<p>^that is like Eva Hesse with the guys in Park Place gallery group. wagwagwag
did GF have T strap shoes on?
or Japanese Power ranger. always one pretty girl with bunch of guys stood around her. awwww</p>
<p>bears:
it is pure vacation until i saw your post. Yes, I maybe need to do some research to see if we can see some famous art schools there! Any idea which school I should consider?
switter:
your son is lucky to have such sweet girl friend. It is good they have fun. D told me she has three friends from Iowa to visit her and they all stay in her dorm. 4 girl together, would be very crowded. Good thing is I can see her tomorrow!</p>
<p>I donno. ask kaelyn?
Cooper’s dean, Saskia Bos was a director at DeApple or some such named institute in Amsterdam before came to Cooper.
Could babylove go up and ask her? is she like, approachable or total bit*h?
far as I know it offer contemporary curatorial practice residency for international kids beyond grad school level.</p>
<p>agggghhhh edit edit
I was looking for the photo I saw to attach it to show the pretty T strap shoes and alas!
it was not Eva but girl named Tamara Melcher with same hairdo and same sorta looks!!
so I had crush on someone else all along. how about that?
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she was an original member. Eva was an occasional guest. okay…
now I am glad did not run to UT Austin where they had retrospective show couple years ago, to see the wrong girl’s works, just because of the T strap shoes!!!</p>
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<p>“not wanting to scare her about having hooked her wagon to such a knucklehead…”
Thank you, I can always rely on you for a good chuckle, needed a little cheer today so thanks, this is really a fun comment.</p>
<p>Iceland!!! That is so cool. I was in Iceland when I was a senior in high school. My Mom got a cheap fare to Germany with a stopover in Iceland and snapped it up. I think we flew from Iceland to Luxembourg and then took the train to my Mom’s hometown. I remember meeting this old couple from the Queens – we ended up keeping in touch with them for several years… Walter and Eleanor. Walter was quite a character and loved telling my Mom these wild stories about how the geysers caused all the water in Iceland to be hot and that there was even hot water in the toilets… my Mom had to check it out… and then at dinner she said to Walter “You know, the water in the toilet is not hot”… my brother and I about died in laughter when he in turn asked her how did she know??? and she admitted that she’d tested it. I experienced my first ever blizzard in Iceland on that trip as well. </p>
<p>As for D1 and I… we’re back in the states. D1 has been ensconced on the couch since Saturday night, unable to bring herself to even unpack her suit case. Sigh. Here I am back at work for the second day. I left her a list of things to do around the house yesterday – get her Concerta prescription refilled, call her therapist, empty the dishwasher… but she didn’t quite get to all of it. I’m so surprised at how the tiniest problem puts her in a bind. When I asked her why she didn’t get her med refilled, she said she didn’t have the number and that it was on my phone. Unbelievable. So, I asked her why none of the following strategies were employed: Call me and ask me for the number, call her dad and ask him for the number, look the number up on the internet, look the number up in the phone book, call her therapist and ask for the number, call the pharmacy and ask them for the number. I mean, seriously, this is not a difficult thing to accomplish and if you don’t know the number, why don’t you find some way to find it out???</p>
<p>She is a good travel companion though. She is not demanding (well except for that last night when I wanted to watch TV and see the news about the earthquake and she didn’t want the tv on) she is generally very quiet and goes along with whatever I’m going to do. She doesn’t take the initiative to do anything herself though. She did complain a bit about this and that… moaning, for instance, about not having enough time in Prague… but I don’t mind traveling with her. I just have to keep my expectations low. I asked her a couple of times about what did she think of this? or what did she like the best and she usually didn’t have any opinion to offer about anything. She went along to all the places in my Mom’s hometown that I used to visit as a kid… even the cemetery, though