Ze French Dinner is over!

Finally! With a sigh of relief I am done! The dinner was a success by my standards, I was able to fully enjoy my meal and not have to worry about serving, cleaning, or plating the food. Woo-hoo! Now that I'm done I can get back to everything else in life, like making Thanksgiving day sweaters.

On one last thought for the dinner, yea I'm gonna bring it back up again...
An interesting thing happened to me today...
So on Wednesday I took ALL of the food we had bought for the dinner from my house, as well as my friend's houses to the school and carried practically all of it from my car into the SU's kitchen. Four or five trips later and late for class I was getting really pissed off that no one was even attempting to help me by opening the door. I'd get funny looks from people as I carried 10- half gallon containers of heavy whipping cream down the hill from where I parked and into the SU. One old lady looked as me and commented "that sure looks heavy" and that was it. I couldn't believe people's apathy.

So today I was walking downtown and this guy was trying to get into Tease while carrying a large amp all by himself. So I opened the door for him. He was so happy I got a personal invitation to his gig this evening.

How's that for Karma?

So along those lines this reminds me of something:
Albert and David Maysles. I'll get to them in a minute. I just wanted to reflect on this photo real quick by saying that I enjoy how it documents them documenting people. These two guys did some really powerful film that depicted the ordinary lives of interesting people (like Gray Gardens). Or the interesting projects of eccentric people (like The Gates, an instalation project in New York a few years ago). I'm always interested in well done documentaries, because it's the perfect medium for telling true stories. There is such beauty in the honesty that unfolds in pieces such as these that it makes me realize that some people in the world aren't apathetic to others. It's very inspiring.