Dude, we have so much in common!
Well, insomuch as I have a passing connection to archaeology, I like Stargate, I adored Classical Studies and analysed both the Odyssey and the Iliad at school (and got an A *glees*), would be an anthropologist if I get another life after this one (currently too busy being an almost-Marine Biologist and Zoologist) ...

*stops to breathe*

...I adore primates (is that a valid link? ooh ooh yeah and see my profile for directions to pictures of mountain gorillas in the wild, baby!), am currently working on a taxonomy poster about enlarging the genus Homo to include Pan troglodytes and Pan paniscus (not my idea, mind!), I've been to Ethiopia and travelled the whole length of the Rift Valley - would have gone out into Afar and the Danakil area had it not been for security and time issues, also nearly visited the Leakey love-nest at Olduvai Gorge (but didn't dammit) on the way through...

*takes another gulp of air*

Aaaand, I think that’s about it…
Hell, if you want tenuous, I even grubbed around a shell midden as a child on a trip to Florida (are you allowed to do that?)


As for the uncle - if you are interested his name is Chris(topher) Lightfoot...
All I know is he goes on Turkish digs and marries Turkish women (#2 just left him - oops - and #1 has a daughter - my estranged cousin Sara who has English features but speaks Turkish and confuses people), and comes over for Christmas once in a blue moon. Oh, and he and my mother fight like two cats in a bag.
Unfortunately, due to above reasons, I don't really know him well enough to utilise his interesting career. *woes*
Hmm,,,this has got me thinking tho, maybe him and I would get on famously since we both dislike our common denominator: my mother. Wow, don’t think I’ve ever called her that before…

Argh, I wrote a life story. Dear God I’m sorry...

*runs and hides, but presses ‘post’ anyway cos it took too long to write to delete now, dammit!*

-- psst! You must must must go to Africa! ---