Yesterday night, I stayed up until 2am organizing a list of donor and student recipients, by alpha order and match and checking email and updating our RSVP list so that I wouldn't be freaking out today in the morning to be ready for our event and I just felt the need to complete this so that I could have numbers for my boss to give for catering. I ( Read more... )

In January I started a special topics winter-course offered through our anthropology department.

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Confession: I have loved Ms. Annie Clark since she entered my music library and experience by chance on myspace in 2006 and then booking a roadtrip with friends to Minneapolis to see her shortly after.

This video teases good intellectual and visual buttons for me -- issues with space, the gaze, object, power, identity. I like the feel of her recent ( Read more... )

It would cool and efficient and amazing if... If only we had an eco-friendly, compact washer and dryer, a greenhouse to grow a variety of  flowers for our centrepieces, a mini on-the-go printer, gorgeous paper of all types, partnerships with local farmers and artisans for catering and gifts...

Work is fun, really busy, long hours, intense, and ( Read more... )

Lately it's taken me far much longer to write and articulate something than it usually does. I want to say alot more, but this is what I've managed to make reference to. My thought processes are rather disjointed, it is probably because I have been out of touch and not writing. This was a posting for an online class, which I wish I had been able to ( Read more... )

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MARK MY WORD: INKED
Last Friday, I stopped thinking and talking about getting a tattoo -- there was just do.

I got inked by a tattoo artist I'd met through our mutual friend, Vicky. Vernon imagines cybernetic creatures and he's into realism. He makes cool robotic sculptures out of found gears and things and he has mad technical drawing skills. He ( Read more... )

I am very attracted to this! Walls become doors and other walls or a bed or wine or a tub or a projection screen or and or and and and

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Writing as a little girl who loves to read booksDear Mister Jones ( Read more... )

FOR THE LOVE: IN BOXES, BAGS, AND ALPHABETICAL SEQUENTIAL ORDER OF SORTSGenerally, people do not go home after work feeling incredibly motivated and the urge to clean the entire house. Thoroughly. This was how I spent my Wednesday evening and most of Thursday-- I am talking about windex, dusting, vaccuuming. Ironing a few of my shirts; taking my ( Read more... )