I went to see Fahrenheit 9/11 last night. I highly recommend it.

I can't think of any good beach songs, sorry, Angie.
Did you know that a person in the US eats an average of 6.8 pounds of potato chips a year. This fact really makes me want to hit the vending machines.
So now that I've done my frozen ice cube series - I'm now starting on a liquid series. Check out the photoblog

I thought about using the ice cube tray as a mold - but I'm afraid the pictures would have to be super tiny then (but maybe more cost efficient). I'm hitting Michael's after work today to look at mold options.
That quiz was too much.
The third Harry Potter movie is quite good.
I got a snowball making machine for my birthday (and a new Sonicare toothbrush) - funny how the universe has a way of balancing out.

I don't know anything about voice recorders, sorry.
The show of the ice cube series is in October - I don't know exact dates yet - but I got this great idea for it last night. So one of my friends had to put her cat to sleep two weeks ago and as a gift to her, I went over during his last week and took lots of photos. As a thank you gift, she took some of the photos, reduced them and copied them onto transparencies, then put them in bars of soap. (it's morbid if you think of it as dead kitty soap, so I try not to) So I want to try and find a soap mold that looks like an ice cube mold and take the photos in the show and make photo soaps to either give away or sell at the show and maybe put a sticker with my contact info on the bottom on the soap. Go craftiness!!
So last night was birthday celebrating part 1 - we rented out a room at a local bar and had cake and drinks and lots of fried food (french fries, fried mushrooms, nachos). This afternoon is part 2 - swimming at a local pool and eating popsicles. Tomorrow is schmacy birthday dinner with Ted at my favorite italian joint. Tuesday is my friend Jessie's birthday with chocolate fondue and dancing at the fun bar called Oslo.

i read the blog every day.

i've never prepared food with nutritional yeast. i've tasted it in other people's food; popcorn is the one that i remember specifically. i thought it tasted bad.
i haven't posted much cause i don't like complain-fest. the maxim if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all has in my wiser moments struck me dumb. in my less wise moments, like with a friend recently, the floodgates somehow became unjammed and i spewed some combination of vitriol and self pity for several hours. i do my best not to repeat it.

i am also working over 50 hours a week nearly every week. i know lots of people do this, but honestly i don't know how. for a "profession" which was chosen for its supposed mindlessness and was supposed to leave my mind and time free for other pursuits, well, i'm dissatisfied. like the replacements song: i'm so, i'm SOOOO dissatisfied....

hmm. already i feel the need to qualify. it really isn't THAT bad, but a change in career path change or graduate school have got to be coming soon. or a job if not mindless, one that makes a lot more money. something else. anything, really. all of it is in flux, though i have to say things are much much better than they were 3 months or even a year ago in my life. well except for the job thing maybe. times they are a changin.' maybe it is the saturn returning or that damn venus thing or some other heavy planet.

i haven't figured out what to do just yet. so i'm hoping my walkabout will give me some time to think.

my rats are still adorable, but bigger. soon i will have cages for home work & studio. then i can take them everywhere i go. yes, i'm becoming, THAT lady.

below is a list of things i will write more about when i'm not doing my stupid job in front another computer all the waking hours of my days:

the class i was taking through work

seeing the video DIY or Die, and meeting the guy Michael Dean, who made it
seeing a Christian Marclay exhibit and performance
a show called Flamingo Bar by a German pupeteer
Rasputina
The Billy Nayer Show
The Ketchup & Mustard man film by the Billy Nayer Show
Son of Blob produced by Larry Hagman
Quintron & Ms. Pussycat

really excellent meals I had at
Geneva
Dulces Latin Bistro for Tracy's birthday
Marrakesh

the visit from my college friend post sex change operations and the conflicting and non-pc feelings it created

a pastry class I may be taking
a wine & etiquette class i am taking
my trip to the UK at the end of the summer

i am so glad zach has a job he likes and sounds happier.
steph, what are the dates your show is going to run?
k, any more thoughts on the proposal i sent you? i have a few more details if you're still inclined. your blog makes me want to knit. i had a dream last night that i remembered how to crochet(hon taught me a few stitches when i was around 8 which i mostly don't remember.) i made a long pink acrylic strand of those single looped things. loop hook. loop hook. loop hook. whatever those are called.

also in dream world, i am obsessed with the 4 track i borrowed, though i'm not actually using it much yet. many ideas are brewing. i wish i could record the soundscapes of my dreams. in a year-ish i think i'd like to take a cabaret on the road. some combination of puppets, art, music, silliness, fashion?

Sorry I haven't written much lately. In the last month, I've been to a funeral and a wedding. I'm working on getting my show together for the fall and celebrating my birthday for a week starting tomorrow.
-- did you know that a giraffe closes its nostrils when it runs so it doesn't get dirt up its nose? -- working in textbooks is so educational

I use Bragg's and nutritional yeast nearly every day. I'll put Bragg in anything. Together they make a really nice sauce. It's not easy to describe. Its kind of mellow. Not very salty. N.Y. and Bragg make great vegan cheese sauce as well. Add flour (to thicken it up) and peppers and stuff. Bragg with vinagar is good sub for oil as a salad dressing. Tonight, in fact, I had tomatoes cooked with balsamic vinagar and Bragg, with some lemon pepper seasoning and rice. It was hot. N.Y. is good in grits with a little Texas Pete and butter. Bragg is great for stirfrying vegetables.

I don't read the blog every day anymore. And I know I hardly ever post. Sorry, dudes. I got a full time job at a book store. I'm very happy with the job. Its just great. I love it.