Friday, April 30, 2004

I got a wisdom tooth removed yesterday, so I'm a bit of a chipmunk now.

Saturday, April 24, 2004

So I proposed at work last week that about once a month, the photo folks go around to a few galleries for inspiration/to check out local work that we could use in our books/have a fun fieldtrip away from the office. The first of such trips was yesterday. And let me tell you, when I woke up this morning, I was on fire from the inspiration. Thinking about promo pieces, submissions to galleries, and then I went and shot two rolls of film and prepped some props for more shooting I wanted to do tomorrow. En fuego.
Tonight we go out of town to our friend's nearby ranch. If the weather wasn't so rainy, it would be swimming and hiking and eating. Now, I think it'll just be about the eating.

Wednesday, April 21, 2004

for the foodies: I'm taking a soup cooking class tonight: here's what we'll be making/eating:
Chilled Avocado Soup with Spicy Tomato Salsa; Lobster & Sweet Corn Chowder; English Pea Soup with Tarragon Cream; Herbed Salmon Chowder, and Lavender-Scented Peach Blueberry Soup.
Have I mentioned previously that soup is my favorite food?

Tuesday, April 20, 2004

Antarctica is far away. And very cold.

Saturday, April 17, 2004

eggs and tulips served up on the photoblog

how's that for spring?

Friday, April 16, 2004

Spring is now reflected on the blog. Get out and dance. Take off your pants. Fill your butt with ants.

Wednesday, April 14, 2004

Those cell phone knitted coozies are so freakin' cute. Where are you selling them?
Things in Austin are good - my parents were here this past weekend - we did work on the house, then lots of eating and shopping (how my family typically bonds).

Friday, April 09, 2004

Current slang includes:

Honkin' on bobo - which is the name of the new Aerosmith album. Its got to be the dumbest title ever. We use to suggest someone is rocking out in a lame way. For example: "The dude in that band was totally honkin' on bobo!"

Tighten up your flairs - means get your shit together.

Actually, that's all I can think of.

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Wednesday, April 07, 2004

Hey. Mike F gets a shoutout in today's www.pitchforkmedia.com article about the Evens! The quote him! Go Mike!

Monday, April 05, 2004

i found broken glass in my cereal

i got 7 new rats which i think crosses the line from being questionable, into definitively "crazy rat lady" territory
nero, camelot, cassius, brutus, coleridge, grumio, marcus and julius are all settling in but rather slowly. check your email for pictures.

saw a documentary about Al Green which was pretty good, but would have been better if the bits of him preaching in his church had been edited a bit more.

saw Dawn of the Dead, Eternal Sunshine of the blah blah blah. both quite good.
was loaned several seasons of sex in the city on dvd. lost hours of my life, but they were sick hours so it is ok.

saw Nancy Pearl of book lust and the archie mcphee library action figure fame speak. i hope i find a job i am that passionate about. we talked briefly afterward and she said i reminded her of her daughter's girlfriend.

one of my friends began undergoing surgery for a sex change. i haven't seen her yet since the surgery. i am having severe problems with pronouns.

i think i forgot to write about seeing the shins a few weeks ago. really really good

i saw x at the emp and they were really good though surprisingly old looking. i mean even more than i expected. exene and john doe traded a sharp remark or two in the second encore (encores are lame. double encores are double lame) and billy zoom mugged for the cell phone cameras. visqueen was ok and unfortunately i missed black panties' set.

going to see gwar in a few weeks.

saw BlöödHag, Doomsday 1999, High Priests of Panic, Book of Black Earth on saturday at 2nd avenue pizza. Anthony caught a ray bradbury book, Jacob caught an isaac assimov book and i caught an ursula k. le guin
Jacob and Anthony got into a conversation about the mentors with Chris, who is now no longer that random guy at all the punk metal shows
i got into a conversation with robot 29 and he recorded my laugh. i was mostly laughing uncomfortably about the inappropriate things he'd say.
seeing shows here reminds me of high school in a mostly good way.

apparently there was a rumor at work that i was pregnant. there was a misunderstanding after a co-worker overheard a conversation about another worker whose name sounds similar. since she was initially keeping the pregnancy secret, the rumor persisted, fueled by the fact that the rumor was made juicier since i am on the world's least likely to breed list. i found out about the rumor and it was rapidly dispelled when said coworker's bun became public knowledge.

i've been given the ok from pt to try out soccer again. thursday will be game three before my check up. so far so good. (update: played 3 games, , so far so good- one played in driving sleet. it must be love.)

my boss is buying me fondue tonight. five hours of overtime with cheese and chocolate can’t be all bad.

in the event that homosexual marriages become legal in washington via court challenges, i’ve already begun preparing. i got ordained by the universal life church, which i think should suffice to the law as “any minister or priest of any church or religious denomination.” the irs seems to recognize the universal life church, and it is one of the few i could find that doesn’t have a doctrinal conflict with atheism. secular humanism is another option that i need to research further. my boss has already approved me taking off of work on short notice to go to city hall and perform marriages, should legalization occur and should the county temporarily waive the regular 3 day waiting period on marriage licenses. i’ve started working out templates for short ceremonies but non-new-age-hokey, non-patriarchal, non-religious templates are a bit difficult to come by.

re: homosexual marriages opening the floodgates...
polygamist marriages: frankly as long as all involved are adults, i don’t care. see below.
minors or animals: there are already laws regarding this in most states.

