Art + Fish

Ok, so my UCSD annual performance review was yesterday so I worked all week last week on my presentation for it which is why I have not posted anything here!

So the weekend before last Trevor and I drove up to LA to see his parents. On Saturday we went to see the La Brea Tar Pits, I went once when I was like 5 years old and I remember there being dinosaurs. Well Iguess the tar pits are only like 40,000 years old and Dinosaurs lived millions of years ago, so bummer. When I went when I was 5 I also went to the LA Natural History Museum that day, I guess that must be what I am remembering....? Well the La Brea Tar Pits are neat and all, they have a giant lake of tar and the animals used to think mmm that looks like tasty water and they would walk in and then get stuck so now we have a ton of fossils. They had lots of Wooly Mammoths and literally 1000's of dire wolves, but the museum was actually quite small overall and a bit disappointing.

So then I also wanted to go to LACMA (the LA County Museum of Art) because my co-worker told me they have an entire exhibit on costumes and textiles (yayy, you know me I love sewing!). And how perfect, LACMA is in the same park as the tar pits (I know, lets put an art museum on a field with tar seeping out from under it....). So we went, but the textile/costume exhibit was CLOSED for renovations! hahahaha, just my luck! Well we walked around other parts of the museum, it is pretty big, there are several buildings. I really liked it overall. It had a lot of variety, like they had Asian Art, and a lot of times that just means Japan and China, but they had pieces from Indonesia, Nepal, Tibet, Malaysia, ect..... They had a lot of neat Islamic Art, African, European, American, ect..... I went to the Ghetty once, which is world famous I guess, and yeah it was neat, but they had very little variety, they would have an entire floor with 17th century paintings of animals, it was just row after row of the same thing, ugh! They had really neat European furniture that was just completely over the top and lavish, but after seeing 20 rooms of this stuff eve that got old! So I liked how LACMA had just a little bit of everything!

Then Sunday we went to the Theatricum Botanicum in Topanga Canyon and saw Shakespeare's "As You Like It." It was cute! And then after a long weekend we drove back to SD! Then I spent a long week reviewing resumes for a new assistant at work and preparing my presentation for my annual performance review. but phew all of that is over.

This past weekend I went snorkeling in La Jolla Cove with Trevor and Analee. I LOVE to snorkel, but I don't go very often here. Even though San Diego has nice weather the ocean is still really cold because our water comes from up in Alaska. Also the water is somewhat choppy so the visibility is not very good. I went snorkeling because the leopard sharks were supposed to be in town, the migrate here once a year to reproduce. One of my coworkers went a week ago and saw tons. Well I did not see any sharks, but I did see tons of garibaldi which is a neon orange fish with a really angry looking forehead, hehehehe.


We only went for like an hour since it was cold and the visibility was poor, but it was fun! Then we met my friends Evelyn and Katie for lunch for lunch at Lotsa Pasta which was fun becasue I don't get to see them nearly often enough. Evelyn has 2 kids and Rhiannon is 3 now which is CRAZY and Michael is almost 1, where does the time go!? Then I spent most of the rest of the weekend cleaning my house which was not very exciting, but I feel I got a lot done. I had an impormptu party where we p layed Wii Mario Cart while drinking, hahahaha. Driving drunk is hard, even on the Wii! ;)