sunnyMunnyDay

Hi everyone- so here are some things to mark down on your maps at home about where i went this weekend. so sunday was pretty gray day, saturday evening ended with high gusts and rains hooray:) let's hope for a tsunami the winds were really strong. so sunday was a toss up day, i was either going to go to phoenix park/botanical garden or merrion square and some cooking. so i decided to go to merrion square, which is kind of like a smaller park within the city very close to st. stephen's green that had a really cool art project in it. there was the wish project that was in the square on top of the air raid shelter, no kidding. but it was a need idea it had these sticks with slots in them and vellum paper that had wishes written on them and then folded into flower shapes and stuck in the slotted sticks. i found it pretty creative but it was a little lame because of the wishes, " i wish to be happy" "i wish my friend's and family to be safe and happy". not that i don't want these people to be happy but what about things like, i want to understand the free radicals, plastic, and a microwave phenomenon? they might have been written by kids, i'm not sure. i also had a very nice savory scone at AVOCA, cheddar tomato. i also found some organic vegetables in a market (that were overpackaged:( but i bought them anyway. i then went home and made spicy chickpea nuts with ginger and cayenne, i marinated the vegetables (eggplant, zucchini, red and yellow peppers, purple onions) in balsamic vinegar and oil with rice and for dessert vegan chocolate cake (i also applied for the vegetarian chef job at Cornucopia because i realized how much i love to make vegetarian food) so i will probably call them during a lunch break this week. then as flat mates the 3 of us watched the end of the italy france soccer match and then a french movie by the directors of amilee (it was about meat eaters eating vegetarians, i feel this way a lot of times around the meat eatin' peeps). so at 1am it was time for bed.

so monday, well...fransesca's alarm startled me up and i shot up in bed and then laid back down. i tried to fall back asleep but then just got up at 9am. today was a busy errand day. i went to the post to mail some analog email, i went to the bank to open up a checking account, which i will find out about in 5 business days. i applied at AIB, which fransesca had recommended, but another option would have been IBS (hehe) not kidding about that one. i also went to Cultivate, where fransesca used to work, and will there again in the fall to find some volunteer opportunities within the organic community. there is a cool event that is going on in the fall about design and the ecology of the enviroment, i am going to see if eric, the guy in charge (aka fransesca's friend) needs any help. so more to come on that.

the art today: so i went to the hyde gallery, which is located within the trinity college grounds i saw the work of Laura Owens and Mark Garry. Both pretty intersting Mark had a single work where he took rainbow colored thread and had it across two parallel walls, i so wanted to pull my fingers down all the threads, like a harp, even though i know it would probably ruin the exhibit, but it was so tempting. Laura had some nice work the bio said she was one of the most brilliant upcoming american painters of the post modern era...crickets. i'm not sure about that, i'm pretty sure Ginny and Maria at UMD has created much more interesting and with more depth pieces then Laura, but i could be biased. i also went to a gallery inside a mall...not so inspiring. so i don't have anything to say about that.

i did go to the photography archive today as well, the place that had the 4 MFA photography shows taxidermy women in uniform...jogging any memeories? so the photo archive had old photos from county Waterford from the early 1900s, horse racing tracks, boats, bridges, not so happy looking weddings but the cool thing was the upstairs photos were created recently from the metal plates that held the negatives. the plates are the same size as the photo and set directly on top of a fiber paper and exposed to a light source and developed in a very similar way as i have developed my photos in the dark room...crickets again? so kind of boring subject matter but cool process info.

i also got some tickets to an afternoon play called whereabouts, as part of a vestival that happened in may this is a video experience that i will experience on sunday afternoon, free tickets woohoo i love you temple bar. i also found an eletrical adapter so i can charge my pod at home, excellent. as well i had gotten some soap from down to earth that was going to go into the garbage (we got some with new packaging) so took the 10 bars and brought them to a shetler that is up by christ church, just across the liffey. the staff at the shelter were so happy to take them (warm fuzzies inside) so 1 for mother earth and 1 for the homeless community in dublin, the geranium rose smelling bums. nice. so there may be more to come today but currently i am kind of all typed out. so...
xoxo,
christie