jayne

or not.

I’m “moving” again! I don’t know why, I just am. But I think I’ll actually be at the new one for a while seeing as how I actually spent the $8/year on the silly domain name.

there’s even a new post there already! not much else, but yeah. This is where I am now:

zephyrbunny.com

yep.

So, the burger fun time last night went relatively well. I mean, sure I set off the fire alarm 3 times and still undercooked the meat… But everyone is still alive today, so that’s good. I dunno, I’ve never made them before but it was kinda fun. I may be quasi-anti-social most of the time, but I still like having people over, at least in small-ish groups. I may say I wish there were more people to have over, but I like not being anxious.* The candy poker went pretty well too. I ended up pretty much accidentally winning all the cookies and only eating one.

and just cause I don’t feel like starting homework yet, things to look forward to this month:

-getting paid, from like 4 different people.
-camping this weekend w/ The Hales**
-dinner sunday night w/ my folks.
-school being out in 2 weeks!
-tango next friday
-New Pornographers the 22nd

My weekends are like little rewards for getting through the week.

*Apparently I’ve been misusing the word anxious for most of my life.

**Should be pretty cool. I’m a little nervous about the whole thing, but I think it’ll be fun.

oof. I am ridiculously full. There’s this place about a block from my home, the Portage Bay Cafe that has the yummiest breafast/brunches. It’s a little pricey, but well worth it. All their stuff is organic and good, and they have some interesting specials and stuff. I think I’m allowed to have at least 1 good real breakfast (even if it’s for lunch) a week. I have this strange urge to put together a Guide to Seattle type of thing. Or at least a guide to Seattle food. I don’t know why, I don’t really know that much about Seattle. I guess I just want to share my love for various places. I finally checked out the Ugly Mug cafe too. They’re a really cute little place. It feels like I’m in someone’s living room when I’m in there. It’s mostly espresso type stuff but also some interesting sandwiches and soup and stuff.

Hmm… Maybe I should make a Seattle food blog. I guess there’s already tastingmenu but I don’t like that one, and I think it’d be nice to have a sort of little guide to tasty places. It’d the be my first non-personal blog, and one that other people could actually write with me, if they wanted. I don’t know, good meals make me happy, and I guess I’ve grown up in a pretty food-centric family. I guess it’s pretty universal though, cause I mean, everyone has to eat. Plus, it’d give me an excuse to actually go on my Quest for Good Seattle Pizza.

Also, I think the Tango is one of my new favorite dances, cause it doesn’t have any set steps to remember. You just sorta wing it. It’s a little frustrating how dances like Salsa and Tango (and maybe most others) are all led by the guys. I suppose it would be pretty confusing if you were constantly switching though.

Oh, and The Goonies @ the Fremont Outdoor Movies was cool. It’s such a nice silly movie.

Time for insomniactic rambles. Fun. My body is exhausted but my brain won’t go to sleep, which is frustrating cause I have to wake up early. My room is fantastic, but not very sound (or light) proof at all. The street lights light my room at night and sometimes the sounds from outside my room drive me crazy. I end up turning on my music just to drown out the other stuff. I don’t know how adding more sound is suppose to help me go to sleep. Maybe it’s just the fact that all the other sounds are not quite distinct enough or something.

Only 2.5 more weeks to go! I like having plans for the next three weekends, it gives me things to look forward to at the end of my week. In my tossing and turning my brain keeps repeating things to me. Things like how awesome it will be to spend September drawing. And to have 3 day weekends all next quarter. Theoretically, it should make life better, although it’s already pretty good as is…

Aside from being tired half the time I’m awake. This drives me crazy cause it doesn’t seem quite fair. I think my body is just demanding. I mean, I let it lay around for hours (maybe 6-7 a day…) and it still just wants to just lay around when I’m suppose to be using it to be productive. And I feel bad when I’m hanging out with people trying to be social but all I really want to do is sleep cause it makes me feel like a drag to be around or something.

Also, I’m working on making my 43 Things. So far, I’ve only got 4 cause it’s late and I’m tired. But tomorrow will be a day of goal making. I put learning japanese on there even though I’m kind of in the process cause it’s something I’ve been wanting to do for years, and I think after this quarter, I should have mastered it enough to be able to check that off.

Yay! Seattle Weekly’s “Best of” edition came out today, with illustrations by yours truly. I didn’t realize it was going to be such a huge feature/special thing. Makes me wish I made something cooler. This was probably one of the easiest (and least interesting) illos I’ve ever done, but they wanted something really simple and I’m still getting paid for it. They ended up using the line version like all over the place.

It’s pretty crazy, cause I feel almost legit or something just cause I’m actually listed in the credits. I wish I could make a real living off illustrating, as oppose to just getting random jobs sporadically. I suppose it’d help if I was actively looking for “gigs” and stuff.

Anyways, it just makes me happy knowing something I made is all over Seattle, cause I’m narcisisstic like that I guess.

