thursdayfriday roundup

best thing about working for a jesuit university? paid catholic holidays! tgigf, or something. some tidbits: - if you live in seattle and haven't looked outside yet, do so. can you believe it? it's 75 degrees. i ran to volunteer park and back today at lunch, and my lungs didn't freeze. hallelujah! - you can't believe how difficult it is to give away free labor. i've been trying to pawn myself off to a local museum for the past month, to no avail. w-t-f. i'm a decent, cupcake-baking human trying to give you 30 hours of my time. W-T-F. - one of my colleagues gave me free tickets to a pnb dress rehearsal last night and i had the chance to see mark morris' 'pacific' from one of the best seats in the house...for free! when sharon cumberland ("blah i went to private school in italy blah blah antonio banderas fan club blah") made us watch a documentary on mark morris in sophomore brit lit class, i wrote him off, assuming that anything she recommended was full of pretense and assholishness. i was wrong. wrong wrong wrong. this dance was incredible. the staging was brilliant. the costumes were brilliant. the indian influenced dancing was brilliant. go see it: http://www.pnb.org tickets are cheap. - so i guess minis are back? i went shopping last weekend and bought what i thought were "tunics"/long shirts but was told by the fashion consultants on the today show this morning that short dresses are the cat's meow. and i mean SHORT. this is one of those timeless signs of getting older: the inability to wear anything in public that may accidentally show off my ass. i just can't do it anymore. - we are headed to pdx tomorrow afternoon and i couldn't be more excited to spend some time in my 2nd favorite city. speaking of pretentious assholes, there's an itsy damien hirst exhibit at pam which will be a top priority this weekend. if you don't know damien hirst, you should, even if he just makes you angry. he's an asshole. a brilliant, art-factory owning, i-copyrighted-and-then-sued-british-airways-for-using-colored-polka-dots asshole. love him!