October 2011
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I have a new life motto.
If it isn’t fucking awesome, don’t fucking do it.
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I fucking love hockey.
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...so what you're saying is that you're feeling...
I went to Greece when I was seventeen years old. Before that trip, I had a pretty definite plan for my future laid out: I was going to be an archaeologist. I was going to study Ancient Egypt. I was going to dig in modest ancient villages and get published in scholarly journals and talk about faience and mastabas and the administrative importance of temples. I had my shit together, I guess, for...
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An answer to an anonymous question.
That is so amazing you ran into Mumford and Sons at a bar! Definitely a dream come true… I have to ask what bar were you at?
It was a wicked good time, that is for damn sure.
But uh yeah we’re not going to say what bar we were at, mostly because we respect the right the band has to go places without having their every move tracked on the internet. Sorry, anon.
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The ceiling at my work exploded and the entire...
So we’re closed until further notice.
So I’m not working tonight.
And probably not on Halloween.
I’m beginning to suspect that my new necklace has magical powers of luck.
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honeyed-oak asked: Questions and stuff! Tell me of your favourite non ancient activity? :)
Say Amelia, what things have you consumed today?
half a bowl of porridge
three cups of black coffee
Because that’s healthy.
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bitchyhistory asked: So, Doctor Pond, I was going through ModCloth because I apparently hate myself and want to procrastinate on my loads of homework forever and I found a pair of boots called Poutine on the Ritz. EVERYTHING WAS CANADIAN AND NOTHING HURTS.
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So can we all just agree that it's cool to start...
Because it is fucking freezing out there.
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I get the strange feeling that there might be a...
So I just want to make it amply clear that partying with rockstars is not a normal occurrence in my life. Because there seems to suddenly be quite a lot of you, and I don’t want any of you to feel deceived when you realize that I usually talk about archaeology and books and lumberjacks, and not random fan encounters in big cities.
Although I do talk about Mumford & Sons a lot. So...
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Mumford & Sons Adventure 2011
I don’t know if I can properly formulate the past two days into one polite post, but I’m going to try, goddamn.
Day One
I hung out in Toronto, blah blah blah, and that night we went out to a bar downtown.
We were at the bar for two hours, and were planning on soon leaving, when Niela turned to me and said, “I know that guy; I think he’s in a band.”
I looked at...
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nothing will ever be as perfect as the two days I...
nothing. ever.
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we met mumford and sons
they were at the bar we were at
and we had a convo with ted
and then we played pool with them
and made friends with ted
and took pictures
which i will post tomorrow
i
am
dead
ted said “we’re in a band”
and i was like “oh really”
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day one.
got really lost in downtown toronto
because toronto is big
found out that a tall british man with dreadlocks is coming drinking with us tonight
so that’s fun
i am in a starbucks somewhere
there is a pretty building with a tower beside me
i don’t know what it is but i like it
there is a homeless man outside with a kitten on his shoulder and i want to give him everything i own
i...
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Nine hours and twenty-one minutes until my train leaves for Toronto. Everything’s packed. My most hipster outfits are planned. My lumberjack boots are shining.
Fare thee well, dearest internet. I’m off to see Mumford & Sons.
[But hi I’ll tweet a lot.]
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“It was basically a porno, there was a reference to Iron Man, Hawkeye from The...”
– Sometimes I am very straightforward when I speak to my mother.
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So, Thor.
Great movie, or greatest movie?
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Oops another foodie post.
The roasted chickpeas are delicious! Here’s the recipe:
1 can of chickpeas 2 tablespoons of olive oil Salt because of reasons Garlic because it is a prerequisite in everything Hot peppers because MAN UP
Drain the chickpeas and pat them dry with a paper towel. Then mix them up with all the ingredients. Put them on a pan and cook them at 450 for half an hour.
THEN DEVOUR THEIR PROTEINY...
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Sometimes this is a foodie blog.
I just took some farmer’s bread (you know the good stuff with the thick crunchy crust? It’s heaven okay) and then I put some asiago and artichoke spread on it, with a piece of smoked salmon, and then I sprinkled some old cheddar on that and put it in the oven for a few minutes.
And I now know what happiness tastes like.
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I'm declaring it officially mittens season.
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girlwithgreenglasses replied to your photo: I feel very scholarly today.
I really love the image of you walking into a class one day as a professor with your adorable scarf and glasses and a pumpkin spice latte and sweatpants and being like “HOLY SHIT TODAY WE’RE GOING TO LEARN ABOUT BURIALS I AM SO FUCKING EXCITED.”
BUT THIS IS ALL I WANT FROM LIFE
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I am in my third year of studying archaeology.
And now, for the very first time, I get to focus an entire research project on my most favourite of all ancient remains: burials.
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“I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect....”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via thatkindofwoman)
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A garbanzo bean is just another name for a chickpea.
This must be what madness feels like.
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So this really drunk guy came into work tonight.
and started berating us for being university students
because he wasn’t one
actually
he was like 38
and he was on our campus
at an undergrad university
but apparently
we are all wealthy elitist pricks
because we’re students
…
…
…
and then he asked us why we weren’t at Occupy Wall Street
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neverthoughtidseeit asked: WHY ISN'T IT CHRISTMAS BREAK YET?
“Guess what season it is—fucking fall. There’s a nip in the air and my house is...”
– IT’S DECORATIVE GOURD SEASON, MOTHERFUCKERS.
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And then I will probably die.
So instead of taking the train, I will be flying home this Christmas. Which is excellent (forty minutes of travel time instead of eight hours), except that I will be flying in a plane that looks like this:
It has propellers.
It
has
propellers.
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Two minutes left on my download of Downton Abbey.
If I don’t survive this, I would like you all to know that I love you very very much.
I just booked my train to Toronto for Mumford &...
Excuse me while I
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