med school interview this Saturday. Please send me good thoughts.

minor case of FML, but I can't shake it. What's the remedy? Please prescribe, because I'm afraid of doing something drastic.

I got seriously sassed by a little snothead in Winch today. My PE class > you watching TV. Sorry. But not really. Grow up, shithead.

you know it's bad when I'm considering working at OHSU again...

my fingers are numb from spending three hours outside planting lovely things. Bulbs of tulips, daffodils, and hyacinths in the front yard for nose and eye treats. Veggies in the backyard raised bed I built last week. Many veggies: turnips, kale, beet greens, chard, scallions, garlic, and collard greens. Hooray! Now I'm wiping the dirt off and ( Read more... )

dancin videos (of me ( Read more... )

I just placed third in my first ever real dance competition!!!!!!!! There will be mondo pictures and videos up on facebook, but now I am EXHAUSTED!

I love what I do at SARC (especially since I do so little), but fucking hell, tonight's staff/training meeting was, well, hellish. An hour of graphic and disturbing pornographic images, and a discussion of the implications of the rape culture supporting and stemming from the porn industry, and I am so utterly ready to check out for a while. At the ( Read more... )

Email from my Mom this morning:

Dear Gretchen,

I remember a moment when you were about seven years old on the street car in San Francisco on 10th and Juddah when you told me, excitedly, that some day you wanted to perform with Michael Jackson. You were excited because you had recently seen Captain Eo!

Love,
 -Mommy

I'd been filled with strange fantasies and obsessive thoughts about cutting my hair myself for a good few days. I'd be assisting for chef Robert in cooking class, and my fingers would wander up to my hair, feeling the length and day dreaming about staring at it in the mirror, scissors poised. Other activities felt like obligations, and I'd think ( Read more... )