A picture lasts longer.

Jess on July 22, 2008

i’ve been going through a wicked photography phase.  I’m not sure why.  I think it has something to do with Stephen Shore.  I really like the subtlety of his photos.  It’s like each one is a record.  But it’s really just a record of what he saw in a street corner, a living room.  I guess when we were packing up his exhibit I saw a photo and something about it made me like photography much more.

The downside of this phase is that I’m way less into painting than I used to be.  I had some time because I needed to get out of our cataloguing software so I wandered around the museum and was glad to find that I liked the real version of the Helen Frankenthaler piece we have in the museum better than I like the picture of it on the internet.

I guess the point of this is that Kyle and I are getting a new camera that’s significantly better than the one we had before, but still not an SLR.  So that’s fine.  I know how I burn out on hobbies and I don’t want something so cumbersome that it’s not functional if I lose interest in it.  This camera is a great in-between.

I'm a college graduate.

Jess on May 18, 2008

Weird, eh?  I guess it’s more significant than is registering with me, and it will be weird to not be at Washburn most of the time anymore.  I only cried when Bearman hugged me coming out of the tunnel of faculty and said “Congratulations, Jess.”  That one pretty much did it for me.  Sad times.  But mostly, I’m just super glad to be done and get moving on with the rest of my life.  I’ve got some good plans and big dreams.

Also, I started my internship the other day and it is awesome.  Completely.  I love it.  I could work in museums for my whole life, judging from the first day. However, I’m somewhat concerned that at some age you outgrow being a hipster and have to work in a classical art museum instead of a contemporary one.  No fun.

Losing my chomps

Jess on April 15, 2008

I had a pretty nice weekend in Independence, Kansas and then getting caught up on things before I got my wisdom teeth taken out yesterday.  I’m pretty well on track with everything, or at least caught up with a usual tuesday.  I just need to spend a chunk of time working on f&f stuff on thursday and the apeiron is friday.  when i got home from surgery yesterday i found out that Kyle’s grandmother passed away which makes me sad.  I never knew her but it’s just hard and I hate that I can’t be there for him.  I think distance at times like these is really when distance is the hardest because we could both really use each others physical presence, what with my recovering from surgery where one of the instructions is not to talk much and with him not really liking to talk about what’s going on.  I just really wish that we were closer, I guess.  And I can’t wait until that happens.  I applied for three museum internships today so hopefully one of those comes through.  And I’m applying for an actual job with the pitch but i haven’t been able to do that yet even though I now have a professional resume ready to go.  I should probably show around for more places to start putting in an application.  I’m very excited about kind of knowing what we’re doing and having some time before the move to put in applications and look for jobs.