May 2011
3 posts
Is a day of remembrance.
JJJ
I found some things I've been looking for!... →
*rana june: Words That Don’t Exist in the English Language
Gheegle: (Filipino) The urge to pinch or squeeze something that is unbearably cute.
Cualacino: (Italian) The mark left on a table by a cold glass.
Sgriob: (Gaelic) The itchiness that overcomes the upper lip just before taking a sip of whisky
L’esprit de escalier: (French) The feeling you…
I make amends for forgetting yesterday.
Sunday I hung out in the Mission with Mike and his sister, ostensibly searching for a chair for his new place but really trying to soak up as much SF sun as waking up at 1:30pm, wickedly hungover would allow. Although I’m a fan of cheap stuff and the gems that Goodwill doth hold, the trendier home furniture and design stores up and down Valencia are baller. Some many amazing Danish chairs,...
April 2011
5 posts
Was a day of ideas I want to try harder with.
I totally thought of this in some iteration before going to Venice!
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Water for Elephants reminded me I could go back to my thesis. And Carnivale!
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Most important new goal: wear a maxi skirt. Preferably with heels.
I played tennis.
By myself but it was a good round. This is my favorite tennis-related artwork:
But this non-famous, non-Revolutionary image is more to the tangential point.
This is a game of jeu de paume, the 16th-century French precursor to tennis. This engraving may or may not depict a match at the Jeu de Paume, a court in the Tuileries gardens of Paris that is now a national art gallery of the same...
YESTERDAY, actually: I thought of this blog.
And saw Double Indemnity.
I created this blog.
Things have been building to this:
I received not one but two fancy journals I’ll never use for my birthday last week.
I use my downtime off of work (read: hours spent waiting to pick up my siblings from school) on the internet anyways.
I have to convince myself that I’m accomplishing SOMETHING and don’t want to forget the fleeting moments of interest that do exist during...