have not posted in for.ever.  Part of it is California, a state that is hard to like.  Ok, it's not Iowa or Arkansas, and maybe it's just the bay area that is burly-tough-guts with a shitty rich hippie veneer.  Everything tonnes of things are either expensive artisanal foo foo bullshit, or literal shit- feces are EVERYWHERE!   It is not possible to ( Read more... )

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still here, but just not very conversational over the last few months.  we moved into a new apartment, and it is nice, pictures will be posted. 
I think I have a limited amount of people time in me (if that makes sense, like other people have a limited amount of time they can spend alone) and living with someone pretty much eats that all up, plus ( Read more... )

busy last month.  no, I never got the white castles in the midwest.  frozen ones do not compensate for real ones.  went to midwest, texas, california, then back to new zealand and now waiting to hear if I can get a dentist's appointment, and packing up my stuff to move. again.  which seems kind of overwhelming because I'm a books/records/clothes ( Read more... )

"no culture houston" has come a long way in the last 30 years.  it was a long way to go to put two and two together for an article I'm working on, (possibly hopefully) improve my employment chances, and get that elusive last 2,510 frequent flyer miles for elite status*, but now I have a huge post coming up that is made up of the kinds of things  ( Read more... )

So busy.  Left Auckland, had a lovely and uneventful flight to LA.  Transferred to a lovely and uneventful flight to SF.  I did not get pornoscreened or patted (would have picked the patting, it has happened before in customs about 5 times and I honestly don't care if a female stranger touches my boobs/crotch through my clothes.  not a big deal ( Read more... )

another book I have to have, right now: Picture Imperfect:  Photography and Eugenics 1870-1940.  Currently wrangling Spinoza's Ethics, and still on The Visible Human Project from time to time.  I reread The Big Sleep again to throw something with a plot and resolution in to the reading pile.  I found the most unfuckingbelievable second hand store ( Read more... )

Monday and Tuesday were full of driving around and getting things done, in the joy of being able to breathe air and walk around again.  My car did not get towed from the mall over night, I got 80% of Christmas shopping done, went to the bank, got prescriptions, that sort of thing.  18 hours after getting out of the emergency room I was doing a 75 ( Read more... )

trick or treat- an ambulance ride to the hospital emergency room with anaphylaxis. The treat part is that it is in New Zealand so it was total first class level, 4 stars, and free.  well, I've allready paid. GST/sales tax just went up from 10 to 13.5 percent.  Hospital care is socialised medicine, but the ambulance is a private service.  go figure ( Read more... )

last weekend was labour weekend here, so my sense of time is messed up from Monday=extra Sunday.  I went to the black sand beach 40 minutes from my house, instead of Budget Rock.  equals out.  I got lost on the way there driving on tiny twisting mountain hill roads and eating chips that were meant to be Sunday Roast flavoured but were more like ( Read more... )