Darlings!  Today is the first sunny day in weeks!  I love everyone and everything!

Tonight my roomie Liz and I are going to see Clap Your Hands Say Yeah and Architecture in Helsinki!  Could I possibly be more excited?  In theory, yes, but in practice- absolutely not!

Lots of happy things have been happening.  I put flannel sheets on my bed.  The ( Read more... )

Okay guys.  I'm hungry, and there are probably people in line for this computer here at Cleveland Public Library, so I'm going to try, in my own fluffy way, to shove a bunch of Riley-related information into one EXCITING POST ( Read more... )

I had a dream about searching for an escaped lion for the second time.  Last night, though, there was also a giant (maybe 30 feet long) black wormy snakey thing snaking around.

I am leaving for Cleveland very early tomorrow.

<3,
Riley

I only recalled this today as I was driving with Kevin, but I think the dream was from Sunday or Monday night ( Read more... )

Here is a plug for POPUPTOPHAT.com, which my sister and my girl Emily (
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It's already August.  In the misty consciousness of summer, I was floating around for the last two days hardly realizing the change.  August.

Did you know that summer is my favorite time of year?  I love having dark summer skin and light summer hair, being able to play at night, swim at night, eat fresh tomatoes, drive around with the top down and ( Read more... )

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I dreamed that Ellis wanted to buy that sugar-coated popped rice cereal (you know, the one with Dig 'Em the frog).  I told her we already had an off-brand at home.

Then my mom and I were climbing two adjacent, identical trees.  In a reversal of real life roles, my mom was encouraging me and a little boy, who magically appeared with me 70 feet in the ( Read more... )

These are things I am genuinely interested in.  Like really, sincerely, would love to talk about them all the time, excited just to think about them interested:
---Film and film making
---Psychology (but only research psychology)
---Evolution, and the study thereof
---Social justice, civil liberties
---Art, design
---Child development
---Language, and the ( Read more... )

Every year I hunt for blackberries because they are delicious and because I associate them with all sorts of nostalgia and hopefulness.  Every year I get motherfucking chiggers ( Read more... )