we had a visitor this weekend! (everyone who has not come to visit yet can be jealous now: _________) granted, suzanne was mostly here to interview for CUNY, but she did stay with us for a few days and we had a great time.

highlights:

we played settlers while eating that wonderful chicken curry stuff that my mom used to make when i was a kid (thanks for the recipe, mum).

last night we went to see "gutenberg: the musical!" again because we got really cheap tickets ($5!!) and we thought suzie would enjoy that. it was very fun once again and we enjoyed hearing our favorite lines ("historical fiction is fiction that is true") and songs ("biscuits! biscuits!") again. and a broadway show would not have been quite so economically viable, since we are still coming down from our trip to "the drowsy chaperone."

we went to visit the metropolitan museum of art (the met) and saw mummies, fashion from the 1970s, armor for horses - including a helmet from the tibet area, i think it was, where the top of the helmet was a crouching bunny rabbit, go figure - art from the middle ages, and quite a few heads belonging to decapitated saints from european churches.

i found that bit really interesting, actually, because the poor saints in all the french churches were beheaded around the french revolution (motto: off with everyone's head) and historians were finding all these stone heads with no clue as to their home body. what they eventually did was chemically test the stone in the bodies and the stone in the heads and match them according to the quantities of certain chemical elements they found. frankly, i find this a very interesting use of chemistry and am trying to convince mike that he would be happy surrounded by beheaded saints. so far, no dice. i'll keep you posted.