she-she-sheraton

i'm at the Sheraton Hotel in Sacramento and it is bizarrely awesome...up on the 25th floor with the glittering city below and lots of space to spread out--niiiiiiice! I'm being put up for a night by the Crocker Art Museum and it's fancier than I thought it would be (did a lecture tonight and will do a workshop tomorrow so since it takes about 2-3 hours to drive back and forth from San Francisco they just stashed me in a hotel).

I LOOOOOOVE staying in nice hotels on someone else's dime. It's oddly luxurious and feels like you're all high class and stuff They have a pretty darn impressive lobby, too. The movies on demand are like, the latest and greatest, too--there's actually 2-3 I would pay to watch...!

Yay hotels! Yay someone else's expense account!

Earlier today was the first day of the Graduate Seminar class I'm teaching--"Material Worlds". And it went damn well! There were almost thirty students attending, and I can only accept 12. I'm having them write me personal emails explaining why they really want to be in the class and making a good case of it before I can accept them. I'm super excited by the class and think it will be awwwwweeeeessssooooommmmmme :)