Normal, normal. It was a pretty normal week. I got my big project done for my NLP class (the one I am also the TA for) late Monday night, which counts as 2 days late. Most people turned it in 2-3 days late. But we get 5 free late days to use as we wish, so it doesn't affect the grade for the project. I'm just glad I was able to finish. :)
And so Tuesday I had trouble focusing on the next thing I was supposed to be working on, and instead decided to declare it a "no homework day" in order to celebrate. So we hung out and helped our upstairs neighbors with their drain problem and did exactly no homework all night. Yay. It was a nice break. Of course, I'm paying for that now by having a couple of busy days planned for Monday and Tuesday this week. Sigh. Some day I'll be done with homework, right? :)
I'll let Wayne talk about Wednesday. He went with one of his art classes to the Museum of Art's secret hiding place, or vault, where they keep expensive pieces of art that no one is allowed to breathe on.
[I held an Andy Warhol lithograph. How many people can claim that? Monday morning we were supposed to go on another "art adventure" with my advanced studio class, but since the student planning it hadn't really planned ahead, we pushed back the trip to Wednesday. On Wednesday, we went for a tour of the vaults in the BYU Museum of Art. It was interesting to see how they store stuff and how much of their collection is based on stuff either by or donated from Mahonri Young's work. He had collected a few Rembrandt etchings and other notable works. But the best part of our tour was talking with the museum staff about acquisitions and how things work on that end. The MOA has a nice amount of money it can spend, but most of the work is donated from wealthy families. The museum has 10 Andy Warhol lithographs of Marilyn which I was able to just hold (it was so cool!) and I got an up close personal look at some Norman Rockwells, the entire collection of C.C.A. Christensen's work and some other gems. It was nice because it's the first time I've actually got to TOUCH important work as opposed to just being able to see it in person. It was a great experience. I'm in awe. -Wayne]
Saturday we did another art project with boxes in a park near our house. Karl and Angela helped us this time, which was fun. I think we're learning more about how best to construct these cubes, so it's a good learning experience. And we're having fun in the process. It looks really good when we get the cubes up, and I think it would look even more interesting to have more cubes and cubes of different sizes; Angela even suggested stacking cubes on top of each other, which would be another fun variation.
And I've decided that I can't plan on doing homework on Saturdays anymore. It just doesn't happen. I try and get homework in, but between errands and cleaning and other projects, I never get enough time to do all the homework I plan on doing. Unfortunately, I didn't learn this lesson early enough to apply it to this past Saturday, and we were up until 1 or 2 in the morning trying to get as much done as I could.
The late night made us pretty sleepy today, enough so that Wayne didn't really know what hit him when we met with a member of the Bishopric this morning and got callings finally. He'll know by next week for sure! :) Wayne gets to teach Sunday School again to the youth...this time to the 14-17 year olds (few enough youth that they only have two classes). And I'll be serving as the second counselor in the Young Women's presidency. Scary huh? Any advice/ideas to pass along? The last time I was in young women's was when I *was* a young woman, so I'm not sure what to expect from the other side of things. Should be a fun adventure though! (I thought it was funny...the first question the young women asked me was: how old are you? They didn't think I looked old enough to be a leader! Hehehe. They also thought it was neat that we got married "back east.")
We saw War of the Worlds this weekend too. But we actually enjoyed it. Not one we want to own, per se, but worth seeing in the dollar theater. :) It sparked an interesting conversation about aliens and the book the movie is based on, at least, and was a fun ride. A few plot holes, but it just gave us more to talk about. :)
Anyway, hope you all have a fun week ahead of you, hopefully less busy than ours will be!
Loves,
Becca and Wayne
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