At My Fingertips

Since New England, October has been in full swing. Apples from the CSA, scarves, ghost tours, and they even turned on the heat in my building!


I went to NYC last week to see the Avett Brothers at Radio City Music Hall with Kayla and Kevin. I spent the whole day there, and got to see the Guggenheim exhibit Chaos and Classicism, which was awesome. I think they could have explained a little more of art before WW1 to the general public (ie, they mentioned Ingres a few times, but without any explanation of who he really was). But it was really very good, I was there for two hours! Then I ran to the MET to see the Jan Gossart show, which was pretty good too. Then the Whitney for the Lee Friedlander show with Kayla, Kevin, and Kayla's friend Ann-Marie. We walked around the whole museum, but two floors were closed. Good thing we all got in free on museum-employee passes! The Avett Brothers were so good!

I did start volunteering at the UPenn Museum last week, and so far its really great. My project is to identify, label, and log hundreds of 4x6 E6 (film positives) photos of the museum's roman glass collection.

I would have gone again yesterday, but Nanny came to see the Cleopatra exhibit at the Franklin! I found that the objects they chose were beautiful, but not necessarily displayed as well as they could have been with the text. I enjoyed reading the historical labels, but they were sort of haphazardly placed near objects that had little or nothing to do with that specific piece of the story, or it was a serious stretch. But then Celia met us for lunch and Nanny took us to Sabrina's which was delicious! AND I have leftovers.

I finally started moving some of the herbs inside.

I have even started riding my bike! AMAZING, JEN, GREAT JOB!, you say. Yes, its true. But, the real truth is that Erika and Jeremy are so good to me, that I asked Jeremy to fix up my bike. He did that and more, granting me not only the use of my bike, but even rode around with me for a little bit. Now, the city is at my fingertips (but, for now, I'll just stay in Fishtown).

I have to admit, I hate how dry and cold and dreary the winter is. But it might just be my best winter in Philadelphia yet.