Stuff

I'm on Spring Break right now, which theoretically means that I should have tons of time to update the blog with thoughtful posts. Well...um...sorry. I'm feeling inordinately stressed this morning (maybe because I still don't have a summer internship) and don't feel like I have anything new to report.

Ok, here are a few short things:

-My rent is about to go up, which has left me wondering if I should look for another place eventually. The idea of being back on the apartment hunt makes my stomach turn, but I know there are cheaper places out there. Right around the time John dropped the news about the rent, he visited the Metropolitan Museum and told me about this great Victorian Photocollage exhibit that he had seen. Remember my post about that? Being a photographer with a stable income, he just up and bought the catalog I was drooling over. So now it is in my apartment, available for me to peruse whenever! Such a good roommate! I probably shouldn't leave.

-For the first weekend of Spring Break I went to Boston to visit some family. As great as the MFA is, I didn't feel up for a long day at a giant museum. After running a google search, my Aunt and cousin and I decided to visit The Museum of Bad Art. It shares the space with a movie theater, and the exhibit is set up in a dimly lit room next to the men's restroom. It was awesome. The art is bad, sure, but the captions are brilliant. The pieces are discussed using a mix of overblown art jargon and backhanded comments. Like this.

-Some of you know that one of my (many) nerdy outlets is coin collecting. Two weeks ago I found an American Samoa coin, thus completing my set of the 56 state and U.S. territory quarters. I was so excited! Then this weekend I saw this. You know what U.S. Mint? No. I can't. You've had me busy for 10 years with these quarters, and I'm still working my way through the Presidents. If I save an America the Beautiful quarter it will be for the laundry.