Foods that make me feel good:

Grapefruit
Baby spinach
Burritos with quinoa, beans, onions, pepper jack, and baby spinach
Fresh goat cheese
Newman-Os
Coffee
Pasta Rosina - pasta tossed in a frying pan with garlic, paprika, baby spinach, and parmesian cheese - my dish deliciously adapted from my grandma's pasta aglio olio.
Wine.

I'm sitting here with my acoustic guitar feeling the way that the strings can sing under a really light touch. All throughout college, but particularly freshman and sophomore years, I would spend so much time each week playing the guitar. Maybe ten hours a week - who knows? I'm not sure. But it felt like a lot. My brain was just bursting with ( Read more... )

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H & I are planning a late-March trip to Iceland. Prices are cheap. We're getting pretty excited.


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Ha. I delivered to the kid who plays Harry Potter two nights ago.

Rubbin' shoulders with the stars, baby. (Or something...)

I use my Grandfather's axe.

My father replaced the handle, and I replaced the blade.

On the heels of the last post, two sad things:

Common Ground organizer outs himself as an FBI informant; serious charges brought against two activists.

And, SF BART cops shoot an unarmed man in the back as he's about to be handcuffed.

In each edition of The Onion that I've read lately, there's always a news brief about something painful that has happened to President Bush - delivered with a completely straight face.

WASHINGTON-President Bush collapsed in the Oval Office after spontaneously expelling a 3-pound kidney stone from his bladder, sources reported Tuesday. According to ( Read more... )

Sunday night Heidi and I rode home from dinner out, battling vicious winds and 20 degree temperatures.

On Monday I rode to work fully covered, even my face and ears. Less windy but even colder.

On Tuesday I rode home from band practice in Astoria in a T shirt.

Today I'll be working the streets in 59 degree weather.

Everything I learned about Dungeons and Dragons, I learned from Metafilter and Achewood.