back in the burgh

the children's museum in pittsburgh is amazing... they expanded into the abandoned buhl science center and everything just got BETTER. normally i hate change, especially when i'm very nostalgic about the original, but it's so much more spacious and i made the coolest "dynamite" screenprint, so i'm okay with it. there's a gravity room where everything is tilted, and an instrument room and it was just bright and fun and filled with kids. normally that would cause my uterus to get all anxious, but i was with my niece and nephew, who are natural contraceptives b/c after spending the day with them i realize i am in no way energetic enough to have kids. it's 10:30 on a saturday night and i'm wondering why i'm not in bed yet.
there were some impressive video installations that put the shadow pictures of my youth to shame - go here, the best is called 'gathering'. the group, creative nerve, has a website, but they talk about other projects on it. worth a look just for the impressive resumes...

watched some bbc america - so sad about my lack of cable sometimes, although netflix ALMOST makes up for it. caught the end of the smoking room, which is hysterical and cancer-craving, and tim's birthday episode of the office. aww. so utterly wonderful, and puts the new one to such outrageous shame. my parents both gave up after watching for less than ten minutes. losers.