two weeks ago, a foot and a frigging half of snow got poured on us ( Read more... )

today i went to goodwill and i bought myself an old corduroy vest and a pair of worn-in little boy overalls with big pockets in the front ( Read more... )

yesterday the weather report on the hotel computer read:

N/A

because it was so goddamn cold out (in the negatives. with the kinda wind that makes it hard to breathe).

but this weekend.

this weekend it's supposed to be almost 50. i got sunday off and i swear to god i'm gonna just about be out there in shorts and a tank top.


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tonight i've gotta tank top on and goosebumps while i'm eating chocolate at midnight. i'm tired as all hell and irritated as all hell and at work i kept staring through the computer screen while i was trying to check names and credit card numbers ( Read more... )

winter's starting to melt ( Read more... )

i miss this place. i miss being there & hiking all day and being bruised up and hot and tired and covered in that delicious mud that doesn't come off ( Read more... )

i am at the u.m.a. library on the coldest day this winter. this morning on my way to the hotel interview i saw one of those blinking bank signs with the time & temperature. it was 8:45 & 4 degrees f ( Read more... )

it's january, folks. but i swear to god it feels like april. i mean, shit. a couple days ago i was out walking around portland in a thin shirt, carrying my red vest around the downtown. water's not frozen anywhere! no snow, no nothin'. plowing companies and ice fishing companies going under, lots of stupid stupid people walking out on thin ( Read more... )

it's the holiday season. i'm feeling charitable. i've been paying the highway tolls in full instead of throwing in pennies ( Read more... )

( pictures: litchfield & paintings + my hair. )