I went down to Houston yesterday to see this exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. It's in Houston because they're remodeling the MOMA in New York.

It was pretty good, although I ran out of steam about halfway through. I'm pretty sick, so dragging myself through the last half, and then waiting for my mother to comb the gift shop took considerable effort. Still, it was worth it.

I think what most interested me was seeing the layers of paint on Van Gogh's Starry Night. That's just something you can't tell from the prints, how thickly the paint is layered on. There were a lot of other great pieces (duh). I'm also a big fan of the Fauvians, so I was a little bit tickled to learn that the name comes from what they were called when they first showed their pieces-- les fauves (did I spell that right?) or, The Wild Beasts. I like it. I didn't know that before.

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Christmas was decent. My parents are usually at each other's throats, but put on a remarkably good show this year after I threatened not to come home at all after dealing with their drama during finals.

I'm going back to the Midwest in a few days. Nothing's going on here for New Years, so I figure I might as well party with the law school friends. On the 2nd, I'll be going up to Michigan for 4 days to visit my dad's family *shudder*.

That is going to suck, and even going is rewarding my father for being extremely manipulative. But it was either go and be miserable for 4 days, stay home and have my father make my entire break miserable, or not go home at all and have my parents not speak to me. So Michigan it is. Gaaahreat.

I have to say that I'm dreading the coming semester just a little bit. I think our classes this semester might be substantially harder than the fall semester. In my book, not much can get worse than my Property class, but I've heard things about Civ Pro and Con Law. I guess we'll see, though.