wordsimageslife
an exploration of life as a parent & designer

Insomnia....

It's 1:45 am, Monday morning and I am totally awake. The weekend was pretty good, at least the kid's enjoyed it, it was busy and the weather was definitely strange. To save you the minor details, I'll just skip to the highlights: taking Izzy and Liam to Saturday night's performance of Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors. The best part was that the Izzy and her friends really seemed to enjoy both the 'Children's play' before the main show and the actual performance of Shakespeare's comedic classic. I saw most of the first act, with Liam under watchful eye and the second act was spent on total Liam duty. Still fun and all and all a nice night. Sunday's off and on rain led us to finally go see Shrek 2 which was a great movie and both kids enjoyed it immensely and quietly. Oh, and I cleaned the upstairs bathroom. Still have to tackle the bathroom on the main floor of the house (the second) but it's no where near as time consuming as the upstairs one. One thing you can say about city living, it's very dusty. All the time and every corner, and that's not including the cat's own issues of dust creation.

Back to work on Monday, in NYC on Thursday, and some important meeting here and there this week. Most of Thursday will be spent on my pet project, an AIGA Mentoring Program in partnership with the Baltimore City Schools. The program is based on the one that AIGA-NYC has been doing for the past ten years. They have taught me a lot over the past year that I've spent researching models and comparing what each solution brings to the table, and there's is the model I think that will work best here. The NYC trip is mainly to secure funding for our first year. So, if I am successful, I'll share the names of our sponsors. Okay, I'm off to read my next book. Just finished Steinbeck's East of Eden in my Summer of the Classics mode and next is Jane Austen's comedy, "Pride and Prejudice." Plus I've got a few dozen other things, between short articles and professional insights on design to read, so at least my time is filled with interesting things to do. Time to go feed the cats.