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The galleries are now open and their new exhibits are up, wooh!

Well the Forsyth, anyway, where I work. The Stark Galleries is still installing their super awesome Patent Model show. I have walked around it though (I'm physically still located there for Reasons that I may write about at some point), and I have to say that it is pretty much a Steampunk's wet dream - all wacky inventions and aged wood and brass gears - gears that *do things*! It is really neat in and of itself, but I think it could provide some great inspiration for people who are interested in Steampunk stuff - I'll see if we are allowed to take pictures and maybe post some later if I can.

At Forsyth, these are the first exhibits where I have done a lot of cataloguing before the show, and I am pretty familiar with all the objects on display, which is cool. Forsyth has downloadable brochures on the exhibits that show a few of the pieces, which is convenient for my purposes since the vast majority of you are not local and are never going to be able to come and see them :p All the pictures in the brochures were take by me, so you can have a sense of what else I have been up to at work.

Here are some links to the Forsyth exhibits. There are links to the pdf brochures at the bottom of each page:

Come to the Table: American Pressed Glass
Aurene: Steuben's Iridescent Pressed Glass
(There is also a new paperweight display in the Learning Gallery but there's not much I can show you on that front).

For anyone who *is* local, the information on the Stark exhibitions can be found over here. Because they are traveling exhibits, we don't have as much online information about the objects, but we do have some nice brochures, I believe, for both.


(I am blogging from work! But I totally consider this relevant and don't feel a bit guilty >.>)

So... I'm going to Canada this weekend! Again!

It turns out that they won't give you a US visa that last longer than your passport, and mine expires in March. I'd planned to renew it remotely once I got home, but that is not going to work for a variety of reasons (processing time + post time = dodgy proposition). Even if I could get it before it was due, I'd still have to leave the US and reenter.

So, back to Canada! This was an idea weekend, as Monday is a holiday in the US (MLK day) but not in Canada, so I'm missing one less day of work. This is good as I'm having to use sick time for this trip since I don't actually *have* any vacation yet :p

I had looked into going back to Montreal (I missed out on so much from being sick on the last half of my trip at Christmas), but it was just too expensive. The whole urgent passport thing is gonna be pricey anyway (though really not too much more than getting it renewed from the US >.>). So I am opting instead to go up to Windsor! I can save a lot of money by flying into Detroit and driving across the border both ways. This does give me a little dread, as I don't have a great history with the US border guards at that crossing. The last time they let me sit for half an hour because none of the half dozen of them working wanted to admit that they didn't know how to process my forms :p The only one who did was the only one of the pack who was actually helping anyone else. They only stepped up to do it once he was free, and only then because someone else came in and they couldn't let them go before me :p Not impressed.

Anyway, I fly in on Saturday night and I will stay with naryrising and forthright. Sunday will be for chilling/fretting. Monday I will take in my application (I already have photos that I got yesterday), I'll pick up my passport on Tuesday, and fly back Wednesday. I get home at like midnight, and work the next day, wheee! I also give blood the next day >.> It'll be fun times! I hope it will though - I will have some down time, and if everything goes smoothly it should be nice :) I have been promised that we can make garlic fingers :3

I am being spoiled in my Curtana visits, as she is going to be coming to visit me in March as well :)