What an awful day! It started simply enough, right: "Oh, I should go donate blood. Let's get up and do that, yup yup!" I eat some oatmeal around 9 because that's all we have left in the pantry, bus over to Masonic & Turk, donate hella A positive blood, and have a chat with a neat old lady who was convinced I am creative because I am left-handed. I ( Read more... )

I am staring at my Japan journal. It is staring back at me best as an inanimate object without even eyes painted on it can stare at an animate girl (mostly animate, anyway). I am intimidated. If a red moleskine can glare then goddamnit it is glaring ( Read more... )

In planning my solo trip to Japan (so soon! so apprehensive!), I've come across a curious custom. I know, I know, how surprising. But you guys, really, it's the best. I've been calling hostels through Skype because a lot of the hostels I want to stay at don't have a website or email, and invariably when they pick up and I ask "Eigo o hanashimasuka ( Read more... )

Lately I have been tryin' to teach myself how to draw comics! It's hard ( Read more... )

Then it's time for another installment of "Kate drinks wine alone in her room after work!"
I love this stupid city a thousand different ways. Suck eggs, world.

I'm feelin' a little shitty! Or worried, or, fuck. I don't know. I was headed back to the shop from a delivery around, what, 6? As I was cruising down Market from 7th and coming up on the intersection of Market, Hayes and Larkin, I found that the right turn onto Hayes and Larkin was entirely blocked off with police tape. Loitering about were a glut ( Read more... )

I was showering this evening and had a sudden feeling of "Oh no oh no oh no" that came from nowhere. Or, well, it must have come from somewhere, but it snuck up from behind and frightened me so badly that I became motivated enough to scrub every surface in the bathroom. Let me tell you, there were a surprising amount of rusty hairpins hidden in ( Read more... )

Oh no, I'm drowning! Look at all this rain, will yah.

Right now I am in Portland! There is snow.

That post I made earlier about how psyched I am on life is pretty funny because right now I am full of The Rage. Life is still excellent, but: The Rage ( Read more... )