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Jun. 18th, 2008 @ 06:55 pm
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so, these signs are all over downtown portland:
lesson learned:
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sometimes, working for a nonprofit means that you get to meet political celebrities:
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Mar. 9th, 2008 @ 06:11 pm
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so i live in an art gallery and we are on a monthly art walk, which means that we have a monthly art opening.
this month brendan and i were the featured artists. mama's first art show!
the photos are mine; the painting is brendan's.
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Jan. 8th, 2008 @ 02:35 pm
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this is kinda interesting.
93% Mike Gravel
90% Dennis Kucinich
75% John Edwards
72% Joe Biden
69% Barack Obama
68% Chris Dodd
68% Bill Richardson
66% Hillary Clinton
33% Ron Paul
30% Rudy Giuliani
24% John McCain
20% Mike Huckabee
17% Mitt Romney
17% Tom Tancredo
10% Fred Thompson
2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz |
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i haven't updated this thing in forever.
i thought that i had class at noon, but it's actually at 1 so i just gained an hour to putz around on the internet.
so.
i live in portland now, in a really amazing loft/gallery space right downtown.
we live in a street-level storefront gallery and can legally have store hours and sell art from our apartment. we had a show on thursday and i sold my first photo, which was really exciting! brendan sold several prints and our featured artist got some attention and a business card from the curator of stumptown, so it was a successful night for everyone involved.
i really love living in portland, and am so happy that i finally made the move here. eugene is great, but i outgrew that town a long time ago and don't think that i would have amounted to much if i'd stayed there. there just isn't much opportunity in eugene, especially for someone who wants to work in reproductive health or at a nonprofit.
i started grad school a couple of weeks ago, and it is really intense but also really great. my classmates are mostly women, and they're all very experienced and insightful. i feel like one of the least experienced people in my program and i'm so excited to learn more from others' histories.
i guess that's it.
Oct. 8th, 2007 @ 11:05 am
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moustaches and moustache parties are really hip here in eugene. is this a trend in michigan as well?
the boy in the third picture woke up and went grocery shopping this morning, completely forgetting that i'd given him a really horrible moustache last night. everyone at the store was looking at him funny and he had no idea why. that is basically the best prank that i've ever unintentionally played on anyone.
Sep. 18th, 2006 @ 02:43 am
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my birthday was on tuesday and my friend evyn got me this cake:
i have a history of having really awful birthdays, but this year was actually really great. i got a lot of phone calls and i felt super loved/not forgotten.
my friends got me super drunk and i made everyone kiss me and it was great.
( i went out with these mugs )
this is basically the best picture ever taken of me:
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also, my dad came to town for a few days and we had a really nice visit. one day, we went to the coast and checked out the sea lion caves:
that rock in the middle is covered in sea lions!
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Sep. 11th, 2006 @ 01:16 am
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this week, i was graced by the presence of wendy "huckleberry" hawkins. during her stay in my neck-o-the-woods, we were lucky enough to spend a day driving to/hiking around at crater lake. it's fucking beautiful. straight up gorgeous:
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last weekend, a whole bunch of michiganders rolled in to the euge. i can't even begin to explain how wonderful it was to have so many old friends here with me.
more pictures:
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it's been a crazy week. i'm feeling pretty ridiculous/burnt out/in love with everyone/weird.
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Aug. 19th, 2006 @ 09:24 pm
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friday is going to be awesome for four reasons:
1. mikey brezinski
2. jonny maiullo
3. wendy hawkins
4. andy ludwig
four of my favourite people in the whole world [and fellow former michiganders!] are going to converge on the euge for what i can only imagine will be one of the most fabulous weekends ever.
so that's pretty much the biggest excitement going on in my life right now.
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other than that, things are pretty much the same in my life. i'm running 5 days a week and trying to clean up my act a bit. obviously i'm still breakin hearts like it's my job, though.
and i'm really in to scrabble.
Aug. 9th, 2006 @ 10:28 pm
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well. i made a whopping $6.40 in tips at work tonight. kinda feels like i should have just stayed home.
i am currently listening to the scorpions and i like it. it's like... epic. almost as much as rush, but not quite. maybe a buttrockmetalhairband mixtape is in order?
speaking of mixtapes, i made one recently for my dear friend mikey b, who is currently in transit from east lansing to san francisco and should definitely NOT click the following:
( here's the track listing )
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for some reason, folks in eugene talk a lot of shit about seattle and california. apparently, northern californians say "hella" a lot. this is evidenced in the following joke:
Q: how many northern californians does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A: hella
i recently met a northern californian, and he did indeed use the word "hella" more than once.
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i'm really into the whole "documentary about people who are obsessed with/incredibly good at weird things" genre lately. i recently read about a movie called barbie nation and i think i'm going to rent it tonight instead of being social.
oh yeah, i'm a total hermit lately.
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i'm reading the incredible lightness of being and it is fabulous. just wonderful.
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Jul. 31st, 2006 @ 10:04 pm
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pictures pictures pictures.
first, family:
me, my mother, and my paternal grandmother.
( bloodlines )
friends:
mikey-fuckin-brezinski, soon to be san franciscan.
me, chad, terror.
( more more more! )
the end:
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Jul. 27th, 2006 @ 11:26 pm
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taken from the roof of the people's bank, now abandoned:
to enter the building [i'm giving away a secret]:
there's a hole behind that plywood!
