*pokes LJ*

[brigdh]

Hello! I'm still alive!

I'm also still in Cyprus, but the project I'm currently working on has internet access. Which, of course, I cannot resist. I don't really have enough free time to keep up with my flist or with comments, but that's no reason why I shouldn't post.

Okay, who wants photos?

This is what Cyprus looks like:

Yeah, I wish. It doesn't look anything like this where I'm living. This is Governor's Beach.


This is the landscape of the village of Athienou, where I actually am. I'd rather live on the beach.


And this is the exciting events surrounding an archaeological site:

Yeah, that's a donkey trying to have sex with a horse. He was too short to make it work, but he tried every day, gosh darn it! We were fascinated by this saga of cross-species love. At least until the stallion came and chased the donkey away.


And, for Racheline, this is a photo of me working on flotation, a process that involves washing dirt to get seeds and other tiny things:

Me and my bucket!


Mmm, mud.


So, how are y'all?

Comments

[rayechu.livejournal.com]

Nice pics! I got a postcard not to long ago, so thank you. I kinda feel bad for the Donkey not getting any love.

[kessie.livejournal.com]

You live! :D It's been really strange not having any updates from you.

Cyprus looks wonderful; one of my old managers went there on holiday and she adored it.

I have a letter for you, and stuff from Japan, but I might as well went until you come back to New York and send it all to you then.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

I'm glad to know postcards have been making it! The mail system here is kind of lackluster. And yeah, poor Donkey. We gave him an orange, though.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

I do! And it's been very strange not hearing from you, or anyone else from LJ, from this end too. I felt so cut off.

There are *tons* of British tourists here for holidays. Not many Americans seem to come, though, since it's so far from us.

Eee, cool! I feel special. And I suppose I can wait until my return, though, um, I'll have a new address about a week and a half after getting there.

[cellophane_ria.livejournal.com]

Hello!;-)
I'm waiting for you to go to the other site (or are you there yet?) to send a card, so you don't have them all at once and then feel letter-less:-)

Poor donkey. Hope he'll find someone to love him back:)

[kessie.livejournal.com]

I survived most of Japan with limited internet access simply because we had so much to do and I ended up collapsing every night to pass out so I didn't have time to miss it, really. By the time I came home, I just desperately wanted to catch up with people again.

Yes, Cyprus is very popular for the sea, sun and sand type of holiday. No worries, I was going to send it to you in Cyprus, but then I started to worry that the Irish postal system would fail and not get it there on time, somehow, and that you'd have to bring it back anyway with you, so I figured it was better to wait. :)

Also, I kind of feel sorry for the donkey, hahaha. Determined little guy. XD

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

I am at the other site! But I continue to be here for another two weeks, so if you'd like to send something (and I'd very much appreciate it), you could.

I feel he should have spent more time hanging out with the female donkey we saw occasionally, instead of following the horses. But I guess he wanted what he wanted!

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's pretty much how it's been here, too. Even though I have it available now, I can't use it much because I have so many other things to do, and sleep is definitely an important part of that.

Dude, the Cyprus postal system is pretty scary. I can only hope that things I've mailed have made it at all.

Yeah! He just wanted to make some mules.

[cellophane_ria.livejournal.com]

Argh, then I messed it all up, as I thought that you'll be there from 20th of July. Go me:-(
I'll send my card Monday, it should reach you before you go home. Letters to Germany take two days from here, so I suppose two weeks has to be enough for them to reach Cyprus;-p

Maybe the female donkey was boring? And she didn't like Tolstoy, or something. Hmph.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Ah, I see. The 20th of July's the day I leave, not the day I get here. Little mistake!

And it shouldn't be too bad; other letters from America have been reaching me in 4 or 5 days. Whereas mine seem to take 1 or 2 weeks to get anywhere.

Hee! It could be. I never once saw her carrying a book, after all.

[rm.livejournal.com]

You are buff!

[cellophane_ria.livejournal.com]

Oh my. Really little. *headdesk*

Fortunately I live in Europe, so it might be even easier! Guess small post offices work like that - sending all post once a week or something?

Hee hee. She need to learn more before she'll be good for our donkey:-p

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Haha, yeah, though the photo got distorted when I shrunk it. And I"m not even lifting anything there!

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Heh, it's not that bad. Just a switching of beginning and end!

Ah, that could be it. I've been trying to figure out why mail here was so slow.

Exactly! And until then, it's horses only for him.

[rm.livejournal.com]

I was wondering if that was an image sizing thing or a wrong seting on the camera thing.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

I'm still on a Mac- I did, obviously, figure out how to make the camera load, but I had trouble figuring out how to reduce the photos to viewable size (since they come in something huge, 2000x2000 or more). That was the first one I messed with, and it suffered for it.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Ah, because you didn't do the thing where you lock the ratios!

I CAN HAS BUCKET!

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Yep, I couldn't find that tool.

NOOO THEY BE TAKIN MY BUCKET.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Because I will totally make photoshop evil when you do.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

I feel the need to take a photo of me clutching the bucket, just for that.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Also of someone wrestling for the bucket.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Hahahaha, yes. I'll have to train an apprentice in the ways of bucketing, and have them do it.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Land of the donkey-fuckers!

Aww, you look adorable and happy.

Thanks for the postcard! Please post more photos and updates when you get a chance!

[ranalore.livejournal.com]

Why, hello there, stranger! And I don't know, even the area you're staying looks rather sunny and picturesque. Also, you look very competent and buff. *G*

[b-hallward.livejournal.com]

Hey there, stranger. It's been odd not having you around, but I see you've been getting all tan in lovely desolate places. I'm suitably jealous: the mediterranean climate is so delicious. If you get the chance I'd love to see more pictures.

Sooo... the exciting world of archeology, more swirling things in buckets, less Indiana Jones? *g* (Though I guess tragic interspecies lust counts for something.)