Your Mileage May Vary

Little Darlin'

Background Noise: Here Comes the Sun
Last Visited: 'bucks
Random Thought: i'm just an AND girl in an OR world
Mood: here comes the sun

I could really live without... all the drama George W. Bush is... as he always was Men are... indispensable

What's your favorite Jelly Belly flavor? root beer Politics are... a lot like fight clubs I think Global Warming is... cyclical What was your favorite childhood toy? krissa krystal, my cabbage patch doll In heaven, I bet they'll have... pinball What's the most embarassing song you've done Karaoke to? haven't actually tried Karaoke yet; if a few people get their way, though, i'll have to edit this answer soon I've always wanted... a sports car; a home of my own; to travel whenever, where ever; and, of course, to change the world; not necessarily in that order Use the following words in a sentence: pink, dirigible, luckily, phonics without a friendly piper or at least a decent sense of phonics, how are the dirigible pink elephants to be lead? What makes you homesick? questions like this one, for a start How many hours of sleep do you need? more than i average What's the strangest question you've been asked in a job interview? assume i just asked that question properly; how would you answer then? If you didn't have to work, what would you do with your time? get another degree or three, flip houses, participate in community theater, volunteer, read more, travel, you know, all those lovely things that seem to slip away because work absorbs so much of your time

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Thou art to me a delicious torment

Background Noise: Sneaky Red
Last Visited: comfy; miss comfy.
Random Thought: “For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.” -Emerson.
Mood: consult your gut and decide

Names have been changed to protect the theoretically innocent.

Micha: I'm not in the mood to watch Brazil anymore.
Grace: Good, me neither.
Micha: This is what i have...

{They scan the never ending list of movie files available on Micha's computer}

Grace: i should make you watch a chick flick
Micha: i could be down with a chick flick
Grace: you're kidding; god, i should punish you with Coyote Ugly for saying that
Micha: no, no, what's that one with Marilyn Monroe?
Grace: Some Like it Hot?
Micha: yeah, or, hmm...
Grace: well, you have An Affair to Remember - but that's so long
Micha: Oh! I've got it!
Grace: what?

Micha: Fight Club!

I heart my friends.

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You take pictures of Odd Things

Background Noise: California Stars
Last Visited: the T round: Snorg, Noisebot, Threadless
Random Thought: that's the way I roll
Mood: flirting with the edge

I, apparently, take pictures of odd things; or, rather, some people think the things i take pictures of are odd subjects: coffee cups, flowers, barbed wire, grasses, other people's children, portions of statues, stickers, mirrors, fries, strangers, other people's jewelry, random performance art, etc, etc, and so forth.

I would argue that these things aren't odd to take pictures of at all; that they're quite normal, and all in their own way quite beautiful, and descriptive of the world i live in; or, rather, the world i live in when i have my camera with me (which is not entirely the same thing).

Anyways. I suppose i'm saying i generally like my pictures. Sure, some of them may be strange, but, well, whatever. I have a digital camera with usually more storage than i need: i can take whatever pictures i want to. (Golly i'm petulant this week.)

Sort of along these thought lines, I ordered about 70 prints of pictures i've taken recently last night. Partially because 4x6s are $0.12, partially because i realized the most recent pictures of mine that are up in my apartment are practically 5 years old (with one exception). And while they won't all end up on a my walls (well, maybe), I'm heading to Aaron Brothers tonight to pick up a ton of cheap frames and using them to add color and depth to my apartment.

Because i've been places, man, and it's time my home space reflected that.

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Upgrade, or, All Grown Up

Background Noise: Midnight Coward
Last Visited: trawling for a decent evite invitation template
Random Thought: i can see what's coming, but i'm not saying it
Mood: happy spring!

I finally have a new badge picture! Yeay!

Ok, so, sure, it's a bit more serious, and it might possibly look like my back has been dislocated, and if you look a bit too closely you can tell i'm thinking "omg, just take the picture already" but, seriously, so much better.

... i'll remember to bring a prop next time, but really, once i had it in my head that i needed to get a new picture just about anything different would do; and along with all the "gah, no one will take you seriously now!" comments i've also gotten "saucy" and "you look great!" so for the moment, i stick my tongue out in the general direction of anyone who dislikes my "After" picture.

So there.

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Mr. Jetlag wants to be my best friend

Background Noise: GG, Ballrooms and Biscotti
Last Visited: DTW, Zingermans, Home
Random Thought: somehow i seriously doubt all the work i did to my web galleries when i was home and offline have actually updated and for some reason i'm envisioning hours of work to fix them.
Mood: amused by the toy helicopter floating above the carpet near gate F3

Yesterday afternoon i watched 6 year olds play hockey; i'd have used a period there, but well, it feels like i need to elaborate.

