slingin hash and makin eggs

Tuesday, July 31, 2007

a certain someone has always liked scooters...


Monday, July 30, 2007

double sniffle

in today's mail there was a wedding card from my cousin's peter and michelle....but all of the cousins on my mom's side had signed it (i had only invited p&m to the wedding, so i thought it was so sweet that everyone else sent their wishes too!) plus, they all pitched in and sent us a check. *sniffle*

and then tommy sent this to me from his phone, on his way home:





double *SOB*!

Friday, July 27, 2007

thanks elyse for the super cool website!

we feel fine.

Mission

We Feel Fine is an exploration of human emotion on a global scale.

Since August 2005, We Feel Fine has been harvesting human feelings from a large number of weblogs. Every few minutes, the system searches the world's newly posted blog entries for occurrences of the phrases "I feel" and "I am feeling". When it finds such a phrase, it records the full sentence, up to the period, and identifies the "feeling" expressed in that sentence (e.g. sad, happy, depressed, etc.). Because blogs are structured in largely standard ways, the age, gender, and geographical location of the author can often be extracted and saved along with the sentence, as can the local weather conditions at the time the sentence was written. All of this information is saved.

The result is a database of several million human feelings, increasing by 15,000 - 20,000 new feelings per day. Using a series of playful interfaces, the feelings can be searched and sorted across a number of demographic slices, offering responses to specific questions like: do Europeans feel sad more often than Americans? Do women feel fat more often than men? Does rainy weather affect how we feel? What are the most representative feelings of female New Yorkers in their 20s? What do people feel right now in Baghdad? What were people feeling on Valentine's Day? Which are the happiest cities in the world? The saddest? And so on.

The interface to this data is a self-organizing particle system, where each particle represents a single feeling posted by a single individual. The particles' properties – color, size, shape, opacity – indicate the nature of the feeling inside, and any particle can be clicked to reveal the full sentence or photograph it contains. The particles careen wildly around the screen until asked to self-organize along any number of axes, expressing various pictures of human emotion. We Feel Fine paints these pictures in six formal movements titled: Madness, Murmurs, Montage, Mobs, Metrics, and Mounds.

At its core, We Feel Fine is an artwork authored by everyone. It will grow and change as we grow and change, reflecting what's on our blogs, what's in our hearts, what's in our minds. We hope it makes the world seem a little smaller, and we hope it helps people see beauty in the everyday ups and downs of life.

- Jonathan Harris & Sepandar Kamvar
May 2006

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

public service announcement

i hafta apologize in advance.....i'm not going to be around much for the next month.
it's unfortunate, becuase i reeeaaallllly need my friends right now, but tom and i are realizing just how much time it takes to get all the last minute wedding stuff done....so this is our last pull, our final stretch. please keep calling me and asking me to do stuff even if i can't. i need to feel wanted by y'all still, i just can't be as present of a friend as i would like. i should prolly have this conversation face to face with the nearest and dearest, but i figured a blog post was a good start.
anyway, i love all, and i need you. thank you for being there for me.

and other things....
l.a. was exhausting. it was fun and dramatic and i stayed up late and puked three times outside of spaceland(not from drinking, but from panic??) and i bonded with most of the girls and i had some great conversations and did lots of dancing. i need a break from fake eyelashes.
moustachio
more pics.

Wednesday, July 18, 2007

on crying and opera news

i cry a lot. it feels good. sometimes i cry in public. i had a crying fit (well, not a 'fit' really, more of a 'spell') on monday.
i went to the gyno to get a colposcopy.
i also got a biopsy....there were a few complications with that and so the doc was fiddling around up there for a long time. anyway, i went out to the receptionist to make a follow-up appointment, and felt really dizzy and hot, like i was going to pass out. i sat down in a nearby chair, and felt pain in my tummy. i started to cry, and i had a hard time stopping. i was a little amazed that the three other women in the waiting room didn't look up from their magazines to ask if i was ok. neither did the receptionist. how sad! i suppose some people would feel like saying anything would be intruding? anyway, i felt better after several minutes, and left.
i will of course let my friends know the results of the biopsy when i know!
being a girl is hard! ;)
/end solemn post

also, there have been some changes with the rock opera...changes i am psyched about.
unfortunately the venue we were going to be performing in has been sold, so now it looks like we'll be focusing more on the music and just doing the show in clubs. i think the music is the strongest part anyway, so bully for us! this also take a lot of the stress out of it, not having to put choreography on the remainder of the pieces....and, i still get to hang out with these cool people once a week and sing my heart out!
yay!

