saturday: katie and i went to atlanta to see the van gogh exhibit at the high museum of art. my friend court bought us tickets earlier in the week so that i wouldn't have to pay the surcharge, and we picked up the tickets from her and took her to her accounting test @ georgia state. it was a whopping 10 minutes that i got to see her, but it was still nice. she was my best friend down here last year and i was pretty upset when she transferred.
there wasn't as much van gogh as i had hoped to see, but it was still neat to see the originals of works that i've only seen in books and on posters. it's unreal to me how colorful and realistic looking works of art, even from centuries ago can be. the museum was pretty crowded, and it was funny to watch people walk around with headphones on listening to the commentary. i never got a photography permit, and probably wouldn't have been brave enough to take their pictures though. it was pretty dark anyway, and you can't use a flash in there.
the museum's huge, and we walked around on every floor, stopping less and less to look at stuff as we got ready to leave. i felt pretty uneducated and unhip, and it was always comforting to hear other patrons make remarks like, "ooh, this one's cool. it looks so real." i don't buy all that artspeak anyway, although i'm sure plenty of people would disagree.
after the museum we drove up to alpharetta to see kris. i haven't seen her since august, so that was a must-do on this trip as well. we sat and talked at her house for a while, then went to eat at the cheesecake factory @ north point mall. it's not as cool on the inside as the one in buckhead, but the food was incredible. katie said it was her new favorite place to eat, to which i said, "oh great" pretty sarcastically. she said she'd pay the next time which i told her wasn't going to happen.
i woke up pretty congested on saturday morning but was excited about the day and didn't let it bother me. i didn't really feal bad until we went out to eat. driving home was pretty rough too, but the good company kept me awake.
today: today started on a pretty low point. i found out that tara, the coolest, craziest mother of two that i've ever met, is going to be moving to oklahoma and leaving the cohort after this semester. i'm pretty devastated. who else can i ride with and jam out on john mayer and maroon 5? who else will buy me a bouncy ball from a vending machine when we go out to eat? who else will have a son who refers to me as "jason mraz?" it really stinks, we're not even a quarter of the way through this program and i'm losing the one who keeps me sane. man i'm going to miss her!
katie came over tonight and brought me some dinner and cheered me up. she brought some work with her, and we had our laptops out and were productive for about... oh... maybe 30 minutes. well, i worked longer than that, but she was on im the whole time. she's a super sweet, super cute girl who i'm getting more and more attracted to. brett says i'm smitten. only time will tell. (i hear all of you now laughing at that comment and doubting me. it's okay, i can take it.)
well i'm gonna be a good little student teacher and get some sleep so i'm not dragging in front of the kids tomorrow. hope you enjoyed this long post and this picture of blue and a kitten.
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