Burrell (again)

Categories: glasgow

Date: 10 October 2010 20:59:42

A lovely weekend as we had good friends staying - they were here for a wedding so we only had them to ourselves today, P's birthday, so we took them to the fabulous Burrell Collection. This is the first time I'd been since getting my fancy camera, so it gave me a good excuse to play a bit with that. Because I wasn't using flash and the light is quite dim to preserve the exhibits the results weren't all as good as they could have been, but I have made a flickr set of my favourites which can be seen here if you're so inclined. The picture I've put up on this post is a painting called Prancing Grey Horse by Theodore Gericault. The mezzanine with the paintings was the one bit of the collection HD and I had never managed to visit so it was good to rectify that. This painting was my favourite, but there were also quite a few Degas paintings which I also liked and a lovely Cezanne too amongst other less well-known artists.

In other news I still haven't heard from the interview but am not holding my breath, and in the meantime am thinking again. Options at the moment include to take on tutoring another Open Uni course (but there's very little available up here at the moment, only one possibility which is in the North of England region for the 'next step up' course from the one I already tutor on), and/or to apply to another uni here to do the nursing course to get into the area of practice I really want to move into. Both wouldn't start till way after the thesis is handed in, which is good, but as I am currently wanting to sleep for England I'm not sure it's a good idea to go for both - tutoring 2 courses and doing a course as a student whilst also doing the day job will be a lot. But the extra income would be helpful. Decisions, decisions. If I'm going to apply for the OU job it has to be in by Thursday. Argh! No pressure then :)