My Contrary Ways

I've been home sick for two days. I slept most of yesterday (sleep, for me, has always led to fast recovery), venturing out of my apartment to go buy soup (garden vegetable) and tissues. I forgot to buy more orange juice.  I don't think I can sleep anymore.

So, after emailing work, I've spent the morning tweeting (or retweeting) and going through my instagram photos. It got me to thinking, for someone dead set against facebook, I do have a social media footprint larger than I realize. I mean I signed up for Google+, I'm on linked in. I have not one, but two blogs. Why am I so reluctant to sign up for facebook?

I wish I could say it was because of its privacy rules or unease with how it would use my data. But it's not.

Part of the reason is I like being contrary. Everyone uses facebook, so I shouldn't. It's like being the person who has never seen "Star Wars" or read a Harry Potter book. But I think the other thing is I view facebook as a lazy/easy way to maintain friendships. You can find out what people are doing without actually talking to them. I update all my different social media mediums on a pretty irregular basis (although I tweet from my work related acct on a pretty regular basis), but you really have to know me to know I have all these things (or use my iPhone to show me how to do certain things).

But it does put me at a disadvantage. I'm usually the last to know anything. During the holidays, when people realized I was unaware of something, the phrase "I posted it on facebook" was used a lot. 

Should I sign up? Probably. Will I? No. If people really want me know something, they can email me.

10 Days....and Resolution is Done

Hats off to people who can maintain a vegan diet. It's really hard avoiding dairy and eggs. At least it is for me. I think my resolution for 2013 is over. I'm tired of checking everything. Ten days is respectable....for me. I think I'm going to modify my 2013 resolution to going vegetarian this year. Or go vegan every other week.

Hopping Around the Garage

So, apparently there was a kangaroo in the Melbourne Airport parking garage. Guess it couldn't find its car!

I love kangaroos! That was what I learned on my trip to Australia. I may be been excited about seeing the koalas but when I get to the zoo, the 'roos stole my heart.

I mean look how cute he (or she, I didn't check) is! They were hopping around, and you could feed them. I admit I spend several dollars on ice cream cones filled with kangaroo food (that the emus also seemed to love.)

NYC Subway Art

There's a lot of art in the New York City subway system, and an app to find them. I've noticed some as I've traveled through out the system. I was in the R/N Prince St. Station when I saw this and thought it was brilliant. It's called "Carrying On" by Janet Zweig and Edward del Rosario.

It just struck me as scenes you would see in the subway. Meta, so to speak.

Just goes to show, there are some surprisingly nice things in the subway!

Swings + Curtain = Interactive Art

Today was the last day of Ann Hamilton's "event of a thread" at the Park Armory.  It's a whimsical, interactive art display involving swings. It was fun! You swing, and the strings attached to the swing move through pulleys and move this big, white, silky curtain.  According to the exhibit information it invites "visitors to connect to the action of each other and the work itself."

This is the type of art I can get into. I don't get the larger meaning, I'll be honest. But I love the beauty of the movement of the curtain, especially when you lay down under it.

The other interesting thing, considering it was an interactive exhibit,  was that no one got beaned by a swing. You had a lot of people and kids running in and around the swings and no one got it. There were close calls, but no collisions.

MP took some pics and vid of the exhibit, as well, that you can view here.



Swings from run lynn run on Vimeo.