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Pleasantly busy

January 17, 2012

“Creative power flourishes only when I am living in the present.” – Brenda Ueland

Living in the present is something I’ve done a lot lately because my schedule finally filled out. I go to bed early, wake up for personal training at LA Fitness around 5 or 6 a.m. and then go to work. Evenings are filled with dog walks, tax training, or a second trip to the gym. Then it’s a beverage and a T.V. show.

The Netflix show of choice was Damages but now I am onto The Kennedys, which is ironic considering one of my favorite books is Libra.

Some changes are in order though. I need to get back to the Jillian Michaels / natural foods diet and redouble my efforts at the gym. I want to lose my stomach so I can walk around the office with semi-high-waisted pants like Leo in Revolutionary Road. Minus the cigarette of course…

I also need to get back to my Ableton time. It’s been too long and I need to finish my album.

Things pleasantly busy though, and I feel fortunate.

My second-round interviews for the job are also this week. The position sounds amazing and I just hope the second-round interviews are as fun as the first-round interviews.

These certainly are exciting times, even with the lack of high-waisted pants.

Oh, and randomly, here’s my song of the moment…

1L winter / Life

Déjà vu

December 23, 2008

I’m in Miami. It’s raining, and I’m reading “Underworld” (by Don DeLillo) under a covered porch.

There’s a recurring scene in Underworld where a child in a car records the driver behind her.

The driver smiles, waves, and is shot in the head by a serial killer in a neighboring car.

Another shooting by the “Texas Highway Killer.”

The footage is looped and replayed on TV news stations. The characters in the novel can’t stop watching. They watch because it’s on…

I take a break from the novel and turn on FOXnews. I stand in the living room and watch this thoroughly uninteresting footage of a car parked outside of a dark gas station.

The anchor then says: “Texas rush-hour shooter kills two random people…”

0L / snippets

Best Week Ever: Batman & DeLillo

July 23, 2008

Saw the movie Mongol, which is about Genghis Khan. It was pretty much a big deal.
Raided Urban Outfitters and bought some shirts – one with a huge screen print of Mary and baby Jesus, another with a huge screen print of a Cathedral, and a vintage Batman T.
Also saw Batman the movie with Carmen… it was long. Good, but loooong. See Daniel’s review here.
Bought the new Peru Altomayo. Which yes. Simply yes. It’s …well, yes.
Finished Don DeLillo’s Cosmopolis and The Body Artist… the last book of the summer is going to be Underworld (800 pages!). I finished White Noise and his most recent book, Falling Man, at the beginning of the summer. Any guesses who one of my favorite authors is? Hm.
Received my orientation info for school and excitement ensued. I know when Finals are y’all! I just need to figure out if my room at Gamma is furnished… hm.
While attempting to get colored contacts for purely cosmetic purposes, I found out that I was actually nearsighted and got glasses instead…then, shockingly, a few days later I ordered colored contacts anyway. Hah.
Finally made it to the beach, and saw Jaw’s smaller, deader cousin.
The poor soccer camp girls (they are like 7) who came to the front desk and asked if we had any “good smelling spray.” We asked why, and they said, “OUR FLOOR SMELLS LIKE FISH!” They insisted that their sweaty unwashed socks caused this fish odor. We…couldn’t…keep…straight….faces.

Oh, and then 30something and his equally intoxicated friend slow danced, but both being completely gone, they hit the floor with a dramatic side-ways THUD. They didn’t brace themselves or anything. They just leaned sideways and went WHAMP on the ground.
About one week left in Miami! Vöt!

college / Last summer / memories / picture of the day

Snippets, lots of them.

June 30, 2008

Crap. So I got behind again…oodles of snippets…

- Three days of (punishing) desk shifts. 7 hours on Friday, 10 hours on Saturday, 4 hours on Sunday.
- Long, dramatic night in the Provence with DG and his stupid new tattoos (that’s right, I called them stupid…for christ’s sake, you got a MUSTACHE TATTED ON YOUR FINGER?! WHO DOES THAT?) There was the Dominican, the “embarrassed” 60-year-old, the twink from Michigan and his Hispanic friend who I was inadvertently rude to, and Karaoke including my rendition of “Feedback” (yes I did).
- The storm shutters on the dorm broke, so I had to take the plants to madre’s house. After a political debate with my mom’s drunkard neighbor, I realized that my tire was flat.
- South Beach adventures with Lopez. There was the black guy who was SO not Indian, a fight in the Gogo bar, Voguing competition between Flipflop and King Kong, the 80-year-old known as the Grim Reaper (who gives everyone filthy looks), the 6-foot overlarge woman with the blonde Diana-Ross thing going on, and that ever-present looming porn star with the cowboy hat. Why? Why, why?
- Finally figured out the RSS thing. I now have a RSS feed of law-student blogs on my Windows Vista Sidebar. Nerdage. I know.
- Midnight water fight with JHR and P. We all happen to have supersoakers. One of those bike rent-a-cops stopped us. JHR and I were like, “oh crap!” but P. flashed his student ID and (basically) said “I PAY $32,000 IN TUITION WE DO WHAT WE WANT!” And we went about in our water mayhem.
- Briefly had a pornstache for fashion purposes only.

- Bought a men’s fashion magazine at Barnes and Noble and was made to feel like I was buying smut.
- 3am Taco Bell run with Eddie before he went back to Tallahassee.
- Subwayman who leers at women’s chests. Ricky and I have discussed this. Ricky says he’s retarded. I just think he’s just a creep. Everyone’s uncomfortable.
- Finished Don DeLillo’s “Falling Man” and was incredibly impressed.
- Finally put away my laundry instead of tossing it throughout my dorm room like I usually do.
- Got my lease and fine schedule from Gamma Eta Gamma. Excitement ensued.
- Long walks with Christine. Once to Coconut Grove, another in South Beach (along with watching the Zohan movie). Here is the obligatory tourist photo.

Lots of midnight pacing while listening to the Black Devil, who is trendy at the moment.
Other trendy things in my world include Red Eye, Jeanine Pirro, and this five year old entry on anonymous blogging.
And that’s basically it… I’m on duty this week. I also redesigned memosandmirth.com/. Ta-da!

Life

Currently,

June 6, 2008

Went to see the Sex and the City Movie at Cinebistro with C. The tickets were $17 a pop but the seats were so incredibly comfortable. Like – amazing. Yes. The waiters (yes there are waiters) were nice, but the service sucked.

The people next to us didn’t get silverware before their food went cold. My waiter never actually brought my Red Stripe. After fifteen minutes, I ended up going to the concession stand and picking it up myself. Hmmf. At least the movie was great.

Coolest thing about the place was that the waiter had a portable credit card machine that printed out receipts by his hip. That was hilarious… having to walk out and get my own beer was not. (And I never told them who I was so the waiter REALLY never brought the $6+tip beer.)

Life is great. Here are sparknotes:

Saw Kung Fu Panda. Beautiful movie.
Reading “Falling Man” by Don DeLillo, and writing steadily.
Oh, and running with my badass new Adidas.

And I got a buzzcut because balding is not a good look.