what a hot weekend it was in seattle and, i'm sure, many other nearby places. things have been slow and painstaking while at the same time uneasily accelerating toward i know not what. i've been doing an independent study this quarter on, in general terms, subjectivity positioning in computer games. it's been intensely interesting for a project ( Read more... )

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so, last weekend loren, david and i got jobs testing videogames. it's totally top secret and we have to be able to hold our breath for two minutes to work there. all i can say is that i've joined the dark side and i'm not coming back. the house is coming together very well and i'm really excited cause i'm finally going to move my records to seattle ( Read more... )

today we finished moving everything out of the old house on roosevelt to our new place at 65th and 35th, which is conveniently located only a few blocks away from a swanky doughnut shop and a branch branch of the seattle public library. i've been settling into the house quite well and i think i'll be very happy here for a year ( Read more... )

today was the final in death class, it was substantially easier than i'd expected. i'm going to miss the teacher, he's retiring this quarter, in fact, he stayed on only to teach this one class. and as it turns out, the take home final for indigenous films is much simpler than the syllabus implied. 2 3-page essays instead of 3 5-page essays is just ( Read more... )

just finished my last paper for death class.
only many things left to do.

i'm finally feeling settled into my classes now in the sixth week of the term. now that i've passed the whole dark night of the soul moment i'm already looking forward to next fall/panicking about the end of this year. a few days ago i was sure i was going to drop the music major and now i'm completely reinvested. that's how things roll in seattle ( Read more... )

as much as kurt vonnegut's death bummed me out lastnight, this morning it helped me out a bit. everyday at this news stand where i buy coffee they have a trivia question from that day's nytimes and if you know the answer then you get a discount. today they had kurt's quote about being what you pretend to be. so mother night got me $0.10 knocked off ( Read more... )

i can't wait to get back to sleepy vancouver, even for a week. get me the hell outta the city. i'm working on finals so this'll be short. if anyone wants to hang out next week in vancouver, i'll be in town so drop a line. the new bill callahan (formerly smog) album is really nice, just listening for beating my brains into the keyboard ( Read more... )

i'm gonna make some garlic-heavy soup tonight with lots of vegetables. i need to get better soon, i've had an increasing fever for 6 days and of montreal's tomorrow night. i went to the clinic on tuesday and the doctor said i had epstein-barr virus so i punched him. can't complain though, since i finally lost all that weight i've been meaning to ( Read more... )