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what I want to be for halloween 10.27.00
halloweenie

< -- costume idea

[snoopy as the famous fighter pilot going up against the red baron]

now how to implement my idear...

positive
evidently it's positive day in boston

got my happy face on today... BOO!!! . . . . . . . .

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10.24.00
jazz, sushi, and good karma
went to yoshi's last night for a fabulous Asian Women's Shelter fundraiser. did some volunteer work for them, and got to see Jon Jang perform with Jiebing Chen (on the erhu -- pretty cool instrument).

Was a night of niceties all around. My friend's friend not only drove but picked up the tab (!), and we paid for the bridge toll of the folks behind us (which proved to be more awkward than feelgoodglowy), so all-in-all, a good attempt at good karmic shit.
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photo gallery
also, got some photos from rodrigo's birthday up. I'll be playing with the folders, so don't be too quick to bookmark it (I'll update the links on my homepage).
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10.23.00
CAMP
went to clarion alley last night, for their block party. was a bit of a special evening -- last year, I was afraid I'd seen my last CAMP block party (yay aaron and co for pulling off another year of good shit!).

so I sat with some of my friends, enjoying one more time the celia cruz doorway, the huge escalator, aaron noble's prison for wayward superheros, the giant painterly face that reminds me of francis bacon, and the multi layers in one of my favorite murals -- the only one i've seen that addresses domestic violence (let me know if there are others!).

the evening was not at all marred by its few setbacks: settling for corona, rather than tecate, having some skinny white ass shoved in our faces (we rated his dancing too low, I suppose, but hey, he asked), and the weird cellphone digitiratty running around trying to look hip in their khakis.

gotta appreciate just spending some time with the art that I love on a gorgeous evening with friends. perhaps someday the livework snots will win, leaving us with a SoCal wasteland of minimalls and designer beige walls. but for now, my dreams are still mirrored in my landscape, so things are good.
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10.18.00
new crush
[photo credit back at 'em]

tuesday nights just got better. sad, but true -- angel is just not cutting the mustard (yes, I should get out more, so what...).

faith (a la buffy) meets überhip akira with a bikemessenger/comicbook/kickass twist. it's got all the ultraslick-yet-desolate touches of neotokyo (although neoseattle doesn't quite have the same ring), and all the sexy little accoutrements (leather jacket, orange sunglasses, black motorcycle) that define her as truly crushworthy (no one said love wasn't shallow).

I suppose the gap "everything in leather" look could be annoying, but for now I'm hooked. I just hope the guy in the wheelchair gets some, and doesn't get confined to his bigbrother/savior role (not that I don't like the mulder-scully love tension thing, but cmon...!).
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200 oysters 9 people 3 dogs
another visit to pt. reyes. this time the 2nd annual oyster madness-a-rama. way way more oysters than you could shake a stick at. daring feats of slimy consumption! do the math. the oysters way outnumbered us. it was an ugly scene. Bleu and Dees braved the water, I don't think I did anything other than eat and shuck.
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pet insurance
something I don't have. if you have a pet, perhaps it's worth a thought.
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not stood
I wasn't stood up. so there [phew].
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10.14.00
working fer the man
saturday night, with lots of fun things to do, and I'm werking -?!?@#$!- sheesh.
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cute mom moments
[or, mom's cellphone and jack russell epiphany]

"where are you?...I'm just walking...well, I'm just wandering,...I'm getting cranky...oh there's a dog catching a tennis ball, she's soooo good!...ok, bye..."
"oh hi!" [to dog]

[actual transcript from our fort fun dogwalk today]
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on being stood up
I hate it. even if it's just misperception-conception-reception and ages old wounds that won't heal, there's something in my heart that I can feel shrink. the bile in my stomach extends into my brain and ears. my head and stomach alternates between cold and hot. the shrinking expands. and I can feel my entire self (whatever that is) curling inward and away from my skin.
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enough already
I gotta get out. now would be good.
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10.13.00
friday 13th!
woohoo! funday friday! so exhausted and down. want to just go home... long hard frustrating day with no end. but I have a pigdog to love, and beaches to visit. so there it is. sigh.