Oh, Flickr, how I love you. Your new interestingness feature is so sexy. You never cease to amaze me. Just when I think you’ve made looking at pictures from strangers as awesome as possible, you go and make it extra awesome. Being able to look at awesome pictures from any day, say June 4th 2005, and finding hundreds of cool pics makes me so happy. It’s way cooler than that “this day in history” stuff. Is it weird to be so in love with an online photo sharing service? Probably, but I don’t care. Flickr, you’re just so damn sexy.

If I could have Flickr’s love child, I would. Although I’m not really sure what kind of child that would end up being…

Making fires is fun. I wanted so badly to burn my horrible Japanese book, but alas, I still have to use it for the next 3 weeks.

The Presidents of the United States of America @ the Capitol Hill Block Party was pretty cool. It’s a little weird for me cause they were the first CD I actually bought and the first “modern rock”* band I was into. But that was like 5th grade… like 10 years ago.** I never really followed them after that first album cause they broke up and all. I thought they had pretty much disappeared, but I get to Seattle and find they’re still playing and people still actually like them. I don’t really listen to them much anymore, but it was nice being able to remember the words to all their old songs. It seemed like most of the people there were more familiar with the old stuff anyways, which seems kinda backwards for some reason. I dunno, but it was nice summer saturday fun.

* I don’t know, i really don’t like the term modern rock, mostly cause I don’t know what it applies to anymore. I don’t know what to call things. I just use it here in contrast to the stuff I listened to before 5th grade. Disney soundtracks, Country music (it was a phase), the Soft Rock (102.5!) my mom listened to in the car, and my dad’s stuff, mostly from the 50’s. And then there was the stuff my siblings/cousins were into: U2, Depeche Mode, Duran Duran, New Order.

** But this is also when my second favorite song was Coolio’s Gangsta’s Paradise. Hmm. Maybe this is why I’m still so gangsta.

Spandy, my beloved iPod, is dying… It makes me sad cause she’s not even a year old yet. But at the same time I’m glad she’s not quite a year old cause it means she’s still under warranty. I guess she hasn’t really been feeling well for a couple of months now… I’m gonna take her to the Genius Bar tomorrow. Maybe they can save/replace her.

For a while, I thought one of my gerbils was dying cause it looked like his face was coming apart ( the fur on his nose area was all rubbed away ) and his nose looked bloody. But I figured out he was just allergic to his home. Apparently some gerbils are allergic to pine and their snot looks like blood. But yeah, now his face is coming back. So… maybe Spandy’s having an allergic reaction to something too.

It seems like lately I’m making way more choices than usual, and it seems that I conciously choose to make bad choices, constantly. I guess it’s my “feeling > reasoning” mindset. Not like inherently “bad” choices, but things that make me feel guilty about afterwards. Like when things I should be doing are constantly being trumped by things I feel like doing. But at the same time I don’t think I’m doing enough of what I want to be doing. I guess the scapegoat is Japanese class, but I dunno, maybe it’s just cause I’m crazy and my priorities are messed up. I wish this was more coherent, but I’m getting sleepy…

Although, in other news, it seems that this is the month for people wanting me to do freelance-type stuff for them. Kind of weird, cause I’m not actively looking for any extra work… people just keep offering it to me, which is cool. I guess that’s a good sign.

I think Riley would be proud of me. This past weekend, 3 movies in 3 days, that’s pretty intense. So.. Review time:

The Interpreter was… slow and pretty predicable even though the premise was something fairly original. But I suppose I have a fairly limited knowledge of / interest in international relations. I also have a hard time believing Nicole Kidman is part of the South African rebel force or whatever.

Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, however, was terribly funny…in that cheezy b-movie kind of way, especially with Jet City Improv was doing voice overs for it and all. Pretty sweet. Fremont outdoor movies are pretty cool, although next time I’ll have to remember to bring blankets.

Last Days was also slow. Like REALLY slow. I liked how it was sort of… circular… in parts, like they’d show one part following one person, and then going back to show other people doing there thing up to that part so it sorta comes together from different sides. But several parts dragged on way longer than they should have, while parts that I wouldn’t have minded being longer (mainly, the M4M lovin) were cut short. My attention span made it difficult to sit through, although I guess the jackass that got up and started making a ruckus about the movie was kind of amusing.

But it was a nice weekend though. I heart riding my bike and having a good reason for being up till 5am.

wotd fun time: partner work full of badinage regales me and assuages the intensity of the class.

Oh man. I have been thinking about toasted ravioli all damn day. Like, since about 9:30 this morning. Actually I’ve been thinking about them for years, at least 5. Cause those 4 years of being veggie I couldn’t eat them and being in Seattle now makes it hard to find them. I don’t know why I was craving them especially bad today, but I just HAD to have some TODAY. So I made some. I swear the words “toasted ravioli” went through my head at least 100 times today, 50 of those probably on my way to Safeway to get the breadcrumb stuff. I’ve never made them before and was pleasantly suprised they turned out pretty yummy. I guess they don’t look that good in the picture, but trust me.. 5 years of toasted ravioli abstinence made all 12 of them awesome. I’m guessing they’re pretty bad for you, cause even though they’re called “toasted” they’re really fried. I feel like such a Southerner, frying my pasta. But yeah, I was so proud of them I called my mom to tell her (and devoted an entire post to them, apparently). They were a good way to chase away my school related ennui.