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Friday, 15 August 2008

  • last post

    I'm switching blogs again.  I can't stand the tacky ads on xanga, and I'm also NOT a fan of commercialized comments.  If you have been miraculously keeping up with this blog and want to know my new blog address, email me.  Hopefully I'll have a new one by then.  Thanks.

Saturday, 12 July 2008

  • pandora & iTunes, now compatible!

    pandora internet radio (www.pandora.com) & iPod touch are now compatible.  hooray!

    I've been waiting for this day forever.  Upgrade thru the iTunes store and viola!--you can listen to pandora thru your iPod.  I'm way too psyched about this, but let's just say it's been a long week...

Saturday, 28 June 2008

  • paper cup sonatina

    So I just reread some journal entries from the beginning of the year, and wow.  You know that feeling, when you stumble across an old picture of yourself?  An old, unflattering picture?  Like the time you were laughing so hard that Cheerios came out of your nose?  Yeah, that's kind of how I feel.  The last entry was dated 2/21/08, which, I admit, wasn't that long ago (< 3 mos, even!).  But when you're surrounded by snowstorms and ice in the armpit of Indiana, things are naturally going to seem a lot bleaker and more depressing.  Not that things are all peaches and lollipops now, but at least I'm not whining about cubicle life (having my own office helps immensely, haha) or writing poems about the color black anymore.  

    I've been home for the past week, which has been great.  Sleeping in, hanging out, staying up.  The beach.  The bonfires.  Coming home with sand in your hair and ashes on your clothes.  The smell of bug spray.  Running The Loop and going through every sprinkler on the way back.  And I have such a fabulous group of friends here. 

    Not to say that I haven’t had my silver linings in Indiana (and I'm not just talking about the Splash House water park).  I’ve learned:

    1) that I need to be needed; that’s probably the number one thing. It's pretty simple: I want to be so good at my future job, that people to depend on me because I have something to offer that no one else can.

    2) I thrive on competitive stimulation/creative challenge.  I have to be intentional about writing right now, which has never been so hard.  Feedback/affirmation is part of what drives a writer to create. But this year, my only source of validation has come from publication. And it's so hard to get published and so easy to get discouraged, especially b/c...

    3) I'm not a very patient person.  I'm the happiest when I have a lot of distractions and don't have time to think about time...

    4) I'm an extroverted introvert: not especially outgoing, but I become the extrovert if I'm surrounded by introverts.

    5) I love Nine West shoes.  I added these to my collection this weekend:



    6) I don't read for the sake of reading.  I read for the sake of writing. 

    Meanwhile I made a paper chain to countdown until my last day of work.  “Meanwhile” is a key word; a transition word. There are too many meanwhiles going on right now.  Maybe that's my problem.

Monday, 16 June 2008

  • onomatopeia

      oh how i miss my E. Kelso girls!

    @ the North Market w/ our "free" flowers. soo pretty, even if they did house
    the occasional ant.




    pad thai is our favorite--it comes in four varieties: xtra spicy, spicy, mild,
    & non-spicy. warning: the mild will still make you sweat.



    my lovely twinny twin twin. i love her so much that i sat
    in on a Nutrition seminar at OSU taught by a German prof
    who talked about peptides in elongins (worms). she also
    mentioned beer a couple of times, affirming my stereotype
    that all Germans must be beer snobs.