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[Nov. 2nd, 2009|06:19 pm] |
hey! i think i'm going to make a comic! it will be set at my grandparent's cabin when i was about 10? it'll feature my cousin ashley and me, and possibly the egyptian god anubis. |
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| introducing... |
[Oct. 11th, 2009|10:31 pm] |
jefferson and i now have a kitty! she likes to rub her face all over yours, and likes it when you rub her tummy. and the shoulders! she loves the shoulders. her official name is not official yet but the current front runner may be yui in honor of yui tezuka. we'd have to get her a red collar, of course. it looks like we may go with maki macoco as far as a name goes, to honor her lemur-like appearance. plus, it is fun to say.
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| furry baby |
[Sep. 28th, 2009|10:48 pm] |
jefferson and i are planning on adopting a furry kitty baby at some point in the near future. ARE YOU SO PUMPED?!! i am pretty pumped and hope it will like me and not poop on our pillows.
in other news: we just got back from an amazing trip to california and i wish we were still there. we got to spend some time around my town and jeff's town and our town, all of which felt satisfying but also none of which felt like quite enough. hrmmmm...
one of my favorite nights was skating. my brother set up some awesome skating. i wore some hybrid skates since they were the newest thing the rink had [and thus the blades were in the best shape] and OH BOY!!!! do i want a pair of those! i could skate all fast-like and then to stop or change directions i could go into a tight turn of no less than four rotations and then be on my way. i could get used to that! another skating bonus? we got this year's christmas card photo taken!
how adorable is this guy's face!!! awwwwwww, my heart hurts! and we're gonna have a kitty! |
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| dream |
[Aug. 26th, 2009|08:06 am] |
at first it felt like i was sneaking through this old shopping mall, climbing these columns and finding this dusty, abandoned market on the second level. there was a brand new payless on the first level that a crowd was standing around, but other than that it was just me and some guards that i was trying to hide from. and it was mostly outside even though it was a mall? i'm not sure when, but at some point it changed from me sneaking around and exploring, to a site visit with my office. i guess we were doing an apartment renovation in this old mall. the site visit took all day and then we traveled back to this crazy office that is not our office in real life and ben was standing in the lobby with a little girl who was supposed to be his niece; i think there was some kind of daycare in the building. i invited them both to come mini golfing but the little girl showed me a bruise hidden under her hair and told me she was afraid of golfing because a horse had kicked her in the head earlier that day so we took a ten minute nap. i bid them farewell and went across the street to a large central park-like park. jefferson was waiting for me somewhere in the park, but his phone was dead so i had to comb the park on foot to find him. it was filled with people protesting golf, though, so i had to dodge all of their protest signage as i ran around trying to collect my jeffers.
oh! the best part? the apartment renovation in that mall was for dave and hannah. at one point i was on the phone with dave discussing the location of a wall-mounted toilet in a bathroom for hannah. it was hannah's bathroom because there was a small door at the back that led to another small room for her to do yoga in. the traffic from the street was really loud, however, and she was saving up $2,000 to renovate it and add soundproofing after we were done renovating it. i asked dave if he just wanted us to do it, but he screamed, "that is not the order of things!" into the phone. |
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| dream |
[Aug. 25th, 2009|09:29 am] |
last night i had a dream jeff and i were fighting these twin starscream transformers in a very video game environment. jeff was providing cover fire, and i was flipping over their heads, shooting at the back of the neck [weak point] but no matter how many times i hit them they wouldn't die. i started to cry and and screamed, "i just want to get to the next level so i can make some burgers!" because i guess the next level had a bunch of conveyor belts with burgers on them... that you had to prepare quickly?
