Life continues as usual here at the old dig house. I will be done with my first shift on pottery duty tomorrow and will begin excavating what appears to be a possible early church on Saturday. We've been having strange weather (aka a freaking sandstorm for 3 days) and so site has been pretty miserable - windy, freezing, and full of sand. Sand everywhere. Due to the storm we have had very little water, meaning none, and our power has been intermittent, so it's been interesting. As per usual I am the first person to sustain a strange injury on site - I was bitten by something lurking in my boot (or the sand) and my ankle and foot have swelled up to an impressive size. I suspect it was a spider as my foot - aside from the giant crater of nastiness - is covered in tiny spider bites, but the old archaeologists say that spiders here don't bite (clearly they haven't seen the rest of my foot) in Egypt and that it was probably some sand ant/mite/flea/non-deadly scorpion. It would have had to have been the most badass ant in the world to cause this foot, so I guess that's pretty cool.

Despite the sand and mysterious injuries I am still having an AMAZING time here, we've been busy pretty much constantly from 5:30 am to 9:30 pm when I fall asleep no matter where I am in the house pretty much on the dot. I'll try to post a general update about the house soon!