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27 april 2003
She knitted mufflers Endlessly.
my bestest friend in the whole world, chelle, came to visit me two weeks ago. i got her all to myself for three whole days.
it was like heaven. and then she had to leave. which really, really sucked. but at least i got some
pictures to go with my memories. also, her husband says she should go away on
more weekend visits, leaving the kids with him. yay!!
at my house, i have these huge windows along one wall.
they start at about 7 feet up and go up to the ceiling, which is at about 15 feet on that end of
the space (they go up to 30 feet at the other end). these windows look out onto a narrow two-lane bridge that
starts about a half a block before my place and spans about 3+ blocks, going up and over the freeway
that is about a block and a half or so from my house. this bridge has a sidewalk, and a surprising
number of people actually walk up and down it, despite the fact that it is really steep
(it starts at sea level and ends halfway up potrero hill). sometimes, when i have my curtains open,
i catch people who are walking by looking down into my house. it makes me feel like a fish in a
fishbowl. some people are just kinda curious, glancing in, and look away if they see me noticing them.
other people are flat-out rude, and will leer or grin or just plain stare at me and even slow down
for more viewing time as they go by. i hate it when people do that. i have a lot of days where i don't open
my curtains even though i'd like the light just because i don't want that invasion of my privacy.
i'm on vacation! yay! i took two and a half weeks off most of the work i'm doing these
days, and it started two days ago. i was going to drive to new orleans and back, but then i decided i really needed the time
to hang out and chill
and make art and recollect. so i'm working on a bunch of new paintings right now. and i rejoined the gym. and i started
doing yoga again. (and damn i'm sore!) and yesterday i sat down and read a book from cover to cover, just 'cause i could.
yay!
looks like i'm going to start 'djing' at the casanova bar in june. the casanova is in the mission, on valencia at 16th, and
it's a pretty good bar, i like it. i'm just going to play indie rawk records, like on my radio station, but live. should be fun.
i've been talking
to rusty about doing live shows on the station too, so i could talk between songs and tell the listeners who this or that band is
and funny anecdotes about them or the song or whatever. i figure it'd be a good way to put all my otherwise seemingly worthless
knowledge about music to use.
about three and a half years ago, i cut all my hair off - it was maybe an inch long, like it barely laid down, to get all the old dead hair that i'd been bleaching and dyeing purple for the two years previous off so i could start fresh. then i started growing it out. now i have really fucking long hair,
and i'm tired of it. long hair is annoying! it gets stuck under my arms when i'm wearing a tank top, in car doors and windows when they go from open to shut; it tries to strangle me when i'm sleeping by wrapping itself around my neck so that when i roll over it tightens and wakes me; when i shed like two hairs in the bathroom it looks like the entire bathroom is covered with hair, and sometimes when i wake up in the morning (particularly if i was having
lots of fun the night before) i have a giant rat's nest on your head. but i told myself i can't cut it off until i lose the weight i gained last year (ugh). hence the gym and yoga efforts. it's important to have goals!
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