psycho circus

i'm on a musical theater kick. don't understand it at all. i've listened to the rent soundtrack so many times, my ears might have aids.

hearing aids.

i suppose it's good that my daylight hours are so merry and gay because i've been having weird dreams again. over the weekend i dreamt i was trapped in a windowless library with skyscraper-high bookshelves and satan was chasing me. satan was a leather-clad man with black and white face paint, and he chased me all through the aisles until eventually i climbed up the shelves and the chase turned into a parkour video with both of us hopping from shelf to shelf. when i woke up with the dream still vivid in my mind, i said, "holy crap, satan looks like that cat guy from KISS." it turns out i need to brush up on my hard rock knowledge because i did a google image search and the guy who was chasing me looked like this:



which makes more sense since satan would more likely be "the demon" and not "the catman." i just don't get it. it's like bad music has invaded my consciousness. i don't even listen to KISS, what the hell is gene simmons doing in my dreams? i didn't even know until after my google search that gene simmons was a musician, and not this guy:



now if richard simmons had been the satan chasing me through a windowless library, i would have really flipped the fuck out.

angst in the wild

i read an article about the L train being the hot spot for craigslist-nyc's "missed connections," and i suddenly wondered if missed connections was just a new york city phenomenon. would cities without subways have a "missed connections"? what about cities without bustling public transportation systems? what about cities without bustling... anything?

hiking w dog - m4w - 28 (south anc)

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Date: 2010-06-28, 2:07PM AKDT

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You tried to steal my dog. You were super hot and I got nervous. Email me if this was you and I'll take you out!

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in case the bearded buffalo plaid you missed a connection with on the L-train wasn't authentic enough for you... alaska's got some missed connections too ;)

and for all the lonely missers and misseds, a word from the wise lolcat that i though would be fitting for you:

face time

as my time at poets & writers winds rapidly to a close, my mind is already painting over my experiences and memories with that aesthetically pleasing gloss of nostalgia. i don't fight it.

one thing i really will miss here though, stalgia or no stalgia, is my office arrangement. i have a nice work space constructed of 2 large desks that wrap around me providing a corner in which to sit and feel safe, much like a fort. my desk is in the same room as sara and tim, but since we all have little wraparound safety corner desks, we feel secluded enough to ignore each other politely and confidently blog in lieu of working. the job i am moving to does not provide safety corners. the office is a loft space, sectioned off into 3 part separated by glass doors/walls, which to an isolationist like myself make very little sense. i do not know who sits in the western glass cage. the eastern cage is the conference room. the middle cage is where i will sit, along with everyone else. there is a big table in the middle piled high with cool (perhaps also free) stuff, and on either side desks are grouped together by what seems to be a loose definition of department. what discomfits me most about this set up is that the ad department sits in the 4-desk square arrangement preferred by my elementary school teachers. all. facing. in.

as an isolationist with a terribly shaky grasp on how to properly utilize eye contact, this concerns me. so i've come up with several potential ways to handle the situation.

1) set up a cardboard cut out of a white picket fence and a row of potted plants. creates the illusion of warmth and light, while also being a wall.

2) clutter the edges of my desk with framed photos of all my friends. creates the illusion of sociability, while also being a wall.

3) position my computer so that i am cut off from everyone's line of vision, and stick large googly eyes on the back of the screen. creates the illusion of eye contact, while also being a wall.

i'm sure my options will become more clear once i actually sit down and set up.

4 more days!

measure in love

by the time i kick the bucket, my heart will be so hardened the worms will never get to me.

brilliant idea

i suggested to my bfff/bestie that alexander wang and vera wang should collaborate. she responded:

that would be AWESOME

they have like polar opposite aesthetics

it would be cool to see how it would play out

if they collaborated on wedding dresses

queen of wedding dresses + street smart hipsterdom

wahoooo

this excites me

i have no idea what she's talking about. i was just proud of myself for knowing that they both design clothes. i suggested the collaboration only because if they did, they could name their project "it takes two to wango."

BAM! and there's the english major. plenty more where that came from, ladies, call me ;)