At least I sure hope so!
I finished my last two plates with my portraits of Grandma, did two prints of each (one for me and one for Louise), and then made a little title plate and printed a couple of those also. Took me a while, but I was kind of taking my time. I got there earlier today, so I was out of the workshop by 3. All I have to do now is go back tomorrow and pick up the prints (the paper has to dry overnight) and then get a receipt for my expenses. (I don't want to know how much I spent on paper and zinc plates over the course of the semester . . .)
On the way home I got the brilliant idea to get groceries at Hamburger Meile because there is an Aldi there. I figured it would save me a trip to the Aldi by my house, and I wanted to get my groceries before it got any later and the store got crowded. But I had no shopping bag. And my list of groceries looked something like: 2 liters of milk, a box of grapes, a box of peaches, a 6-pack of apples, a head of lettuce, a cucumber, and some tomatoes. So it took me a couple of minutes to figure out a semi-comfortable way to carry them, which was still not at all comfortable. And I had to walk almost 2 kilometers to get home. Not that far, but when you have 2 liters of milk and a 6-pack of apples balanced in one arm, a shoulder bag with zinc plates and art supplies in it, and a couple of little plastic produce bags full of lettuce, tomatoes, grapes, and peaches in the other hand, it feels like a LONG way. Actually it went pretty well overall--praise the Lord, I didn't drop anything and none of the bags ripped (good old German-made products!)--but my arms and my back were killing me by the time I got home. Note to self: Next time just go to the Aldi near your house, you goofball! At least I got an arm workout.
My cupboard is now empty and my fridge is totally full, due to the continued humidity. If I'd been thinking, I could have saved all the moldy things from the past week and started my very own mold garden! (Anybody remember those from the elementary school days?) I've been performing daily mold checks on my food supply. Good thing Petra is traveling, because if she were here we wouldn't have enough room in the fridge for us both!
Still no success on the Lion King tickets, unfortunately. Indra says she doesn't think it will work out . . . it's peak tourist season, everybody is on summer break, and the discount tickets seem to be really hard to come by, even for a weeknight show. Oh well . . . we'll find something fun (and probably a lot less expensive!) to do instead. We had been planning to bring a fancy picnic dinner to eat before the show (Hollywood Bowl style) and to do each other's hair, so we can still do that stuff, just without the show added in. Guess we'll have to be content with listening to the soundtrack.
This just in: Marni made it back to Australia in one piece! I saw a picture on Facebook of her 1 am reunion with her boyfriend Will. Of course she had the dazed "just traveled for over 20 hours" look, but I could tell they were really happy to finally be back together. I know they missed each other. (Good grief, eight days from now I'll be arriving back in L.A., wearing that same dazed look, no doubt.)
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