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Yay for Museums! written @ 11:15 PM on February 04, 2004 My painting class took a field trip to the Cincinnati Art Museum this afternoon. I'm ashamed to say it, but I've only been to the museum on brief class field trips a handful of times over the years. As soon as I have made it through the woods as far as all my school work goes, I think I'll be wandering up to Eden Park more often. Of course, the act of reaching the museum was an odyssey. The city of Cincinnati is one of the most illogically built places on the face of the planet, and I passionately hate driving downtown. I can't believe I can navigate places like New York, Columbus, and detour-rife Pittsburgh without that much of a problem, but I think that from my college all the way to the museum I almost managed the get my classmate and me killed on at least five separate occasions-- and that's owing to the fact that MapQuest failed in supplying me real driving directions and my classmate, in spite of the fact that she lives downtown for crying out loud, didn't know where to go or how to get to Gilbert Avenue. By a stroke of sheer dumb luck, I stumbled upon Gilbert Avenue and managed to get us there with all our internal organs functioning properly! But oh well. Tomorrow I'll forget those moments when I sat white-knuckled and wondering if I would be sleeping under an overpass because I failed to locate 471 on the return trip... Okay, let's not talk about that. Over all, once we reached the museum I had a grand time. Mankind has made fantastic paintings, no? I highly recommend a monthly trip of wandering in a foreign museum personally; it really helps you get a sense of direction in life. *** Here's something that vexes me: diary review sites. I spent the last half hour or so surfing various places on Diaryland, and I've come to the conclusion that the idea of somebody reviewing what is essentially your life, judging whether or not you're a valuable human being (and let's face it: that's what's implied with the question, "Will I come back again?"), and then issuing a grade is . . . well . . . a bad idea! I suppose this is a philosophical question of ethics. While curiosity makes me wonder whether or not I would/should submit my website for review, in the end I have come to the conclusion that no stranger has the right to judge the worth of what is written in a personal diary, and consequently the worth of the person. It really is silly if you think about it. And what about the people who submit their diaries? What are they looking for? Validity of their existences? A sense of their own worth? Maybe I'm too practical. And I guess this is just a random rant. *sigh* I'm going to bed.
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