and another thing

the dumbo arts festival has become fairly commercialized. i'm not saying its a generic art fair. but a pop up uniqlo and att branding and food trucks abounded.
as did many many people. i first went to it jr year of college when i came to nyc for fall break. its been a must go to ever since. i've seen some amazing stuff-mainly installation based over the years and some meh and walked around some awesome buildings.
i don't have a full thought out post on this. was just struck by the commerical venture.
and saw some cool things this year.

i know what i meant to write about.

popular, accessible, but also textured classical music. apparently this is back in and the classical music of the 20th century which is atonal and i hate it out. this pleases me. came up twice on studio 360 this week, tangentially to what was being talked about but i was like hell yeah, fuck that academy shit. you can be literate and have a plot (or melody as may be the case for music, it was actually a writer he was talking to where it came up)


would love to see magnetic fields again. looks like they recently released a new album, but no dates out there.

is black a bad color for a challah cover

goes against the white is good, pure, holy. clean, refreshing bits. but found a nice sized piece of fabric that embroidery would look awesome on. bought it regardless but...
have grand rosh hashannah card visions this year, we'll see how i do.
whatever kinda day. but borrowed a book and went to pilates.
mararthon's bike is back in working order. he is ordering a new helmet as soon as it's here he will be off on the bike again. would be sooner, but i need my helmet. am glad, but wish he had a bike that was meant for a fast comfy ride, not a much faster-fast ride. i will wipe his ass again, but i really don't want to.

its the weekend so i guess i should post

went to the thurs handstand class. think i like it better than the tues, but would miss more.
agreed to stay over at school for the 4th grade sleepover. not pleased. and only doing it if i get paid. and part of me says, make the person who has it outlined in her letter of employment do it.
was supposed to rain all weekend. kinda ruined my plans to go to outdoor stuff all weekend. but now doesn't seem so bad, so perhaps i will still get in some dumbo arts fest.
embroidery class was better this week.
nothing much to say

when it rains it pours and then i miss out on something

open house new york, my fav architectural weekend of the year when i see open stuff this year falls when i will be out of town for some ezt snuggling and my first canadien thanksgiving celebration. sad. but at least its for a good reason.

i wrote a to do list earlier but it got lost

but here's an update
done:
cool art tour-fullpost later
coop for work snacks and some stuff for us
pick up prescription
drop off laundry (not home in time to pick up laundry)
got tracing paper (pearl isn't all it used to be--sad)
drink tea

still need/want to do today
dinner that involves some prep
call parents
blog on stillspotting (art thing)
trace out pics for embroidery class tomorrow
drink more tea

1st cold of the year

marathon got on his bike today. errr my bike. he was gone for a long time i got a little nervous but was glad he felt good enough to do it. was fine, except my bike doesn't really fit him.

having a cold sucks. by body feels fine. my head not as much. wish i had some sudafed.
thinking about how to offer comfort from afar for a friend with an upcoming yartzeit

a coworker's husband has stage 4 lung cancer, only diagnosed b/c it had metasitized to brain and was causing stroke like symptoms. yikes.

watermelon juice disater yesterday. first part marathon made me juice--very sweet of him but left the seeds in and makes the juice taste like shit. second part i spilled it everywhere twice. also right before i left for work, so did shitty clean up job. this morning i tried to do better but then found some more places it is...

time for more tea

let your kid have some freedom

who cares if he does lattice multiplication.
hard for me to bite my tongue sometimes. so i curled up on the couch and read my book.

few days later
lava class will have rotating instructors. this is good and bad. different people focus on different things and run class a little differently which can be good and refreshing. but then no one is consistently looking at the progress of your handstand.
got bug bitten during class blah.
many bam performances this year on the chagim.

marathon reads this now. maybe.

he did at least once. i doubt he went through any archives or back very far. will this mean i censor myself. i don't know. i hope not. will he be hurt if he reads something i didn't tell him. probably.

i cry often at movies. and often at ones no one else does-comedies. it's when relationships are involved, often familial. i don't often cry at books. but last night on the train, great house was tugging at my tears. it's been a while since a book has made me want to stay up and read. but now at a part that i am not as into and likely won't pick it up again today. just finished the chapter. more tears.

ditched the gym yesterday to go to the beach. staring at the waves is good for me, and the light was perfect. it was cool to watch the tide come in. at first i thought it was the bottom of low tide, was cool to see how it came in unevenly and sandbars formed. when i left and surveyed a bit more i wonder if actually what made it like that was erosion from the recent rain and storm as i don't even remember it being so uneven before. i hope i make time to go down to the beach and watch the waves a lot.

forgot...and sad

had 29 first graders draw 'a scientist at work' today. while in some of the drawings, mainly from girls, there were figures that could be girls when i asked each to tell me what 'the scientist' is doing, each started the answer with 'he is'
the lesson end with us talking about how each and every one of us is a scientist

7:50-6:35

there is no need to be there almost 11 hours.
saw kids on the train and totally ignored them looked the other way and pretended i didn't see them. but 7:40 is way too early to deal with kids.
robotics afterschool-11 kids 1st-6th grade, know more than me to never seen a robot. and a couple of them are handfuls. yikes. overwhelming but it will work and be fine.
gym though-ha. never again.
at least one friend but i feel like more i shaving some issues and i wish i could take em to coffee not just read about it.
the only herbs we are getting from csa is parsley--gross

9-11 coverage

i am sick of it.
and also uninformed. but listening to on point and i like what this guy from the new yorker (george packer) is saying about basically how we fucked up, and also the republicans are screwing us over. might try to read actual article, but don't want to read the whole thing both b/c the new yorker is long and overwhelming and the rest of the articles i don't want to see.

first day. went fine. there too late for no reason.

apt needs an overhaul. started by don't think it looks so good.

first day tomorrow

and the rain for the week ruins my plans of biking to work. need metrocard now. bleh.
also didn't pick up the cute dress from the tailor i wanted to wear.
rain will also screw with the schedule for the kids and being outside for 2 hours and we don't have a contingency plan. not my problem though.

brunch at thistle hill today, had a veggie burger. ok but i have no reason to go back.

us open last night. lopez lost the match more than murray won it. he was super inconsistent. marathon thought the women's was a better match to watch. not sure if i agree. was clearly windy on court by looking at ball boys clothing and sometimes the players, but didn't see it affect game, which it must have. i have really enjoyed the small amount of doubles i've seen. wish i had gotten to see more.
totally fell asleep on train, a couple stops from home. would have missed stop if marathon didn't wake me. the food we got was totally awful.

hmm blue sky out now.prob won't do anything til pilates. oh well. c'est la vie.
anything else to say. not really.
fireworks friday. finally made it to habana outpost sat (crowed), biked to beach yesterday. brunch and coop shopping today.

i should be getting ready for work

but bleh.
a coworker's husband was rushed to the hospital yesterday bc he couldn't move and they ended up finding 2 masses, one in chest one in brain. how could it be that he was fine one day and struck down the next. scary for her. and there is never a good time for these things to happen, but this is a bad time in terms of its ripple effects and what this does to planning for the start of the school year and how to deal. i would not want this to happen to anyone, but i really like this coworker and feel particularly bad for her.

we don't get our first metrocards if we use transit check until october. i call that an admin fail.

4 year anniversary with marathon today. feel like we should go back to fort tryon park.
random other things to say. but should really leave house in 15 minutes so need to bust.