three sixteen, really? i do not want to be awake. you know you're in bad shape when you lie down and close your eyes and they fall right back open. thinking about flesh, blood, money, breakfast tomorrow. there is noise from cars. the smell of sweat and old spice. this is the first night i have spent by myself for some time and i am unaccustomed now ( Read more... )

Go to your Calendar and find the first entry for each month of 2009. Post the first sentence/paragraph of it in your journal, and that's your year in review.

( two thousand nine )

reasonably now would be a good time to sleep, but this is not going to happen anytime soon. i have spent some time covering the main wall of my bedroom in parcel paper and reattaching the material that lived there before. i'd planned to do for the last month or so, and it was very satisfying. the way my brain works changes when i'm in the middle of ( Read more... )

i think i slept about an hour last night ( Read more... )

chad vangaalen plays at the rio theater on broadway. this is perfect. i feel like we're all in a living room together. it's a movie theater, right? everyone stays seated, besides the smallish crowd up front, and everyone is just transfixed and listening. chad wears a long dark wig and sparkly headband and he jokes with the audience a lot. he's so ( Read more... )

this morning i woke up from the first dreams i can remember having in some time. i was all twisted in my sheets from coming in and out of sleep for the previous hour or so. i was confused. i was covered in sweat. i had ten minutes to get out the door and get to work. you know, that's not actually that much of a problem for me - crawl out of covers ( Read more... )

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in which laryssa spends way too long animating a flying pickle on a monday night

i went to bowen island today.
took some beautiful photos.
those are on their way.

i love my web design class. i've been playing with images. one of my assignments this week was to put stephen harper and michael ignatieff together with an interesting backdrop.
here's what i created.


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