2012, a thursday

Up early to finish packing, tried to update the iPad and something went wrong and it got wiped. So much for putting all those tv shows and magazines on it! Mo took me to the bus stop and although I had to wait over an hour to check in, everything was going ok. Flight delayed 2 hours, then put back on time. Ahead of schedule, decided to get some Panda Express before I went through security. Dad called and said the blizzard was so bad the roads were being closed so I’d have to spend the night in Cedar Rapids. No problem, hung up, checked my flight status for the hell of it and my flight was cancelled. Back to the ticket counter to stand in line for an hour and a half to get rebooked. On the phone with Frontier at the same time and got through faster with them although I was still on hold for 45 minutes. Got miraculously rebooked for tomorrow night (not getting in until almost midnight but most people couldn’t get rebooked at ALL so felt very lucky). Then spent over two hours waiting for my luggage to be sent up from the luggage pit or whereever. Barely made it to the bus, Ian picked me up and we got Taco Bell and watched ‘Amish Mafia’. Almost made up for the exhausting day. On the bright side, I was able to reload the iPad.

2011, a tuesday

Spent all day making cookies with Mom (and a French coconut pie for Grandma and me). Took a break for lunch then kept baking until dinnertime (photos here). Watched ‘Love Actually’ (part of it anyway – fell asleep for the middle bit).

2010, a monday

yoga, started working on transferring info from mom’s old imac to her new macbook and migrating her email to imap. finished mike carey’s ‘the devil you know’ which I LOVED. happy to find out there are four more books in the series! made dinner with mom; introduced the parents to quinoa. bailey’s, 2-hour ‘castle’ repeat episode. stayed up to see the lunar eclipse, thwarted by heavy cloud cover. :(

update: I posted someone’s time-lapse of the eclipse here.

2009, a sunday

got up and hustled to get ready and out before our check-out time. had lunch at jj’s boulangerie in paris then went up the eiffel tower to watch the bellagio fountain show. took some photos in front of the paris fountain then hit the road. on the way back to LA, elaine and i stopped at the target in pasadena to check out the new rodarte collection. elaine dropped me off, and i promptly realized there was no way i was going to make it to this party tonight, so instead am going to eat and go to bed; i have an early morning tomorrow before i fly to chicago in the afternoon.

i haven’t written anything very personal on here in awhile because nothing has really changed. still no work, i travel when i can (home, sf, comic-con, caving trip in september, hopefully a road trip to new orleans this fall) and spend a lot of time thinking deep thoughts about what i Want To Do With My Life, but i haven’t really gotten far on that front, except that i should probably go back to school if i want to do anything science-y. i’m also getting more interested in photography again, which i’ve found comes in waves. generally i get really interested until i remember i need a dSLR if i want to be serious about it, then i scrap the idea because i really don’t want a dSLR. i’d never carry it with me! too big! too heavy! too many lenses. *sigh* i should probably at least get a higher-resolution point-and-shoot so i can produce larger prints. (ps: mom, maybe don’t get me the bbf camera for my birthday – can i really afford the development/printing/film? i want it, but…you’re right. not practical. i should probably ask for new brakes for my car instead or whatever.)

i was at skylight books the other day with jula and terry, and saw a neat five-year journal. each page is a day of the year, with five little areas to write a few lines about your day – you just mark in the year at the beginning of the little area. seemed like a pretty great idea since the small space is less pressure than a big blank notebook page, and you can see right there everything you’ve done on that day for the past five years. i almost bought it, but it was a nice cloth-bound one and was something crazy like $25 so eff that. but, i figured i could do something like that here, and i’ll just make an entry for each day of the year, and then add on to that entry the next year and bump it up to the top of the page, so each day of the year will be in the same entry and therefore the same sort of nostalgia/mortification/etc could occur. except publicly! (what the hell am i doing oh my god) this will not replace my normal ‘this is what happened today’ entries – if something really notable happens i’ll still write about it at length – it might just be a little compilation of the day’s tweets, who knows. we’ll see how long this experiment lasts, or whether it will even be interesting. mostly, at first, i think it will be kind of depressing/boring/infuriating for you, the reader, since..you know, no job. many entries will probably be like, “watched tv. messed around on the internet. talked to friends on IM. ate.” but bear with me! i have high hopes for this project in the long run.