Foster Weekend Update...

Kids are...

Feeling fine, thank goodness--even though Mae repeatedly "threw-up in a bowl" after waking up at 5:00 am with vomit on her sheets (sorry to paint such a vivid picture for you all).

Lindsay is...

Stuck with the kids because...

Brad is...

Eating this:

This is a Philadelphia Cheese Steak sandwich. Due to proximity
I had to "settle" for the famous "Ricks" rather than
eating at one of the two most prominent venues.

In Philadelphia! Yes, yes, I get to have more fun than my wife--at least she thinks so.

Actually I have spent the last two days listening to paper presentations and conference panels on various film topics, not to mention the particularly enlightening workshop on the future outlook of our profession (actually quite bright--especially when compared to other academic fields) and what kind of things I need to do in order to get hired by an University--completely depressing, I have to say (though very helpful as I am only a first-year PhD student and most of those in attendance were actually on the job market).

In case you couldn't tell, this is the Liberty Bell
It was a lot bigger than I had imagined it.

When I did my undergrad at BYU there was a replica
of this sculpture on campus--I always thought it was cool,
and now I have seen the real thing!

However, it was fun to run in to old colleagues from Oregon State, to get a gist of what kind of scholarship is expected of me in my profession, to see the liberty bell, Liberty Hall, and sleep just south of "Love Park" in a hotel that actually had a doorman.

This is Liberty Hall--where both the Declaration of Independence
and Constitution of the United States were signed.

This is the room the documents were signed in, and the chair
the back of the room (near center) is the same chair
George Washington sat on--the one Ben Franklin commented on.