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Politics and culture
Oct. 29th, 2008 10:29 pmI had to go to the dentist (well, hygienist) today, so as I have a bunch of time that I have to use or lose, I took the whole day off from work. The original plan was to do a bit of shopping and go to the Art Institute, but in the end I decided to engage in political, rather than cultural, activity. I did stop at T.J. Maxx (hey, it's not my fault that it's between my dentist's office and the bus stop!) and bought a really great new suit. Then I went home, had a bit of lunch, and then went to the local Obama headquarters and spent a couple of hours phoning people to try to find volunteers to go to Indiana on Saturday to canvass. Most of the calls I got voice mail (not a lot of folks home in the middle of the afternoon), but I did get a couple of folks who committed to Indiana and a few others who will come in to make calls to battleground states. What was particularly fun was that when I did reach people and said I was calling from the Obama campaign, people were excited to talk to me. I had a nice chat with a student in Virginia (you can never tell where people are these days from their phone numbers!) whose email address includes "Iloveobama08".
This evening, I went over to the Hyde Park Art Center for an amusing and informative evening related to a commissioning project they've been running, culminating in an exhibit called "Not Just Another Pretty Face". The event tonight was called "The Newly-Matched Game: Connected Through Art-Making". Patrons on one side, artists on the other, and through that quiz game format, we learned a lot about the patron/artist experience. We then went through the exhibit, looking in more detail at some of the works. One of the artists was my downstairs neighbor, a clay artist, and she and I walked home together. Turns out she's waitlisted for a ticket to Grant Park, so since it seems like I've got a ticket which will get me and a friend in, I invited her to join me if she doesn't end up with a ticket. I like Marva, and it will be fun to go with someone, so that's all good.
This evening, I went over to the Hyde Park Art Center for an amusing and informative evening related to a commissioning project they've been running, culminating in an exhibit called "Not Just Another Pretty Face". The event tonight was called "The Newly-Matched Game: Connected Through Art-Making". Patrons on one side, artists on the other, and through that quiz game format, we learned a lot about the patron/artist experience. We then went through the exhibit, looking in more detail at some of the works. One of the artists was my downstairs neighbor, a clay artist, and she and I walked home together. Turns out she's waitlisted for a ticket to Grant Park, so since it seems like I've got a ticket which will get me and a friend in, I invited her to join me if she doesn't end up with a ticket. I like Marva, and it will be fun to go with someone, so that's all good.