i think the ideal situation here would be that the state is in no way involved in marriage. a civil contract decided by state but recognized nationwide (via full faith clause) would be recognized that takes care of things like inheritance, social security, transfer of parental rights, decision making & visiting in case of incapacitating illness/ injury etc. “marriage” would be left entirely to churches and the like. since i don’t see that happening, ever, the next best thing in my mind is fair application of marriage laws to all adults with the spouse (s) of their choosing. civil unions as they are currently phrased are a weak half step since they provide none of the legal protections, rights, or responsibilities (on a national level) currently recognized for married couples. nice summary here: http://referral.nolo.com/nc.cfm?t=EF000100002276

i’ve found the best way to explain this to people who don’t get it, is to break it down: gay people pay taxes for benefits they are being denied. whether or not you think homosexuality is “right” or wrong” money is a language most conservatives understand.

a constitutional amendment is bullshit, as is the defense of marriage act. anyone remember the full faith.clause in the constitution? (gee, thanks clinton!) bush pushing for a constitutional amendment is contrary to his states rights stance and totally hypocritical, but at this point that shouldn’t surprise anyone, right?

on a related note, i refuse to vote for any presidential ticket which does not support full freedom of choice for abortion on demand, homosexual marriage rights, and freedom of speech. support of censorship was my primary problem with the gore/ lieberman ticket in 2000. environmental issues were my primary concern with the clinton/ gore ticket and WTO, defense of marriage act, and don’t ask don’t tell reaffirmed my doubts. i’m done with half measures. if it means i’ll forever be voting for “fringe” candidates while i really support the enemy, then so be it. the democratic party will get my vote when they begin to represent my core values and not before.

it is spring and beautiful. my allergies were acting up and then turned into some sort of cold/flu thing. i was out of work for several days because i sounded like a robot frog. unfortunately, i felt too sick to make phone calls, cause i sounded awesome. i am on day 10 and still sick, though feeling a bit better but no more robot frog, unfortunately.

i moved out of my pioneer square studio into an art studio nearer my home on capitol hill. i was frustrated with both the neighborhood and commute distance (under 3 miles, but still quite enough on foot or by bus) where my studio was. even though it was in a building that was entirely art spaces, and has quite a bit of monthly traffic for the open studios, my studio mates had not been willing to open the studio even once in the six months i was there. the show i was going to participate in with them has now been postponed 3 times. that and the fact that their goals were a lot different from mine and there was no place for me to spread out with my things, i think i’ll be a lot happier with my new space. it is about a mile from my home and has 3 windows to outside. it is long and narrow with great acoustics and in hearing range of church bells. i am 2/3 done repainting the space which was an abomination with one camouflage patterned wall and the other walls one khaki, one army green, one black. it is now a light off-white with a red floor and door. the building used to be a really happening artist run gallery a few years ago but the dust has sort of settled on that due to increased cost per square foot. there seems to still be some opportunity for that sort of thing, but it seems to have gone the usual course these things take where politics exhaust and divert the people who start them up. i’m still settling in and my goal is to be mostly moved in and situated by the time i leave for new orleans.(still not totally up to date but art stuff online, address in your email)

i still need to find a dress for the wedding and get a haircut, a massage, and buy make up before heading back to the south. i get to visit my family, see Stacey A,, a friend since 1rst grade carpool marry, eat good food, visit my pregnant and bed bound friend Jenny, converge with Becky and Ryan and see photos of their new house in Atlanta, visit Catherine and her no longer so tiny baby Callie, meet Angie and go to jazz fest for Bonnie Rait and Emmy Lou Harris, have scotch with anotherBen, see the house that my sister is buying, meet Jacob’s parents for dinner... hopefully all of that will fit

lots of honey or sugar and cream go into my coffee, though i drink it so seldom as to almost qualify as “never.” green teas are always straight up. herbals are plain or with honey. black teas sometimes get honey and lemon, or honey and cream.

i don’t subscribe to any magazines. i rarely buy them from the newsstand either. i like to read them though, pretty much all kinds. it is one of the small perks of running a mailroom.

i am not going to be able to participate in the cd in a timely manner. my books are all in storage and my cds are all packed and set to go to storage. my cd burning connection fell through. considering i’ve bought very little new music since 1994, you’re probably not missing much.

1rst grade teacher: Mrs. Chisholm had long straight brown hair past her derriere for the first half of the year. she got it cut short halfway through the year and no one heard a word she said for at least a week.

i couldn’t wake up in time for saturday morning cartoons even as a child.

my first best friend was my next-door neighbor Elisa. her grandpa was british and sat on the porch smoking cigars. we’d eat Popsicles together out front. she was allowed to walk further down the street than i was. it was all over when we moved and different schools at age 6. Stephanie was my real first best friend.

my favorite breakfast cereal was the generic granola my dad would eat. it is still my favorite when i can find the right kind. i like almost every kind of breakfast cereal except cap’n crunch.

i considered donating my mortal remains to a medical school or my bones to an art school, but there really aren’t any to which i’m attached enough, plus that whole california organ donation scam. so slice it dice it, donate any bits that someone can use, then burn the rest please.

americana= strip malls, pink flamingos, drive through, libraries, lawns, corn, both on the cob and popped, tennis shoes, guitar anthems, radio personalities in traffic jams

Bánh mì. Vietnamese tofu sandwiches. $1.25. love love love.

reading a book about the writing of the oxford english dictionary. the oed was the christmas present that i asked for every year and never received. i had no idea at the time how expensive they were, but what a nerd. also reading a biography of Alfred Wainwright who chronicled the path across England i’d like to walk this summer and Book Lust, a book which is a list of books to love.

didn’t realize it was 10 years since Kurt Cobain’s death. still makes me sad. read conspiracy theories online today.

hoping the ring i commissioned for my last birthday will be ready for this one.

long week ahead this week another 50+ hours. i am never going to stop being sick at this rate.