It has come to my attention that some comments made on my July 14th entry may have been misinterpreted. “Chins” was referring to the Ch’in Dynasty (or “Qin” in pinyin), not the racial slur “chink.” Death by a thousand cuts, otherwise known as “slow-slicing” was a torture method invented in China and used during the […]
Is anybody out there?
An interesting thing happened yesterday. About once or twice a day I’ll get a notice that someone has registered on my blog. Now, the vast vast majority of the time these are spam-bots that have figured out how to register (they are getting smarter all the time). I then have to go in and delete […]
dendrites that wasted their lives
lime gatoraide H&M tea travelling the beach Northern California Shanghai karaoke watermelon counting crows crowds in public cooking Honda S2000 bollywood movies persian/indian music the smell of sun-dried sheets pinkberry ramenya (even though it is now closed by the LA health department due to “vermin”) udon gelato strawberry milk pickles purple bell flowers rosemary lavender […]
earthquake!
We just had a fairly major (i.e. I felt it this time) earthquake! This is the first one in over a year – but this was way more exciting. Early reports are saying this was a 5.8. I hope nothing fell over at my house! the earth is still shaking slowly and gently now as […]
single
This was interesting.
Things do come in threes
Yesterday I went to the doctor for my “final” appointment. I had taken (yet another) blood test on Tuesday to check my thyroid hormone levels. After waiting for an hour the doctor finally came in and asked me why I was there. After explaining my case again… and explaining that HE had wanted me to […]
something in the air
Was there a national angry young women’s conference somewhere a few weeks/months ago? Everyone is getting dumped! Justin is all broken up about his recent girlfriend and their falling out. Ironically this happened a few weeks ago and Beverly was giving him “relationship advise” at the time. I feel pretty bad for him as I […]
meet in the middle
Rocking Out
Sunday morning Justin and I set out for Malibu Creek State Park. When we arrived around 10am the fog was still heavy on the mountains. As we walked into the park we went through hills of yellow (burnt) weeds. In front of us we could see the tree covered mountains with random outcroppings of scraggly […]
Saturday was a lonely one.
I made all the usual calls, but everyone was out of town, busy or just not answering. I thought about going to see Batman, but all the showings were sold out at every theater (Jesus, it isn’t THAT good, is it?) in the metro Los Angeles area. Left with little options I decided to go […]