prORASTINATE

i am procrastinating right now, because i need to do work and i just don't want to. things i did today to procrastinate:
sat in tompkins park
walked to union square
walked around farmers market buying cookies and pretending to buy plants
found new friends on myspace
read about monkeys getting the bubonic plague 3x (3 different articles)
read gossip blog
talked on phone
found annoying upstairs neighbors on myspace because they left a flyer on my door

thats alot of procrastinating!!!!
now, i have also made a procrastination appointment for tomorrow already, by setting up a meeting with a designer who is making her own stuff, rather than making the dress that i am supposed to be designing:


below i can illustrate the problem with the pattern that i need to fix and then apply to the design:


yes, and more of a problem when your client does not live in the same place as you. please don't laugh.

funny things i saw today:
cute squirrel
cute dog
my best friends dad's band's myspace page with this picture!

good bye blues, hello

i am convinced that my boyfriend spends a good portion of his work day looking up cat humor videos on youtube. i want to compete too. i am researching baby videos. blomb!

oh guess what?!????

well, since its almost summer again, and i have decided i hate my job, i guess it's time to have a blog again! i need to brush up on my brain skills, such as writing and being creative, and maybe, just maybe, alex is with me?
alot of stuff has happened since we were regular with the blog. i am a little saddened that i wasn't around to comment on the worst 6 months of the bush administration. i also decided that i hate my job because it is a new lame corporate job full of jaded over 28s that have lost all sight of humor/humanity. lame!
up and coming in the next few months are exciting things though. i will be finishing a wedding dress for dear friend denise. i will also be finishing the new line of jewelry i am doing, which is much better and more interesting than the last.
there was exciting things in the news today too!

the news brief:
• a 10 week, oh wait, no, month, sorry, old baby was issued a gun license in illinois, despite "strict" gun laws. cool!
• there was a thunderstorm!
• wolfowish could be wishing his way out of the world bank today!!! sweet. not quite just, but anything to get him out, really.
• a super awesome giant turtle with a soft shell was found in cambodia. they thought it was extinct! it doesn't even have a wikipedia page! so giant, so soft.

new to science animal post:
• they found new animals in antarctica, and of course, they are super awesome. (all animals who live in cold, dark places tend to be similarly awesome.)

2007: All Secrets Revealed!!

happy winter!

i found this picture of my mom in a book. it blew my mind.

a new level

aparently the germans are WAY ahead of us in terms of a woman's right to choose, in this amazing article from the bbc,
"A doctor who carried out a failed contraceptive operation has been ordered by a German court to pay financial support for the child."
that means 600 euros a month for 18 years, in case you are wondering.

new world order

things are really turning around in this country- first the democrats win the house, next they take the senate, i mean, what more could we ask for? it seems like every day there is something new to celebrate! this morning i read this good news: jack abramoff will spend the next six months performing menial tasks and living in a 6 person dormitory. has he become a male model? no. does anyone else see the potential jack-in-the-box commercial here? i guess they don't really have jack in the box on the east coast, but .... i bet he'd do anything to make a little bling while in the slammer! (please consult these emails in order to properly understand ja's earning potential)

well, OOOCHA!!!!!!!!
the old guard is on its way out and the loving, caring, socialists and populists are standing in the minor shadows, ready to come out and hack the conservative reptillian aliens to pieces.


today, for instance, milton friedman died. aparently, according to this short article, milton says, "there's no such thing as a free lunch." um, it's called "your nice friends invited you over and fed you." or, "you have a nice garden in your backyard." or, "chairity".

nancy pelosi is going to be the 1st woman speaker of the house in HIStory. awesome. she says, "i am a person commited to ending this war." AS SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE SHE WILL BE SECOND IN THE PRESIDENTIAL LINE OF SUCCESSION AFTER THE VICE PRESIDENT. please god, please.

lookie here! it looks like alex is coming out of her blog coma and putting out some "quality product". alex, does this mean you are back for good???
i moved this weekend which was very dramatic, considering the massive amounts of questionably valuble worldy posessions i have accumulated. for instance, a giant box of yarn? a giant bag of fabric? there are so many more of those floating around the usa with my name on it, i question the value of such fodder... the best thing that i have collected in the recent move are plants, of which i now have 6. i would like to name all my plants, please feel free to make suggestions.
the move was dramatic because uhaul didn't have any trucks like our reservation said they would, which led to lots of phone calls in vain (we refused to go to east new york). then, the loading and unloading of the van, from that i learned to love my 1 floor walkup. for the most dramatic part of the story: finally, when we had unleaded everything but the tv from the van, the door of the building blew shut, and we were left on the street with no keys a poor prospects of reentry. luckily, emilio was brave and spry, climbing over three buildings to enter through our back window. ta-da!
in more mundane reading-news, they finally put the last part of this horrible story in harpers, so i could finish it even though i wasn't really enjoying it. sometimes i think harpers is a little insular in the ideas from which it is fed content.
i have started drinking liquorice tea with soymilk. it is delicious. it tastes like chai. it was my own innovation, of that i am very proud of. alex, do you want some liquorice tea with soymilk?

farm

these are pictures from my farm, summer, and the beginning of fall!

rehashing burnt out hash hashup

last night i got a myspace message from a guy i met on the internet when i was 12 (went something like, "um i think you still have some of my sonic youth cds....."). this made me think about my relationship with the internet, and how i need to put more effort in so that we don't break up. please internet, don't break up with me. i love you. you are so insane.
it has been aproximately 2 months since i have visited my blog. alex has also been away. we have been renovating our lives, so hopefully the new design will be even more appealing.
things i have done recently that i had not done before:
* used a torrent to download information
* admitted fault in a shameful situation
* visited a friend for the first time
* walked aimlessly around ny
* bought an art book in nyc
* looked at an apartment by myself
* registered at community college
very different.
things that happened while i was away:
exciting visit to my sister.
full house shake up.
intense introspection about my professional life.
new clothes.
housesitting in v. v. nice brownstone (close association with animals).
short visits with alex.
intense exploration of downtown brooklyn.
here are some pictures that came from my summer family time fling starring my sister delia, my dad ivan, me as myself and my two nieces, julia and simone:

playing in water

children's museum, pittsburgh, pa

dancing
children's museum, pittsburgh, pa

swinging
park made from tires, pittsburgh, pa

looking Tuff
private residence, murrysville, pa

don't call it a come back,

SHE'S BEEN HERE FOR YEARS!

so there've been manatee sightings off harlem, westchester, all over the hudson river.
you can read about it from the nyt:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/07/nyregion/07manatee.html?_r=1&oref=slogin



people used to think manatees were mermaids, when they got peeks at them basking on rocks,
because of their smooth, luminous skin, and two boobs (like dolphins?)
they're even in the order of Sirenia.
they can weigh up to 1000 kg, though.... damn, girl!
they carry their young cradled in their arms, much as a human would carry a baby.

it has even been posited that the traditional image of a mermaid with long flowing hair could be attributed to manatees breaking the ocean surface underneath patches of seaweed, and giving the unfamiliar observer the impression of having long hair.



going back to the aquatic ape theory, before 546 B.C., the Milesian philosopher Anaximander proposed that mankind had sprung from an aquatic species of animal (no doubt influenced by the sailors tales of a humanoid sea creature, beguiling them on voyages with it's feminine allure). he thought that man, with his extended infancy could not have survived, originally, in the manner he does presently.

manatees are slow moving, non-aggressive, and curious creatures, hence their nick name, the 'sea cow.'

look how cute!

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