I am extremely pleased to announce that I am now working in an archaeology lab through my university. It has only been two weeks but everyday I am overjoyed about going in (even if it is early in the morning). Perhaps it's because it's still the "honeymoon stage" but I can see this as being great forever. I can see myself being happy with these for the rest of my life.
The woman I work under is a very experienced archaeologist who has done a lot to save sites from being looted in the state. She's worked at Hovey Lake and various places throughout the Midwest. She knows so much that it boggles my brain and frightens me that I must seem so... naive.
Today was frustrating at times because there is so much information and old forms of technology that I thank God I didn't have to deal with computer programs like "Quattro Pro" or "WQ1" files. (I still can't get over that she has documents on her computers from the year my sister was born: 1993!). I had to convert some files into excel and the old computers HATED IT. I forgot how much I hated dial-up speed. But it got done.
Currently I am working on sorting out different rims of vessels. Doesn't sound exciting, but it can be difficult because they types just flow into one another so drawing the lines of where one type begins and another ends is a problem. But then again many archaeologists have problems with labels, but it is a generalization that must be made at times.
Tomorrow I shall start to organize data on excel which I have little experience with, but I'll just jump into it and hopefully swim. My boss dropped the pressure that she's really trusting me with this data and I need to do it perfectly. Which is only causing me to panic.
But...
I think I'm going in the right direction.
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