Holly’s visit!

What a busy weekend! Holly’s flight got in Saturday afternoon, and we went out for sushi and then to a play at the Pasadena Playhouse.  The play was called “Orson’s Shadow,” and it was about Orson Welles and Laurence Olivier, whom they kept calling “Larry,” hehe.  It wasn’t bad, but the ending was a little lame.  Entertaining, though, and definitely worth the $15 rush student ticket price – we were in the 2nd row.

On Sunday Jon and Holly and I trekked to the Getty (the art museum, not the villa), which took 3 buses and 2.5 hours each way.  It was cool though.  They were having a big medieval stuff exhibit (paintings, pages from books, armor, etc), and the whole place is really pretty with a great view of LA and Santa Monica.  And it was free =) As museums really should be.

And yesterday, between my classes, we went to the Huntington to look at the old books, and Holly stayed to wander around the gardens.  It was a little stressful to try and be fun and not get behind on the new quarter, but it went fine.

I had to lead a seminar discussion this morning on a book that we had to read over the past week, so I’m glad that’s over and it went well.  The book is called The Two-Mile Time Machine and it’s about climate records in the ice cores from Greenland – very accessible and written for a lay audience (the analogies get a bit ridiculous).

I also moved to my new office today, which was kind of sad.  I’m not quite done moving, but the computer is there now, so I really do have to sit there.  But I’m thinking of re-orienting the desk before I get too comfy, so we’ll see.

Here’s some pictures of the Getty!