Quick Summary (liar!)

Monday: Went into studio early to finish mapping assignment, rather tounge in cheek I made a fairy-tale type map, overlay on a 1700s lithograph map of paris, "Here be foreigners," "Gulf of Shifting Sands" ha i'm such a nerd, and Kober totally caught it. compared it to John Heyjduk though, haha.... i'll take what i can get i guess... that was all day, some of it wasted time - way to ready to laugh at webcomics, just about crying at some points... hehe... click on the 'funny' links on that del.icio.us tagroll to see which ones i read. No guarentee of quality, sometimes I have unrefined tastes... but no, they're all awesome ;). Boasas and Dinosaur Comics if you're only going to read a few. Made a good supper on Monday, but all our suppers this week were pretty good and homemade, so i don't remember what it was. More reading/writing, makes for damn pleasant evenings.

Tuesday: Weirdly full yet empty day.... I went back to the states on tuesday! Ha.... had to go to the embassy, technically US soil. back story was that on night trains the conductor takes your passport and ticket so they don't have to wake you up in the middle of the night to see your passport as you cross boarders. I was zonked after venice, so i was bleary giving my passport to him, and bleary getting it back in the morning... and didn't double check that it was mine. so i got another american passport, claiming me to be a male born in '66 from philly... hmm so not me!
didn't realize it until Saturday though, didn't get to the embassy until tuesday. had to get an emergency passport, the id'ot that got my passport turned it into the French police... wtf? like they'd be able to do anything, it was pretty obvious what had happened. the embassy said it was pretty unlikely they'd get the passport from the police (they knew it had happened because mr. id'ot came in for his emergency passport too earlier) so i had to buy another one. grr, but the workers there were prompt with immaculate grammar and beautiful demeanor... it was a pleasure to talk to them. amazing, we should have that in the real States.... and my passport now has a picture of a human strongly resembling Beth in it, rather then an inhuman glazed-stare freak. ha :)

Went to the Madeline (and went inside this time!) on the way home. Greek temple exterior, triple-dome in a line interior with mini-greek facades lining the hall, wierd and gold-gaudy. Pastelly art nuevo mosaics in a band under the apse dome were neet, solid stone feathers on the unusual altar-piece fun.

Shopping was an experience today... goal was to BUY SOCKS! and i did, wandered through much of the teen section of the huge Galleries Lafayette department store though... realized a wierd distinction in shopping, clothes more as decoration and fun then burdensome necessity... a bit more subtle then that, but i think i will look forward to shopping more in the future, and be better at it.

My socks are beautiful! Ha.... kind of expensive, but so much fun to wear.

I had a commission for a painting from eli for when i return, he has a wall 8' x 4' ish he wants filled with art... really looking forward to it, and the challenge of figuring out something worth filling up that much space with...

Orbitz fubaredness, i booked plane tix for the wrong week!?! for spring break... idiot beth... but brandon was able to help me fix it sans the $200 switch fee, yay friends! ha... will be more careful? that was outrageously dumb though.

Palais du Tokyo... graphics and contemporary art overload. many fun exhibits, thoughts on contemporary art and permanence and quality, maybe post another time, this is, despite promise, still long. Full days are amazing.