It's clear that the only time I really blog is when I'm trying to avoid writing something else. Right now I'm trying to figure out how to write a professional e-mail to people who actually want to hire me. How does one say, "I have another offer. What are you willing to bid?" without sounding like an asshole? Also how does one say, "Yes. I would be willing to take on managing your field lab. I don't think I'm qualified, but clearly you do, which is adding to my sense of self-worth and encouraging me to milk you for all I can"?
In other news, Mammoth season has started again. We went out yesterday and cleaned up the site and took some auger samples of the marine stratum. At least, that's what was supposed to be happening. I don't know what ACTUALLY happened because I spent the entire day organizing sandbags. It was glorious.
We have a large number of sandbags full of dirt from the excavation. When we put the dirt in, we wrote the provenience (ie what unit it came from/what was it associated with) on the bag in sharpie marker. Unfortunately, sun and heat wreak havoc on low grade plastics, and the bags have been outside for a YEAR, so even though they were under a tarp, the provenience on a whole bunch of bags got completely bleached off. There were also bags that still had traces of writing, but I had to sit there and puzzle out what the hell they said and then re-label them. I was in hog heaven. No one bothered me and I was moving sandbags. The only downside is that I don't have the faintest idea what actually got done on the site.
It's too bad it's horribly unprofessional to send a tl;dr synopsis of the situation.
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