Into each life

The carnival was still there when Kate and I went to downtown San Jose earlier today. We went to the art museum, which had a De-Nature exhibit that was pretty neat. I didn't quite understand the Miro exhibit, but the permanent collections had a few paintings that were awesome -- there's also a photo (or one of a photo from a series) that I remembered seeing in a gallery in downtown San Francisco two years ago. (Which reminds me, if you've never seen Andy Goldsworthy's sculpture / photography collections, check it out. It is Great.)We also went on the ferris wheel that was downtown and noticed that there was another ferris wheel not two blocks from where we were, once we had reached the highest point of the ferris wheel. There was also this mini-ferris-wheel for kids behind us which was cute (it's TINY). Then there was food at the library cafe and the Dr. King Library. I missed it, from the basement up to the weirdly angular and glassy roof, and it was reassuring how little it had changed.

Recap (Thursday now, I believe?):

On Thursday I drove Kate to Valco -- excuse me -- Cupertino Square, where we met Victoria and, after some confusion about the location of "inside of Sears" met up with Kateryna and Lusine as well. I think this was where the person who was selling mops was -- either that or I'm confusing this with Tuesday, but it was kind of boring so I got distracted by the framed prints that was nearby and found duplicates of anatomically correct plant sketches from the natural museum of France and the something botanical society of Britain. Or maybe it was London. (The sketches are pretty.) Whether this happened on Thursday or not, what definitely happened afterwards was Kateryna driving all of us over to Cupertino High School, where school is still ongoing, where we wondered around and visited teachers. We had no idea where Mr. A, Mr. Morse, or Ms. Uji were, but did see Mr. Ferrante, Ms. Mandison, Sr. Murillo, and the French teacher whose name I didn't remember. The high school students were louder than I remembered and unbelievably energetic (did we really act we're high on sugar all the time back then?) but the school itself is pretty much as we remembered it. Except for the fence. Now there's a fence around everything and I think it was either Kate or Lucy who had remarked that now school is more like a prison than ever.

Then we went to Cupertino Square and watched Enchanted, which was ... very Disney. I liked the chipmunk, but the Queen is a bit overdone and the rest of the plot line can be considered amusing, if you turn your brain off (but then, it's Disney). (The tower scene is just...there are no words, but the scene with spontaneous downtown New York parades is hilarious.)

Kateryna, Kate, and Lusine wanted food afterwards, and since Victoria and I didn't, I dropped her back at her place before driving back to Cupertino Square to hang out with the others who were still at Fresh Choice. There were a lot of references that I didn't get and people were amusing themselves with deserts (can you eat jello with a fork? Yes you can -- if you do it fast enough). I drove home afterwards.