Nickie's Birthday

I took a day off work last week for Nickie's birthday. We went to the city and hung out in Bryant Park, went to Colliseum Books, bought a pashmina from the street vendor, got cinnamon rolls and coffee from 'WichCraft, and went to a nice Vietnamese restaurant on the East Side called Boi. Nickie used to teach ESL in Omaha and she had a Vietnamese student who invited her into her home for dinner on her last trip to Omaha, and she's been craving Vietnamese ever since. We generally played and goofed off and took lots of pictures. Below are pics of me posing by the fountain, Nickie posing by the carousel, and us enjoying dinner.

I'm taking a continuing ed class at School of Visual Arts all about how to get your career going as an artist. It may be the best 140 I've ever spent. The teacher is Jennifer Weinstock. Next Tuesday I'm supposed to bring in examples of my work so we can start figuring out what kind of artist I am and what galleries I should focus on. Unfortunately, I barely have anything here in New York, most of my work is in storage in Omaha. I'm just going to bring in my sketchbook and small paintings I have around the house. I don't want to go off on a lot of tangents and have an unfocused discussion by showing too many different kinds of work, but the fact also remains that I have diverse artistic themes so I have to do some personal editing to keep the conversation on point.