Monday, January 31, 2011

Sadness, Fear, Happiness and I'm Cooking Dinner Tonight

First the fear, mainly so those of you who skip to the pictures read this post! We have a review today, plus a test tomorrow, plus a quiz in our walking tour class... (Ominous drum roll here) And then we get ready for our field trip to Paestum, Napoli, Capri and (Pompeii?). And Happiness ensues...

My review went swimmingly despite several errors in my drawing. My idea was sound but I had a rather grievous error in my section drawing that earned me a bit of grief. Otherwise things went very well. I did like seeing other peoples projects especially in a space that is so small and intimate as the one we just designed for. It is very interesting to see how other peoples minds work with the same space in such a limited time and with such limited resources.

Today something terrible happened. Drew (my roommate from Ames last semester) had his computer stolen out of studio this morning by an unknown intruder. Someone was let in, by either the help or a student, and picked up Drew's computer bag complete with his portable hard drive and cables. Several people saw him in the building, but assumed he was a guest reviewer or a person delivering a package or something. It is a very sad occasion because Drew had a very powerful laptop that cost him a good bit of money. Needless to say he is devastated to have lost his PC as well as a great deal of his work that resides on the machine. Please keep him in your thoughts and prayers as he will most likely have a very long week due to the events of today.

On a lighter note, I am cooking dinner tonight. Fried vegetables over small noodles with a creamy garlic butter sauce. We'll see how it goes over as a vegetarian dish. Some of the guys need to get some veggies in them!

Forgot to post some Colosseum stuff the other day.

Yeah...


This will make more sense in the next picture...

We drew quite a crowd of other people taking pictures... Field trips are fun!!!

This cat lives in the Colosseum! It also looks like my kitty Tiger!!!

My art history teacher Linda in mid lecture... On site at the Forum!


Can you spot the old parts of the building?

They took lots of things from Egypt! Those dang Romans!

More...

What a cute little stoplight!!! Narrow roads are the best!

Another obelisk...

Yup... Another obelisk..

More fat cats at Largo Argentina (where Caesar was killed.) They do have one of the most historically significant litter boxes in history...

This is a faux obelisk in Trastevere.

I really don't know anything about whoever this guy is besides the fact that he has the most ridiculously awesome statue in town!

1 comment:

  1. The cute little light? What about the cute girl standing by the light? And that did look like our cat tiger!! WOW! So sorry to hear about Drew's computer being stolen. How devastating for him. We will surely keep him in our prayers. It would be great if they could get it back. Do you save all of your work on a thumb drive or something just in case something like this would happen.
    Loved your pictures as always!!!!!!!!! love you mom

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