picking up the slack

in the style of red, a weekend update.

friday: up to chicago-land for a wedding with siddu on saturday, but first a late-night showing of x-men 3. i can't remember when i last saw a movie on opening day, and the theatre was packed. the movie was great, my pathetic crush on hugh-jackman-as-wolverine lives on, and i believe siddu's soul mate was sitting two people down from me - every comment sid made throughout the previews and the movie was either precluded or echoed by an eerily similar comment from the guy to my left. even more amusing was was hearing the line "get these motherfucking snakes off my motherfucking plane" in stereo during the 'snakes on a plane' preview. (which is impressive, considering the preview did not include that line - that means they both thought to bring it up at the same moment. creepy.)

saturday: wedding. it was nice. it was two people i don't know. but the bar was open, there was a lot of great music, and the food was good. oh and in between the ceremony and the reception a group of us went to woodfield mall, which makes any day that much brighter. the plan after the reception was to spend the night at sid's roomate's family's house...however as we drove north from schaumburg...for 45 minutes...we realized we could have been home 20 minutes ago. oops.

sunday: i sold a purse i made (knit/sewed) for 40 bucks! woot!
also i got my basic skills test results. the basic skills test is the first in a long line of hurdles to becoming a teacher. i did well...but the competitive side of me wants to know HOW well. i know passing is a 24o out of 300 (an 80%), and i did quite a bit better than 240, but i want to know how many people did quite a bit better than 240. to sate my own personal academic vanity.

monday: siddu came back to normal with me, and we roasted in my apartment until tuesday. granted i'm not an expert on a.c. repair...but i'm pretty sure the a.c. is NOT supposed to have a sheet of ice on it. or in it. but mine did. and it made life unbearably humid. thus we didn't move much monday.

in more recent news, i curated an installation for the show opening friday at the gallery. maybe not a huge deal, but it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside to look at the installation, hanging all pretty on the wall, and think 'hey! i arranged that!'. if nothing else it kept me busy and off the computer for two days while i arranged and hung 58 tiles of various sizes on a wall.

and thats it. i have an educational psychology exam tomorrow morning, and no matter how many times my mother says it is...no, ed psych is not easy. anyway she is not allowed to say that, she majored in it. so back to studying i go.

~DsA