EX OF ZOILVS

Kelly Wacker. I am writing this post for you. Can you see who is sitting to the left (my left in the picture) of me here? Margarida Peixe! The one who used to call me Pileca (an endearing term for little pecker or something like that!) It is clear now that I may have been the only woman in Portugal ever called little pecker. I actually think that the term is exclusively for boys. This won't surprise my father.

It seems like such a long time ago but it isn't. This was my summer without you when I had to face J's and K's affair right under my nose, finish up the South Field West, dig out a dolia pit that contained over 9 vessels and was 3 feet over my head and woke up at 5:00 a.m. and decided that I wasn't going to be getting on that plane after all to go back home.

I miss you guys. I miss drinking too many vodka martinis and grading papers with you. I miss re-arranging Gail's office and putting the taxidermed Rocky Raccoon to work at her desk. I miss our Thursday morning breakfasts at the Blue Dog Café. I miss the smell of Kentucky grass and walking around outside with no shoes on. I think I am coming home soon.

At least the home where my friends are near.

Songs of the day: John Prine, Muhlenberg County

Aerosmith, Dulcimer Stomp/The Other Side

Ceramic form for the day: ZOILVS stamp from a Goudineau 40

(slave attached to the workshop of Ateius)