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Today has been one of those days where I have to add two things to my to-do list every time I open it to cross one thing off. Things I have done so far today include buying new headphones, paying medical bills, faxing medical reciepts to my flexcard's accounting department (because GOD KNOWS I could be paying for sex with my flexcard at Northwestern Medical Center, you just can't tell), two graphical manips, checking and rearranging my retirement investments -- and then there's the actual work.

Monday at the Art Institute was fun. More crowded than I expected, but we had a good time regardless. Mum adored the Thorne Miniatures and R and Emmy, who have (R) seen them before and (Emmy) no attention span, blitzed the Impressionists while I took Mum around the miniatures. They got on like a house on fire, to my relief.

The visiting exhibit, Kings, Queens, And Courtiers, was a bit disjointed; we all agreed that the books were the most interesting part, though admittedly the reliquary for the heart of Anne of Brittany held our attention while we debated whether or not the heart was still inside. Wikipedia has since settled that it isn't, which is rather disappointing really. Also there was a MYSTERIOUS LEONARDO DA VINCI PAINTING so that was fun.

I hadn't been to the Art Institute's cafeteria in ages and I'm pleasantly surprised by the quality and price of the food there -- it used to be terrible (most museum cafeterias are; the one at the MFA Boston was DIRE) but for seven bucks you get a big well-cooked burger and hot crispy fries. Mum, because she does this, engaged with the grill chef about the food, and he told us that all the food served in the cafeteria is local -- nothing comes from more than 150 miles away.

(I do wish they'd stop rearranging the museum. Picasso's baboon maquette used to be in with the modernists where it belonged, now it's hidden against a wall next to the Chagall windows.)

Anyway, Mum and Emmy are home now, and we managed to have a really good time all three days, so I'm pleased.

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FANDOM IS EXPLODING ALL AROUND US. Isn't it marvelous?

There are photos from the Sherlock S2 Table Reading and promo photos for White Collar S3 (spoilerless, no less!).

Then there's a Most Awesome Fanfic by Anya, "The Monogram", wherein the White Collar characters send each other postcards (and some lingerie). There are photos of the postcards, including a few staged by yours truly and two sent by same. It's really a unique multimedia collaborative thingydoo. Highly technical term, thingydoo.

Also, alibi_factory suggested and I concurred that Rory in Square Sixties Gear is the best ever, and deserved to be shopped into a Mad Men ad. SHOPPED HARD.

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ORIGAMI. I've missed you, you little paper-cut inducing mania.

On Friday I folded a bow for my Mum, which thrilled her so much she packed it carefully in a box to take home. That flower on the right came stuck to the bag; the bow on the left is what I folded. It is quite a pretty little fold.

I hadn't folded anything since until today, when my origami calendar offered me A BUNNY MASK. Which seems vaguely kinky in a way I can't quite parse, but I love masks and I'm not immune to bunnies.

Does he look...evil to you?