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Tuesday, January 27

1:11 PM
We had Warrington Colescott as our visiting artist last week. He's really amazing. He's about 83 and he still makes great work, a lot of social satire. His lecture was on Thursday and on Friday he showed our department some of his work in person.

Thursday night our entire department and Mr. Colescott had dinner at the home of a local print collector, who has just incredible work hung up all over his house: Jasper Johns, Ed Ruscha, Yoshitomo Nara, Kiki Smith, Andy Warhol, Bruce Nauman, Brice Marden. Awesome.

It snowed a ton on Friday and Hilary was driving Mr. Colescott to the airport when her car broke down in the middle of the highway. She called the studio and I went to find them, but I didn't bring my cell phone and I never found them. I was gone for three hours in the snow and rush hour traffic, but that doesn't really compare with what happened to Hilary and Colescott! They were stuck for 2 hours until Hilary's girlfriend rescued them and he missed his flight and had to get a later one. I guess it could have been worse, but it was pretty bad.

And now it's snowing again, and we're supposed to get five inches.

Tuesday, January 20

4:22 PM
quick notes:

On Saturday our guest lecturer was Fred Wilson, who does some really interesting work rearranging museum collections, among other things.

I went to a Sculpture critique yesterday and it was pretty cool. It was actually a drawing critique, which they have periodically.

I just got the new iLife in the mail today and I'm trying out Garage Band. I've got my guitar hooked up to it and it's sweet - it has a lot of amps that you can adjust and combine, and I'm very excited to start recording music again.

Wednesday, January 14

12:20 PM
It's snowing heavily outside. I don't want to go out there yet.

Monday, January 12

12:20 PM
I'm back at school, in the snow.

Wednesday, January 7

2:35 PM
I've had a good vacation overall. Shannon came to Columbus a few days before Christmas and went with me and my family to Paducah. Going to Paducah is a sort of rite of passage for girlfriends/boyfriends. There are about 70 people all gathered in one house on Christmas Eve every year and it's great. Yummy food, an endless Hearts game, little kids running around.

My uncle Ken got engaged on Christmas Day. My immediate family went with Pa-Pa (my grandfather) to the cemetery and looked at our relatives' graves. My brother Phil is organizing a genealogy of our family, something which my parents have done off and on in the past.

Uncle Lawrence took Shannon and me downtown to show us the Paducah Artist Relocation Program. The local bank helped refurbish these old homes and invited artists to live and work in them. It's a cool idea. Lawrence also had a lot of information about the history of the town and it was cool to find out stuff I didn't know about it.

On the way back from Paducah we stayed overnight at Aunt Carolyn and Uncle Henry's. The next day we stopped at Uncle Jack and Aunt Ellen's for another small Christmas (Jack is my mom's only sibling).

When we got back to Columbus, I wanted to show Shannon around the city because before I had never planned any interesting stuff for us to do. I took her to the Book Loft in German Village and we went to a movie at the Drexel, the indie movie theater. The movie was "In America" and it was incredible.

I was telling Shannon that I wished there was someone who could show us Columbus the way Lawrence showed us Paducah, and out of nowhere my godmother Jean called and wanted to take us the Franklin Park Conservatory, where there were Dale Chihuly glass sculptures among the plants. We went on the 31st. On the way to the conservatory we drove through downtown and the northern part of it just south of the Short North, where there are some exciting cultural things going on. Afterwards we went to a Mongolian barbecue place where they cook the food you select in front of you. We walked up and down High St. in the Short North where a bunch of shops are, and then went to Graeter's for ice cream. Yum. That was probably the nicest Christmas present Jean ever gave me.

Shannon and I spent New Year's Eve with Kate, Joy, and Joy's boyfriend Chris at Chris's house. It was low-key and fun.

New Year's Day I think we just went to a movie (Love Actually) at Easton, the gigantic mall on the east side of Columbus, far away from everything. The next day we went to COSI, the science museum, which was fun but gave me a big headache.

On Sunday Joy and Kate both went back to school. Shannon's flight back to Iowa was that day too, but it go cancelled after she spent all day at the airport waiting for continually pushed-back reschedules. She didn't get to leave until very early Monday morning.

I didn't get much sleep those two days, and then yesterday morning I was very ill. I spent most of yesterday sleeping in an easy chair. Today I'm feeling fine again save for a headache.