Lots of tasks

Spent the day doing all the things we needed to do before heading for Gig Harbor, including: post office, laundry, vacuuming, suitcase packing, laundry, suitcase repacking, actually writing a paragraph on an ironic view of design thinking, UPS, and practising our latest moves.

Jack's activities

Before ...

And after!

More trees

We took time away from the computer and other holiday preparations to enjoy the trees at the Mystic Aquarium donated by various community groups -- and to enjoy the exhibits without a crush of other visitors.

New? project

Yesterday, while in New York, we stopped at the Portuguese Travel Office. Jack needed information to prepare for our "anticipated" visit to Lisbon for the EGOS colloquium next June. He read through the various brochures on the train home, and kept saying to me, "Look at this! Shall we go here?" All I could say was, "I can't look till our paper is accepted, and it's hardly started." I've a lot of work to do before January 10!

But Christmas shopping and helping Ulla with the final edits to the EU grant proposal intervened. What excuse will I have tomorrow?

Sounds and images

Wednesday - Handel's Messiah in the Sacred Heart Chapel of the Holy Spirit performed by the New Haven Symphony Orchestra and Cathedral of Saint Joseph Schola Cantorum. Awesome! The singing was wonderful and the orchestral accompaniment appropriate for this great work. Before the performance we were "treated" to a lecture on the mosaic by the University President. Watch a slideshow...

Thursday to New York to see the Bauhaus exhibition at the MoMA

Wonderful! Only trouble was, I reached "saturation" from examining and reading and digesting before I had looked at all the pieces. I was particularly interested in the examples from the first course (I hadn't realized that Bauhaus was a "real" school/university as well as a school/style) where students learned theories of colour and form. I was a little surprised that there was not more furniture -- another misconception from my incomplete knowledge. No photography allowed, and the exhibition catalog was $75 (I refrained from buying). ADDITION: 12/27/09, New York Times review of a new book on the Bauhaus.

We also walked quickly through the Tim Burton exhibit -- very crowded and lots of lively drawings, sculptures and videos, before the calming experience of Monet's waterlilies.

And, what would Christmas in New York be without seeing the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree?

Or, what would Christmas

in Fairfield be without seeing the GE Christmas tree?

This one!

Did you ever have any doubts?

Here's what you might have missed (click on the link to read the post):

One done!

Today's output

Preparation

Ways of working

Events back in the northeast

Monday

Sunday

Catching up on work

Morning ritual

Changing beaches, continuing topics

Thinking wicked

Why this new blog?

Dilemma

What to do -- tell followers to go to Jill Temporariiy (Re)Designed to catch up with my doings of the past month when this blog was removed by Google robots trolling for spam, and continue HERE, or link this original blog to the one I have been writing for the past month?

To be resolved ...