at least I saw great (despite all the yuppies) music last night.

sad. tired. low energy. something in my heart is sinking and won't stop.
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10.10.00
holy moley
well, it's official. the littlest pigdog is blessed. we went to a church (yes, mom is thrilled), and true to st. francis day, there was a blessing of the animals (in our urban environment, this meant mainly pets -- lotsa dogs, a coupla cats, and a bird or two).

moley was her usual perfect self -- she slept sweetly at my feet, despite all the activity around us. and nothing seemed to faze her. she tried to give the priest a kiss (dogbless the priest?), and looked hopefully at the body o' christ (bread and grape juice, for you heathens), but was otherwise mainly just sleepy.
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rain and such
the rain has started. every year I forget how cold and wet it gets up here. covered vulnerable objects with plastic this morning (in case the roof leaks), and dug out my umbrella. sigh. seasons are good, but I always am sad to see the sun go.

on an entirely unconnected note (or hyper connected, as it were), check out my links page for some updates. i'll try to organize them more as time goes by.
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10.04.00
pictographic
playing with a silly font {ouch} that came with my new version of ATM. funny that all the fonts they bundle are frivolous little things (they call them "decorative"). not that I mind, just noticing (do they really think this will make me BUY the other fonts?!?

bedtime
thinking, once again, of the naproom. also realizing, that mebbe I should go offline for lunchbreaks once in awhile...

caffeine
...which brings me, as most things do, to my ever present craving for caffeine.

haircut
even my sweet neighborhood sushi shop owner has an opinion about my hair. so it's time to duck and avoid all this pressure and get it cut. or something.
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10.03.00
siteapalooza
getting a grip of my site has been trickier than anticipated.

the virtual sprawl is akin to the urban decay of soCal, and my original plans for UI and info architecture have all gone to pieces (there's a bad earthquake methaphor in there, I know it).

so here's the beginnings of a sitemap I started long ago and far away. I don't think I'll update it in html (WHAT was I thinking?!?), there's an illustrator version in the works. just thought mebbe you'd wanna see it in the meantime.
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spooning the mo
moley was so silly and sweet this morning. throwing her toys about, running into me and whirling around for scratchies. made up for the early morning wake up call before sunrise... (yesyesyes, I'd rather she wake me than mess in the house). she was also sweetly snuggly early this morning before the wake up call. spooning the mo is less and less frequent these days. I think she's unaccustomed to sharing the bed with me, as she gets it all to herself all day...

sometimes I do love that damn pigdog better'n all else (ok, ok, more than just sometimes).
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weary
all these little details have worn me down.

last night's precita eyes board meeting was pretty uneventful. all-in-all, it was the right time for an ending. a little sad, but hopeful. learned a lot at precita, and I hope to stay involved at some level, but now it's time to focus on projects of my own again.
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10.02.00
octoberfestive
aah. october. love this time of year, the weather, the holidayz (halloween and day of the dead, that is).

had a gloriously wonderful time at stinson beach with bleu, dees and the dyke-on crowd (a la miz al). boogie boarding, wetsuits, too much meat, and not a minit of work crossed my mind. it's been about 10+ years since I've gone swimming in the ocean -- and it was fabulous. warm weather, a coupla good sets, even seals (yes, I know that means sharks...). my seet pigdog was a bit of a terror, attacking picnics with gleeful abandon. it hardly seemed worth explaining the whole seizure meds situation, so apologies were all I handed out (trying to cut down on the incapacitating guilt thing).

also had a lovely time at APAture and JADED. if I weren't so burnt out, I'd say something witty about the power of community and art in combination with shaking your ass and strong (!) whiskey drinks.
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got my happy face on today...
today, it's all broken links and other worrisome details. really, my job is relatively low stress compared to the folks sweating it out in the appdev and customer service crews. but it's markedly harder to laugh my way through today.
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an end
also, it's my last month as Treasurer for the Board of Directors at Precita Eyes. it's been a crazy coupla years, but nothing if not a learning experience...
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