| | | | | | Wednesday, February 28, 2007 |
The Penguins Are Coming!
| | The head of programming at the Sacramento Zoo talked to my museums class today, and from it I learned several things. The things that have to do with museums I shall spare you. Really the important things is this:
Soon the Sacramento Zoo will be hosting penguins for two years.
These penguins are Magellenic, meaning they are native to Argentina.
Argentina! (they are advertising them with orange backgrounds instead of glacier blue and saying that these penguins are -hot-). They -burrow-, like rabbits!
AND: they are getting three couples (penguins pair off) two male female couples and one male couple.
Let me give you a recap:
there exist in the world Argentinian Gay Penguins, and two of them are coming to Sacramento for two years.
This tickles me more than it should.
ALSO: in unrelated news, apparently I'm a funny lady. I was touched. I know I think I'm hi-larious, but it's nice to know other people agree.
LASTLY: Cultural Marxism. Bleh.
posted by Amber at 11:39 PM
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| | | | | | Saturday, February 24, 2007 |
| | So I went to Lathrop tonight. And if you've ever -been- to Lathrop, you know you need a reason, to go. I went to see my cousin, to do nothing, dynamically. I did an okay job, we ordered a pizza and watched a movie. We talked for a while, he smoked cigarettes, I drank a glass of water.
Okay really not much happened, I lack the ability to transmic the dynamic nature in words.
I had a good time
Tomorrow I have the day off. Whoo!
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| | | | | | Sunday, February 11, 2007 |
I -did- stuff
| | hey!
So, I went dancing last night with Sterling. We were planning on going to Press Club, that place we went to in October... but apparently it closed down sometime since October. Lame. Instead we went to Empire, which was pretty alright. It was Hip Hop, but pretty decent danceable beats. The cover was 15.00, which is a lot for a club, but you can tell it went into atmosphere. For a wharehouse (and it was a wharehouse, the bathrooms have the legal wash your hands signs still) it was pretty slick, two bars ($5.00 gin and tonics, made with swill gin but five seems to be a pretty standard price for it, and there was a lot of gin, so that's a plus), some crazy lights/sound, and our very own hired stage dancers (kind of creepy, not going to lie. Titilating girls with vacant eyes). Man, when Sterling and I go dancing, we always get comments. Luckily, this place the people were friendly (none of that pointing and laughing), but I have a hard time believing that they aren't thinking "good lord, those people are WHITE." That thought is amusing, mostly because I'm half hispanic and he's half chinese so between the two of us we're one white person, but we were both raised white, so I guess that explains that. We also dance in tandem a bit (without really dancing on one another), which I think is really cool. If you let us we can take up a LOT of the dance floor, but there were too many people last night (like that one time we had the whole dance floor at Ricki Loves... man that was cool). Also was able to get Sterling to cha-cha to a number, so that was fun.
We had a good time.
I got to bed a little before three (Sterling left at two, had to shower because I was -gross- from the dancing), then woke up at six thirty to go work for eight hours. It was a busy day, the music lady had to go home sick, so I spent the second half of my shift in music. It was alright, Tomas came in at one pm, and he's fun. I came home read twenty pages of the French revolution, then promptly fell asleep for two hours. I woke up a little before eight pm, and just read nintey more pages, so I'm chuggin' along. I work tomorrow morning which is lame, but I'm getting forty hours this week, which is good because I -really- need the money.
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| | | | | | Thursday, February 08, 2007 |
| | Oy,
So my calendar is filling up, it is filling up with stuff. I am already craving free time (you know real free time, time that one spends to do things one enjoys, not time spent without any specific commitment but is actually slotted towards doing stuff. Example: I had today off work, but I spent from 1pm-5pm in the library researching and then writing a biography for class, and tomorrow on my day off I will be cleaning the house and doing all my reading for the week, and calling the phone company so's that I can get internet). I understand, intellectually, that this is a big part of adult life, but I don't have to like it, do it?
Oh god, DO I?
Also, Ed's schedule is filling up too, meaning there is less overlapping time in both of our schedules. And I know I should just accept the fact that that means less Ed per week, but I -like- talking to him the amount that I do. But trying to keep our current communication levels stable means inconveniencing one or both of us, which is no good. I also have to balance slotting Sterling into my free time (I wonder if I could convince him that it would be AWESOME to spend the day at the Woodland public libary doing research about the history of Woodland... I doubt it. As it is I've convinced him he really wants to go the Crocker Art Museum with me). And the fact that he can sometimes be difficult to reach is going to matter more and more. For example I'm seeing him Saturday to go dancing, but I work Saturday proper (meaning I'll rush home from work to get ready to see him) and then I have to be BACK at work at seven am the next day (we'll finish up probably around two, I'll get four hours sleep and then BAMN work time). And I'm not sure where I'll be able to dedicate the time to make up the sleep (otherwise I'll fall asleep at an inconvenient time and screw up EVERYTHING. I fell asleep in the middle of reading earlier this week).
