bagels and magic
week in review
class deeply embarrassed by french embassy "incident": we were borderline-escorted out of the french embassy on our field trip. the story's better in person, though.
MoMA is alternately amazing, entertaining, and confusing: in respective order: the van gogh, gaughin, kandinsky (i doubt i'm spelling any of those correctly), and entire photograph collection were great to see up-close with alison, shoe, and nick; a photo of a boy chasing another boy while brandishing a huge tree branch kept alison laughing for a good five minutes, in addition to a quasi-performance-art thing involving a moldy looking metal stick, a mirror, and an empty room; and i will never understand how a long, shiny, pink, rectangle is art. i don't know enough about art to appreciate anything other than the pictures that actually resemble things, but in college i want to take art history or appreciation classes.
west acousic cafe inspires girl to actually learn how to play her guitar: every single act was really impressive, no joke, and i saw a lot of westies that i haven't seen in a while, so that was great. seriously, this summer i am going to take lessons so by the fall i can play more than six chords and "here comes the sun".
cousins turn out to be cool!: i was dreading going to florida saturday night for my grandparents' fiftieth anniversary party because it was with the side of the family i barely see. but i actually ended up having fun chatting and dancing with my cousins brandy, chase, ("she's a noun; i'm a verb" -chase), and cj. i love it when things turn out better than i expect them to. and geez--fifty years. every time i start to think that being with one person for a whole life of changes doesn't make much sense, i see a couple like this and change my mind.
literary magazine is going to rock: not much more to say here. all those hours of art room computer time with blair and nick and kirchenko and baione are really paying off. after all, "that's what happens when you're magic!" (sorry, blair, i had to).
"into the woods" is an unexpected hit: i saw it thursday night with both mikes, justin, nick, and blair, and it was awesome. i know this is coming too late to encourage other people to see it, but really, everyone was a great singer, and the show was clever and wonderful. all rich heaton had to do was walk onstage for me to start cracking up. and don't get me started on kevin's song. it made me kinda miss being in shows, though.
lauren turns eighteen: yay!
a nomadic friday night recalls summer 2006: once we had eaten all the food at mike's house, we somehow found ourselves on the way to port jeff. we walked around the docks for a while, and the empty pilings reflected in the dark water and fog. we also discovered that it's hard to scat for more than four seconds at a time. i ended the night at hot bagels, which i didn't know existed before then, but apparently has good (but not hot) plain bagels. the evening's circumstances made me hope that things are ever-so-slowly getting back to how they used to be.
engagement of jon manley and leigh i-forget-her-last-name-but-it's-a-good-one is announced: finally, my cousin proposed to his girlfriend! in disneyworld, of all places--what better place is there? my family went over today to hear the details, and the reader's digest version is that they went to go take a picture with a photographer in front of cinderella's castle one night, after the electric parade. leigh went to go put her arm around jon for the picture, but he wasn't there--he was on his knee, with the ring, and the photographer immediately started taking photo after photo. last night i had gone to the staller center to see "romeo and juliet", which was incredibly acted, but i enjoyed this a lot more because it was a real love story. if only her name after marriage wasn't going to be leigh manley.