Franklin Trip - Friday

Friday morning we headed off towards Nashville.

The view from my window on the way to Nashville.

A building in Nashville that I liked.

After lunch (at a brewery! it was so fun, I know how beer is made now.) we went to the park in Nashville

Everything was so pretty with the autumn leaves!

There was a big stage, and I couldn't resist the urge to dance on it. And we all know about my dancing skills. ;)

Yeah, so maybe I just told you we were in Nashville. We were really in Rome.

(post-edit: it has been pointed out that the parthenon is in greece. i knew this, in the back of my mind... which doesn't make me feel any less stupid.)

Just kidding, this is the Nashville Parthenon. It was huge, and it was awesome.

There was a huge art exhibit inside, including statues from the real Parthenon.

Oh yeah, and the Elgin Marbles (two horses heads) who I met at Lord Elgin's castle... he told me their names, one was Humphrey and the other I don't remember. It was funny seeing something I'd met and touched before ... in a museum.

Yes, she was that big. HUGE. I kept imagining what would happen if she came to life.

Me and my bro Leo, the winged beast of scariness. Just chillin.

Nice ancient artifact storage system, guys. Seriously.

FAIL.

Getting his hand bitten, a la Roman Holiday.

You can't tell, but we were doing the Wizard of Oz dance.

That evening we went to Franklin and had dinner at this really cool restaurant in a house next to the church. Everyone sits at a table together, and you get to meet people! There was this one very proper southern lady with huge hair who told us about how she worked one day a week at Stein Mart, and "that was socially acceptable."

After, at the film conference, I got to meet Dr. George! who is even more awe inspiring in person. That night's movie was "Dead Poets' Society" ... which I thought I'd seen all of, but apparently I had missed the ending and a lot of important parts in the middle. The theme of the conference was "Epistemology, or how we know what we know", and that was really interesting, seeing the different viewpoints in the movies. Dead Poets' Society was really interesting, because it shows 2 near opposite philosophies - romanticism and rationalism/traditionalism - and cautions that both are extremes.

quothe she, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

and then she jumped up and down. like a little girl.

my parents just gave me my suprise senior trip.


wait for it, wait for it....

I'm going to Franklin to meet DR. GEORGE!!!!!!!!!

after 6 years of listening to him teach with all his brilliant teaching skills, I'm finally going to meet him!!!

we're going to the film conference, yeah yeah yeah (please hear this in a Bee Gees singing voice).

if this trip was a superhero... it would be

The Super-Spider-Wonder-Aqua Hulk Bat-Captain

with a little wolverine thrown in there for fun.

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i have this really silly recurring dream, where i finally meet dr. george and i completely freak out like i'm at a rock concert, and then suddenly i am. and it's the 60's. and dr. george is on stage singing, wearing .... white pants, pink shirt, leather jacket, rhinestone bowtie and really funny 60's hair!!! so me and my awesome long flippy 60's hair become a roadie for dr. george (as if i'm not already) and travelled all kinds of places. he played a gig in Walter Scott's house, at Buckingham Palace, on a hill in Germany where people were making sausage...

.

it was the worlds best tour.

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and now i get to experience the realistic equivalent of that. on october 30th.

7 items

item 1: to see some incredible art, go here. so beautiful. how i would love to be the one coming up with these wonderful ideas and being behind the camera creating such uniquely beautiful art.

item 2: i know i've been neglecting this blog of late... just so much life happening, so much to do! i'm rather swamped right now under a literal mountain (and no, i'm not using that phrase hypothetically like dr. George does, it is actually a mountain. on my desk. making that room look horrifying all the time.) of books, all amazing, all brilliant, all a rare glimpse into a peculiar, brilliant mind, making it maddening to be so speedy going through them.

item 3: right now i've one of those terrible behind-the-eyes headaches that feels like someone dipped a carrot in wasabi and rubbing alcohol, lit it on fire, and punched you in the face with it. yeow!

item 4: already formulating my plans for the distant-future christmas break from school... they involve many cups of tea

filling boxes with sketches of all the gnomes and dancing

mushrooms and sparrows and ill-mannered oaks and possums that

want to spill out of my head all day long but never get a chance

making headway on my woodland-creature quilt (i'll post fabric pictures soon, promise!)

yuletide cupcakes

turning 18 and becoming an adult overnight (look, a christmas miracle! ;)

item 5: last night i dreamed it was my first day of college, and i had an amazing outfit, and for some strange reason sally field was my philosophy teacher. she was a good teacher, very smart, and she invited me to a coffee-making contest. that very night my home was invaded by alien-robot-coyotes... the details were very clear earlier in the day, but now i forget. there was great danger involved, though. yeep!

item 6: the office is back. yay! it was sorely missed. nearly forgot how brilliant rainn wilson is!

item 7: helped dan and caitlin move in to their wonderful, lovely home this afternoon, and going back tomorrow to help some more! it's wonderful, and feels like a home.

oh yes, and keds, also. yay for those!

hoorah for...

dr. george. yes, ideas do have consequences.

the colour red. imagine how funny we'd look without it!

the brain's ability to comprehend and accept logic.

c.s. lewis.

the mental sigh of relief when the big creepy person in the bunny suit passes by and doesn't talk to you.

boo for...

the big creepy bunny-human actually talking to you, hugging you, doing creepy dances...ugh.

really cold fingers.

snoopy people.

people who seem completely incapable of accepting the conclusions of basic logic.

artichoke oil...you know, that gross smelling oil thats left in the artichoke can after you take all the artichokes out.

forgetting to do things... especially if when you finally get around to it you find that mold has grown.