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Tuesday, July 13, 2004

 
11:57 PM: higgeldy without the piggeldy [#] [0]

1. did you know this blog is the number one hit on a yahoo search for "synonyms for happy"?

2. the neighborhood girls raked the back barkdust and scattered wildflower seeds. i planted poppies in the front barkdust and scarlet lobelia in the studio barkdust. pumpkin seeds were the first things to sprout in the garden barkdust, though a crop of tiny spicy arugala sprouts arrived overnight. the raspberries are finally over, i think, and are the only things not coated in barkdust. i hate working in the barkdust; even with gloves and shoes, i still get splinters. one of those decisions i didn't make that i get to deal with for as long as we're here. i keep hoping if i water it more it will decompose faster.

3. sven, leopoldo and i saw "monster road" on thursday, which was a documentary about a seattle-based claymation animator. i thought it was going to be about the clyamation, but instead it was about the animator and his disturbing relationship with his father, the kind of disturbing which leaves you to wonder about everyone around you.

4. michaelmas and i attended fup's birthday party at powell's technical books on saturday. i met fup for the first time, ate a pink-frosted cupcake and colored a psychedelic fup using all the available crayons. then because we are fair and impartial, we went to good dog bad dog for a late lunch.

5. i've given up on the palm; it crashed for the last time. since its input screen was broken, anyway, i decided to switch to the ipod (larkspur), which hopefully will also justify its purchase price being only slightly less than all of eliot. my perpetual problem: how do i store the earphones, especially since i have the over-the-ear ones rather than the earbuds?

6. sven got sunburned. :(

7. amelia has been booked at kitty condos for 2 weeks during burning man. expensive, but worth it.

8. last night there was a wonderful thunderstorm with incredible lightning! i woke at 3 a.m. to flashing and rumbling (no rain of which to speak of), threw on some clothes, and ran outside. i love thunderstorms, and was rewarded with what was possibly the best lightning i've ever seen: a horizontal streak which ran started on one edge of the horizon and ran the other, with two smaller forked vertical streaks. along the southern hills lightning was jumping from cloud to cloud and illuminating them from beneath and behind.

9. the vote for the gay marriage amendment is tomorrow. i'm really depressed that this is even being considered.

10. three weeks till my birthday, seven weeks till burning man. aeeiiee!

11. today i interviewed for a series of articles about women who took "career risks." we talked for two hours and i'm again so glad i'm no longer in california. i'm also quite hopeful about the future: calligraphy work and artist's way work seem like redeeming goals. but in a weird coincidence, she's the third person in two days i've heard talk about connection with other people as a form of spirituality.

12. i paid off my largest credit card today! hooray! only one more left, then trixie, then the student loan and i'll be free! seriously, though, it feels good to get rid of this amount of debt all in a swoop.