Fumigation Yields Information..

So i had to leave the building after i asked them to nuke the place with insect repellent....

Decided to spend the time outside the office in the gallery of Failaka findings of the main building..

Fish hooks from early Dilmun period (2 B.C-ish)


There's something cool about us using what they used, isn't there?

Seals and stamps from the same period.














Some of them are really detailed and just generally awesome.














Then, i walked around and decided to visit the Library here at the KNM. It's sort've up and running but still with lots of books around that need to be filed. The English books that i went to browse were not in alphabetical order but were sort've grouped together. I guess they need some more time.














This is the library, on the 3rd floor. When i checked out a book, she sort've just took out a paper and wrote down the date, the book title, and my name. She also put down my boss's name and the woman next to her laughed and said 'so far, only that department check out books.' and the checker-out-er goes 'yeah, just you and 7amid'.








I don't know what to make of that information....











But!!!! The whole 'department-getting-semi-fumigated' was totally forgotten when i found these gems.

These books i had difficulty finding where i studied (since they were primary sources), until i realized that the rival school had a whole middle east library.

I literally checked out these books from the library and put them in a little roll-on carry-on bag. I rolled the bag to the library, to my house, to my car, to four hours away at a cousin's, through four cities after that, through planes, on the beach, and i think even on a cruise.

Since i literally had to check out, and re-check out these books for about a year (you had a limit as to how many you could take out, of course), they lived with me. My cat sat on them. They took up my dining table and forced me to grow muscles everytime i had people over and needed to clear the table.

These were especially important for my Thesis paper (which i got an A on, btw :p Historiography i think A-).








So! ''The Political Diaries of the Persian Gulf''. Volumes upon volumes..










Sometimes i literally had to use a magnifying glass to read and figure out what was written on the documents.











These are the absolute bomb-diggity.
Did i seriously just say that?

They're like literal documents about Kuwait in your hands.

It was exciting to read the documents that made Kuwaiti history.









The book i checked out didn't have the first eight chapters. Didn't have the title of the book and the cataloge information. But i'm pretty sure this is what it is:





Kuwait Today


A Welfare State


maybe published in 1963





And,
becuase i'm a dork,
i randomly found this and i think that it's brilliant.
Har.