I was afraid of repeating patterns, and so for months I haven't written in here so I wouldn't have to deal if in fact my life was cycling. The story, which I'm sure most people already know, was basically that I liked a girl who identified as straight. And things between us were really hot and cold as we got closer and closer because, I don't know ( Read more... )

i think around the same time i first started wanting to blow glass is when we read a river runs through it. its been six years?, but now when i look at my artistic approach, and how i go about my job every second of every day, i can see how much it corresponds with what norman mclean and his father thought. thanks weldon :)

i like to blow glass partially because i feel like i have destroyed so many beautiful things. at this point, ive probably made two pieces for every bad thing ive done, lost so many pieces that i cared about to even out the karma, and ive helped people make hundreds of pieces. most days, this helps and my heart feels whole, big, happy. but there are ( Read more... )

clay is the coolest guy ive ever known, hands down. we've been getting gradually closer as friends for the last year or so, additionally awesome since he is the best/ most knowledgeable glassblower in san diego. he's close homies with dante (#2 in the world), and back in the day dante sent clay to lino (#1) to learn how to make cups. on friday i ( Read more... )

imagine how much popping a bottle of champagne echoes in a parking structure, but a parking attendant on the road just stood there with her walkie talkie and watched us eat bomb tuna fish sandwiches that one dear, dear patty yockey had prepared for us at 5am. and then when we were leaving malibu logan spotted this woman whose patio faced the ocean ( Read more... )

afterwards, mimosas in the getty villa parking lot ( Read more... )

This morning at 7:30 am I received a useless text message from my mom on Steve's phone, telling me that she had left hers at home. At 9:15 K calls to tell me some not-so-useless information about pupillary distance (we're ordering RX glassblowing glasses), though she thought I sick at first until she realized I was still asleep. I hardly ever take ( Read more... )

i havent felt the need to write in forever because things are good, and i think i tend to write more when reality is at an extreme and lj serves as an emotional outlet. but im good and the glass is gorgeous (its finally starting to share its secrets) and i get paid cash moneys to help people work the glass. i get paid to light up every morning at ( Read more... )

This past spring, I suffered the misfortune of losing my Ipod on the far side of my bed; the poor thing was wedged between the box spring and the metal frame for close to three months. About a month after I lost my pod, I came home one day from the Playmor pool to discover that my laptop's memory didn't want to live anymore. And so, in a rather ( Read more... )

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