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Today is the last day of my first three day weekend in a long while.
Tomorrow I start a six day work week, with my shift starting an hour earlier than normal.
Blaargh.
On the bright side, this weekend was lovely!
OBJECTS: Bought a new leather jacket that actually fits well AND Good Omens, two things I'd been "getting around to" buying for years now. I also bought a rainbow monkey hat, which I would show you but LJ isn't liking me when it comes to photo uploads. I bought it because my new Michael by Michael Kors leather jacket is gorgeous, but when it's hovering around freezing and you're drinking an impulse-purchase Dick's chocolate milkshake while walking outside, you need something warmer. A knit wool cap with polyester fleece lining is just the thing!
EXPERIENCES: I saw the Picasso exhibit at the Seattle Art Museum. My favorite portrait from my childhood wasn't on display, but I saw a 4000 (ish) year old hippopotamus (you might need to click through a few other hippos first) and some gorgeous 4th millennium BC Sumerian frog amulets (pictures not available online, but there were multiple frogs, each smaller and made of more costly material than the last, including shell, lapis luzuli, silver, and gold), not to mention a Sargent portrait that looks ridiculously like one of Bailey's best friends around these parts.
In much lower-brow events, I saw various parts of the movie The Rock, starring Nicholas Cage and Sean Connery. It's exactly what you'd imagine a Bruckheimer/Bay movie to be like, from the parts I saw. (It was airing on at least one of the movie channels on the television of the house we stay at in Seattle, but I fell asleep at least once.) On the bright side, Leo from West Wing is in it! John Spencer can make a lot of things better. Also at one point I theorized that his character in The Rock is actually also Leo McGarry, in that he is a multi-versal traveler torn between high-up government roles in two dimensions. I blame the Malibu-and-chocolate-milk.
Rounding it out with the midbrow, Bailey and I watched Ghostbusters in a movie theater that does food and booze. It was the first time I'd really watched Ghostbusters as an adult who wasn't falling asleep, and I definitely understand why it's Bailey's favorite movie. And I say this as someone who had been drinking beer the whole movie, because they had inexpensive pitchers. Bailey and I are thinking of going up again in a couple weeks to see The Fifth Element and do late dinner.
Tomorrow I start a six day work week, with my shift starting an hour earlier than normal.
Blaargh.
On the bright side, this weekend was lovely!
OBJECTS: Bought a new leather jacket that actually fits well AND Good Omens, two things I'd been "getting around to" buying for years now. I also bought a rainbow monkey hat, which I would show you but LJ isn't liking me when it comes to photo uploads. I bought it because my new Michael by Michael Kors leather jacket is gorgeous, but when it's hovering around freezing and you're drinking an impulse-purchase Dick's chocolate milkshake while walking outside, you need something warmer. A knit wool cap with polyester fleece lining is just the thing!
EXPERIENCES: I saw the Picasso exhibit at the Seattle Art Museum. My favorite portrait from my childhood wasn't on display, but I saw a 4000 (ish) year old hippopotamus (you might need to click through a few other hippos first) and some gorgeous 4th millennium BC Sumerian frog amulets (pictures not available online, but there were multiple frogs, each smaller and made of more costly material than the last, including shell, lapis luzuli, silver, and gold), not to mention a Sargent portrait that looks ridiculously like one of Bailey's best friends around these parts.
In much lower-brow events, I saw various parts of the movie The Rock, starring Nicholas Cage and Sean Connery. It's exactly what you'd imagine a Bruckheimer/Bay movie to be like, from the parts I saw. (It was airing on at least one of the movie channels on the television of the house we stay at in Seattle, but I fell asleep at least once.) On the bright side, Leo from West Wing is in it! John Spencer can make a lot of things better. Also at one point I theorized that his character in The Rock is actually also Leo McGarry, in that he is a multi-versal traveler torn between high-up government roles in two dimensions. I blame the Malibu-and-chocolate-milk.
Rounding it out with the midbrow, Bailey and I watched Ghostbusters in a movie theater that does food and booze. It was the first time I'd really watched Ghostbusters as an adult who wasn't falling asleep, and I definitely understand why it's Bailey's favorite movie. And I say this as someone who had been drinking beer the whole movie, because they had inexpensive pitchers. Bailey and I are thinking of going up again in a couple weeks to see The Fifth Element and do late dinner.