Brumaire

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:13:11 GMT

Still here, still alive.

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 02:17:46 GMT

E che catso? Says it all.

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 00:44:20 GMT

In the past hour and ten minutes, I have made several discoveries.

1. There is a puppy in my apartment.
2. She is adorable.
3. She adores me!
4. She snores slightly when sleeping.
5. I am the proud owner of several slightly-chewed objects.

Recent peeves

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 03:59:19 GMT

30% less plasic in your environmentally friendly Ozarka waterbottle is still 100% more plastic you're using than if you switched to a metal or reusable container.

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 02:51:12 GMT

Last night I bit into a chip and thought "wow, that looks just like a Thebes cluster - Lost Lake point." Yeah.

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 14:47:22 GMT

I think my week's break is best characterized by the macarons I made last night: quickly done and surprisingly good.

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:27:56 GMT

*This is Public Broadcasting Station, Inc. and we're holding your favorite shows hostage until you GIVE US MORE MONEY! HAH! Viewers like you can make it stop! Pull out your credit card and call the number on the screen, then we'll release the hostages slowly, one by one as we reach our pledge rate.*

I hate pledge season.

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 04:31:49 GMT

Weekend, you've really been just snazzy.
Save for overhearing roomy wrestling with unknown male.
That we could have done without.
But keep up the good work, yeah?

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 03:52:19 GMT

I have never been as continuously busy as in these past two months. Sometimes it feels great, mostly I just want to explode.

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 21:53:11 GMT

^Wooooooot^

I got the perfect apartment with two friends.
Perfect.
Wheeeeeeee!

Stuck

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 05:24:55 GMT

I'm stuck in a mental loop!

What is Earl Grey tea?
It's a tea flavored with bergamot.

What is bergamot?
It's used to flavor Earl Grey tea.

Aargghhh!

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 22:49:49 GMT

I'm at the museum today, and I'm feeling the urge to write down a few confessions:

1. I *love* Amy Winehouse, the beehive, and her trashy, druggy style.
2. All of my flats hurt my feet. But I hate buying shoes.
3. The only reason I want to see the East coast is for the food.
4. I don't know if I like children, but they like me.
5. I secretly hope that my career plans fall through so I can become a moghul on the stock exchange instead.
7. I'm still upset about my cat dying, but annoyed at myself for still caring because that was 6 or 7 months ago and I should be over it by now

That's it for today. I should start getting ready to leave!

Sun, 20 Jan 2008 22:49:10 GMT

Sometimes I am jealous of pregnant women. Their every craving and whim is satisfied and they get to eat as much as they want while being told that it's their duty to do so. When they're bitchy and cranky they receive back rubs and foot massages. And no one would ever hear of letting them do the dishes after dinner.

But...they do have to put up with strangers rubbing their bellies for luck. Yuk.

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 05:51:32 GMT

This past month I've kinda taken a break on being online...now I'm out of the loop. I'd love to hear how you've been lately and what sort of a year this past was.

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 07:00:58 GMT

I'm alive!

I peaked at six

Thu, 27 Dec 2007 22:03:45 GMT

I helped mother clean out one of the guest bedrooms and we found a ton of my first "artwork." And what do you know? The stuff I was making at four was loads better than anything I've done lately.

Can you imagine the obituary? "...the youngest colorist of her time, she had reached her artistic peak at the age of six. Abandoning the vibrant color and naive expressionism of her youth, her talents descended into mediocrity."

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 01:20:01 GMT

Definition of hipsterdom:

"...strategic kitsch-retrieval, an ironic exercise in taste as anti-taste in which an uncool phenomenon is hoisted onto a pedestal of cool simply as a display of contrarian muscle power."

--pulled from NY Mag Art's book review

Sat, 15 Dec 2007 18:08:57 GMT

It's snowing!

Mon, 10 Dec 2007 03:32:55 GMT

Livejournal bought by Russian company

Is anyone worried about changes in privacy?

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 01:16:57 GMT

Not too much to add today. I'm getting ready to finally turn 21 this weekend, which should be pretty exciting. Living in a country with the highest legal drinking age in the world can be a bit of a drag sometimes, especially when all I want is a bottle of cooking wine.

I'm going to be interning at Gilcrease Museum next spring. Working in archives again, probably mostly archival photography. My last project at SC is photographing the university's historic promotional materials, which has been pretty fun because a lot of that stuff once had a good bit of craftsmanship in it. Hopefully it'll be a good transition.

Sun, 02 Dec 2007 18:47:50 GMT

I'm up using my porch for the first time. Rain fell last night and it'all still fresh and wet. St. Francis Xavier's bells are tolling carols. I haven't heard church bells in a long time. I'm surprised I like mornings.

Lately I've been thinking a lot about becoming much more environmentally conservative. I've been trying to brainstorm ways to reduce energy consumption and chemical use/factory production. Thus far, here's what I've got:

Stringing up a laundry line and only using the dryer on rainy days
Handwashing more clothes
Taking my own bag to the grocery store - no paper or plastic, please!
Eliminating bleach cleaning products. I've only found one organic degreaser, though. :-(
Replacing plug-in air fresheners and aerosol cans with fresh herb satchels
Taking fuller advantage of midday sun to warm/light my apartment

It's not very much, and I'd love to hear other suggestions.

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 04:28:53 GMT

These are some really incredible Iraqi blogs.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking_point/7069943.stm

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:52:01 GMT

Okay.
I want it to snow now.

And now for something different

Sat, 24 Nov 2007 02:09:19 GMT

I made a new fancy-shmancy blog:
http://livingontulsatime.wordpress.com/

Who would you cook for?

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 03:59:08 GMT

I discovered an odd little manual last week in the library entitled Cooking to Hook Up: The Bachelor's Date-Night Cookbook. Inside, a classification of all species of femaledom await the eager bachelor, as well as down-to-the-minute dinner instructions guaranteed to woo each.

Here's what I've gleaned from The Cookbook:
    Girl Next Door: traditional and simplistic, lives in Iowa and likes french fries and meatloaf
    Party Girl: likes colorful, flirty drinks and carrys a tea-cup sized dog in her purse (Sorority Girl is a subtype of PG)
    Athletic Girl: on a perpetual diet and obsessed with health food and exercise
    Academic Girl: loves anything "a good Oxford pub would serve" and has a predilection for English literature and Great Thoughts
    Progressive Girl: prefers wine but often eats barefoot, owns a cat from the pound and shops at Whole Foods
    Indie Girl: considers herself an actress in the movie of life, loves kitsch and mango ice cream and was the first to own an ipod
    Granola Girl: eats tofu, wears all-cotton and hangs out at pretentious coffee shops, often braless
    Career Girl: begins sentences with "My financial advisor says...", owns the latest and fanciest cell, may not have time for dinner with you
    Uptown Girl: can talk for more than 10 minutes about being a debutante, likes sweater sets and taking afternoon tea
    Gourmet Girl: a connesieur, life revolves around good food, can be found at the local organic foodstore

Going by CTHU I would probably classify myself as a hybrid academic and progressive girl, although I object strenuously to the idea that academics prefer pub grub and whose academic interests are restricted to literature and philosophy.

The best part is that each girl comes with a breakfast recipe too.