she said she learned the hard way
Mar. 19th, 2012 07:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hawkwing_lbToday I went to the library of the École Francais and made my thesis grow by a thousand words. The nice boy who mans the desk helped sort things so that I could go look at the archives, too. Although I didn't get permission to see them until about 1500, and by that point I was brain-dead and starving, and had to make my excuses to the archivist at 1530. I do have permission to come back tomorrow, though.
Carbon paper from excavation reports in 1941. The EFA was running excavations while Europe was at war and Vichy France was appointing the School's director. I am not sure whether this is extraordinarily cool or somewhat disturbing. Maybe both. I am this excited about having been allowed to read them. Really. I was too excited to talk when the nice archivist handed me the folder. I was afraid if I said the wrong thing, she would take them away.
I'm weird, aren't I?
Anyway, I did some shopping, staggered out for a run, translated some ancient Greek, and all in all, feel that this has been quite a productive day.
Carbon paper from excavation reports in 1941. The EFA was running excavations while Europe was at war and Vichy France was appointing the School's director. I am not sure whether this is extraordinarily cool or somewhat disturbing. Maybe both. I am this excited about having been allowed to read them. Really. I was too excited to talk when the nice archivist handed me the folder. I was afraid if I said the wrong thing, she would take them away.
I'm weird, aren't I?
Anyway, I did some shopping, staggered out for a run, translated some ancient Greek, and all in all, feel that this has been quite a productive day.
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Date: 2012-03-19 06:44 pm (UTC)Getting excited about glimpses behind the scenes like that? No, I think I'd have been excited, too. It's like, I dunno, reading wartime message traffic or something. It's...oh, I know, it's the equivalent of having access to Top Secret, Eyes Only material no one else was supposed to see regarding a mission that's still sort of ongoing. I always enjoyed knowing what was really going on. The analyst's curse--knowledge you can't share. >:-)
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Date: 2012-03-19 07:01 pm (UTC)(It's not Top Secret. But it's still cool.)
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Date: 2012-03-19 11:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-20 07:41 am (UTC)