Monday, March 29, 2004

SF Report

Went to San Francisco for work, but had time to visit my brother M. and family (M. and M., wow love the M family) in Los Altos and my sister P. and hubby R in Napa. Brother B. also came to Napa for the weekend. Woo, hoo, love the new work--just enough travel, not too much, at least that's what I think at this stage.

Friday, March 19, 2004

Off, Regional Rounds 1 and 2

Took Friday off for my version of the High Holidays. Go Nevada. Go Xavier. Love the upsets.

Thursday, March 18, 2004

Lorna Simpson

And to balance out last night's foray into predictive analysis, I went to hear Lorna Simpson talk at Northwestern U. Arrived late (it's a long drive from far south to far north) but great to see her. Lorna developed Interior/Exterior, Full/Empty, one of her early film installation pieces at Wexner and did some work at the Walker. She almost used our house as one of the background locations, but it didn't work out...dang.

Wednesday, March 17, 2004

Jack Noonan

Went to hear the CEO of SPSS. SPSS stands for Statistical Package for the Social Sciences, and was basically invented by a former faculty member here. The program has changed pretty significantly, and now at least one priority for the company is predictive analysis for business. Who would have thunk a year ago I'd be attending such a thing?

Tuesday, March 09, 2004

Laura Letinsky opening at Ren

Went to a Tuesday opening at the Ren. Really interesting photography--we had seen at Monique's booth at the Art Fair, but great to see more, and to meet the artist who teaches at the U of C.

Saturday, March 06, 2004

Duke vs. Carolina

It's always good to have a win over Carolina.

Monday, March 01, 2004

Adolfo Aguilar Zinser, Ambassador to UN for Mexico

An interesting talk at the U of C. Very candid, very funny. The phrase that sticks is "ranch diplomacy": Bush invites folks to the ranch, everybody's impressed, they are all friends.

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