rainy season

these days, i am taking lots of photos from indoors in lieu of trips to the gym. i'm due at work in a few hours, and i would much rather stay in bed and listen to the rain. one of my favorite ways to pass the time!

happy birthday grandpa

i love you very much!

6 weeks till...

i missed mardi gras again this year and the only thing keeping me from plummeting in to a seething depression is knowing that i will be going to new orleans soon. soon my precious.

2008 recap

i'm sorry i bailed on my beloved bloggy at the tail-end of 2008, especially since quite a bit happened that i would've liked to commemorate. here's a quick run through of some highlights:

above// shooting eat pray whatever in my bedroom. i was sooo tickled that we got to use a print i brought back from hammerpress in kansas city.

brenda's introduced a new breakfast item!

xmas in santa cruz.

my growing pyrex collection, thanks to carol sue!

a stroll down memory lane thanks to my oma. yeah, that's my dad. there were many drum casualties when i was growing up.

the view from our suite at the fairmont hotel on new years eve.

it was looking down at the financial district (one of my least favorite parts of the city) that i was unexpectedly overwhelmed w/ nostalgia and decided to spend my birthday at the punchline which is right next to the pyramid.

drunk people on nye, always funny.

i turned 29 on january 14th.

ted gave me a great present for my birthday: a framed picture of hisself from when he was little.

so, guess what

you may or may not have heard that several months ago, i decided "duh, i wanna make films." as i posted last october, my pitch to scary cow for eat pray whatever went swimmingly and long story short, it was shot, chopped, and just recently screened at the castro theater!!

and that's not all. oh, no. it was one of five projects in competition chosen for phase two status. what does that mean? it means my next film can be any length i want. it means that i will have access to a modest budget. it means that i am special.

what are the critics saying? a stranger told me that my performance was "mesmerizing." i'm taking that one to the grave.

i missed you

hey guys.

101

i have been waiting for four years to elect this man.

four years ago tonight, my stomach fell as i watched the results come in in favor of bush's reelection. i believed that kerry had picked up enough momentum and that the record amount of new voters was indicative of a new direction for this country.

feeling completely crushed, all i could do was passively watch the election coverage as it broke. in other national news that night, there was a lot of excitement in illinois regarding a newly elected senator named barack obama. exceptionally charming and intelligent, talking heads were already positing that barack might run in 2008 for president of the united states, but he was quick to dismiss the idea.

this entry marks my 101st post and i find it hugely fitting that it be about this momentous occasion. this is the 1st entry of the next 100 just as tomorrow is the first day of the next four years. for the first time in my short voting career, i can't wait to wake up tomorrow morning.

barack is giving his speech right now, and he is killing it.

pom-pom-athon

last night, i made pompoms for hours while watching dances with wolves. in addition to writing and producing my first short film this season, i am also making costumes for my friend maria's short the notes in the hat, a little love story about a waiter and a mime. i'll be sourcing a lot of the mime's clothing from goodwill, including a white baby doll dress that i plan to festoon with these lush red pompoms.

covetous

i had been eyeing these ranunculas in the gallery all week, and guess who got to bring them home!

press!

wha?! jenny at ciuccio was so kind to give me the heads up that one of my paintings was used in a storque article on etsy today! omg, guys. omg.

buzz

maybe this is news to you: i joined a film co-op earlier this month called scary cow. sunday was our pitch meeting, wherein all members gather to listen to pitches and then sidle up to whichever project they want to work on.

i pitched Eat Pray Whatever, a short about three friends who get distracted at an outlet mall on their way to an ashram. i received an amazing response and i am in the process of firming up my crew roster. we'll make it over the next few months and it will show at scary cow's second anniversary screening at the castro theater. you better be there!

miette

it had been a while since i'd visited miette in hayes valley, so i wandered over on my lunch break saturday to see what's new and lo, gummy alphabet! being a totally obsessive compulsive snacker, i loved spelling out as many words as i could with the random letters i was given. "quasi plum" was about the best i could do.

don't come back

nathan and i can't stand our building managers, and as you can tell from this photo, we're not alone. lucky us, kgb is out of town through the end of october. we might actually be able to drink beer on the back patio. and leave our windows open while we're at work.

many mondays

i've missed you, too.

last day

on my last day home, rick and i surveyed my parents' yard and started cooking up gardening ideas. our neighbor has a pomegranate tree and a mango tree that both have limbs that flirt with our property. i gathered ripe mangoes from the ground in our backyard. they are small and yellow and taste delicious.