Monday, July 16, 2007

this weekend, i....

was at the metreon, TWICE
bought my wedding ring
returned my wedding necklace
saw harry potter (thumbs up)
ate at the cheesecake factory for the first time
crossed railroad tracks by foot
saw transformers (thumbs down)
cried
planned the wedding ceremony with tom

Saturday, July 14, 2007

inconceivable!


princess bride turns 20! linkie

via digg


also, this made me laugh til i cried last night (on the soup):

Friday, July 13, 2007

also, my * current * gmail status explained ("maybe i came on too strong")

too hot for pot(ter)

instead of enjoying the beautiful sunshine today...i will be on the edge of my seat watching the latest harry potter movie. i'm meeting my old co-worker judy....this is a 5 year ritual of ours....bailing on work to go to the friday matinee of whatever potter movie just came out. hooray!



Wednesday, July 11, 2007

it still applies

a blog post from september 2005:

"she's posting *again*?
yes i am. i wanted to let everyone know that next year for my birthday, i want someone to throw me a party, k? you've got lots of time.thanks."


i turn 30 on september 4th....3 days after i get married! we're not leaving for our honeymoon until the 5th....so let's party down (again*)

*it might be selfish to want people to celebrate with me twice in one week....but i don't care. weddings are a big deal! and so is 30!

loves!

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

oh yeah, this explains my gmail status ("rhyme-noceros")

the fascinating life of maggalish

i thought i didn't like strawberry ice cream,


but it turns out i do.

happy birthday to the fabulousness which is anjie joon sunshine!

we all heart anjie!!!

Saturday, July 07, 2007

another glowing review




hooray for mara's salon on gough! ivy and i went to get a mani/pedi (we were going to go in my hood, but ivy found this other place on yelp) and i ended up also getting my eyebrows waxed. ($45 for all three!)
all i can say is HALLELUJAH! just look! i am SO impressed!

Thursday, July 05, 2007

the jewels, part deux

how is it that i have never been to collage on 18th street in potrero??

tom and i stopped to buy a display map of paris on our way to dinner ($6!! and it shows where we got engaged!) (the map, not dinner silly!)
....i can't believe this gem of a store has been right under my nose!
anyway, i saw sooo many pieces of jewelry that could work for the wedding. really gorgeous stuff...the kind of pieces that i imagined in my head but couldn't find.
reasons i should return my pearls and get jewelry here:
1. it's local artists
2. the (female) owner is tall and asked me where i buy my pants
3. the owner said she read the clutter clearing book that i loved (and it changed her life!)
4. the jewelry is f'in AWESOME
5. there are no full returns, only returns for store credit, BUT owner said i could leave a credit card, take a few pieces home to try on with my dress and bring them back the next day! hello small town service! (HEART)

i told dr. jason he put the "dumb" in freedom

what i planned to do yesterday:
get up early and go to the gym
wedding plan
sit on the roof in the sun for a bit
go to rehearsal

what we did:
cleaned the fuck out of our apartment, rearranged stuff and cleared out a lot of shit!
sat on the roof (me=2 beers and 5 cigarettes. er)

my rehearsal was cancelled so we just stayed on the roof. i hafta remember that
view from po hill...
1. good for kfog kaboom
2. bad for 4th of july (i think they set the main ones off at fishermans wharf, which is blocked from our view by lotsa buildings)

i really wanted to drink more than two beersies (they were cans of miller lite...they barely count!) but instead i treated myself to cancer :>/ i need to find a treat that is not booze, food or smokes.