That's my little cousin Jack; there are more pictures of him and his twin brother Joe playing, but well, the pictures of Jack make him look like a hockey player and the pictures of Joe? Less so; never fear, Joe has other strengths - for instance, he can spell "leprechaun."

I'm sitting in the little desk area of the F terminal in the Minneapolis airport, the same desk area i spent three hours at last thursday, about to grab the same small non-fat mocha from Caribou that i enjoyed on my way out. I don't love stopovers (shocking!), but, there is something to be said for having nearly a whole day to either decompress into a vacation or decompress out of it. I'm still tired, but as always after trips home, it's a different tired then when i arrived.

I need to pack up to head to my gate soon; I caught an earlier flight out of metro here and i'm glad i did - there was a bumpy weather pattern coming in that we only had to deal with a little bit.

I'm so glad Al gave me the excuse to go home, take a few walks, see my family, have tortilla soup, cottage inn pizza, good time charlie's, and zingermans. I'm sorry i didn't get to see more people, but to be honest, i was quite totally exhausted most of the weekend and i'll be back in a few months.

Happy St. Patrick's Day, everyone! Go find some green beer - and at the very least, wear your green socks.

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I'm sorry, have we met?

Background Noise: La Traviata - scratch that, traviata is depressing and i don't need help in that department - let's go with New Found Glory; so much livelier
Last Visited: baker beach, berkeley, skyline, moss beach
Random Thought: wherefore art thou, jabber?
Mood: thursday can't come fast enough

Last week was quite odd and highly random, and honestly, coming out of it, my head is still spinning. But! I do have pictures of a fair chunk of it; in time order, may i present Wednesday afternoon, Saturday morning, and Sunday evening:

	A Random Afternoon in Berkeley Cole Coffee, Meadows Flower shop, Wood Tavern, and a random stop at a warehouse in San Francisco.
	A Saturday Adventure Baker Beach, San Francisco; Barney's in Berkeley; Ray and May's in the Berkeley Hills - the monsters belong to them, and are quite adorable. Also my first real attempt at a still life study - the light was just right and the flowers were amazing - it's good thing Ray and May's neighbor left them!
	Sunset at Moss Beach A place much more beautiful than my pictures indicate; the adorable little girls reminded me of Ellen and I when we were little - we had the same haircuts and i swear the same purple outfits.

What do these pictures miss? A lot: the office went to see Kooza thursday afternoon (my first Cirque show, and i was completely and utterly enchanted), soft serve on friday, hanging with Mike and Nic saturday night, and, well, there's more, but i don't really feel like going into it.

I adore my camera. I'm so very very glad Dave twisted my arm to get it; i find myself longing to have it with me at all times, and i get quite annoyed when the picture i thought i took did not turn out as planned. I have a lot to learn - well, maybe Heather can give me a few tips thursday afternoon at lunch :)

In other news, i need to get a new badge picture. Really.

It was cute and funny when i was an intern, but seriously? a) I don't look like that anymore and you'd be hard pressed to recognize me from it and b) it's hard to get someone to take your emails seriously when that picture is attached to them - no amount of tone can really fix that particular problem.

Besides, apparently i'm unrecognizable as it is: at the very least 4 people i have met before on multiple occasions reintroduced themselves to me this week. Then after i had assured them we had in fact met before they didn't believe me, then proceeded to say how they would never had recognized me on the street (obviously, since they just didn't, but whatever). It's... and odd thing, really, not being recognized; not quite a compliment, yet not quite an insult. They didn't really know how to react, and i have to admit, I still don't.

Anyways, hopefully step one will be a new badge picture. I'll keep you updated.

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In View

Background Noise: Walcott, Vampire Weekend
Last Visited: my gallery, again
Random Thought: my awesome little brother is my new source of music
Mood: today will not be normal

There's a lot going on right now, coming from all directions. Not that this isn't necessarily normal (at least historically looking through my archives), but i beg you to believe me that right now? Right now is different. If not only because, well, most of the "stuff" has very little to do with work (amazing, right?) (well, actually, quite a lot has to do with work, as always, but there's actually stuff outside of work too) - of course, i don't actually think i can talk any more about this stuff than i can about the work stuff.

Of course.

One might wonder why i bother to blog at all sometimes.

One might wonder what the point of writing "stuff that i can tell you about it happening, but boy is it pulling me in 8 million different directions!" is.

One might have a point.

But i'd rather post something here than not; i apologize if it's ridiculously annoying.

Switching topics, I'm going home next week! I'm beyond thrilled. I booked the flight last week clutching any and all excuses i could find, and i'm going to make the most of my layover in Minn to see Heather, then home to see the fam and Al and Cathy. It will be wonderful, and hopefully a source for more pictures. Because i have to admit, i've kindof become addicted to taking pictures. Very soothing. Now if i could only find the time to actually put up my picture shelves on the wall of my apartment so i could print some and put them up....

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