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2/28/03:

Feliz sexta-freira

This feels exactly like the end of a quarter in college as I've spent the past seven days on occupations work, art work, going to Rio work, trying to fit a blind date or two around it work - seven days and maybe six hours of sleep in there, and maybe only five occasions where I've actually eaten. But I'm not complaining. Most of this is good work.

And if this were college, then today would be the day that I wake up body-aching and wandering off shower-less to a critique. But this isn't college, so instead of the critique, tonight is the opening of the first show I've done in almost two years, and instead of sitting through inane student suggestions of what I've should've done or ought to've done I get to get massively drunk with many many good old friends (this is my last weekend in Chicago) and hear some decent little rock bands filling the empty decibels around the big ol' photos. Nice stuff.

So if you're reading this from Chicago (or vicinity - and by that I mean 'tween here and Detroit) and you find yourself up North in the Andersonville part of town, please stop by the Leadway, look at the art, and steal some food. And if you're reading this from farther away (and by that, I mean 'tween Spain and Italy), I'll hopefully have a little online presentation of mine and Renae's photos from the show.

And with that I'm off to the weekend. I've a special challenge this weekend to go through all my negatives to find frames of four or five of my favourite place in Chicago and make some really nice little prints from them as representative gifts for my host family in Rio. After Monday March 5th, this little blognapse will be firing off from Brazil and I'm assuming it's less linking and more stories. Good stuff. Stay tuned...

posted by jeremy @ 2:54 PM