Day 294: Torrie Bear’s Birthday

 

October 21st, 2011Today encompassed a variety of events both on campus and off, ultimately resulting in one of the best floor family reunions of all time. In the morning I worked at EHS before meeting up with Geetha at Price Center to exchange my bookstore Alumni Association coupon. I went back to work, and then went to Price Center in an attempt to try to install a font onto the computer. After failing, I went to Geisel to try yet again, succeeding this time. I rushed back to work afterwards to print those said fonts out, before taking them with me to Geisel to see if there were any SD card slots available. Sadly, there weren’t…. I proceeded to my class where I snapped pictures of the printouts while talking to both Brittney and Alexis. After class I met up with Tiffany Saw to use her computer to transfer the pictures from SD card to USB port. Geetha delivered me some delicious hot dogs as I proceeded to the Communications building to ultimately finish my COMT100 video project. I met up with Geetha afterwards to hang out for a short bit.
I went home waiting for Jessica Daggit to pick up her stuff. She didn’t, so I met up with Alexis at Whole Foods so she could buy me alcohol to give to John Torres for his birthday. We proceeded to Chipotle where I got dinner, I went home to pick up Tyler, and we proceeded to CVS so he could buy Torrie bear more alcohol. We went to his place shortly thereafter, and proceeded for a pretty casual party of fellow floor family as well as his work friends. (Kate, Thomas, etc.) The most interesting part of the party? Talking and catching up with Howard, Leah, Brittney, & Victor inside Howard’s room. Deep conversations while intoxicated are the best kind I must admit, not to mention shit talking. I snapped a picture on John Torre’s back as his picture of the day to ultimately make him a feature on my blog. As I departed his party he gave me a long hug saying how much he missed me, a truly epic moment in our friendship. At that point I truly realized how much I had missed living with Howard & John Torres. Sadly though, those times are gone, as me and Tyler proceeded to walk home. We tried to walk through the McDonald’s drive thru but the woman didn’t even talk to us so we went to Subway where Tyler got a delicious sandwich. When we got back home I ate noodles, chillaxed on the computer, and ultimately crashed like an angel to sleep.

On this day in 1959, on New York City’s Fifth Avenue, thousands of people line up outside a bizarrely shaped white concrete building that resembled a giant upside-down cupcake. It was opening day at the new Guggenheim Museum, home to one of the world’s top collections of contemporary art.Mining tycoon Solomon R. Guggenheim began collecting art seriously when he retired in the 1930s. With the help of Hilla Rebay, a German baroness and artist, Guggenheim displayed his purchases for the first time in 1939 in a former car showroom in New York. Within a few years, the collection—including works by Vasily Kandinsky, Paul Klee and Marc Chagall—had outgrown the small space. In 1943, Rebay contacted architect Frank Lloyd Wright and asked him to take on the work of designing not just a museum, but a “temple of spirit,” where people would learn to see art in a new way. OMG I WANNA GO.

President Barack Obama announced that the U.S. will pull out all of its troops from Iraq by the end of December, drawing the nine-year war to a conclusion. The announcement signals the imminent end of a war that has cost the U.S. more than $800 billion dollars and claimed the lives of 3,525 American service members. We should have ended the war 8 years ago.

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