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My sister submitted a Prismacolor piece to the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo art auction, and it was selected as one of 53 out of 300,000 submissions to actually be auctioned. Her piece sold for $16,000 to the CEO of Loomis International, an oil and gas services company with a really crappy web site. That's pretty incredible for her first auction piece! She's, like, really awesome and stuff.

I firmly believe the world is out to destroy me, as after a tense evening of listening to my neighbor's bass yesterday, the City of Pittsburgh had its jackhammers going on my street at 7:00 this morning. It seems they're fixing the roads or sidewalks or something, but still... jackhammers at 7 AM are really nerve-wracking. So, four hours of sleep later, I'm awake again. Need coffee.

And, to answer Andrew's query about my parents moving to Buenos Aires, they're doing so because my dad's company, whose Argentina operations he has been managing from Houston for several years, recently gobbled up a smaller Argentine oil company, and the new amount of resources to manage is going to require him, the director, to be there more often. Since Taylor is off to MassArt in the fall, they don't have much keeping them state-side. Besides, why not?! My dad is at least partially fluent in castellano rioplatense, but my mom is going to need to work on it!