Got a whisper of a job on an ancient site in the Greek islands this morning. Dave, one of my classmates from final year is going on it, and he says he'll try to wangle a place on it for me. I'd never really noticed Dave before. He's a big red-haired guy who I didn't think I liked very much, but if he can get a job for me he'll be my hero. Seems it's been planned for ages but there have been a few drop-outs because it's at an awkward time and it's not a very interesting site. But, hey, any real archaeological work will do me, especially when it's in the sunshine. Please let it work out! Some of the students in my class have had zero difficulty getting jobs. I wonder if it's racial or sexual discrimination despite I got a better degree than most of them. No point in worrying about that, though, because I'll never know. Dave seems to think that a beard is part of an archaologist's uniform, so he's growing one, he says. I don't think I'll bother.