(Sorry for the lateness, and the out of orderness. I'll fill in the other days later.)
A lovely lecture from Tina Wray of Salve Regina U. Prof of the old testament, her specialty is women in the bible. In fact, she says, “Rebecca’s my girl”. (And of course, Rachel: Give me children or I shall die!) After a significant delay, (the busses to take us from Jaffa gate to dig headquarters were late) Tina began her pared-down lecture, with many references to the wine tasting to follow. (Actually, everyone was pretty focused on that subject.)
Amusingly enough, Shimon was the power point slide operator instead of Marieka. He had a certain amount of difficulty with the whole process, which Tina helpfully commented on occasionally. Ultimately the projector mutinied and shut off all together, which made for an interesting latter half of the lecture. Figurines of women definitely featured but, wouldn’t you know it, I can’t remember what they were for. This is, I suspect, due to the fact that said figurines may be described as fairly amorphous blobs with two extremely prominent breasts. The visual aids, (real figurines conveniently stored in the adjacent room in dig headquarters) were passed around in the absence of the power point. At this point, we had a room full of professors, college kids, and cheeky over-forties with alcohol and anatomy on the brain. “Who’s got the boobs?” was Shimon’s apt phrasing as he collected them.
Wine tasting was fun. Rick learned from some woman on the bus to Ben Yehuda NOT to go to parks for safety reasons, (…what…) and Chris and I became surrogate parents to Thomas, our only minor. The evening passed uneventfully, excepting the part where I pulled a Martha and sprained my ankle. (Not my own fault, like it is when Martha does it.)
Over and out.
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