herring

currently listening to: generator ^ first floor, freelance whales (aislyn remix)

currently craving: task party
currently, currently: sitting in the gallery

well well well. the last few weeks i have had some pretty cool opportunities. first off, a few of us has lunch with oliver herring. if i told you how down to earth he was, you wouldn't believe me. probably more than you or i. he was so genuinely interested in my life and had such sweet things to say about us all, even after knowing us for only a few days. bethel and mcad in minneapolis are teaming together for tonight's TASK party, which is bound to be a BLAST!! if you haven't heard about what TASK is, read it here. it is an improv collaboration between herring and a group of people that provides a complex, messy, open-ended outlet for creativity. people use things like cardboard, string, tape, and foil to interpret different tasks that those people make up, such as "hug a hipster" or "start a revolution" or "you are an alien, create your ship." i can't wait to see what we get to do. oh, and i'm working in the gallery, and see this sculpture? yea, i'm sitting right by it ;)

i just finished reading the novel "in the land of no right angles" by daphne beal. i don't think i've ever talked about what i've read before, but i guess this is as good as ever. essentially, it is the memoir of a woman living in nepal, who got away from her mid-western lifestlye and got mixed up in an awkward mess of a relationship between a previous professor and a nepali village girl. it includes her stories about how the girl, maya, came into her life, abruptly left, and reappeared in the red light district of bombay, & how the main character tries to save her. it ended horribly. horribly to me is an ending that makes you feel like you read the entire book for nothing. it literally ended with nothing. i don't need the hope of a series, or the main character to triumph, or even a real page-turner to enjoy reading a book; i just hate ending something with the thought, "that author sold themselves short. that ending meant nothing to me." ok ok, i did love reading it. it was so jam packed with culture and vivid imagery, and i loved the messy love triangle, and the characters were also really well developed, but whyyyy daphne did you have to leave it like that???

my latest: the spring banquet. cutesy isn't it? i drew it all! except the font. it is weird that i will be done in the marketing dept in a month. i have had the greatest opportunities in BSA over the last three years, and hopefully i can go out with a bang.

i found a picture that i loved today. well no, i found a quote that i loved. here is a picture of a quote that i love. i wish i could say that i came up with it. sorry this may be kitch-y, and i may or may not have stumbled across this on someone's tumblr page...but seriously. that is my favorite thing. take me ANYWHERE i have never been, and it will be the best day of my life. explorer at heart.