So, yesterday I went to a walking tour put on by the Bureau of Urban Secrets out at Land’s End in the very west end of San Francisco near Sutro Baths. It was great to see how artists tackle the idea of emplaced landscape interpretation, something that’s a pretty big part of my dissertation. I [...]
Last Friday was my last day on site at the Mission. All of the burials are out of the ground now, so the secrecy surrounding the dig can be relaxed a bit. I still wish that I would have been allowed to have a camera on site, as there were some interesting bits in the [...]
Still being somewhat vague:
On Monday I finished excavating my burial. The internment was fairly shallow and therefore extremely truncated, with only the long bones of the legs, an arm, and a few ribs left. Plows, an orchard, and groundhogs had taken the rest. There was a small bird bone in it though, which looked like [...]
It’s become a somewhat sad fact of life that I don’t sit still very well. In addition to the class that I’m helping teach two days a week, I started a second job working on a CRM project three days a week–the time that I’m really supposed to be working on my own research.
I [...]
