#hello taylor!

[onnewyearsday]

the reason I can't manage to get good pictures of myself is because all I do is take selfies while making these faces...

[bwzeeep]

kidkillingdays replied to your photoset “I studied archaeology in Ireland from May 3 to the 31st. That drawing...”

IM REALLY ENVIOUS IRELAND! ARCHAEOLOGY! SPRING IN IRELAND!

Ah... the whole time I was there I kept thinking, "THIS IS ANDY'S JAM!"

The professor who started the program teaches religion in medieval history, so our first week there was basically a series of field trips to various ruins and religious sites in Ireland, including older places like Bective Abbey as well as the currently functioning Glenstal Abbey, housing a church with a paint job our tour guide monk aptly described as "reminiscent of a 60s jukebox."

It was interesting interacting with the people too. Said monk was coerced into taking a selfie with one of the students and mentioned that "if the pope can do it, I don't see why I can't."

That said, after the first week we really spent a majority of our time doing hard excavation work--since we were the first group on site we did a lot of opening of cuttings using mattocks and shovels rather than troweling for bones or artifacts. Unlike me, you probably have the know how to make more sense of what we did eventually end up finding. The Blackfriary isn't exactly the most intact religious site in the country, but we determined by the abnormally large cloister and abundance of purbeck marble that the patron funding the place was pretty stacked.