Charming Children

Last Friday I grabbed Q and J to meet C and her nephew I at the park in Davis. Could these two be any more adorable? – I could eat them up.

Saturday I had the bundles of joy all day. Thank goodness L was home to help, you need 8 arms to keep hold of them.

J kept trying to climb in my lap and push Q out of my arms, not a promising behavior from one who generally adores his sister. We distracted him with an animated “Where the Wild Things Are” about 30 times and finally resorted to driving him around in the car to get him to take a nap. He protested vehemently when I tried to lay down with him multiple times – in the car her was out in less than 5 min. He woke up looking like he was coming out of a drug induced coma, he did finally return to his normal self.

The End...sort of

Today is my first official day UC Davis free. It feels great, I went into the California Museum for my first day, they have a small staff, so I don't know what the likelihood of my being able to get a job there in the future would be, but I really like it so far!

Additionally I have an interview for a low stress student job tomorrow afternoon and received an email today from the head curator at the California Railroad Museum letting me know I am also on their list to interview (this is the job I REALLY want). It is nice to know there could be a small trickle of income to help pay the bills in the near future.

In other news-now don't freak out-UC Davis has asked to hire me 10% variable so that they can call and ask for instructions and pay me for it. On condition that I never have to go to the office and that I can let Joel's calls go to voicemail and email my answer. And here I didn't really think I was as essential as I thought I was. I do know I am going to miss some of my coworkers a lot! But that is life I guess.

This week I am going to focus on getting organized, so I can open my closet without cringing and find a place for everything in my room. I figure it will take a week or so for the reality that I have actually left my job to sink in, I am still just too exhausted from the move, school starting, and the work stress - in addition to having to find some new work and the obsessive perfectionism that makes me want to really impress everyone at the museum with my internship.

On another note - the Program Coordinator I am working with introduced me to everyone as Kirsten - I was able to correct it with some of the people, but never when he was there, I don't actually mind but it makes things slightly awkward from my perspective.

Off to class...

Ceramics

This summer Laura and I took a ceramics class at the UC Davis Craft Center - the class was wheel throwing. As the course was one evening a week it seemed a little hard to make it every week. I ended up with 8 finished pieces - only 4 of which I have been able to find after their firing in the kilns.

Very first piece.

This one was supposed to be mostly blue - not sure where all the brown came from.

This one still needs to be glazed.

Hopefully once the center re-opens I will be able to find the other 4 pieces.

Headboard

This may be the longest I have ever taken unpacked my belongings, ever! In my apartment in Davis I had the entire one bedroom apartment unpacked and decorated in less than 48 hours. Chaos still rules here in Sacramento. Figuring out where to put everything in my room has been a struggle. There is one long wall entirely made of grey cement bricks - solution, a headboard.

Last night I went home and with Dad and J's help finished the headboard.

Now I just need to figure out to do with the rest of the room.