2007
stop that push and shoving
maura @ 9:48 pm
It’s been a little quiet around this here blag lately. Why? I’m not exactly sure. I’m on my one-week break between the spring + summer semesters, though I’ve packed it with internship stuff and Gus’ school stuff, so I’m not just lying around the house eating bonbons. I think I was a little down last weekend, maybe a bit of the end of semester blues. And the job search is looming, so that’s a tad stressful, too.
On the other hand, I’ve done some fun stuff as well. Yesterday I went on a field trip with Gus’ class to the Whitney Museum. I really needed a coffee after herding 21 kindergarteners (!) on 3 different subways (!!) during rush hour (!!!) to get from Brooklyn to the Upper East Side, but sadly there were no walk-through espresso bars on the way into the museum. I wanted to see the Gordon Matta-Clark exhibit, but the kids were scheduled to see Calder’s Circus and I thought it would be bad form to ditch them. The Whitney’s educators were fantastic and the kids had a really fun time making sculpture with colored wires and volunteering incredible information: e.g. that a moving sculpture was like a see-saw which, by the way, is a lever. Little smarties.
And another fun thing is coming up this weekend: our building’s annual stoop sale! Huzzah! This year we mostly have lots and lots of old toys to sell, having convinced the little prince that it was time for many of the “baby” things to hit the road. Everything is piled up in our study and ready to go, and anything that doesn’t sell is going to charity the very instant the sale is over. Ahhh, nothing makes the OCD-ridden happier than getting rid of stuff. Good times!
