Jason Wu for Target
I’d love to wear one of these tomorrow, but I’ll be freezing my ass off on the side of a mountain for 6 hours so…
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…and here’s the photographic proof!
For the anniversary of my special day, Mom sent me this photo of the day Mom and Dad picked me up at the airport.
Dad is carrying a Polaroid camera in a case that they borrowed for the occasion. Mom is carrying me, 5 months old to the day.
2012, a monday
Up early to do some homework I suddenly remembered at about 1am. Dropped off hiking shoes and cold weather gear at my locker in the geology building, then dove into Monday: 9 hours of class! 5 hours on the side of a mountain, doing field geology, physically miserable but intellectually stimulated. Home, food (chickpea casserole mmmmm), tea, chocolates, more crack yogurt.
part of the Fountain formation at Settlers’ Park
2011, a sunday
Up bizarrely early. Still on Illinois time, I guess. Went to Trader Joe’s, went to Meghan and Josh’s for lunch (circus waffles!). Hit the mall on the way back to avoid the horrible traffic on the 5, and got an insane deal at the Gap – there are 50% off sales at every store, and I got a really awesome sweater for only $5! Home, cooked some things, put on my new sweater, fiddled some more with my Isle of Tune, ate a lot of chocolate cake, played Smurfs’ Village all night, and watched some ‘Doctor Who’.
2010, a saturday
worked out, finally checked out the mercantile (and loved it), did some errands, dropped off my car in burbank and elaine gave me a ride back to my place. packed all afternoon, shocked to find everything except the snacks fits in my medium-sized suitcase. so shocked, i rechecked the packing list 3 times to make sure i wasn’t forgetting anything. eating a quick clean-out-the-fridge dinner, then hanging out until megan drives me to the airport. then – new zealand!
So remember that ‘Dr. Bonesaw’ shoot I worked on way back when (photos here)? Psychic Bunny/Lead Balloon took that footage and rolled it into a short about…well…aftermath, is the best way I can put it – starring the delightfulLaurel Vail! Scroll down the Lead Balloon projects page to ‘Still Beating’.
(Also I am way way late in posting this. Apologies!)
I just made apricot chicken from Elise Bauer’s recipe and oh my goodness is it good. Took me a long time to make since I don’t cook often (and cook meat even less often, so I was worried my chicken wouldn’t be cooked through) but it was really easy. And smelled AMAZING as it was cooking! When I tried a little of the sauce as it was simmering, I involuntarily shouted expletives. Next time I might use a little less jam (I didn’t have fresh apricots on hand) and a bit more hot sauce. I served it over quinoa, because it was the only grain/noodle I had around, and I liked how the quinoa absorbed the sweet-spicy liquid so the whole thing almost became a thick stew. I’ll definitely make this again!
on the inner flap of my Trader Joe’s Candy Cane green tea
2011, a tuesday
Yoga, class, awesome (but cold) field trip to Dinosaur Ridge. ‘Warehouse 13′, ‘Doctor Who’, calculus homework, early to bed.
iguanodon and ornithomimus tracks
shoreline ripple marks
2010, a monday
worked out, studied for math and chemistry. chemistry lab, talked about radiation. figured out how to make a math problem work another way. home, ‘the prestige’ which I was relieved to find was still totally awesome after years of never watching it again for fear it wouldn’t be as good.
2009, a sunday
worked out, researched for the trip, booked my heli-hike! caught up on tv and ate my favorite greek lemon chicken soup and some baklava.
2011, a thursday
Yoga, class, 5+ hours in the math help room, more calculus homework at home. Listened to new music on the way to and from school – finally got the first Jem album after loving the singles and the whole album is great. Made a good dinner. Watched the first episode of ‘American Horror Story’ – it wasn’t super awesome, but I thought it was pretty good, especially for a basic cable show. I was definitely creeped out. My brain is sleepy from all of the math today, so I think I’m going to go to bed early and read something mindless.
snowy Flatirons
2010, a wednesday
slept in, but not nearly as long as I would have liked. worked out, groceries, went to grilled cheese night at the oaks with vince, patty and alex. delicious! home and enjoyed a glass of wine and some more apple crumble. am now totally stuffed.
2009, a tuesday
woke up to the sound of our roof being torn off. the banging and scraping lasted all morning. not cool. spent the day sewing my halloween costume and in general, trying to figure out how to work the sewing machine. got pretty much everything sewed, but i need more batting and a fabric marker, so i’m going to hit the craft store tomorrow. couldn’t hold out any longer and watched the halloween episode of ‘castle’ in which nathan fillion dressed as malcolm reynolds, the character he played in ‘firefly’. it was glorious.
2011, a wednesday
Woke up to a snowy Boulder! The walk to class was surprisingly delightful until the wind changed direction and started blowing snow right in my face. Arrived at astronomy with a snowy face-scarf beard. Class, back home, still snowing. Calculus homework, astronomy homework, earth history homework. Delicious dinner. Finally stopped snowing. ‘Castle’, should probably read some calculus but my level of giving a shit about that class drops every day. Probably go to bed early to play some iPhone games (although I finished Puzzle Agent 2 last night so…hm.) or catch up on some TV shows.
Lots of broken branches, as the trees hadn’t yet dropped their leaves :(
Remember when this tree looked like this?
