The fact that my birthday this year will be blessed with the release of 'Frankenstein' is bringing me immense joy.

I’ve now introduced The Children to the concepts of grant proposals and funding, as well as the importance of access to showers when doing archaeology. Did I do this right? 🤣

Currently at the grocery store and someone’s child is running around yelling “6 7”. Are the kids ok?

Downside of watching a documentary with an archaeologist about a topic/place they happen to know A LOT about: 1 hr documentary is now 3 hrs with added commentary and informative slideshows every 5-10 minutes 😂

I have seen entirely too many videos from Mt. Everest in the last 24 hours. The latest is a Red Bull stunt that involved skiing down Everest and I just…

Is 4pm too early to start drinking? Asking for a friend, who is me, because omg today has been ridiculous.

A tiny glimmer of joy in the fact that RaptureTok reached Gaza. Hands down one of the best videos I've seen today *and* OP had a GoFundMe that takes PayPal. 🍉❤️

Everybody's talking about the new statue at Göbekli Tepe but OGs know that it's not the first! Tepe Telegrams to the rescue once again! www.dainst.blog/the-tepe-tel...

My god have I earned that Negroni tonight.

Full glam on a Monday because things gotta get filmed. No idea what my future online will look like but I'll ride the TikTok train until it's time to get off in a few days/weeks. Where I go after that I have no idea.

The last time we had one of these 'imminent raptures' we didn't have TikTok. A+ content all around. Keep it up, everyone! 😂

I understand the hype for nerds gummy clusters now.

Folks we are SO close to meeting this short goal to evacuate several families in Gaza - please donate if you can! ⬇️

You know what I'd like to be doing right now? Sitting somewhere ancient and enjoying either a coffee or a sandwich. Ideally a city like Ephesus but Karnak would also do. Feeling a deep need for that specific kind of connection and a bit of quiet today.

Canceled Disney+/Hulu/HBO (that just renewed...smh) and restarted my PBS Passport today. LAPL+Kanopy will be next!

76ºF with matching humidity today in Los Angeles. Send help.

Very happy to have had my braincells recharged a little bit by @tatepaulette.bsky.social ‘s delightful AIA lecture today. Fond memories of the ~suggestive tablet in my undergrad’s little archaeology museum & its delightful entry point for discussions about early brewing & Mesopotamian life.

I’ve had a day of entirely too much and too many customer service interactions. The bright side is that at least several things are moving along, but still 🫠

Oof this year's Covid+flu vaccine combo hits like a truck. Small price to pay for having an updated vaccine but still. Today has been rough.

Neighborhood owl update: 2 adults and a juvenile! And everyone has something to say tonight 😂

Dr. McGovern was gracious enough to answer an email I sent him back in 2011 about ancient beer. I also have fond memories of trying to source each of the Dogfish Head ancient ales before the craft beer boom really hit. Cheers to a legend 🍻

Proud of myself for locking in, as the kids say, and shooting+properly editing a whole Thing today so that all I have to do tomorrow is take a look with fresh eyes, finalize any last fixes, and send it off. Related: I'm now a fan of DaVinci Resolve.

I've only been back for 2 weeks and I already want to leave this ridiculous country. Might be time to commit to the travel life full-time for a while.

I seem to have stumbled onto a timeline where students are emailing me for interview requests.

Tiny joys: buying a tiny little fern at Trader Joe's today.

Oasis is (almost) playing at my house.

I can hear the soundcheck for Oasis from my house 😂 It’s going to be a fun weekend!

Got a new car yesterday and this is legitimately how I felt when I finally got home:

Presented without context or further explanation, this is where I'm at today. Mostly posting as a proof of life.

I'm apparently very late to the party in discovering that I can add widgets to my desktop and adding the Reminders widget has been absolutely life-changing. Keeping track of daily tasks while owning an ADHD brain is hard. I have A LOT to keep track of right now & this has reduced task overwhelm 👍

I genuinely forgot just how brain melting writing scripts is. Is it good enough? Punchy enough? Is the point being conveyed clearly? Can I lose like half of these words and still have it make sense?? Will a random person in Ohio know what I'm talking about? 🫠

Save us, glow-in-the-dark shark!

Between the incessant daily spam calls, spam emails, and the hordes of dembots here, is there anywhere that isn't just filled with spam?

Putting on sweatpants that have just come out of the dryer>>>>

“…the having now been offered…linen? That’s linen, right? Something something forever and ever.” —me, translating a middle Egyptian offering formula while simultaneously doing Latin homework many years ago.

Ya girl is currently having ‘a time’ but you know what is making things a bit better? Deliverable Taiwanese desserts.

Put on a "morning focus" playlist to help get through the AM workload and now I'm dissociating to Enya. Task failed successfully?

If ChatGPT has no haters, I am dead.

Upright (definitely not awake yet) to virtually be on the panel for Embrace Social Media: Why Archaeology Needs Social Media! #COPA2025

This may be the biggest archaeology moment of the year tbh

Egyptology friends! Whomst among you is doing current work on tattooing practices in ancient Egypt? Would love to get some new or updated photos/illustrations of known designs as the handful of photos online of said designs on *very* dry individuals isn't great for use on TikTok. TYIA!

It's days like today that I'm glad I decided to figure out Marvel Rivals because boy do I need an outlet after this specific day. I have also acquired a beverage so the next hour or so is going to be great.

The Stele of the Vultures is a Mesopotamian monument from ~2500 BC. It depicts a king marching his army marching to battle with vultures flying overhead, promising his enemies' "corpses will reach the base of Heaven" #ReliefWednesday 📷 Eric Gaba / CC BY-SA 3.0 🏺 #Archaeology 1/2

Big developments in vulture-related happenings this week

Our crack team are hard at work opening up test pits today as part of the Dig The Castle project! We are digging in the back gardens of some very kind members of the local community, so they can see archaeology in action close up. #digthecastle #devon #archaeology #pubarch #socialvalue ⚱️🏺

It's that time of the year again: #askanarchaeologistday . Got questions about what *might* have happened to the descendants of people from Göbekli Tepe (in the Late Neolithic in the same area)? I'm your woman. Who was living in the plain below Göbekli c. 6200-5100 BCE? #AskAnArchaeologist

Look at the size of this absolute unit (mini fridge for scale)

Great news for all the Assyriologists and studiers of Sumerian/Babylonian/Akkadian things: almost 400k people on the internet think what you do is cool and want to know more about what's being translated these days.

Doing my best to get the good people of the internet hyped about Sumerian mythology today and I think it might be working??

The neighborhood hawks certainly have a lot to yell about today.