What I did on my summer vacation...

So, this blog took a month long hiatus, but it is now ready to resume in all of its blogging glory. So to speak. 

Over the next week, I will do what I can to account for this month long gap in the otherwise consistent blogging routine.  It partly derives from the reality that the dirt we so eagerly removed from our trenches on Cyprus...

 

... had to somehow be returned to its proper place in the ground.  While this hardly accounts for a 4 week disappearance, it is the kind of thing that had to happen at the end of the PKAP excavation season. 

At the end of the very last day of the PKAP season, I left Cyprus for Greece for a two week field season with David Pettegrew.  The goal of this season was to work on moving toward publication some of the more exceptional sites discovered over the course of the Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey.  With only two weeks to work and about 2 and half weeks of work to be accomplished, we continued a rather frantic pace.  On top of this, the village where we stay, Ancient Corinth, does not have much in the way of public internet access (although an internet cafe opened the week that David and I left for the US).

 

The final excuse is that I finally succumbed to the pressure of my more tech savvy colleagues (and my 65+ father!) and made the big migration to Macintosh.  At present I am terrified and at one point, I am fairly certain my super hip MacBook Pro mocked me.  This led me to immediately open Parallels or reboot into Windows XP and cower in the comfortable environment of Windows.  Of course, almost immediately Windows told me that it would have to reboot in 5 minutes and began the ominous countdown numerous times (no matter how often I told it that I wanted to reboot later).  I will eventually get up the courage to use the Mac OS, but it's going to be a slow transition.  In fact, I am writing this blog in Live Writer in a Parallels window... 

The upside to my month long vacation from blogging is that I filled with ideas for blog posts!  So over the next week or so, I plan to fill in the details from the last four months, show off the results from some of our fieldwork, and talk a little about my return to proper classroom duties after my year of decadence at the American School. 

I was gratified to see that all my regular blog traffic had now abandoned me! So, thanks for sticking around over my little break from the blog and stay tuned...

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[Maddy Bray]

Ancient Corinth has an internet cafe? What has the world come to??