Art School Confidential

Our friend Mary just started working on her M.F.A. at Columbia this fall, so on Wednesday we met her at her studio to catch up and get some lunch together. Mary had been living in Seattle before moving to New York, and we hadn't seen her in a while (I did some searching in my Palm and I think it's been 4 years! Can that really be right?), so we were both pretty excited. As it turns out neither Steph or I were the most excited members of the family, though.

Evan definitely made a new friend during this visit. Right from the get go he and Mary hit it off. Here they are sharing a moment:

Evan really had a good time playing with Mary's hair while she was holding him (fortunately he never found her earrings), and maybe that was what charged him up. Or maybe there were some funky chemicals in the air (art studios are usually full of interesting chemicals, after all). Whatever it was, while we were looking at some of the studios of Mary's fellow students Evan went into extended supersqueak mode:

This is just a short snippet -- I swear he was doing this for at least 5 minutes! We're going to assume that this is a good thing.