Hello! I haven’t updated in a few weeks, mostly because I’ve been busy – first frantically finishing a rough draft of the first chapter of my thesis, and then having Andy here.
Andy got here on May 12th, and since then we’ve had a good balance of sight-seeing, work-doing, and lazy-being. We revisited all the big sights of Athens – the Acropolis and Acropolis Museum, the National Archaeological Museum, the Kerameikos, the Agora – and saw a few new things – the Museum of the City of Athens, for instance, which had a scale model of the city of Greece from 1840 which Andy really liked. We did some souvenir shopping so I can remember that year I spent here. We played some Rock Band at Public and have been out for gyros a few times (this is Andy’s fault; I think he will miss gyros most of all). We’ve also done a surprising amount of work, and have spent long quality hours at the library or in the salon, so I’ve started the research for my second chapter. And we’ve gone to ouzo hour more since Andy arrived than I ever did all year.
But now we’e looking forward to getting home. Our flight is on Monday; we should be in Newark around 4:00 PM. I started packing, and right now it looks like I’ll get everything home, but I’m also leaving some things here/throwing some things out. This afternoon Andy’s finishing up an abstract and I’m writing my end-of-the-year report for the ASCSA, and then we should have finished all the chores we needed to get done before returning.
I’m looking forward to seeing everyone! I have a (very) few pictures from our past few days – Andy and I are bad about taking pictures. They are here. Now I am off to lunch, which is tyropitas; I may miss those most of all.
