April 24, 2006
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Topic: Weekend update
Took in some culture at the National Art Gallery in DC with one of my old friends who I met back in the day at Jew-camp. I have 3 weddings on the horizon, and my friend showed me the diamond he recently bought, which will make 4 weddings. I’ve never really examined jewelry up close, not my thing and all, but this was one stunning rock. Still can’t believe how much it cost, but those be the rules, right.
I did the whole Chinatown bus thing to DC, $35 r/t, besides getting leaked on during the way down, I had zero complaints. Attended a bbq at a college friend’s house in Columbia Heights, in a nice little 5-person townhouse. Was a good weekend overall, and especially enjoyed viewing Dadaist art, which was a form of art developed during WWI, and revealed artists struggling to depict what they viewed as the madness of their world, war, meaningless work, all that good stuff. Also was a Cezanne exhibit, quite a colorful painter, loved his trees.
This one is called Repuclica Automotons, anonymous face, patriotic flag-waving, cog in the machine.
So…I decided to take 5 vacation days over 2 weeks, which means a 2-day work week this week, and a 3-day work wee next week, w/ 7 days off in the middle. I think this works out better than taking M-F off, for a 9 day vacation. Any time you have a disrupted work week, is a good thing, so i’ll take the two weeks over the one.
