Recap: Crispix

After sleeping for about ten hours last night (Molly has left to do something involving sorority rush) I feel half way decent again.

It is really too bad that I must ruin this feeling with my chem stuff, followed immediately by the bio stuff.

Yesterday was sort of fun. Most of us, being IS students, were semi-dead from sleep deprivation and a week full of midterms, but it was still sort of fun. Due to a lack of coherent planning and bad over-the-phone instructions, we spent far too long wandering up and down JFK Dr. (or was it Rd.? I can't remember) and looking for the first museum, de Young, was not even the problem. We knew where the museum was, having found it, we know where one of the parking garage is, having found that, but the teacher insisted that we should meet her car at the same parking lot...which was on the other side of the park. Which involved a lot of upside-down-and-backwards direction until the five of us in that car (Melissa, Subhere (no idea with the spelling), Vanessa, Max, and I) reached a consensus that we're just going to park in the garage we found and meet the others in front of the museum.

It worked much better that way.

De Young had some truly amazing stuff. The crowd that came later ruined the experience a little, and I have something against the tour guides but, on the other hand, I saw some Chihuly glass sculptures that are very pretty. (The photo, of course, does not give full justice to the work.) Kraitz's ceramic apples were there too (and that picture's from de Young, yes) and it's very whimsical to look at...the giant apples scattered on the grass.

There is another gallery behind the downtown shopping mall place that starts with "Metr" and makes me think of "Metatron" and I went with Kate last year on her birthday and five years ago with City Year. Fire trucks wheezes by. I counted three. San Francisco does seem to be the exciting sort of city.

Discovered an iced tea with lemonade drink at Starbucks which I liked, that I've forgotten the name to the econ concept of "game theory", which I didn't, and that the relationship between politics and art lies within propaganda which art essentially can be considered a varied form of, since they are a product of the thought, which is neither here nor there but I felt like sticking it in somewhere in this post.

To chemistry then--up, up, and away.
(or sideways, downward, and away, depending on where you're standing.)

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More artists' names that I've recorded, linked to a sample work, for the records.

Vallien
Mace & Kirkpatrick (yes it's all glass)
Demuth
Dickinson
Shreve & Co
Moran
Sargent
Church
Foncelle
Doughty
Cole
Keane
Pope (looks like a photo but isn't!)
McCloskey (this is a painting)
Derges
Kenna