well i just got home from volunteering at the museum of fine art. i'm helping with art classes for kids every other saturday. today we did watercolor bird drawings. the kids are anywhere from about 4 to 8 years old. it was fun, and the museum is only a block away so i think i'll really like doing this. i'm also going to begin working with the museum's collections too, which is closer to what i did in my last museum job.
last night joe and i went to the only thai restaurant in town, Lemongrass. pretty expensive and it wasn't great. i guess it was okay. i asked the waiter if they could substitute mock duck in any of the dishes, and he said 'i don't even know what that is' (!) think we're going to have to stick with mexican and southwest food when we go out.
then we went over to the neighbor's house, where 4 Americorps people live from joe's school. we all walked to a brew pub, where they had lots of good beer they brewed themselves. the music was really random (i.e. bad!) and the place itself was like a converted house. it was pretty dead inside but there was a nice little patio outside.
we recently watched 'howl's moving castle' by miyazaki. it was amazing, of course. not quite as good as 'princess mononoke', more on par with 'spirited away'. if you haven't seen any of his movies, i highly recommend checking them out. they are some of the most the most imaginative and fantastical films i've ever seen. here's a link about miyazaki.
we plan to take a hike tomorrow. i need to get some suitable shoes. i also get a really reduced fitness center membership through my program for me and joe (only $15/month), so i tried to get some running shoes the other day. every place i went said they don't carry any shoes in my size (5 or 5-1/2) . they said i may have to get kids shoes! how annoying is that? i am going to try again today.
i got three funny emails from my friends andy hurt and ben late last night. andy, who lives in san diego, is out in washington D.C. for some marines training. so i got him in touch with ben, who lives in NYC...they went out in ben's neighborhood and went to a bunch of cool places that joe and i went in may. i am SO SO JEALOUS! i miss new york! and those guys too! i feel like las cruces is the opposite of NYC.
i am reading 'love in the time of cholera' by gabriel garcia marquez, which is amazing so far. we've also been listening to prince.
3 comments:
oh molly!
let me tell ya: i've been all 'round this great big country and you ain't gonna find much mock duck outside on the twin cities!
liz, that makes me want to cry!
Yeah for Miyazaki. He never lost the ability to imagine anything and everything, only gained the ability to actualize it.
Grisha says that she has a hard time finding her size too, and wishes you luck.
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