journal

20 october 2004

because, sometimes, i suck.

i have had this idea. i was going to redesign elise.org and in the redesign i would update everything and have a new journal section (updated!) and new paintings (updated!) and new photos (updated!) and... you get the picture. have i done it? no. why? because, sometimes, i suck. [note: i finally got off my ass and did it, as *this* is the new design! yay!]

stuff has been good lately. i've been really busy doing web-type work again. i like that. i got my real estate license in june, and shortly afterwards started contracting fairly frequently again - heh. who knows, maybe i'll end up doing real estate despite it all. i dunno!

doing all the web work is making me feel esp. guilty about the sad state of this website, with its outdated code and general sad state of being. i'm really going to have to dedicate some time to it very soon, for reals.

so much has happened since the last time i wrote here. my boyfriend lance moved in with me at the warehouse. our landlord hired a new management company who decided to fuck us all over, and despite numerous attempts to rectify the situation in a variety of ways, nothing worked - so we found a new flat six whole blocks away, and moved in july. (as did many of the tenants in our building. move, that is.) our new place rocks. it's up on the hill, which means we're less than a block away from the coffee shop, restaurants, shops, bookstore, etc. on potrero hill. this also means less overheard gunfire from the projects (we used to be directly downhill from them), and we've left the industrial area, so no more all-night printing press noises. yay! also, it's bigger square-footage-wise than the warehouse, and we have a garage (hello, storage!) and a backyard (the kitties love it so). i have an enclosed porch for painting, and we even have a fireplace. everything is *just fine*. :) oh. and the rent's cheaper. go figure.

the radio station's doing great. (Rusty from SomaFM got married, finally, to Merin last week! yay! it was the best wedding!) still djing every third wednesday (like tonight!) still painting, not that you can see any evidence here. drawing a lot more than painting recently, though. still no evidence. (furrowing brow of intention)

i've been to very few shows lately - just the pixies (just!!) at the greek, and camera obscura at the great american, plus a show or two at bottom of the hill. i think i'm about to start going out more, though, i'm feeling the need building. that's a good sign.

my ex, zach, fell and broke his back at burning man. poor guy's been going through hell. i'm really glad he's got a fantastic girlfriend right now who's been helping him with it all. that rocks.