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What's your special interest/escape from the quagmire.

maxlinger60

I'm stressed, it's end of term, and I've got so many job applications on my desk I can't breathe. So, I'm looking for a distraction as I repeat the silly mantra: Work does not exist. Work is a lie. The only thing matters is BatmanBatmanBatmanBatman—

My special interests are: animals, Batman, and dinosaurs. Can you get any more cliché? However unfortunate, I'm a firm believer in special interests pick you, you don't pick them, and I've truly been picked by every stereotype.

What are your special interests? Let me know so I can hide from responsibilities.

Parents

  • You have a way with words and I can’t help but be complicit in your avoidance tactics.

    Researching Neolithic and Iron Age archaeology in the Levant. Taking my dog to a quiet place and going for a walk. Stopping everything just to look at nature. Reading: Factual during the day e.g., archaeology, anthropology, religion, history, non coercive canine cognition and behaviour management, and fiction in the dark on my kindle before going to sleep. 

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  • You have a way with words and I can’t help but be complicit in your avoidance tactics.

    Researching Neolithic and Iron Age archaeology in the Levant. Taking my dog to a quiet place and going for a walk. Stopping everything just to look at nature. Reading: Factual during the day e.g., archaeology, anthropology, religion, history, non coercive canine cognition and behaviour management, and fiction in the dark on my kindle before going to sleep. 

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  • in reply to ArchaeC

    I have a few Levantine antiquities: the head of a small Neolithic figurine in pale pottery, a very crude figurine of Tanit (essentially a head and torso) recovered from an Israeli harbour - it has patches of marine concretion, and a Hellenistic era small,  slender, long-necked, earthenware container - probably for perfumed oil or the like - from Palestine.

    Israel allows the export of antiquities, if their museums have an adequate number of similar items and they are of no particular academic interest.

  • in reply to ArchaeC

    Thank you, new accomplice! Very ind of you.

    Dog walking and historical eras are always a fantastic escape—I'm currently diving into mesozoic fauna, so all of those are right up my alley.