As you can still I am still reeling with excitement about being an aunt. This is great.
So my good mood carried over into today. I hung out at the dorms for a bit with Ilana while everyone else was tramping over St. Isaac's (where I have already been twice). I then decided to finally start doing all those things that I have been saying I'm going to do while here (I mean, I only have ten more months. I have to get on this), so I went to the Russian Museum by myself. I went about two hours before they close and it was pretty quiet -- though the Russian Museum is always more quiet than the Hermitage -- I only ran into one tour group. It was the perfect amount of time for me -- before I got museum feet and glassy eyes -- and I got to check out the wing we had missed earlier on our tour, the one that is full of Russian handicrafts and linens and wooden spoons and carved boxes and such. I also got to see the temporary exhibit of works by В.М. Ермолаева and Николай Суетин, which I had also missed last time. And then I just returned to the Benois Wing which is my favorite part because it is cool and bright and white with skylights and full of all my favorite artists there, like Rodchenko and Filonov. I felt like Grace, who spent all summer visiting and revisiting her favorite paintings and aritsts at the Russian Museum like meeting friends for coffee.
And then I came home to find order restored in my house. Not that things were completely insane at home while Olga was in the hospital, but they were definitely more chaotic, and finding Olga back at home, back in her spot on the couch, with the TV turned on to its normal channel 5, it was kind of a relief to go back to a routine. So, things are getting back to normal.
Maybe my good mood will keep up past just yesterday and today and then I'll finally get out of this slump I've been in. Babies make everything better.
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