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October 13, 2003
Infrequent ruminations
I think I blog less when I'm happy. I am so busy right now with teaching and university classes, but it is a good busy. I'm not overwhelmed like I was last year. I've had three day weekends for the last two weekends, which also makes for four day weeks of teaching.
Went with Simon, Andy, and Scott on some tours of the open buildings in NYC. I really didn't have the energy for one of my big groups, which meant that I didn't see a ton of people that I should see. The City Hall/Tweed Building tour was fun, as the historians gleefully told us about the massive corruption involved in the construction of the building. It was also interesting to see the bizarre school that the NYC Department of Education has put into a few floors of the Tweed Building. It appears to be a rather incoherent concept, but I spent as much time there as Joel Klein spends in my school.
We ended up at the Public Library guarded by Patience and Fortitude, the marble lions that protect the idiot tourists from actually entering the building. The tour inside was led by an extremely cranky woman who only spoke at a whisper, which was unfortunate for the hundred people on the tour. She repeatedly asked everyone to leave so the group would shrink to about 25 people, so nobody left the group. Some people like ourselves split off when we realized the tour was as boring as our tourguide, as the only interesting thing was the sudden appearance of the stigmata on her hands and her annoying habit of transubstantiating coffee drinks.
Across the street from the library, some kind of filming was going on. It was Mary Kate and Ashley Olson filming something involving bicycles, underage sex, and a hamster. I would have loved to sabotage the bicycles, but they had stunt quadruples for most of the scenes. Even the cranky street woman thought that joke was funny.
Posted by G at October 13, 2003 11:51 PM
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now that's a olsen movie i might want to see.
Posted by: The Mighty Jimbo at October 14, 2003 12:33 AM