i'm spending new year's eve in SAN FRANCISCO.

tomorrow: ILLINOIS!

by way of a flight that goes seattle > dallas > indianapolis. DALLAS. oh so illogical. but time in texas = cheap ticket.

i'll attempt to catch up on this here journal while in the midwest. these last few weeks have been buuusyyyy.

last night there was a small dinner party for ali (her b-day is today). we were sitting in a circle, on the floor, holding glasses of wine and plates overflowing with VEGETARIAN food when teal (who's six) turned to todd and said tell us the mud-hippie story! and serrana (who just turned four) says in the tiniest voice yeah! tell us the mud-hippie ( Read more... )

more or less on a whim, i emailed my dad to see if he'd be interested in attending the sunday of the summer camp music festival in chillicothe, illinois over memorial day weekend. a small consolation for not attending the reunion but a little music out of the weekend nonetheless. he instantly emailed me back, inquiring about ticket prices, and ( Read more... )

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the frogs have returned. and now it's the sound of them croaking at the edge of the lake ( Read more... )

still in my clothes from yesterday. slept in them too ( Read more... )

jumping on the ol' list bandwagon ( Read more... )

saturday was an exhausting nine-hour work day remedied by a bonfire, brownies and beer.
sunday was adventures in seattle with ali, walking through the arboretum, coffee on capitol hill, stumbling upon a zine reading - one girl told us the story of lancelot and guinevere and how they fucked the whole night through. another guy used a powerbook to " ( Read more... )

and this is why i love capitol hill. directly across the street from a bmw dealership is a fancy sex toy shop displaying dildos in the window. i passed a little boy (probably two or three years old) walking with his grandpa and he was staring intently into a tattoo parlor, as if it was the most fascinating place he's seen thus far in his short life ( Read more... )