Warmth and hygiene
Dec. 6th, 2009 10:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hmpfThere's a French tv team here at the moment so we've interrupted/postponed our morning activities and so I've come by an unexpected bit of free time. Hence, a morning update!
Morning is actually a good time to plug in your computer: there are more free sockets in the morning than in the evening...
So. I already know (and knew beforehand, really) why I'll never be a hardcore activist (nor a hardcore archaeologist, either): I don't cope well with bad sanitary facilities.
They're not *that* bad here, really. But there's only cold water (in the showers apparently there is, intermittently, also the option of 'scalding hot'), and - this is my main issue: there are no hooks to put your clothes or any stuff on in the toilet stalls and in the washroom. I've tried balancing my stuff on the toilet paper holder, but that's round, so it's difficult to stack a heap of clothes and a bag of toiletries on it! I've already dropped most of my stuff on the toilet floor... thankfully, not my toothbrush so far. Wish me luck...
Okay, enough whining. It's really not that bad; not as bad as your average dig, anyway! ;-)
What else is there to tell? Mostly good news about warmth, really. No, not climate-related. Just clothes... and stuff. Item the first: I borrowed my mum's thermo trousers and boy, was that a good idea or what. They're fabulous. Super-warm and comfy, like a piece of home you can wear...
Also, tonight was the first time I used my new, warmer sleeping bag (the one I've been using till now was a twenty year old model that was very drafty by now), and that is fabulous, too. Mind you, I still couldn't go to sleep, and as a result overslept and almost missed breakfast and the first briefing - but fortunately the tv team delayed that a bit, so I had a chance to have some tasty organic chocolate spread on tasty organic bread. I'd like to blame my sleep trouble on the fact that the sleeping hall stank of gasoline like a garage, but I think really it was just my chronic sleep problem acting up.
Well, I think I should go get another cup of tea now, and possibly check my e-mail. TTYL.
Morning is actually a good time to plug in your computer: there are more free sockets in the morning than in the evening...
So. I already know (and knew beforehand, really) why I'll never be a hardcore activist (nor a hardcore archaeologist, either): I don't cope well with bad sanitary facilities.
They're not *that* bad here, really. But there's only cold water (in the showers apparently there is, intermittently, also the option of 'scalding hot'), and - this is my main issue: there are no hooks to put your clothes or any stuff on in the toilet stalls and in the washroom. I've tried balancing my stuff on the toilet paper holder, but that's round, so it's difficult to stack a heap of clothes and a bag of toiletries on it! I've already dropped most of my stuff on the toilet floor... thankfully, not my toothbrush so far. Wish me luck...
Okay, enough whining. It's really not that bad; not as bad as your average dig, anyway! ;-)
What else is there to tell? Mostly good news about warmth, really. No, not climate-related. Just clothes... and stuff. Item the first: I borrowed my mum's thermo trousers and boy, was that a good idea or what. They're fabulous. Super-warm and comfy, like a piece of home you can wear...
Also, tonight was the first time I used my new, warmer sleeping bag (the one I've been using till now was a twenty year old model that was very drafty by now), and that is fabulous, too. Mind you, I still couldn't go to sleep, and as a result overslept and almost missed breakfast and the first briefing - but fortunately the tv team delayed that a bit, so I had a chance to have some tasty organic chocolate spread on tasty organic bread. I'd like to blame my sleep trouble on the fact that the sleeping hall stank of gasoline like a garage, but I think really it was just my chronic sleep problem acting up.
Well, I think I should go get another cup of tea now, and possibly check my e-mail. TTYL.