My classes are time intensive in different ways. My historiography class takes up time outside of class because I need to go to the library every week check out and then copy the reserve readings, then do the reserved readings and then the bought book readings (this week I have to read the Communist Manifesto and a book on the French revolution... the whole three hundred page book by tuesday). The other two aren't really reading heavy (although there are readings every week which I must do) but they seem to have this idea that everyone has all this time to spend researching things (compare and contrast the websites of these twenty five museums, rate them on effectivness, using the American Association of Museums criteria as a guideline, also please write a four to five page paper on the history of one of these seven cities... we're not going to tell you where to find this information, we want you to find crazy sources all on your own... hint: the library is only the starting place). And of course my classmates are crazy committed to this thing, so we ALL have to be crazy committed.
I feel like I'm not good enough... like a lot.
And as it stands now, I'm probably not.
I was joking with one of my coworkers that I can do all this because I don't have a social life, and I don't really so that should be good. But boy I'm going to miss my leisure time.
Oh, this turned into a bitch session... gee, sorry about that. I meant to fill you in on the News, but instead I complained. Um, the news, the news... um, I've been busy. My class time has been interesting (the Railroad museum is cool), and work has been good (been working with the morning crew, and I like James and Lisa so it's been fun... also we're all pretty tired making jokes that would be kinda lame HILARIOUS). Uh, yeah, that's it!
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| | | | | | Monday, February 05, 2007 |
how many trombones again?
| | So, I finally saw the Music Man. And it was -really- good. And ridiculous, which is a good thing in a musical, I think. Too many dance numbers mayhaps, but that's how it goes. Also the word Shipoopi (and the concept) sort of hurts me inside, so does the word 'yegods'. The only downside is that I cannot see Robert Preston as a romantic lead, I always see him as an old queen (Victor Victoria). Also, Family Guy -really- likes this musical.
Outside of the musical, I talked to people (Calen, Ed, my mother) and I read. I read a lot. The museum book is really cool, the CRM book, will hopefully get better (it had damn well better get better). I read a VERY detailed description as to what the National Envirionmental Preservation Act means when it says the word "significantly" (it contained parts a and b and part b had sections 1-7). I also read something very interesting on why people don't go to museums (and was introduced to the term 'Edutainment'). So, it was a nice weekend off, I suppose.
Oh well, I need to be up in less than six hours now, so I should go to bed.
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| | | | | | Thursday, February 01, 2007 |
day 2 of school
| | oh man, so I had my museums seminar today. And it looks like it will be completely awesome... except for the 25-30 page paper at the end of it, that looks like it will be lame. The lady who is teaching it the head of some department at the Sacramento
Railroad Museum, and all of our classes will take place there. I get to attend lectures on essentially ten aspects of running amuseum, from stuff that springs to mind (procuring and assembling collections) to stuff that doesn't (museum PR,
security issues, museum legal issues). It seems like EVERYONE in the class has spent THEIR WHOLE LIFE preparing for this class (like 2/3 of the class are employed by a museum, others have done internships there). It's hard to compete with a lady who has spent the last four years of her lie starting up an organization that collects the oral histories of african american men and women who have served in the the US military during war time, her goal is to open a museum along these things (people of color and the armed services). Or the woman who is currently putting together an exhibit for the Crocker Art Museum (the only accredited museum in the sacramento area). Everyone seems so damn focused, it's scary. Plus I think I made an ill (pun intended) impression on the class... namely as the Mucous Girl. The lady next to me told me at the break it would be okay if I went home, and I think she wasn't as concerned about MY health as she was about HERS. I'm actually feeling much better, the fever is down under a hundred (99.0!), now my sinuses are trying to revolt. I've been using this flushing stuff which helps, in that I do not suffer from a stuffy nose (leading to a protracted and messy sinus infection) but the trade off is that all the excess mucous my body creates seems to be in race to escape my sinus cavities as fast as possible
I feel pretty, oh so pretty.
PS Saturday is Museum Day in Sacramento! All the museums are open and admission is free, I have a guide for the local museums and I'm supposed to visit at least three. I'm hoping for the California State Capitol Museum, maybe the Governor's Mansion and the State Historic Cemetary. Because all of those sound pretty damn cool. Here's to hoping that I feel well enough to go!
posted by Amber at 12:47 AM
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