sadly, her great-grandparent’s graves were nowhere to be found… crap. The silly Germans make you pay for the gravesite every twelve years and the twelve years was up in September and my aunt didn’t renew it. I was very aggravated. But what are you going to do? The aunt lives in her own very very small world. I don’t think she much appreciated the visit. kind of sad, actually. She had no questions for me about how my mom passed away. No questions for D1. She wanted to know if I’d brought her sweets (which I didn’t) and she didn’t 'care much about all the new clothes I brought her (she’s in a nursing home). So oh well. the most infuriating thing was that now that she let the gravesite expire there’s no place to bury her when she dies and I don’t think I’m going to pay for a grave for her for twelve years… my grandparents had arranged for her to be buried with them, her name was even on the gravestone. But it’s all gone now, kind of water under the bridge. </p>
<p>We came home to find a letter from MICA stating that they hoped D1 had managed to be productive during her ‘break’ and that she should visit the website to get the forms for readmission if she is going to return in the Fall. Fall registration is next month. I wish I had the right answer… or at least some sort of an answer. I suppose maybe we should go through the motions in case something changes, but right now I don’t see her ready to go back to MICA in the Fall. Sad, very sad.</p>
<p>Hey Switters, sounds like the gf was the one that did all the heavy lifting, lol. Where on earth did they go camping at? Wasn’t it way too cold? And wet. And muddy. Aw shucks, boys never worry about that kind of stuff anyway.<br>
I have noticed this never wanting to take the lead among my kids’ friends too. With aspie girl it tends to be that one girl plans something and all the others follow that girl’s lead. Then they kind of each take a turn on other days to plan something and be the boss/leader. With manga girl, I think it’s more give and take. With D1 - well she was never the boss and would do whatever she could to get out of being the boss.<br>
The friend had two sets of parents? Steps maybe.<br>
Good thing S has a nice sensible girl friend, he could maybe hook up with someone as out of touch as D1 and then where’d they all be?</p>
<p>FAMMoM sounds like you had an adventure in Pittsburgh! I’m glad that you were able to avoid an accident, though it sounds like a horribly close call. Sorry S was stressed already. May will be here before we know it though.</p>
<p>Bears, I have the “shoe a day calendar” and today’s shoe is a - “T-strap “Kari” sandal of repurposed leather and vintage kimono fabric, Hetty Rose, 2009”. Oh, they are lovely! I couldn’t find an image of it online, but here’s the general Google image search results. You’ll get the idea!</p>
<p>[</a>" hetty rose" - Google Search](<a href=“http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&biw=1022&bih=703&gbv=2&tbs=isch%3A1&sa=1&q=“+hetty+rose”&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=]”>http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&biw=1022&bih=703&gbv=2&tbs=isch%3A1&sa=1&q=“+hetty+rose”&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=)</p>
<p>I’ve not been so happy with the calendar this year, not enough vintage shoes, and too many pretty, party shoes with superspike heels from the last year or two. This one redeems it!</p>
<p>[Summer</a> 2011-Craft Central](<a href=“http://www.craftcentral.org.uk/summer-2009]Summer”>http://www.craftcentral.org.uk/summer-2009)</p>
<p>London in May! Loveblue can buy Hetty Rose shoes there if she likes.</p>
<p>Found the Kari t-straps! Hey, only 350 pounds or so, gulp. Curse my damned calendar!</p>
<p>[Bespoke</a> Handmade Shoes by Hetty Rose - Shoes - Kimono Collection](<a href=“http://www.hettyrose.co.uk/shoes/display3/?s=Kari]Bespoke”>http://www.hettyrose.co.uk/shoes/display3/?s=Kari)</p>
<p>Gmom, I’m sorry to hear about your Aunt and the lost grave sites. Your D1 sounds a bit like my D3, she never fully unpacks! It would bug me to have the suitcase still hanging around weeks later, tripping me up all the time, but she can’t seem to motivate to put things away. Maybe for you it’s “darkest before dawn” right about now and she will renew, with the season, and find some more energy and resolve.</p>
<p>G
why is that shoes that cost 350 pounds looks like should be only wore by girls who weigh 100 pounds?</p>
<p>welcome back Gmom.
