…and post-doc ideas

I am in Durham just now, after a fun-filled and busy couple of weeks since last I posted, the highlights of which included both the visit from Khevron and Lareena, the trip to Uma’s XXV Hostdansen & Norrskensbard contest.

On the way here I visited Stephanie in Edinburgh on Tuesday evening and on Wednesday visited a couple of Archaeologists based in Glasgow who do work on steatite from the Shetlands and Norway. Then I hurried straight south as today and yesterday were the only days that one of my advisors was available before he goes on parent leave. So I have been spending my time here in the XRD lab, finally looking at the results of the analyses we did when I was here last summer, and in the process learning a fair bit about how it all works. Today I took a long tea break to meet with Karen, my other supervisor and two of her new PhD students. It was a great meeting and I really enjoyed visiting with them. In the process we even came up with a fun sounding project idea for my first post-doc as an archaeologist. I just need to finish this degree first. It would involve experimental archaeology, steatite, trace-element leaching, health, and bones…