Groundhog's Day

So, in honor of this long overlooked holiday (and a day late) I thought that I would try to stick my head out of my hole to determine what the future is. Turns out I'm not psychic. Instead, I can only give you the recent past...

My parents met the boy's parents. I think it went well, but I don't see a bond like my parents have with my sister's husbands parents. Which is very much what I suspected, and I really think that I'm okay with that.

Seeing as the parents met, it would make sense that one set traveled near the the other, which is, in fact what happened. My parents came to Santa Monica where my dad was for a conference. It's about 20 minutes north of LA. So, while my dad was at the conference, the boy and I took my mom and spent the day at the Getty Museum . Wow. I got through four exhibits, of the about 30 that they have. Two were on photography in the US. I developed a deeper taste for this art and think there are some peoples stuff that I would like to see more of including: Mitch Epstein, Sheron Rupp, and Donald Blumberg (to name but a few). Additionally, they had an exhibit about art from Dresden, which lead me to discover a new artist that I would like to see more of: Gerhard Richter.

I also saw someone famous at the museum (I am fairly sure), but I didn't say anything to him because I was looking for Rembrandt and well, I'm sure that the actor was there for something other than adoration (or at least pointing and signature asking). He was a lot skinner in person than he looks on TV, and scruffier.

School is sucking my time down the drain and my grades last semester were not what I wanted them to be, but only in one class really. But it was the 4 credit class, so it weighs more heavily. Of course. I sort of knew it was coming, though, I was just hoping for better. This semester is a lot of work and I constantly feel about a step behind. The problem with that is that instead of catching up, I know I'm just going to slowly slip further behind. Stupid stuff to do...

And my fingers smell like garlic.