Public Napping?

Public naps? 

      These are not the homeless that are grabbing a nap  

in a safe place, but people who are exhausted and just


drop… 

  At MOMA in NYC last year... this is a soft place to rest.

The soft purring/snore is lovely.

Smells in my Elevator

Dear Reader...
     I have had a few elevator adventures and I am saving those up for another post... but lately I have been making note of the strange and wonderful smells I have experienced in my elevator.  First you should know that I live on the 20th floor and the elevator has a window/glass wall that looks over the city so I get a wonderful view of the street and all kinds of life going on there.  As soon as I moved here last fall, I realized I would be spending a lot of time going up and down to my car, to the street, to the mail box, and other errands.  I began to notice that when there was a smell in the elevator I had plenty of time to think about what it was... at one of my first discerning moments I decided I had to take notes... It was a strange mixture of ...

• Cheetos and wet stinky dog

     I visualized a guy with a bag of Cheetos who had just walked his dog out in the rain.

The list continues for several more rides, I smell...

• Tacos
• Sweaty workout someone
• Paint
• Strong perfume - Bad!

    All fairly easy to understand why they would be in an elevator... then this one.

• A sour Ginger smell

     I was visualizing someone was carrying some kind of sushi, with ginger on it...but somehow it was rotten.

Next came these...

• Rotten Orange
• Beer
• Compost
• Oddly metallic

     Then my state legalized the private use of small amounts of Marijuana... so

• Strong smell of Pot! I tried not to second hand smoke any!

Finally I got some fairly nice smells...

• Flowers
• Cheeseburgers
• Nail Polish remover
• Perfume - good!

Now I am paying attention and taking notes quite often.  Here comes...

• Gas
• Yeast - like a bagel
• Super stinky tennis shoes.

     This brings me up to today... I may continue my list or perhaps realise this is a silly exercise that shows how small my brain actually is, in any case, I do wonder what goes on in the cubicle apartment, life of my fellow renters that so many smells get out to the elevator and beyond.

Brains ~ The Mind as Matter ~ Wellcome Collection

     A few weeks ago I took a detour to the Wellcome Collection, which consist of an extraordinary mix of medical, art, curiosities and brains.  This collection was begun by Mr. Wellcome who was widely traveled, rich and able to pick up objects he found interesting, his interest were medical instruments, art and odd bits of curiosity. 

Among the items I found interesting enough to note were,

Napoleons toothbrush

Darwin's Walking Stick

Disraeli's death mask

Slice of the human body (head to toe)

All sorts of Medical oddities including ~
a part of Einsteins brain
and
Chastity belt

      In one room of interactive exhibition's there was a computer that took a photo of my face and compared it to the data base -- the result was -- "there is no one in our data base that compares to you", He He...then it showed my face shape compared to the "average face" shape and mine was very thin --- it morphed my face to look more average and I looked really bad!  I am thinking differently about my looks now.

It was a really fun exhibit!