Friday, December 26, 2003
listening to: background teevee, some show reid's watching
ah, the family. *flail* so christmas night was nice, we ate some food, opened some presents. yup.
and then i took some nyquil and went to sleep, and maaan, nyquil gives me craaazy dreams. i posted about the burning car one, right? well last night i had like 3... one was just scary and involved my biology final (haha dream, you can't fool me, i already took my bio final), one was something weird with snow? and a bridge? oh, and i was telling trina about the bio dream. but my next dream was in comic book form. it was SO cool. it was a very dave mckean-influenced dream. like, it was mostly a comic book, but it had collage elements. like i remember for sure there were parts of goldfish boxes on some of the pages. the story itself wasn't much... some old people talking about cheese, if i recall. but i dreamed! in comic book form! how cool is that?
anyway, this morning we went to the art institute. <3 art institute. except... we split up, right? so i was with mom and grandma. and they spent an
hour in the gift shop. they would have spent longer if i hadn't been like "uh.. i want to look at some... you know, art? before we have to meet the rest of the family in... half an hour?" oy. but, i did get some totally amazing christmas cards. *flails* they're caillebotte's
paris street; rainy day which is one of my most favorite paintings eeever, only they have santa and the elves in front of it.. like he's a tour guide? oh man, they rock.
anyway, so after i got them out of the gift shop we went up to the impressionist galleries, which are my favorite. especially
paris street and
sunday on the island of la grande jette... i'm a sucker for big paintings. seriously, seeing reproductions doesn't do these things justice... you walk in and see them and they're practically life size and you're just like... asiofduo[iufgsfgh. oh, man. also i love looking at the paintings up close and then you go across the room and look at them and it's like two different paintings. and it was nice today because hardly anyone was there (well, compared to a regular day) so i could wander about and spend as much time as i wanted in front of stuff.
except for my grandma. because every time i was looking at something, she would point to the next gallery and say, "you know, there are more paintings over there!" gee, thanks grandma, i didn't see that giant glass door! and who would have thought that there would be more paintings behind it? i figured it was just a room full of mittens. oy.
still though, it was fun. and impressionist art is even cooler when you're all stoned on dayquil!
then we got lunch at greek islands. mmm, saganaki. and then... kind of randomly we stopped at the mexican fine arts museum. which is a really, really nice museum and you should all go there. aand then i took a nap.
*swivels in chair*
yep.
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