I got off the elevator at my floor tonight, noticing for the 8th time the gin & tonic still in my hand from Rex's studio party. The culmination of great party-goers at a great location produced great photos. When the rum was gone I made my first gin & tonic ever. I am a natural. I was making myself, and others (whom I like to think were actually impressed with my mixing ability) gin & tonics all night. It was a sad thing to see the doors close after the party ... Rex is officially evicted.
Friend and professor Rex Weil handed me an invitation to his last studio party tomorrow, Sept., 24. He has invited all friends and artists to join him in celebrating his studio eviction from 16th St NW, 830pm to Midnight. If you need directions call me. (number at bottom of page) BYOB- unguaranteed amount of drinks and refreshments provided.
This was a geography class that met in the computer lab of the private high school I'm working at. At least it sounded like a geography class. I forget the name of this instructor, reason being everyday in the chow hall I met a few new teachers. Everyone I met so far, students and teachers, have been great. The school appears to be a great school well equipped with extra-curricular programs and sports activities.
I take the bus to the Metro train station. Then I take the train to the end of the line. Lori, an English teacher, picks me up and drives me to a high school. I help her teach the Newspaper Class. Although, because of our schedules I haven't got out there as much as I'd like to.
... and Mass Transit
I catch a ride on one of the school buses when the class is over. Pearl, the bus driver, drops me off back at the Metro train station. Then I ride the train back downtown. Sometimes I fall asleep and miss my stop by a station or two, like today.
I got a call from freelance writer Mike James today. We did a story together for ESPN Magazine and he called to tell me it is now on the news stands. I have photos in this issue's HANGTIME section. I am most happy because this means I will be getting paid soon.
This is my friend Antonio. He works in the photo lab in the lower level of the Corcoran Gallery. The lab he works in is the College's lab in the Gallery's basement. You can go there most days of the week and look in any of the lower-level windows and see students at work in the studios and labs. Unfortunately, Antonio might not get out of the lab until 5pm or later. It was after 5pm today when I took a few pictures of him that may be used in a McGraw-Hill textbook; a text for students whose second language is English.
There's always something to eat if you have bacon.
I signed a freelance contract with Getty Images today. To celebrate I went to a show at the Black Cat to drink beer and yell all night with some friends. By the time Lungfish, the main performance, came on the set I was no longer in the state of mind needed to judge music. I always have fun at the Black Cat.
I know there's a really good quote about knowing the state of the people of a country by the writing on the walls. I visited some foreign ports while I was in the Marine Corps. A lot of the time the locals would make big signs on the walls entering the city from the port, "Go Home Americans" and "@#* the U.S." Of course it seemed to us the very same people loved to service us, and take our money. Certain vendors would even come on the ship and sell us gold, watches, blankets and whatever. This made me ask myself, "Is there really anything wrong with our mayor" when I saw this display. A minute of internet research told me he was a respectable mayor. Maybe we should try an Athenian Democracy instead of this Democratic Republic we've been living in.
If you want to read the 7 ... now 8 strangest pages on the internet that have no real relationship other than that they contain the words washing windows in the rain, then google "washing windows in the rain."
Richard C. Holbrooke discussed ways to "end ethnic conflict, expand humanitarian access, and increase the role of the African Union," Tuesday afternoon at the Brookings Institution. He was part of a panel of speakers which also included Sen. Jon S. Corzine (D-NJ), and Brookings' Project on Internal Displacement Co-Directors Roberta Cohen and Francis M. Deng. I really wish my favorite activist Danny Glover could have made it. The down-to-earth Hollywood star was arrested less than two weeks ago for protesting in front of the Sudanese Embassy.