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inside, it is pitch black and really spooky and reallyreally awesome. there's all sorts of shit to break and places to hide and things to find. one night, we found the board room, complete with 20-foot-long table. obviously, we flipped the table.
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Jul. 27th, 2006 @ 10:15 pm
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while at my mom's house, i found a lifetime's worth of diaries and journals.... in 4th grade, all i wrote about was riding my bicycle, boys, and how my family is crazy.
some things never change.
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michigan was silly. it was hectic. it was stressful. it was fun.
i didn't get to see as many people as i'd hoped.
i was stood up by a dear old friend in kalamazoo. i cried alone while driving down west main street. despite the several messages i left him, he has yet to call me and offer an explanation.
my mom and i had an epic argument the second day i was in town. we haven't fought like that since i was in high school.
i'm in love with lots of michiganders. most of them are leaving the midwest, thank god. new york and san francisco will be better places in a month.
i have no intentions of returning to the midwest for a long, long time.
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i'll post pictures, etc., when i have more motivation. right now, though, and it seems like a good idea to go for a bikeride and jump in a river.
Jul. 23rd, 2006 @ 03:28 pm
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i feel like a SUCKA because i'm listening to her space holiday and it's almost making me cry.
boyz have also been makin me cry lately, and that is fucked up. especially since i generally treat boyz like shit these days and deserve whatever i get back from them at this point.
well.. i don't treat 'em like shit, per se, but i think that i've become the single most fickle person i've ever known.
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i'm really not doing very well right now. my two best friends moved away within a week of eachother, and i feel pretty lost without them. ryan is only in portland, but portland seems really far away right now. i started to freak out in public last night and ended up being drunk-girl-cyring-at-party. gross.
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this boy is my roommate now:
he's not actually creepy.
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i'm reallyreally looking forward to my michigan visit. i think that getting out of the euge and back to something shockingly familiar will work wonders for me. i'm kinda bummed that ted leo is playing mac's like a day before i arrive, but whatev. i'm super excited to eat at el az, have a falafel date with jim, swim with mikey, ride bikes a whole bunch, etc.etc.
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Jul. 1st, 2006 @ 02:26 pm
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i'm all shaky and shit because i drank WAY too much coffee in an attempt to compensate for the lack of sleep/sobriety in my life.
also, boss lady at the chinese restaurant reduced me to tears the last time i worked. i'm totally gonna get fired and i almost don't give a fuck.
i'll be in michigan in 13 days.
Jun. 28th, 2006 @ 04:48 pm
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and i'll be there from july 11-21. mark your calendars, michiganders!
to say that i'm excited for this visit would be an understatement. i anticipate lots of falafel, high dives, long beaches, bicycle rides, and general crazyness.
also someone really should volunteer to drive me to PDX so that i can catch my flight to detroit. i'll supply gas money, snacks, and cleverly-themed mixtapes. think about it!
love love love.
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Jun. 17th, 2006 @ 02:24 pm
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that dress is TROUBLE.
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so last night i got stuck at a party with no phone and no way home so i ended up getting wasted on someone else's beer and making a lot of friends. and then at 4AM i decided that it'd be a good idea to have a bunch of people over to watch movies. so we cabbed across eugene [dude i'm a yuppie for sure!] and watched trapped in the closet and to wong foo thanks for everything julie newmar [which, despite being super unrealistic, is a really awesome movie].
and a cute boy puked in my sink and it was FUCKING GROSS.
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i'm at the library and started listening to slum village really loud and then i realised that i plugged my headphones into the microphone outlet and was thus broadcasting my music to the entire library. i'm totally an asshole.
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OMG OMG OMG ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) adamisahippy IS IN OREGON!!!!
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Jun. 14th, 2006 @ 02:39 pm
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i work at a vegan chinese restaurant, which should be the coolest job ever but totally isn't because my bosses are crazy and hate women. seriously.
i've had a lot of qualms with the job since i started and then on saturday they accused me of stealing tips from the other waitress. this is ridiculous for so many reasons [i wouldn't steal from another minimum wage employee, etc.], not to mention the fact that the girl from whom i allegedly stole told the bosses that i didn't do it [we counted our tips together and documented how much i took before i left]. and i didn't even have access to the money that's missing, so it would have been a physical impossibility for me to take it.
ugh whatever, the point is that i'm stressed out and mad and anticipating having a confrontation with my bosses tonight and i'm not really looking forward to it.
that same night i fell down the stairs and got really banged up. i kinda feel like i did after my bike/car accident.
also i am stressed out because ryan and evyn are moving away in like 2 weeks and i am going to be completely lost without them.
good news: i am trying to plan a michigan trip for about a month from now. does mid-july work for all of you who would want to see me?
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Jun. 12th, 2006 @ 03:11 pm
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the lorax, which is the vegan co-op where ryan lives, had a halloween party on friday and it was so so fun. halloween is my fave holiday for sure, and it should definitely happen multiple times a year.
patriotism/rollerskates/the undead/sparks
( halloween in the springtime )
co-op parties are really hit-or-miss as far as how fun they are for me, so i was kinda anticipating having a shitty night.. it was pleasantly surprising that there were a ton of people there and everyone was dressed up and dancing. and also i drank way too much sparks/mickeys and that's a good way to pep up any evening.
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i think i'm probably the most dramatic person ever.
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also i made this stencil:
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May. 28th, 2006 @ 03:18 pm
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