get me away from here I'm dyin'
After very little sleep, woke up after my alarm had failed to go off (the classic "set for PM instead of AM" glitch) and 22 minutes before I was due at work, which meant I had about three minutes to throw on clothes and deodorant. I had to wake up earlier than usual so that I could leave for several hours in the middle of my shift to attend the opening of a DMA exhibit, and applaud to speeches about how artists like me are important and be given glasses of wine, tuna in cones, and small Caesar salads on fried Parmesan cantilevers.
Which all sounds very hoity-toity, but once the rich people speeches were done it was mostly a chance to hang out with my friends on the staff and chat about various ways I think the museum experience could be hacked for nontraditional visitor groups. And since Ciro and I were enthusiastic about the food, the circling waiters were enthusiastic about visiting us as regularly as possible. Then I had to head back to the office. My life and persona are very oddly divided these days. I'm sort of losing a sense of self and feel as though I'm not grounded to anything.
At the office, I discovered I've lost my key card, so I had to break into the building. Then all my shows got cancelled. It is like working overnight security, this job. Still, I wish I could find my key. If the valet parking guys at the DMA pocketed it, the joke's on them, because you can get into this building without it, as I have demonstrated.
I don't know whether I've mentioned, but one of my favorite blogs is hilobrow, and lately they've been issuing merit badges. My application for one of these badges is below.
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Which all sounds very hoity-toity, but once the rich people speeches were done it was mostly a chance to hang out with my friends on the staff and chat about various ways I think the museum experience could be hacked for nontraditional visitor groups. And since Ciro and I were enthusiastic about the food, the circling waiters were enthusiastic about visiting us as regularly as possible. Then I had to head back to the office. My life and persona are very oddly divided these days. I'm sort of losing a sense of self and feel as though I'm not grounded to anything.
At the office, I discovered I've lost my key card, so I had to break into the building. Then all my shows got cancelled. It is like working overnight security, this job. Still, I wish I could find my key. If the valet parking guys at the DMA pocketed it, the joke's on them, because you can get into this building without it, as I have demonstrated.
I don't know whether I've mentioned, but one of my favorite blogs is hilobrow, and lately they've been issuing merit badges. My application for one of these badges is below.
( Read more... )