The Crocker

Tonight I skipped the first hour of class to go to the Friends and Family Opening of the CrockerArt Museum - where J has been working since May and who we are indebted to for getting her and her little fam out here. That reason alone makes me love the Crocker.

My love of the Crocker goes back to my junior year of high school in Davis, for extra credit I went to the Crocker to view a collection of watercolors that were visiting at the time and fell in love. Maybe it was the mansion, maybe it was the art, maybe it was the glass covered bookshelves and winding staircase specifically.

Opulent as some parts of the old building are, the big new beautiful wing has wonderfully clean lines. The collection looks fantastic. The Crocker is not so pretentious as to ignore any genres, which I appreciate.

It was nice to hang out with the Gibbs and the parents. The food was great, no one died when the champagne bottle was opened via cleaver knife, and I am sufficiently tired after walking almost the entire museum in about an hour and a half that I will sleep well tonight. Looking forward to going back soon!

GC Weekend

At home for conference - up until after midnight playing nerts with B, C, and G and up early making sourdough pancakes with C watching GC and catching the end of G's soccer game.

Soooo much homework to do - let's see how much I get done :)

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...