sooo did you watch “Kolya”? (movie) the main character musician works as gravestone restorer as a sidejob. Czech graveyard, that is.</p>
<p>Trin…you’re back! Congrats on the acceptance. It sounds like hard work. One of my coworkers has been doing his ma divinity and now dresses like a pastor…I was too shy to ask and admit but perhaps you will kindly let me know…sorry for ignorance…does a masters of divinity make you a pastor?! Can you marry someone? </p>
<p>Best of luck. It will be tough with the family separated but I am sure you guys can work it out.</p>
<p>Reading about grad school, travel to iceland and czech republic and…jealous . Oh my…I am in the middle of a week of training in writing/managing government contracts…taught by an ex-colonel …lots of shouting and you feel the need to salute when he calls on you for an answer.</p>
<p>I only oversee one contract but every two years I have to do this training…each time I do the training I find I am doing something wrong with my contract management…</p>
<p>oh to go to iceland! anywhere other than suburbia VA for training/education! So I pointed out my suffering to my training coordinator and …YES…I was confirmed today to go to NYC next week. Bears…get ready! My mother is going to come to keep D company (much against her will since she would prefer to stay with a friend than have Nana watching her every move!). H is going to lake Titicaca…and Argentina…and Chile. But I get to go to NYC!!! infinitely preferable, right Bears?</p>
<p>So much going on in the launchee world. The camping trip…more details please. I am an avid camper but not so husband and our one foray into Pennsylvania for a family camping trip ended badly with the biggest darn stickbug in the world (looked like something from the Brazilian amazon) crawling up H’s leg as he sat by the fire. The screams brought on the Park Rangers concerned about murder and mayhem in their park.</p>
<p>Hey G…I think you did great traveling with D and not having serious arguments. I just blew up at the dinner table over the attitude of my local teen. She and H are cleaning up since I was threatening to never …cook…again…! Perhaps the spring weather will motivate your D to be more of an activist in her life…all the kids seem a bit grumpy and useless while the cold and dreary weather drags on. </p>
<p>That was so sad about the gravesites. They do that in Ecuador too but they generally wait a few years after the lease has expired to remove the headstone (or, in case of ecuador, empty the crypt–but where they put the dispossessed I am not sure). I found that my husband’s aunts had neglected to pay the fees for his paternal grandparents so I paid up through 2020 ($6/year) and cleaned up the plaques. My MIL had not paid either since she was not particularly fond of her MIL/FIL. I pointed out that she was setting a bad example for me …how could she know I would keep her lease up? and how could she be so foolish to rely on her sons?..she had the answer…she has arranged to have herself cremated, the spot for the ashes is already selected and paid for, marker selected and paid for and she will be there in perpetuity since it isn’t a crypt. She says her ashes/marker will be available for visitation for the rest of our lives so start planning…tough nut my MIL.</p>
<p>fineartsmajormom: Thank you! As I’m going to divinity school, but not for ordination – I’m in the MTS program, which is a step on an academic track. After 2 years at HDS, I will have a kind of masters degree and be ready for a PhD program. Then I’ll either teach or do other kinds of work related to multireligious communication. So, yes, I can get married just like every other grad student, though I am not planning on it any time soon! <em>grin</em></p>
<p>Hi Trin-I am getting ready to read this:</p>
<p>[Marilynne</a> Robinson’s ‘Absence of Mind,’ reviewed by Michael Dirda](<a href=“http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/26/AR2010052604894.html]Marilynne”>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/26/AR2010052604894.html)</p>
<p>Which sounds like it may be up your alley. I am a huge fan of Marilynn Robinson’s novels, Gilead and Housekeeping. </p>
<p>Love- yes my son is very lucky about this gf. She doesnt seem to mind the Peter Pan in him. </p>
<p>GMom- they are camping in Virginia. My S is the consumate extrovert, who is usually attracted to introverts, who love him because well, he is loveable, and smart, and loves women, but who get really tired of him because they are introverts. These relationships havent worked too well. The pattern I see is that he is very accomodating and so does that typical introvert in a relationship thing, of being the other persons everything, but then he still needs his extremely social time. So he gets worn a little thin. There is also a lot of the "why dont you like my 10,000 closest friends…</p>
<p>Your son sounds like quite a guy! I’ll bet he was an early charmer, one of those little 2 year olds that everyone just goes goo-goo over. These traits will get him a long way through life. Not a bad thing at all.</p>
<p>Arty- my S is very sweet, but I didnt mean to sound so show-offy. I find myself mad at him most of the time. All the Peter Pan stuff gets really old. The impulsiveness is a little mindboggling too…but now Im starting to feel disloyal, ah the vagaries of the internet…</p>
<p>yay yay
anyone wanna do (no)sex and the city, PM fammom and me, slot is open.</p>
<p>trin dear
there this weird Japanese pastor dude at Columbia doing mystery advanced art / religion degree with stipend plus his wife’s ample income from her estate.
he said to my kid’s friend wanted to do Columbia art
“religion is a great bushiness now. you find connection in it to art, then art become good business, too”
what he meant is to write, talk blah blah-ing ancient scripts or cave painting whatnot related to religious meaning of whatnot. people eat them up. he found niche in Japanese origin, since Italian Greek Chinese are overdone.
so have plenty sex, eat meat, cheat here there but fine scholar you can become and make pile of corporate money. you go!!</p>
<p>I think you’re striking a fine balance, didn’t sound show-offy at all to my ears/eyes.
And I love your comments about him, they’re actually some of my highlights of the day which shows you how my days are going lately. But don’t apologize please.</p>
<p>Well there other highlights to my day, such as Bears telling us about the “pastor dude”!!!
LOL!!! Thanks Bears.</p>