Stories from the Field: Downton Abbey in Cowtown
Calgary ain’t got nothing on Downton Abbey. But it tries. Like a 19-year old woman fast approaching spinsterhood in Victorian London, Yvonne is networking as if her life depended on […]
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Stories from the Field: Crisis Management
Yvonne watched from the corner of her eye as the white car flipped into the air and landed on its hood into the lane beside her, its front bumper swinging […]
Stories from the Field: Safety Schmozle
**To me, Christmas holidays means chilling out with family and friends and being entertained. Here’s some entertainment for you all from when I was last in the field. Hope you […]
Stories from the Field: Back in the Mac.
** To celebrate the Alberta September field season, it’s shortening days and industry tempers, I give you a little tidbit of it here. For those of you in archaeology, may […]
Stories from the Field: Dissociative Morbidity
“You know how spring usually smells like dog poo?” Yvonne called across the cubicle to her co-worker. “This year I think it smells more like chicken crap.” “You know chickens?” […]
Stories from the Field: Drawing Lessons
Yvonne is learning to play. To bring out her inner child and artist, she is endeavoring shut the inner critic in the closet and be in the moment.To this end, […]
Stories from the Field: 30-Minute Mozzerella
**original update from July 11, 2011. The weekend started off so well: coffee at an independent shop; finding underwear that fit and that was on sale. Wow. Yvonne decided to push […]
Stories from the Field: OMG.
*original email May 13, 2011. Yvonne has her first paycheque and has been at her new job for a month. OMG. For those wary few that didn’t think it possible to […]
Stories from the Field: Culture-shocking the Anthropologist
*original update from April 21, 2011. There’s going native Margaret Mead-style, and then there’s being broken. Yvonne fully admits that archaeology has broken her. It may not have broken her […]
Stories from the Field: New Client Headache.
*original email August 9, 2010. Yvonne has a headache. And it’s a headache no amount of Advil can cure. Three weeks ago, Yvonne was told she’s be working with a […]
