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Things I have done since the last time I wrote:
- chipped a tooth while pulling up a core (I have an appointment on Tuesday, but the insurance is going to suck)
- placed 47 cores in 3 hours with only one other person
- visited 2 extant turf churches (we think we might have found one, so we're getting some context), and incidentally accidentally seen all the highlights of Hofsos (the dock, the old warehouse, the emigration center, and the restaurant)
- survived 3 awful, windy, rainy, freezing cold days in the field
- bought a few gifts for people
- lost (and found) my hairbrush at the pool
- tentatively maybe found a potential roommate for next year
- learned to use FileMaker
- stayed out at Mælifell till 4 AM. Again.
- eaten shark
- lost lots of kronur at poker
- told my life story two or three more times
- searched for a nonexistent lake in an overgrazed moonscape
- dropped my iPod and broken the case (the player itself is fine though, thank goodness)
- bought & started reading a book of Icelandic folk tales
- leapt boggy ditches in a single bound
- developed quite a taste for Týr
- bought Guinness (omg yay)
- watched Jurassic Park (and some Firefly, but not the new Torchwood, alas)
Due to suddenly having a 2-day instead of a 3-day weekend, Reykjavik and Harry Potter are both postponed. Today I mostly bummed around; we went to the second turf church and a gift shop in Varmahlið and ate at the Áskaffi again (best hot chocolate ever). I went to the local museum, which has a thoroughly excellent exhibit about Skagafjorður archaeology (including some stuff that SASS has done) and some early-20th-century workshop mock-ups (carpentry, watchmaker, etc). Tomorrow there will definitely be a trip to Akureyri -- we might go by way of Siglufjorður for pizza at the end of the world. Next weekend we'll have one day off, and it's probably going to be a return to Akureyri for Harry Potter.
Bouncing on the bed in my double(/triple) room in Iceland, listening to metal on my headphones while hanging laundry from the ceiling to dry makes me feel more bohemian than I ever have in my life. It's pretty awesome.
Still, I'm looking forward to getting back and starting classes. This week two more people from UMass are joining us, and the pollen-sampling phase of my summer will be starting not long thereafter. I'm pretty excited about getting into that.
The field season is 43.75% over.
A horse at Marbæli.
Sheep watching us from an abandoned, partially turf house at Stóra-Gröf-Sýðri.
Horses at Stóra-Gröf-Sýðri.
The place where the lake is emphatically not.
Mount Tindastoll, with clouds.
This is the turf church at Hofsós. The wall around it is circular and made of turf.
This stuff is growing from the roof of the church. Then beyond it is the wall, then mountains.
This is the turf church at Víðimýri. It used to have a circular wall, but this church is still in use and the parishioners decided in the 80s that they didn't want it anymore so they bulldozed it, alas.
Inside the Víðimýri church.
- chipped a tooth while pulling up a core (I have an appointment on Tuesday, but the insurance is going to suck)
- placed 47 cores in 3 hours with only one other person
- visited 2 extant turf churches (we think we might have found one, so we're getting some context), and incidentally accidentally seen all the highlights of Hofsos (the dock, the old warehouse, the emigration center, and the restaurant)
- survived 3 awful, windy, rainy, freezing cold days in the field
- bought a few gifts for people
- lost (and found) my hairbrush at the pool
- tentatively maybe found a potential roommate for next year
- learned to use FileMaker
- stayed out at Mælifell till 4 AM. Again.
- eaten shark
- lost lots of kronur at poker
- told my life story two or three more times
- searched for a nonexistent lake in an overgrazed moonscape
- dropped my iPod and broken the case (the player itself is fine though, thank goodness)
- bought & started reading a book of Icelandic folk tales
- leapt boggy ditches in a single bound
- developed quite a taste for Týr
- bought Guinness (omg yay)
- watched Jurassic Park (and some Firefly, but not the new Torchwood, alas)
Due to suddenly having a 2-day instead of a 3-day weekend, Reykjavik and Harry Potter are both postponed. Today I mostly bummed around; we went to the second turf church and a gift shop in Varmahlið and ate at the Áskaffi again (best hot chocolate ever). I went to the local museum, which has a thoroughly excellent exhibit about Skagafjorður archaeology (including some stuff that SASS has done) and some early-20th-century workshop mock-ups (carpentry, watchmaker, etc). Tomorrow there will definitely be a trip to Akureyri -- we might go by way of Siglufjorður for pizza at the end of the world. Next weekend we'll have one day off, and it's probably going to be a return to Akureyri for Harry Potter.
Bouncing on the bed in my double(/triple) room in Iceland, listening to metal on my headphones while hanging laundry from the ceiling to dry makes me feel more bohemian than I ever have in my life. It's pretty awesome.
Still, I'm looking forward to getting back and starting classes. This week two more people from UMass are joining us, and the pollen-sampling phase of my summer will be starting not long thereafter. I'm pretty excited about getting into that.
The field season is 43.75% over.
A horse at Marbæli.
Sheep watching us from an abandoned, partially turf house at Stóra-Gröf-Sýðri.
Horses at Stóra-Gröf-Sýðri.
The place where the lake is emphatically not.
Mount Tindastoll, with clouds.
This is the turf church at Hofsós. The wall around it is circular and made of turf.
This stuff is growing from the roof of the church. Then beyond it is the wall, then mountains.
This is the turf church at Víðimýri. It used to have a circular wall, but this church is still in use and the parishioners decided in the 80s that they didn't want it anymore so they bulldozed it, alas.
Inside the Víðimýri church.
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Did you like the shark you ate? I love shark.
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My postcard showed up too. It's awesome :D