So my son is still in school. I suppose this sounds like non-news, but if you had been here in January, you would be cheering as much as we were. Two calls from the principle in one week, a two day suspension, and massive teenage angst and rebellion. My son started to believe that nonsense about homeschool kids not being able to cut it in public school. We came very close to giving up on this whole public school thing - yes, again - but we decided he needed to stick it out.
Then the clouds parted, a ray of sun appeared, and a choir of angels sang. He realized that he not only could do this school thing, but that he could do it well. So now he's working at bringing several failing grades up to at least a B, and I think he can do it. He's decided to prove that homeschool kids can do anything other kids can do. Ironically, he wrote a tongue-in-cheek essay about how hard high school is and what you need to do to make it. He thought he was being cynical and acerbic, but the school thought it was good enough to print in next year's booklet for new freshman. Yes, he will do well, indeed.
No, I haven't fallen off the face of the earth, just burrowed under its crust for a bit. Nothing really happening, I just haven't blogged in a while.
One thing I notice - when your blog goes dormant for a while, the spammers let up (as long as your comments are closed). So just consider this my "getting the spammers off my back for a while" interlude.
I saw this in the El Paso Times the day it came out. Strange circles in the dry Rio Grande river bed. Made by UFO's? Oooh, creepy.
Yeah, well, I'm such a skeptic I just figured it was a natural formation that people were getting silly about. So I didn't pay any attention to it. Turns out, it's artwork, created by Michael Alford. Check out the video (if it's still there.) Alford says he's been working on this in broad daylight for quite a while with students from the local Day School and never intended it to be any kind of hoax. People just weren't paying attention. Hey, it's El Paso. Few people around here have ever heard of Robert Smithson. Now I'm curious and may take a quick trip up there to look at the earthworks. It's all very zen too, because as soon as the irrigation season starts up, the earthworks will disappear under the waters of the Rio Grand.
(Hat tip to Gambling Gringo.)
So, I just put in an application for a library position at the MoMA (Museum of Modern Art.)
What!??! Do I seriously think I could get something as prestigious as that? Well, I figure I have as much chance as the next art historian with a an MLS. And since I mentioned my blog in my resume and cover letter, I would point my possible future employers to the article I wrote about the MoMA after having visited it back on '05. I just re-read it, and I am sorry I didn't add it specifically to my resume. It's pretty good.
Someone came to OOL looking for "Lascaux Quilt Series." I was intrigued, so I looked, too. I found Luann Udell, an artist who works in fiber and polymer clay. She has a wonderful series of Lascaux Wall Hangings. They are primitive looking pieces made of fiber, sticks, polymer clay "artifacts," and other embellishments. Go take a look. Some of them are still available for sale.