Cue Indiana Jones Music ...
This weekend a friend headed up a silent auction for the Smithsonian Early Enrichment Center, which is a daycare/school where children of government employees and others who work downtown can send their young children to learn about art history and natural history when they're as young as infants. Talk about stimulating the brain! My friend's child is 2 and is learning about Georgia O'Keeffe and Jackson Pollock. I never learned about them until college. Unbelievable!
Well, I bid on and won what I really wanted. A behind-the-scenes tour of the National Museum of Natural History's collections. Whoo-hoo! (Yes, I am a geek.) I'm so excited!!! I'm hoping that I get to touch something cool. I love touching artifacts in museums, except the stinky stuff or the bugs. Maybe I can find out where they've stored the Ark of the Covenant ... oh, wait ... that was just a movie. Riiiight!!! :P
I read the Nanny Diaries last week. Great book! I highly recommend it. I love books that give a glimpse into totally different lives than my own. This book depicts how shallow and self-centered some people can be when they have everything we think would make someone happy, but it doesn't. They live in a world all their own—removed from reality so they're making their own moral rules/excuses—and unfortunately it's the kids who suffer most, since they become just another one of their parents' accessories to be brought out then tossed aside as the mood strikes like a pair of Gucci flats. The book was a little bit of a downer at the end. I'll quote one reviewer who said that it shows how being skinny and having a lot of money doesn't make you happy.
And here I thought that was the American dream. :)
Well, I bid on and won what I really wanted. A behind-the-scenes tour of the National Museum of Natural History's collections. Whoo-hoo! (Yes, I am a geek.) I'm so excited!!! I'm hoping that I get to touch something cool. I love touching artifacts in museums, except the stinky stuff or the bugs. Maybe I can find out where they've stored the Ark of the Covenant ... oh, wait ... that was just a movie. Riiiight!!! :P
I read the Nanny Diaries last week. Great book! I highly recommend it. I love books that give a glimpse into totally different lives than my own. This book depicts how shallow and self-centered some people can be when they have everything we think would make someone happy, but it doesn't. They live in a world all their own—removed from reality so they're making their own moral rules/excuses—and unfortunately it's the kids who suffer most, since they become just another one of their parents' accessories to be brought out then tossed aside as the mood strikes like a pair of Gucci flats. The book was a little bit of a downer at the end. I'll quote one reviewer who said that it shows how being skinny and having a lot of money doesn't make you happy.
And here I thought that was the American dream. :)
posted by J.T. Bock at 7:54 AM
3 Comments:
Ok, I am totally jealous!! That Rocks! HEhee. See, I've been WAY too out of touch the last two weeks. I swear, something better even out soon.
Going to DC tomorrow (oh hell, tonight), if you guys don't have plans, holler at me.
I am so totally jealous!!! Can you take people with? Can I invite myself along? Pretty please? :-)
I actually hated the nanny diaries because I couldn't stomach the fact that there are mothers out there who would treat their children like that mother. It made me ill. And at the end where she was pregnant again? I threw the book at the wall.
Stacia, I'll let you know if I get some cool ideas. Definitely, take a breather soon, girl! If you know how... :P
Karmela, I would, if I could. ;) I'll let you know if I unearth anything cool. Yeah, the Nanny Diaries did upset me in the end. I guess cause I don't have kids I didn't consider how it impacted him at first, but it would've been awesome if she could've just kidnapped him. Or if Mrs. X had an unfortunate demise.
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