mom and i (Maria and baby Grace were last week and Bert before that) have been down for the past two days with a nasty cold/flu bug that won't relent. mom is a big baby when she's sick.

i've finally linked my blog to my domain name of choice…girlatlarge.com in the future i see perhaps a gallery or professional (what profession?!?!) use for the main page and a blog link, but for the moment it will just take you directly to the blog.

the holiday lease ended on Bert's fabulous apartment today (we'll sorely miss that new modern kitchen) so, he's off to bunk in the sailboat tonight! its a rather nasty night here, stormy and raining, rather cold (for this region anyway) but he insisted on passing up the spare bed in my room. he does snore,…

mmmm….Chinese food tonight! hadn't realized how much i have missed 'ethnic' food (don't get me wrong, French food is among the loveliest, but not often spicy)…now i just have to find thai, sushi, vietnamese, mexican, tapas, indian, and cajun restaurants. ooh…and can someone send me some low country boil from The Crab Shack?

to those who received the pictures this week, yes that is a piece of parmesean cheese (from market day in Ventimille, Italy) as big as Ruby's head! today at the "Academy": figure drawing (the local drunk again) and then nearly three hours learning how to sculpt a face (bone structure, building up the form, keeping…

i was "outed" this weekend, blog-wise. warning: A) do not blog drunk and pissed off. B) when busted, be drunk and in a good mood and it won't be so bad.

we had a model for figure drawing this morning at the "Academy"….Patrick, the local handyman/drunk. not exactly what i had imagined, but i made a go of it (thank goodness he remained clothed!) at least it wasn't drawing the cat in the parking area again.

went into SFR to get a simple pre-pay cell phone (like mine, very convenient and actually much less $ than stateside) for Bert to have on the boat…you know, for the "Get her ready, we're coming out to the harbor in twenty minutes!" calls. this is how is goes: >first, wait patiently 30 minutes for…

mom was up at dawn today, off to the new boat for a major cleaning session, yellow rubber gloves and all. i've never seen anything like it. tonight's dinnertime Bert-ism: "You see it all more clearly on a sailboat. I mean, you can feel like you are just drifting about life…and then, out on the…

i had no idea it was so hard to make "un petit homme" in clay. my little man looks completely distorted and i have yet to attach the head. so the sculpture lesson started at 5pm…some 8 hours after i arrived. Prof. Waller came in for 5 minutes today. he said (to Max, in German)…