died in October of 2008. So that makes it 2 years and 4 months that I have somehow survived without my Biggie.In the meantime, I'm just going through the motions of living an exciting life.I am gonna try to post more regularly now.I know, I know, I say that all the time. But really, I'm getting tired of FaceBook and

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We went to Giza to the pyramids!!!! It was Sayed's first trip there but it was my 4th so I felt like an expert :) But we did go into the burial chamber of the Khafra pyramid - something I had never dared to do before. We wanted to go into the Khufu pyramid but they ran out of tickets while we were waiting in line. But the BEST part about this trip to the pyramids was that we had out marriage

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Here we are in Aswan.On the boat.And then in a restaurant called the Aswan Moon. They have the BEST eggplant and tomato stew at that place. It's called mosa3a.

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This is Sayed with his brother Asharaf. They work together hauling tourists around Aswan in the feluca or the motor boat. Sayed built a house for Ahsaraf over the last couple of years and they are very close. Now Asharaf has to find somebody to marry. Sayed is not going to help him with that :)

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Sayed had never really been to Cairo. Well, he did go once, 15 years ago. He hadn't been back since. But when he came with me he quickly became an expert. He had the metro system memorized after the first ride and now he advises people in his village about how to get to places in Cairo :)Here we are on one of the bridges over the Nile. At a restaurant on a rooftop at the King Hotel in Dokki, and

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These are from different places over the summer. My friend Lindsey met me in Cairo and stayed with me there while we both worked at the museum. She has been to Egypt several times, but has always lived a bit higher on the hog than I have. Because of this, I was able to show her a few things that rich tourists usually don't see. Mostly things you wouldn't want to see, heh heh, but here are a

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Sayed found me a flat in Abdeen for the summer. It was a 20 minute walk from the museum and next to Abdeen Palace, in an "Egyptian" neighborhood - no foreigners living around there. So there were no western-style supermarkets and we were close to a nice street market. The rent was 2500LE (about $500) per month and had two bedrooms and one bathroom.

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I can't believe I haven't updated this in FOREVER! I spent this past summer in Egypt, working at the Museum and hanging with Sayed. I took him to Alexandria where he walked in the sea for the first time ever in his life and he ate seafood for the first time ever. We couldn't stay in the same hotel room because the marriage papers we got in Aswan at the lawyer's office weren't legal. But it was so

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My friend Laura did this and it totally cracks me up. I love the Thoth character.

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I would much rather just keep this little blog with nobody reading it than deal with facebook crap. Here I am in Mobile, AL. I went to see Ginger and Mommy. Ginger and her friend Amy ran in the Azalea Trail Run, a 10k thingy. It was fun. Unfortunately, Mommy's dog was dying - we thought- and I missed seeing Ginger fly across the finish line. The dog lived. But it was a very good trip away from

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So how sweet is this, Sayed goes into Aswan to use the internet cafes to talk to me. This morning he surprised me because I thought he would wait till Friday. It was really cool to have morning coffee with him. He's really the best. And I'm not biased at all, no. In other news I will not be able to drink green beer for St. Patrick's Day because of thesis work. I have not been posting because of

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Me and Sayed at the High Dam at Aswan. Nice.Technically this picture was taken on about the 2nd of January 2010. But I'm using it for my Valetines Day picture. Because Sayed is my sweetheart.

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I know this is out of chronological order and all, but I was just feeling happy about my sweet-heart and wanted to post his picture. Probably it's all the romance associated with Hathor :)This is my felucca captain, Sayed, who has my heart with him in Aswan.

