May. 7th, 2003

(re title: has anyone else seen that movie? it's a short film from the UK, maybe ten minutes or so long. it's cute. it runs now and then on cable movie channels when they have some space to fill up. it's about a guy who finds, to his horror, that his girlfriend thinks that his attempt to break up with her is actually a marriage proposal... and then things really get out of hand.)

anyway, i have been up for 22 hours in an effort to make my sleeping, post-Monday-night-panic-attack, more closely match the chronology preferred by normal humans. I'm tired and achy but otherwise feeling good.

Because the art history stork has arrived, and it is an A+! I got 100% on the test: this teacher is lax on the dates (you have to be correct within 50 years), so I didn't bother to learn much more than the general decade - like, 1880 is a safe date for ALL the impressionist stuff we studied, 1850 for all positivist, realist, and early photography, etc. Daguerre took the first daguerrotype photo (which isn't, incidentally, really the basis for modern photography) in 1837, but that's close enough.

Also, that wasn't on the test. What was? Well, a couple of eeeeeeevil comparison questions: the Opera de Paris and the Taj Mahal? Manet's "Luncheon on the Grass" and Eakins's "The Gross Clinic"? (thought the architecture question would be more taxing than the paintings, but the paintings really required effort, and sent me really loopy: I added an extra answer, "Picnics make me hungry, autopsies do not.") Had to know a Japanese tea room, African masks, a Navajo weaving, Mary Cassatt's "Lydia in a Loge", Renoir's "Moulin de la Galette", an Indian painting called "Hour of Cowdust" (very pretty depiction of Krishna), China's Forbidden City, Church's "Niagara", Paxton's Crystal Palace, the Coyolxauhqui stone medallion (I KNEW I learned how to spell that for a reason). I'm too tired to recall what other things were asked. We just used my flashcards, no slides.

After that, went to Panera for lunch, ate a sandwich, sat and told my mother that for the majority of women before 1965, "you should consider doing for a career what you pretended to do when playing as a child" is not necessarily good advice, because women up til then were only encouraged to see themselves in subordinate roles. So, born in 1955, she had an interest in nurses and teachers. She actually was accepted to a prestigious nursing school in the mid-1970s but didn't go because you had to be SINGLE and she was pregnant! It never crossed her mind to be a doctor, or that her interest in mustering groups of people and telling them what to do could just as easily lead itself to being, say, in corporate management, rather than teaching elementary school. It took a while to make her understand what I was talking about, but she agreed with me. When she was a kid, in her area, women with jobs that required higher education were almost invariably teachers or nurses. She got her nurse interest from watching General Hospital as a 3-yr-old and, later, from reading teen romances about a student nurse. Anyway, I think she's decided on K-6 teaching now.

Went to bookstore after that, sat around reading Michelle Lee's Fashion Victim, which is interesting but a little too breathless and sometimes comes to faulty conclusions. Then rec'd late birthday present at nearby store, cute Asian-style pajamas, as well as a small candle-holder that is shaped like, um, a girlie torso or a gaultier perfume bottle, if you know what i mean.

now i'm home and MUST SLEEP NOW.

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