anyway, one of the starscreams stopped and was all, "oh! i have that app on my iPhone. want to play it?" i got really excited and thanked him but it turned out i couldn't actually play because he hadn't updated to version H.0--the version that allows humans to interface with iPhones owned by transformers--and then we were both bummed and he apologized. something else happened somewhere else in the dream and i eventually ended up scarfing down munster cheese in the kitchen while trying to pack enough of it to make a cheese sandwich for lunch at work. then i woke up. |
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| ultimate cure |
[Aug. 14th, 2009|07:31 pm] |
so, jefferson has this cure for the hiccups that involves taking a deep breath and then chugging water continuously for like, five minutes. i can only consume beverages in sips, so his method never works for me. alas, when i get the hiccups i have to ride it out... THAT IS, UNTIL I DISCOVERED THE ULTIMATE CURE while at work today. thank you random website. the best part: no props needed! you can do it anywhere, whenever the hiccups strike! you just inhale until you can't anymore, swallow, inhale a little bit more, swallow, inhale a little bit more, swallow... etc. until you can't swallow, and then exhale. totally works! true story... |
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| surrogate twitter |
[Aug. 11th, 2009|08:53 pm] |
garageband is the new photoshop. |
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| catsitting |
[Aug. 8th, 2009|05:12 pm] |
 we did it! orange survived the reign of jeff+laura by eating a lot of plastic and occasionally a foot here and there.
it was nice taking a different train to work in the morning. oh, how nice it would be to live in a different location but with our same apartment! ... someday. and someday we will get one of those cat things! |
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| project quetzalcoatl |
[Aug. 1st, 2009|12:19 pm] |
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| genesis: 2012 |
[Jul. 27th, 2009|11:03 pm] |
first i let jillian michaels kick my ass again because i didn't want that first time to go to waste. then i had some dinner and eventually started playing with illustrator and have this so far:
not perfect, but a small start! |
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| booyah |
[Jul. 24th, 2009|11:23 pm] |
it is so gooooooood... |
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| oma omg |
[Jul. 24th, 2009|09:16 pm] |
just saw renderings for a new oma building in bangkok. good ole krung thep already has the best airplane landing/takeoff view i've ever seen and this could be really rad. AND it is scheduled to finish in 2012!!! HOW APPROPRIATE, it hurts. i don't disagree this is ridiculous, but it is such a good kind of ridiculous i can't help but like it. i want to do stuff like that.
i started listening to coconut records [jason schwartzman] today. i really like "west coast". i think it'll be the anthem leading up to the september trip. hopefully there will be a california to go back to... poor california.
in other news, i'm not going to lie... jillian michaels just kicked my ass. i'm going to make some chocolate chip cookies to make up for it. RIGHT NOW. |
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| movie review extravaganza |
[Jul. 21st, 2009|11:12 pm] |
first up: twin peaks: fire walk with me
twin peaks the series = awesome
[you forgive the parts that jump the shark because the rest is so great]
twin peaks the movie = wtf? mark, what happened to david lynch's babysitter he should not be left alone
[also, the whole premise is kind of lame]
if you're a twin peaks fan i wouldn't say you shouldn't watch the movie because after watching the series you just have to, but i would warn you not to go into it with any expectations. jefferson put it this way: laura is interesting as a concept but loses a lot of her intrigue when alive on the screen. without the mystery she's kind of flat [i'm not commenting on the acting or anything--just the character in general]. cooper is the protagonist and laura is the mystery but the movie kind of tries to flip that and it kills everything that makes the show enjoyable. peeps are all just crazy and weird. and you already know who the killer is so it isn't even suspenseful.
p.s. what happened to donna? the cutting edge chick is cool though. i laughed when she downed the shot just like she does in the cutting edge.
note: david duchovny is not in the movie, just the show.
