friday, okay

took a long time to wake up this morning, but eventually dragged my ass into the tub, to lay there a while, before walking up to central for coffee. home again, i collected some downed branches out of the alley, cut them up, stacked them in the wood pile, and cleaned the garage so di can start parking her car back in there again.

spent a good amount of time planning out lighting for the dining room, living room, and den. ordered lights. i ran to the hardware store to get 24 guage wire for moving the thermostat, and some threaded rod and turnbuckles to fix the drying racks at screwball. pete madler came by for a visit, to drop off a gift he had found for us in arizona. beautiful zuni ravens, carved.

greg and i fished the new thermostat line throught he walls.

di dropped me at the el, and i headed down to river north to see audrey niffenegger's show at printworks. ran into bert menco. audrey's been prolific recently, and the work is quite good. the gallery was packed, with much of the work sold.

i wandered over to ispace, where i have a show coming up in december, and talked to mary antonakas for a while about the space and the catalog. she mentioned that when ispace closed tonight, she'd be heading over to see barbara kendrick's opening at the museum of surgical science. awesome museum, awesome show. delicate work based on barbara's near-death coma and the subsequent pain she endured. kendrick was one of my (and diana's, robert's, carla's, wika's) professors in college. i was impressed: right off the bat, she knew who i was, and told stories about me giving her a bag of hair. she spent a good amount of time staring at my (unwashed, standing on end, cut funny) hair, i noticed.

two college professors in two weeks. i'm on a roll. who's next? tim? jerry? roz?

mary drove me up to irving park, where i hopped out to grab the red line. mary continued on her way to a party.

red line to howard, transferred trains, then got off at south blvd, and walked across most of evanston to our house. stopped at the main street starbucks to indulge in a frappucinno, looked at some subarus in the lot on chicago ave., noticed some new restaurants, visited the cats and rabbits in the window at 'thee fishbowl' on dempster, and saw lots of 'crazy' high school kids out, acting like kids. walked down wesley to see the house jason and hilary are looking at on sunday. it all made me really happy that we live where we live.

home now, and i think we're going to watch 'babel'.