Peru

About a month ago, I was looking at the UW site for information about graduate school. I've decided to go back to school for the fall of 2016 semester. Assuming all goes well including the GRE I plan on getting a MA in Bioarchaeology. I must have been lucky that day to run into information about the Peru archaeological field school. I thought the deadline had passed, but I emailed the project directors anyway. Turns out, I had plenty of time to apply. Within a week, I got the acceptance email from my old Anthropology professor Dr. Murphy. The week got even better because I managed to get my friend Claire to come along as well! So, the past few weeks have been spent planning for the trip, and we bought our first class tickets this evening. It's a really long flight, so first class was pretty convincing. We plan on spending our long flight in first row, sleeping flat and drinking our flight long complementary cocktails...                            We will be flying into Peru about a week early to meet with the project directors, acclimate to the high elevation and begin our field work. I must admit, I haven't been away for so long before and my heart aches for my puppies. Shane seems excited, but I think most people know the extent to which men act excited about things... I think he will miss me shortly after I leave. I think he will finally appreciate my crazy cleaning habits :) it's almost tempting to plan an extra couple days when I return just to get our house back in to working order. To my ungodly standards that is.                  I don't know too much yet about field school but I know we will be staying in a large house in banos del inca. Pictures eventually. Based on pictures all I see are natural hot springs, which I always love. Right now my brain is so stressed I don't even know where to start with the whole process. Of course I'm worried about money, but aren't we all? I'm pretty sure it's one of those things that doesn't get much better, just more tolerable. I had a mess registering for the field school as a class but finally got that figured out. Anyone that knows me knows I've been dealing with chronic headaches, but those have been doing better. I worry about having them in Peru. Well, as I lay here with my Dalmatian baby I feel the need to drift off to sleep and dream on.