Better Today

…But ate almost as much.  Leftovers, fries, ramen-esque soup, frozen (gluten free) waffles, etc.  I think I just go through phases where I’m completely insatiable.  Looking forward to dinner (still to come) with Team Wimmer tonight.  In addition to catching up with them for the first time in months, I get to meet their dog [...]

Ugh

All I feel like doing today is eating. I’ve made myself roasted root vegetables (carrot, parsnip, yam, and yukon gold potato) and a baigan bharta-like eggplant concoction. I’m not even hungry at the moment, and have dinner plans in about an hour. I don’t know what my problem is.
I’m feeling a little [...]

The Ballad of Esequiel Hernandez

Last night was a big event — the documentary my friend Shane has been working on was shown for the first time in Denver at the Denver Film Festival. The Ballad of Esequiel Hernandez is about a May 1997 incident in which an 18-year-old American high school student was fatally shot near the U.S.-Mexico [...]

Los Angeles

It’s so huge. You drive and drive and drive, never leaving city-looking spaces, never arriving at its edge, unless you’re heading towards the ocean. I’ve been here a few times before to visit family, and as a child, but this trip has been different — we’ve driven through different parts of the city, [...]

Nostalgia for Tiny, Pretty Things

Like many jobs, mine didn’t exist twenty years ago.  In most institutions, it didn’t exist ten years ago, and in some institutions, it still doesn’t.  The other day I got a call from a research firm working for the Federal Government on updating O*Net, this pretty cool little database of jobs and their duties.  They’re [...]

Domesticity and its Discontents

I’m in a total Chipotle rut.  I’ve eaten it something like once every three days in the past month.  I do change it up — I alternate meats (carnitas, chicken, and the occasional steak or veggie), and I alternate tacos, salads, and bols.  And my neighborhood Chipotle is using brown rice now, which rocks my [...]

Following Up

Two things:
Yesterday I posted about Maira Kalman’s book, The Principles of Uncertainty.   Today I found (via ~>O<~) part of a documentary about Maira.  I like the part in the beginning where the guy says, “She’s this woman who doesn’t know how to paint and draw, and yet she paints and draws amazingly.”
Also, the Natalie [...]

Books I Want to Read

1.) The Principles of Uncertainty by Maira Kalman
 
2.) Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House by Valerie Plame
(I wanted to put a picture here of how much of her writing has been blacked out by CIA censors, but couldn’t find an image.  I think it’s fabulous that they left [...]

Year Salvador Dalí Died: 1989

Year Salvador Dalí created his most famous work, The Persistence of Memory: 1931.

This means that he lived for 58 years after he created the work by which we know him best.  And he created art until 1983, which means that post-Persistence of Memory, Dalí created art for my lifetime x 2.  Wow.
Yesterday Tom and I [...]

Alligator Sightings: 0

We looked, but did not find any alligators on Sanibel or Captiva islands yesterday…
 
But we did have to stop the car for a tortoise:

He was actually making decent time, so we weren’t stopped for too long.  I could have done without the walk through the nature preserve (it was about four miles, and totally flat [...]