So the following pictures are solely of food. Pretty big staples in my diet are pasta and omlettes....
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| I put peppers in it...because that's all I had |
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| First Omlette I have ever made |
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| Attempt at sauteing tomatoes, peppers and onions |
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| Added pasta to the pan |
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| Final product....which I may or may not have just inhaled in a matter of five minutes. |
So yes, I am a fat ass, I love food. Anyways to let you in on my life, today I had a museums field trip for my art class. We saw three different exhibits. We saw the National Gallery, the Deste Prize Exhibit (which is biennial and my art teacher is the winner of the 2009 Deste Prize), and we also saw the Last Grand Tour Exhibit, which was a little disappointing. To start the day off, we were all supposed to meet in front of the Gallery, so of course I go to the wrong art exhibit of the three we saw today and walked around for 40 minutes wondering where the hell everyone was....then walking my stupid ass to the actual Gallery we were supposed to meet at while having a panic attack, fantastic start I know. The Gallery had some pretty cool paintings although we only looked at certain works, I wish we had more time to explore the four floors. We only saw select painting on two floors. After the Gallery we went to a cafe on Arcadia's expense, I got a latte cappucino with cinnamon and honey and extra milk. It was pretty good besides the fact that any sort of caffeine makes me really sick and tired. We then went to the Deste Prize exhibit which was definitely my favorite. It was only 5 contemporary pieces. None of which were paintings that you would normally see in a museum or gallery. For example one artist created an entirely new wood floor with a door hidden in it, another had a stripper pole in the center of the room with mirrors on the wall (lipstick stained lip marks in one spot) with ongoing sketches of pole dancing moves playing on a tv. A boombox and case of CDs was displayed on the floor. Some very interesting interactive pieces some of which were very nonsensical. The final exhibit (The Last Grand Tour) was an independent visit, where our teacher left and we are required to analyze the works and then write a paper on the themes etc. This exhibit was disappointing to me because there were a few works that were legitimately scribbles with a pen that a toddler could have done, and the artist claims that the work is related to Greek Mythology, i say BULLSHIT! There were just some really abstract claims of connections to Greece, that to me was unsatisfying. But, there were a few pieces that I did enjoy, like a group of paintings of "the city". These consisted of gray and blue lines, no actual figures, but it really gave a feeling of city and traffic....and dirt because Athens has to be the dirtiest city on the face of this planet. That was the end of my art exploration, thankfully because normally we are supposed to have Fridays off. Maybe in future posts I will put some links to the art work because my descriptions will not do the works justice.
On another note, there have been quite a few strikes here lately. Yesterday and today there were public transportation strikes, which may carry into Monday and Tuesday. Many students had classes cancelled because their teachers could not make into class....of course none of mine were cancelled, just my luck. Anyway, these strikes prevented the cleaning lady from coming to my apartment, but thankfully she came today. The apartment is definitely cleaner but she moved random things around. Like we reorganized our kitchen and moved shit tons of tables, ALL of which she moved back! Like why would you even do that? Also I had six empty 1.5 liter water bottles lined up in my room for possible reuse, ALL of which she THREW AWAY! Don't touch my shit woman! She also like rearranged my bulletin board, I really don't understand this woman's concept of cleaning. On a sidenote, my Greek Language teacher brought us in this really interesting thing that Greeks eat when its hot, its basically tree sap and sugar. You take a spoonful and put it in a cold glass of water and slowly enjoy. Very interesting...maybe I'll bring some back to the States.
Last night a bunch of the students decided to have a potluck dinner, which I went to socialize but not eat because I didn't have food to bring....I also don't get out of class until 8:00pm so there was no time for me to cook anything anyway. Tonight a bunch of us are going to a free concert at the Acropolis (or as my art teacher calls it aCRAPolis =D ) Museum. It is going to be a bunch of different pop/electro dj's so it should be a blast. Maybe I will have pictures.... Also, Wendy's (one of my apartmentmates) 21st birthday is on Monday so we are going to go out for her birthday tomorrow, so eventually I will have some social pictures instead of pictures of food. Other than that, I have a butt load of homework to do. I'm pretty sure I have more homework here than I do at Siena which is ridiculous because I'm a science major.... many kids feel this way though and I guess you just have to pick and choose which readings you think are important and skip the rest, of course my OCD/perfectionist self is not okay with this concept. I'm such a fucking turd.....anyways hopefully I will have something interesting for you guys to look at soon....lol
That's it for now
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