Only about 2.5 more weeks until I step foot on MN soil again! (And with that statement, I guess the countdown has begun!) It still seems like I have so much to do, which is probably the case. Last week was my first full of week of independent treating. I saw about 7 kids per day, wrote all notes, and developed all treatment plans. It's going well, and I am really enjoying my work. I was thinking on one of my walks home last week that it truly is amazing how things really line up in a great way. This Friday I give my lunch-and-learn presentation about sensory vs. behavior philosophies around treating kids with autism. I am sure it will spur a great debate...that topic usually does!
Coming back to MSP has been on my mind a lot lately, so to enhance my excitement/calm my nerves I've been listening to a good deal of Motion City Soundtrack and Down and Above while apartment hunting and looking at the newest Adam Turman prints :)
This last week included:
-Dinner party at the apartment - Wednesday
-Farewell dinner for C at Croxley's (so glad they still had the Pumpkin beer!!) - Thursday
-A couple trips to Mood - Thursday and Saturday
-Oz movie with L in Bay Ridge - Friday
-Brooklyn Bridge run with L (we didn't see anyone from PPTC! :( )- Saturday
-Lunch at Grand Central - Saturday
-100 Year Celebration exhibit and Grand Central (not as good as the transit museum) - Saturday
-The Met (Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity and Matisse exhibits with a bit a newer American i.e. O'Keeffe) - Saturday
-Some fabulous brick oven pizza at Miro in SOHO - Saturday
The Met is gargantuan. I have never seen anything like it. I really only saw 2 exhibits when I was there and didn't even scratch the surface. I couldn't decide if I was completely overwhelmed or in total awe. The special exhibits alone were 5 rooms a piece. Listening to people talk about art was quite the entertainment, too. It's been a while since I've been in the "art crowd"; and now I remember why I didn't exactly fit in! The Fashion exhibit was amazing. So much more than I expected. Here's a little write-up about the exhibit from the Met's website (http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2013/impressionism-fashion-modernity/introduction):
This stunning survey, anchored by many of the most celebrated works of the Impressionist era, illustrates the extent to which artists responded to the dictates of fashion between the 1860s, when admiring critics dubbed Monet's portrait of his future wife "The Green Dress," and the mid-1880s, when Degas capped off his famous series of milliners and Seurat pinpointed the vogue for the emphatic bustle.
Highlights of the exhibition include Monet's Luncheon on the Grass (1865–66) and Women in the Garden (1866), Bazille's Family Reunion (1867), Bartholomé's In the Conservatory (circa 1881, paired with the sitter's dress), and fifteen other key loans from the Musée d'Orsay; Monet's Camille (1866) from the Kunsthalle, Bremen, Renoir's Lise (Woman with Umbrella) (1867) from the Museum Folkwang, Essen, and Manet's La Parisienne (circa 1875) from the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, which have never before traveled to the United States; Caillebotte's Paris Street; Rainy Day (1877) and Degas's The Millinery Shop (circa 1882–86) from the Art Institute of Chicago; Renoir's The Loge (1874) from The Courtauld Gallery, London; and Cassatt's In the Loge (1878) from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Alongside both masculine and feminine costumes, a full complement of period photographs and illustrations serve to vivify the ongoing dialogue between fashion and art, and afford a sense of the late nineteenth-century Parisian milieu that inspired, provoked, and nurtured the talents—and often the ambitions—of the painters of modern life.
This weekend I get to check off my 6th state by racing a 5k in Rutherford, NJ! Due to my chip not registering at the start line, my official time for the Central Park Half is my gun time: 2:02:30. Still a PR!
