i love chicago. i mean i LOVE chicago. seriously. if i could live forever in this tiny room on the 12th floor i would


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if yesterday everything went well today everything went bad...... yesterday i got into the no coast craft fair & my gorgeous lil laptop arrived in the nick of time & i finally figured out what my problem was & today the train to chicago was 2 hours late & everything was so heavy & my room reservation for the party got messed up so here i am in a ( Read more... )

mm-kay i'm down to the last 24 hours & so nervous & running around so much everytime i sit down my body is rocking back & forth & i swear every atom in my being is too........ just got a note from the DEPART-ment organizer and apparently Faythe Levine of Art VS Craft is going to be there filming for the documentary on the new Indie Craft movement ( Read more... )

just starting to recover from my lost weekend...... i have a bad habit of running from my problems & i did just that & it was fun i admit i forgot what happiness was but i'm not sure how real it was 'cause here i am today trying to clean up the mess in my room & everything reminds me of andrew & i'm sad again ( Read more... )

mm-kay class today we're not going to talk about feelings instead i'm going to tell you the story of how i almost went to jail on my birthday ( Read more... )

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two years ago today i was fetching some coffee from a lovely little italian cafe called the cafe trieste in san francisco... it's the place where francis ford coppola wrote the godfather & just across the park from where joe dimaggio & marilyn monroe were wed.....russ was sitting across the table from me & the future looked rosy though even then i ( Read more... )

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damnit. one of the designers that was going to be featured backed out which leaves a big empty place & i was going to take the weekend off to celebrate my birthday & now i've got to spend it trying to find someone who has enough shit together to send it to me RIGHT NOW ( Read more... )

so sad this morning, the news has come that one of our towns landmarks is due for the wrecking ball. the school board voted to destroy the east side school, an impressive brick building with two towers that's been a focal point on the horizon for a hundred years... it's the middle school i went to & i remember being impressed with it's stature & ( Read more... )