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Saturday, January 11, 2003

 
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yesterday was a great day. :) i stayed home again. garrett actually fixed all the things he had done without a peep. risa & i were early to the japanese friendship garden exhibit reception, so we visited the balboa park botanical building and the timken museum of art. at the exhibit, the scrolls were exquisite (carol's actually made me lose my breath for a second). the friendship garden was nice, but very, very small. then we headed to the guild meeting, but were early for that, too, so we joined some members at the infamous chinese restaurant and then hurried back to the meeting.

and everyone told me how great my calligraphy pieces in the poway show looked. again, i haven't seen them, so i don't know, but it was both gratifying and a little embrassing to hear it over and over again. when i had a piece in the bi-annual show two years ago, i didn't get nearly this response, and i wonder if it's like poetry, which takes a certain amount of personal involvement to be appreciated. but risa had a good idea: to submit one of them to the 2004 john neal calligraphic engagement calendar, whose theme next year will be shakespeare. but it's in a vertical format and the deadline is january 24 (!). argh!

people were also shocked at the hair, though this is the length it was at when i first began attending sdfc meetings (there's a picture of me in the newsletter). but everyone remembers me with long hair. everyone said it was cute but had a different opinion about how it affected how i looked: risa said it made me look "out of time," shirley said it made me look older and sophisticated, naomi said it made me look much younger, dianne said it made me look "timeless."