oh for christ's sake ( Read more... )

I am living in my new barn in eastish oakland. it's too far east to be east-lake proper and not deep enough to be considered within the deep east. The area is anything but gentrified and mostly asian, although I'm close to the latino population of fruitvale. English-friendly shops and restaurants are hard to find and complicates the ordering of ( Read more... )

I have something like four or five posts from all of 2009 ( Read more... )

moving to oakland on thursday
hung over from a week of traveling and saying goodbyes
drinking shitty bourbon and waiting for sleep to overtake me
i wish i wasn't afraid of throwing up because I'd probably just feel better

You know how it goes - shuffle media player ( Read more... )

I might go so far as to say that seeing my bloody valentine several months ago has ruined loveless and the rest of their music for me. It was too powerful, too overwhelming, too frightening, too beautiful, and too perfect. It's just not the same anymore. Maybe it was the drugs we took, but I have a feeling the event itself was far more potent.

I'm typing simply because I feel like listening to the tap of keys. I'm laying in bed with the window open, I believe it is 60 or 70 something out. Strange for the end of December. Ok, my tapping lust has been satisfied. I want a bagel.

this week I worked 80 hours. 40 hours one job, another 40 the other . . . not a drop of overtime, shitty. I work a double on thanksgiving. also shitty. Lots of people die in hospitals, I wasn't ready for that.

Harro ( Read more... )

I don't have any way to watch the news, but I skim through the major outlets online pretty regularly. I mean skim, because I can filter out any political crap and unnecessarily gore-filled reports of Mr. smith being decapitated by his lawn mower while taking a poop. I mean, how is that news? Who wants to read that ( Read more... )