Welcoming Session II

All but one of the new persons are women. I told Tom not to worry, there would nearly always be a man on site, so his reputation was safe. The pottery-finding Sam has returned, as has John and our wonderful interns (Julia and Amanda belonging to the Sargent Museum, and Lauren, DHR's ow. only she is leaving us and going to Poland, :( ). Kalila who got married (in the first post of this blog) has emerged from the honeymoon clouds to join us, and another SCRAP alumna from long ago named Heather, who was waiting for her kids to get older (they are 4 and 5). And a different alumna who only waited till her son was 3 months old, Vicky, and Ann and Liz, mom and daughter who haven't dug with us before. Ann is a fine age like mine and Liz is 21 (both of them have anthropology degrees).

Linda, who was with us last year (among other years) turned out to be the only person staying at SNHU this session; I spent two hours knitting at SNHU Monday night, waiting for this session's Amanda, but she didn't show. Linda arrived on Tuesday morning at the lab, and I decided I could not leave her there alone in the heat and the sensory deprivation. Dick took her home last night, as Sarah and I were both out late. You can tell Linda is a good egg because she did not seem to mind when I said it was like Dick and me taking turns looking after the kindergarden hamster. There are others, including someone who very nearly has my daughter's name, but spells it Ele (pronounced Ellie), but it will be another day or so before I get them sorted out.
Linda, who was with us last year (among other years) turned out to be the only person staying at SNHU this session; I spent two hours knitting at SNHU Monday night, waiting for this session's Amanda, but she didn't show. Linda arrived on Tuesday morning at the lab, and I decided I could not send her there to stay alone at SNHU in the heat and the sensory deprivation. Dick took her home last night, as Sarah and I were both out late. You can tell Linda is a good egg because she did not seem to mind when I said it was like Dick and me taking turns looking after the kindergarden hamster.

In a quiet moment between orientations Dick told me to get out the interesting stuff we had been finding and show it to them. This took some doing, it being nearly all slag and glass lately. I found out that the mystery stone has been nearly always rhyolite. Apparently there is rhyolite from the MA North Shore. Early commuters.

Today I get to go be on site. Nancy from Jefferson is joining us for a couple of days, too. It will be homelike.