Wednesday, October 26, 2011

table

And, since a few people have been asking, I am proud to announce that my dad and I bought the table.

Not sure when it will be delivered but I'll post a better picture once it's in situ.

Adult furniture. I can't believe I will soon be the owner of a real dining room table.

not to say everyone at Harvard is a sexist pig

Every year when my dad comes to Denver for vacation we watch a DVD course from the Great Courses company (my favorite course is either My Favorite Universe or Chaos). We were watching a course called the art of critical decision making done by a professor from Harvard (he's at Bryant University now).

I wasn't super crazy about the professor, and I thought the points he made about decision making were pretty banal. Every course is recorded in what appears to be the same room and this guy had a boring set up (i.e. no lab equipment, no experiments, no 3-d models of the butterfly effect). Then I noticed, on the wall behind his lectern, the picture to the left. I kept looking at it and noticed that the two men were wearing suit coats that covered their asses, but the woman's ass was not only visible, they even put a little line down it as if to emphasize it - "look, I have a cute ass".

I was like "dad, this is SO sexist! how come they cover up the guy's asses and show the woman's ass?". My dad was like "not only are they showing her ass, but look how the guys are both giving her directions by pointing which way to go".

We sat through two lectures and then decided to watch the movie "The American". The next day, while hiking up Bierdstat, we were trying to figure out why George Clooney's boss was trying to kill him.

Maybe we should have had less wine and more sleep before watching the movie.

Today is the first day since my vacation that I haven't been too tired to write on my blog. My dad makes me feel like a slug (even though most of my friends are like "you did all that shit in one day?"). When he comes on vacation I expect to get less than 6 hours of sleep and to be on the move either hiking, driving, or doing home improvement projects for the rest of the day.

That's why I have to rest before having vacation with my dad. Restful vacation? Who wants to do that?