One and a half days ago it was 80°.
2010, a tuesday
class, homework, study for quiz, class, watched the last ep of ‘sherlock’. cliffhanger, darn it! plan to finish ‘the hunger games’.
2009, a monday
worked out, ate delicious soup, cut out the pieces of my halloween costume then decided that was enough of that for one day – i’ll tackle using a sewing machine tomorrow. processed photos, ate more soup. left to pick up jula at lax, which turned into sort of a debacle when we missed each other in the arrivals hall then ended up waiting for each other for over an hour…less than 200 feet from each other (her outside, me in). but, we finally met up, i drove her to get her car from terry’s and all was well.
2011, a monday
Class, crazy warm weather. Sat outside by the Kittredge pond for the hour before astronomy lab to enjoy it while it lasts – supposed to be snowy and in the low 30s by Wednesday :( Laundry, delicious dinner, calculus homework for hourrrrsssss.
2010, a sunday
up early for apple-picking! steve and kirk picked up cameron and I then we picked up li-wei. stopped for donuts and atm, then back to our apt to get ipod adapter. then back to our apt for different ipod cable and sunscreen. off to oak glen (east of yucaipa)! fun conversation in the car, met letia and matt at the apple orchard, which was SUPER FOGGY and mysterious and wonderful-feeling. lunch at the restaurant – pulled pork and tri-tip sandwiches, blackberry lemonade mmmm. picked up some fun candy at the little general store next door. spent a few hours wandering around the fog-shrouded fields, finding apples and walking through the corn maze. every once in in awhile the fog would roll back and reveal the mountains towering over us, then we’d be surrounded again, like something out of ‘brigadoon’. got a lot of apples from different kinds of trees, then drove down the road to oak glen village. got huge slices of hot apple pie with ice cream, and I got a giant cinnamon bun and an apple turnover to tide me over until cameron makes all those apples into pies and crisps. drove back to LA, fell asleep in the car, everyone was so tired and felt like it was at least 8pm when it was barely 5:30. the rest of tonight: process photos from the day, watch more ‘sherlock’ and go to bed early. what a completely delightful and idyllic and magical day!
2009, a saturday
got up early, picked up breakfast stuff at target then met the girls at maria’s. packed up megan’s car and hit the road for big bear. walked around the village then checked in at the hotel and relaxed for a few hours. caught a taxi van to oktoberfest with some extremely drunk people staying at our hotel. got here around 5 – got mini-keg and some good german food. watching the contests and trying to finish the keg! went out to beergarden and made some friends, split another leg with them, maria and elaine rode the bull, then we went inside and danced to cheesy music. I drunk-dialed holly and the other girls in chicago then we took the shuttle back to the hotel (very unpleasant due to a d-bag we were riding with) and stayed up awhile talking.
Wishing I was here today:
2011, a friday
Class, met with my calc professor. Drove down to Denver and met up with Dylan. Went to the MCA, had excellent burrata, calamari and pesto pizza at Osteria Marco, then saw ‘Night of the Living Dead’ at Bug Theatre. A great night!
something new: Osteria Marco
2010, a thursday
class, yoga, homework, study for chemistry test. installed new netflix wiiware. it blows. chemistry test, home to ‘study’ for math test, aka ‘make mixtape and procrastinate’.
2009, a wednesday
worked out, spent the day formatting and transferring files to my new hard drive, and nervously monitoring progress, waiting for it to burst into flames or something (i’ve had nothing but bad luck with hard drives). finally i dragged myself away to drive over to the coronet for w00tstock! and…IT WAS LEGENDARY! everyone was fantastic, and felicia day and some of the guild members appeared and, along with some of the other performers, did an acoustic version of ‘date my avatar’ that was amazing – felicia day’s voice was incredible. molly lewis was awesome, jeff lewis’s stand-up was great, hard ‘n phirm’s music was hilarious and w00tstock headliners paul and storm, wil wheaton, and adam savage were fantastic too. yay nerds!
update: audio from the show! the the whole show is here. also, some photos!
2011, a thursday
Yoga, met with my advisor about spring classes. Calculus recitation, math help room, astronomy and earth history homework. ‘Raising Hope’, ‘Happy Endings’, ‘Anderson’, Target run. Went to campus for my astronomy professor’s talk about one of the NASA missions she’s involved in – JUNO. It was really cool, and as an extra bonus Jupiter was especially bright in the sky when I left the planetarium.
from the walk home
2010, a wednesday
slept in, worked out. took my car for an oil change – got a tune-up too. errands, study for chemistry test. watched the giants game with cameron (they won!). studied for math test.
2009, a tuesday
slept in to catch up from my weekend, then ran some errands. went to brian’s for horror movie night with him and renee, then we went to el compadre for flaming margaritas and mexican food. after that we popped in to say hi to doug. just finished watching this week’s ‘the big bang theory’, guest starring wil wheaton and am debating also watching ‘how i met your mother’, but i think my desire to get up at a normal time is going to win out.
Lovely weather today, and the trees (if they still have leaves) are all kinds of pretty colors. I saw this tree on my walk home from class.
Credit: NASA/SDO
The Solar Dynamics Observatory sends images of the Sun. This image taken by SDO’s AIA instrument at 171 Angstrom shows the current conditions of the quiet corona and upper transition region of the Sun.