secondly: transformers: rise of the fallen
transformers two is basically about explosions, megan fox being hot, robot sounds, and the pressure that comes with telling someone you love them [in that order]. it was enjoyable with some cringe-inducing moments. i'm going to say i like it more than the first installment because it was way more about the action than humans just standing around talking. and it had shia freaking out during an anstronomy lecture in a way that was so amazing i cannot comprehend how he pulled it off. i feel like the autobots weren't really fleshed out much more, but the decepticons got some decent screen time which was nice. i really like the panther guy with the turret on his butt. |
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| scott pilgrimage II |
[Jul. 18th, 2009|04:57 pm] |
(pictures to follow once i reinstall photoshop on this new guy)
a lot has happened since that iTouch post down there. A LOT. like, i got an iTouch like i threatened to do and so far it has been one of my favorite purchases. i didn't get it for music, because i already have a non apple little mp3 player guy that i am happy with; i got it for everything else. it came in handy on our* recent trip to toronto to visit karl. i was able to take care of business [i.e. work-related time sensitive emailing] ON THE BUS. MEGABUS!!! luckily the bus had wifi. anyway, props to apple for the iTouch.
i've seen some great shows this summer so far. plus, one bad one where dan friel lied about three different pieces of information AND he only gave jefferson+me three pieces of information total, so at least he is consistent. one of the great ones was a free show at prospect park where blonde redhead tore it up with lightning all around in the distant sky during a pause in the otherwise constant rain of june. we also just saw man man in toronto at lee's palace [scott p, represent!] and that was also amazing and included some banana hijinx.
the toronto trip was really nice in general. a good balance of exploring the city/scott pilgrim locations and hanging out with karl's legit canadian friends [plus some american expatriates]. we went to a bbq at a place with a swimming pool the first night we were there and everyone went swimming in their underwear [it was less crazy than it sounds] and then the next night we went to a bbq at a different place and played telephone pictonary [my new most favorite game ever and it WAS crazier than it sounds]. the architectural highlight of the trip was hanging out at artscape wychwood barns. i haven't been that excited about architecture since... i don't know, but it's been a while. probably the roadtrip to new york. if you're ever in toronto, i highly recommend checking it out.
*me, jefferson, and justin |
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| OMG technology |
[Jul. 7th, 2009|09:16 pm] |
Oh shit! Posting from an iPod!!!!$&@?'
It is not mine.
YET!!! |
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| lunch time story |
[Jun. 18th, 2009|02:50 pm] |
this morning when i went over to the bed to wake up jefferson he opened his eyes and blurted out, "no." then he asked if i had said anything. i hadn't. he explained that he was talking about a caterpillar. "not a regular caterpillar, but a mailbox."
ten minutes later he reasoned that dreamtime laura had just asked him if he knew what had happened to our mailbox that looked like a caterpillar. obviously. |
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| lunch time discovery |
[Jun. 17th, 2009|01:25 pm] |
today, via WolframAlpha, i discovered i share a birthday with maya lin. also, she will be turning 50 this year. i think she'd probably be pretty cool to work for, but i listened to an interview where she admitted to listening to nothing but the garden state soundtrack for like two months back when that was the happenin' thing to do so i'm glad that's out of her system.
dear maya,
my name is laura and i think i'd enjoy working for[with] you. i'd like to help give birth to some of your egg ideas. qualifications: bArch, i currently reside in new york, plus we share the same birthday. thank you for your consideration and i look forward to hearing from you soon.
best,
laura |
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| flier by dave |
[May. 20th, 2009|04:42 pm] |
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| the game |
[May. 4th, 2009|04:27 pm] |
uhhh... what happened to photo of the week? i guess momentile is just easier. but that has also kind of fizzled out. computers are sort of lame once i've left work. anyway, i only work three days a week now for a T.B.D. amount of time. [yeah!!!] so hopefully i can get my act together. i'd like to start watercoloring again. also, i'd like to become interested in stuff again.
oh, meat pallet just won a competition. we're gonna build a hole of miniature golf at a nine hole "putting lot" in bushwick.
the reason i started this post: i just saw these new archinect hatch t-shirts and i think they're awesome.
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| phone photo of the week |
[Feb. 8th, 2009|03:24 pm] |
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