Better Job News, Weekend Art + Shopping

Good news! I just heard that one of the places I've interviewed for a job considers me their top candidate, but is waiting to make a real offer until some contract paperwork comes through in December or January. I hadn't heard from them in weeks, and had totally given up on the possibility that they were interested! They are confident that their contract will come through, so I'm feeling hopeful about it, but will still continue to apply elsewhere in the meantime. What a roller coaster ride this job search has been! I'm so lucky that some of my Minnesota clients continue to have small projects for me to do in the meantime.

We are incredibly excited about our trip home to Minnesota this week! It is all I've been thinking of, since we can't wait to see so many friends and family. Yippee!

We've been spending the last two weekends looking at art and doing a little neighborhood shopping at the Brooklyn Flea (Market), which is truly the greatest market of its kind I've ever experienced. I don't even like to shop, and we keep going back every week for gifts, vintage clothes, and great food. I love that it's only four blocks from our place. For art, we've explored MoMA's contemporary museum P.S. 1 in Queens (we really liked it), and the Whitney, where we disagreed about the relative merits of the current Calder exhibition. These photos are of us lying on the floor at P.S.1, looking up at a massive rotating mirror installed on the ceiling -- it is a piece by Olafur Eliasson (of the Waterfalls fame), and inspires some thinking of one's place...