4/25/09

Lot has happened in the last few days.

On Wednesday, I headed down to Wheaton, the school that one of my best friends, Elyse, goes to. She graduates in a week or so, and her and the rest of the Senior art student's were hosting a showing as their final project. I was really blown away by the quality of the stuff I saw there; I'm certianly not an expert in the field, but I do frequent museums and shows, and there is plenty of stuff that I don't like in general. I cant say that about Elyse's show. Almost everything I saw there was great: interesting, thought provoking, and intracity crafted. Elyse did a series of paintings that were based around concepts she learned from the people she lived with during her study abroad in Africa. They were of naked figures, each a different color, representing a different concept. I honestly hope that if she sells these, someone buys all of them. They just look great as a complete series It would be a shame to break them up.

After the show we headed back to Chris's place to hang out. Chris and I played soccer together in high school, and I was psyched to hear earlier this year that he and Elyse had stated dating. Most of the art kids came back with us, so we all hung out until late. I played a little PLO before I went to sleep (around 4).

The next morning Elyse and I headed back to Boston and to the ICA to check out Shepard Fairey's exhibit. For those who haven't heard of him, Fairey is the guy who created the famous Obama "hope" poster that can be seen in just about every corner of the earth. He is also responsible for the "Obey" line of art that is now on shirts, posters, skateboard decks, etc. It's intention is to get people to question the point of the endless ads that we see everywhere we go, on posters, billboards, in movies and TV. I heard that Fairey was actually arrested upon showing up to the exhibit due to the graffiti and posters that he has (i guess illegally) posted all over the city.

That night some other friends from home came over, and we partied at my house for a while, which ended when I rented a limo and we drove around to a couple bars. Not a night that I had expected, but it was def fun either way.

Yesterday was Anna's dance show, which she has been practicing for, nonstop, for the past couple months. She was in two dances, with different groups of girls. In the first they did a reutine where each girl had a solo while they others stayed frozen, which they would pass on to the next dancer, which is something that is often seen in break dance (although I believe she was doing modern). It came out really cool, and seemed perfect for Anna because she is so sharp and crisp when she dances; something that is magnified when you need to freeze in certain positions. She told us later that she was really nervous, but you could never tell when she danced. She just looked really focused and somewhat relaxed.

Anna's parents, Frank and Susan, came out to Boston for the performance and for Frank's, birthday. We got breakfast this morning before they had to head back. Right after they left, I began to feel very sick (don't think it was the food b/c it came on too close to the meal), so I headed back to my place. It is really nice out today, so I think I'll try to get outside once I feel a little better. It's going to be really difficult to play poker this summer when it is so nice out and the beach is so close. I'm going to really have to sit myself down, or try to play only at night (which would either cut my daytime down or mean I would only get 3-4 hours in per day).

I haven't played much poker in the last few days. Just a couple quick sessions. I have a tendency to play less hands when I am running good, and the last week or so has been very good to me, which means I have put in very little volume. This is a pattern that I am going to need to break if I want to maximize how much I make each month. Whatever, for now I guess I can be happy that this month is shaping up nicely poker-wise, all while I have given myself all the free time I have wanted.

But now it's back to the grind.

The count:

Hands played: 1700
Amount Won/lost: +$3333
Hours played: ~6.5