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These scenes are from one of the little rooms upstairs at the temple and narrate the mummification and resurrection of Osiris in an endearing little combination of bestiality and necrophilia :)See, the story goes...Osiris and Isis and Seth and Nepthys are all siblings, but Osiris is the king of the gods. Seth is a total bad-ass and kills Osiris so that he can be king of the gods. But, Osiris's

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Nut on the ceiling. Pronounced Noot like toot, not "nut" like Tut.She is the sky goddess, sister of Geb the earth god.Born from air and moisture (daughter of Shu the air god and Tefnut the moister goddess).The sky goddess was all over the ceilings of this place. Beautiful.But it was very hard to get a picture of it because it is very big and you can't get further away than the floor. My camera

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The Hathor-columns in this hall are just gorgeous. And I tried to get lots of pictures with me looking cool in here, but it's hard to do because the columns are so tall you can't quite get a close up of a person and still get the full size of the columns. The paint is original and they are in the process of cleaning and restoring this whole temple. There weren't all that many people here when we

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I should give this post an alternative title of "Why does AJ always take my pictures with my eyes closed?"Alas, it's too late now to fix that.We rented a car and drove to Abydos one day. On the way to the Anubis temple there, we stopped at the Hathor Temple at Dendera. This is one of the best places in the world. I will post too many pictures from here. Briefly, here is what remains of the first

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My friend Enrique just made me glad I wasn't drinking anything when I saw his new FaceBook profile picture!!!!

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We met Dani and Katja and Dr. Onstine at this Indian Restaurant I believe called "A Taste of India" and the food was very very good. Luxor was decked out for Christmas so I had to get this picture from a tiny park-like area beside the road. Like Alice in Wonderland on acid in a happy kind of way. I love it, love it, love it!!!!

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AJ and I went into town to shop. Here are a few choice photos from the excursion into Luxor.

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Some scenes from Medinet Habu. Sorry I don't have good commentary from this temple. I'm just trying to get these pictures posted as quickly as I can.

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We went one afternoon to Medinet Habu Temple. Well, Dani and Katja came to our house fro lunch and then we all went to the temple. It was a good excursion. The temple is pretty and the surrounding area is interesting because of the contrast between desert and ultra-green farmland. We walked the perimeter before we went into the temple and these pictures are from that recon mission. The town I am

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So AJ and I left work one day and bicycled to the Valley of the Kings. As you can see from the balloon picture, our digs at the Casa Italia overlooked the desert beside the VK so we were already right there in the hood. The freaky thing is that the road into the VK is uphill the entire way, but it looks like it is downhill. See the picture of me riding on the bike? It looks like I am facing

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Mariam had a really great idea for me and AJ to rent bicycles while we were there in Luxor so we would be mobile. It was great idea, but the bikes themselves were pretty crappy. We got Kenawy to procure them and we think he might have just grabbed them from his cousins or something. The tires were low and they only had one gear and they were wobbly and rusty and the kick-stand on mine (as you

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After work one day Mariam got us to stop by the tombs of the nobles which is somewhere on the West Bank near where we work. We went inside a few of the tombs and they are pretty magnificent in a claustrophobia-inducing kind of way. One of them, the tomb of Senn-Nefer (you can google it for pictures) was particularly frightening and beautiful. You have to walk down a long ladder and then climb

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So, what we have been doing is organizing and recording all of the pieces of walls and columns that were recovered in the excavations of this tomb and trying to find where they fit together and where they fit on the walls. This is really fun work. I can't find anything to complain about. Except that tomorrow is our last day.We were able to find a lot of the North wall and here I am with a really

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Our inspector Mahmoud was finally able to meet us and open our tomb. Here he is with Ganawy, the guy that is supposed to help us with the heavy stuff, and some other guy who hasn't come back since so I don't know him.The opening of the tomb was pretty cool in a very low-key sort of way. The locks had actually been sealed from when it was closed when the Italians left not long ago, so they had to

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Now I could complain forever about the lack of concensus, but that's probably what makes Egyptology fun :)Anyway, here is the queen of Punt from the Cairo Museum, originally from Hatshepsut's Temple. As you can see, her back is curved and her body is fat. People go to great lengths to argue what this means. Some people say she has a disease, like elephantiasis. Some people say it is a way to make

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Some more pictures from Hatshepsut Temple. Mariam is a kick-ass guide, so it was much more informative a trip though the temple than I normally make in these places. We had translated the text from this temple where it describes a voyage to the land of Punt made by the emissaries of the monarch Hatshepsut to bring back all kinds of goodies and the expedition was greeted by the Queen of Punt who

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We walked around the Temple of Hatshepsut the first morning we went to work because our inspector wasn't able to meet us to open the tomb in the morning. This is a beautiful temple and I wish I could post all of the pictures from there. Alas, this thing is slow and I have to get to sleep soon so I don't have time to wait for them to load.

