I've been boldly blabbing about what it would be like if friends started typing out more elaborate thoughts on this thing again. Like is it a cure in any way for the grinding loneliness of life behind phone screens or is it just a smallnice thing that doesn't really change anything? Or like: who is even here still??

I'm 35. I last wrote regularly ( Read more... )

I just realized today that, with the two jobs and numerous vague plans that I have, I am ripening ( Read more... )

Incredibly successful open mic! Me saying "This is going to be a regular event - come back in two weeks!" and a completely packed room of people CHEERING. Like, how will we even do this? There is so much talent and such actual diverse types of talent just bubbling up here, looking for outlets & audiences ( Read more... )

A quick roundup of the last two years is over at lookathing.

It's what I will consider the first day of videoblogging week. The technical snafus are there because I want to do everything for free.

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Backstory:1) The storms that came through and beat up San Francisco like a bully beats up a nerd rendered the outdoor, coded keypad entrance to my house's garage inoperative ( Read more... )

saying 'i love you' on the phone

Guys. GUYS! I got in. In what? In the co-op house I interviewed for on Monday! Am I kidding? NO!

IT IS REAL!

The phone call that confirmed it led to much fist-pumping and smiling and, later, going to bed happy instead of anxious for the first time since I've been here.

It's the purple one... of course google street view didn't drive right ( Read more... )

Wait, PS: my job is 100% exactly what I want to be doing with myself right now. It is totally right on. Jeez. Wow.

Some of the continent's earliest weather is something I know.
I love to walk through it.

"Tonight, I went to a friend's place pretty far on the west end of town and fell asleep while watching dr. strangelove, then walked to a bus stop in the chilly air while listening to mt. eerie, then came back to the hostel where there wasn't much going on, so now I'm going to go to bed."