galleries

So we went crazy on the galleries today so we could get the necessary stamps on the ART AROUND TOWN booklet and be registered for some prizes. Last week we went to gallery 360 and xylos in the linden hills neighborhood. This week we stuck with the south mpls area as well.

Hit number one: shelly holzemer gallery on 48th and nicollet
Hit number two: sun gallery on 44th and grand
Hit number three: kelly rae theiss gallery on e 44th street
Hit number four: intermedia arts on lake and lyndale approx.
Hit number five: mcad gallery
Turn in the hopefully lucky card at: mia

Yes, we did look at the art. No, we didn't just stamp and run!

Good news for stephen. Friday he met with one of the owners of gallery 360, showed her his portfolio and resume, and she decided to show his work. He'll have three pieces there in late january, and then he'll have a five-foot show (not the main area, but good space) at the end of next summer. This will be with his long photos, which is awesome, because it's long overdue that he gets these into galleries. He's also been shooting with his new medium format camera, and the quality of the photos is outstanding.

Happy travels to CINDY who left to live in costa rica ... flew out on thursday. Mom and dad say to keep an eye on chris, since he isn't going until january and is my softie little brother, even though you may not guess that about him. Ask him about the frog caught for frog's legs at the lake... Well, maybe you'd better not!

We had a very strange encounter at walgreens this week. Not that anything happened, but we left the store with the oddest barrage of items:
pack of lint traps
two packs of trident
velcro strips
riesens
eraser tops
red vine
light bulbs

yeahhhhhh.

Kim and seamus are having a house warming party tonight that we should have left for already. They have a new place in prospect part neighborhood of mpls, really nice. We were over there for supper a couple of weeks ago.

To carry on the shaffner family tradition of playing the guitar, i got an acoustic left handed fender last weekend, along with a really cool COOL fender dvd on HOW TO PLAY. The sad thing is that i am so visual that i have to stop and rewind an enormous amount of times because i have problems getting it right. But finally, maybe i'll be able to hold my own at the campfire someday. Figure if i start with LOW songs i should be alright. AIGHT.

What else? MEA is coming up, which means i will be forcing myself to work on my thesis for 8 - 10 hours at the end of this week, which is a good thing (i'm trying to convince myself) because i have been avoiding it. It's the chapter two curse. I swear. It's really hard. And i don't always get things right away, so it took my a long time to understand the process. Problem with that was that i figured it out at the END of the summer, and that didn't leave me with much time. My other problem is that i can waste time really well.

Ok, CD CLUB members. Sorry to be so late. I'm working on the CD sleeve right now. It's a double CD SET, too, so maybe that will make up for being so late. Stephen just looks at me like you-should-be-done-you-started-this-thing all the time when i talk about it. Maybe he's right, but ... good things come to those who wait, no?

So that's it for now. I'll put some pictures from the garrison keillor street dance on sometime soon. Don't hold your breath for too long waiting, though. I don't seem to update as often as i think about it. Michelle =)