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We are working in the tomb now and it is sooo cool! I can't find anything to complain about aside from the brutal starting hours. We have to get up at 6:30 every morning so we can leave here at 7. The transport to and from the tomb is this cool truck called a taxi balady. A lot like Guatemalan transport, but with a cover :)Our driver is Nagag. I think that's his name.Anyway, we have a site

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Some more views from and of the Casa Italia. The Casa is always prepared for a party, apparently :) AJ got a room with a balcony. I just got a window. But whatever, it's all cool really. He has more mosquitoes. Not that I want him to have mosquitoes. I want him to slay them all. DO they do any good? I guess some things eat them, but not enough things eat them, I think, for them to be worth their

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We are officially part of the Italian Archaeological Mission of Luxor since we are working in their tomb. So, we get to stay in the Casa Italiana. It is fabulous and has a an awesome staff with a chef who is either magically great or I am too used to my own crappy food. I had reached a point, I thought where I was actually making good food. Then I came here. And tasted the culinary masterpieces

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Some pictures from around Amsterdam that just look kind of cool. Kind of, I said. Note the multiple layers of meaning in the first one - the reflection of the buildings in the window is particularly effective. Bwaaaaa-Hahahahaha!

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Some pretty pictures of Amsterdam. I wish it were quicker to upload photos on this thing.

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We had a 9 hour layover in Amsterdam. Mariam wanted to sleep. So AJ and I went into town. We bought tickets from some girl who wanted to offload the ones she and her boyfriend had just used. We don't know if we got ripped off or not because the train service in Amsterdam never checked our tickets. Anyway, we rode from the airport into town and walked around in the central area and I made AJ go to

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I put up my christmas tree this year right after Halloween since I won't be home for much of the real Xmas season. I had my same ceremony - drinking a bottle of wine and listening to christmas music while putting up the tree in my pajamas. I enjoy that.Now I still have to wrap some presnuts. I failed to get presnuts for myself this year so it's kinda bleak. I hope I get a chance to buy myself a

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I can't believe I haven't posted these pictures yet!!!! I must be really busy with school this semester, huh? Here are Scooter, Al, and EJ, the first time I met any of them. And these Scottish Heritage celebraters are what make these festivals fun. I'll post some pictures of ME and Miss Naincy next. This was in July and it was freaking COLD at night up on the mountain. And it was cold during the

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I stayed 2 nights in Alexandria. In this hotel and I can't remember the name. It had breakfast included and shared bathrooms, but my room had the sweetest little balcony and a fucking gorgeous view of the bay where the lighthouse used to stand. There was a constant breeze in my room. Unfortunately I got food poisoning. I don't know from what. It could have been anything. The breakfast, the sweets

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I was so happy Nancy was able to hang out with me for Thanksgiving! And we got plenty of cute pictures!

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Ragab took me with him to another wedding party. Sheeko came to this one. The groom was a friend of theirs and the party was in one of the places right on the Nile where people have wedding parties. The obligatory cake and Pepsi was served. It was fun and the music was loud and the people were all happy. This couple was a lot better off financially than the first wedding party we crashed that was

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I went to pray in a really old mosque in Cairo. It's the same one that Obama toured when he was there. It was a special experience.

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Dawn has a trampoline. Need I say more?Ok, so I didn't do a back flip. But that is ONLY because Eric made the (quite valid) point that only the crappy doctors are working on Thanksgiving day.

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More San Giving Day pictures at Dawn's. These were before I jumped on the trampoline. Don't worry. I'll post those. I didn't throw up.

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So Nancy and I and Daddy went over to Dawn's for a second San Giving feast. Meghan and Eric brought over a lot of food and Brian was there and it was really fun. Dawn made the best dessert, though- a cheesecake pie that I would just about kill for. But Eric's famous sweet potato casserole and the chocolate peanut butter pie were close 2nd and 3rds.

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