Burrito
Posted on July 1, 2009
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A cool summer night in Pittsburgh…
You’ll find me expressing homesickness via burrito illustration (acrylic on canvas), and peeling my eyes off the screens of modern machines to make stereotypically forlorn glances through the screens of my open windows.
If only–only if–I could just…If it were just… I wish it could…
Sigh.
Read more about my chain-burrito fetish and an amazing food blog here (my latest Examiner).
Quote of the day
Posted on July 1, 2009
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“In the Catholic Church, there are mortal sins; you go straight to hell.
Then there are venial sins; not really a big deal.
What the Catholic Church doesn’t have
Is a ‘judgment call.’
Typography has judgment calls.”
-my teacher
SPID: Revisited
Posted on June 30, 2009
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Driver accused in fatal wreck was over legal alcohol limit.
“CORPUS CHRISTI — An 18-year-old man accused of causing a fatal accident June 5 had a blood alcohol level of 0.22, almost three times the legal limit of 0.08, Corpus Christi police said.”
Kindergarten
Posted on June 29, 2009
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Today was my first day of school.
I left my house at 8 am.
For three hours, we did an exercise that was supposed to imitate the design process.
1. Familiarize.
2. Develop.
3. Refine.
Then they gave us CS4 Master Collection. And then they gave us 500 fonts (Adobe Font Folio).
This week is typography; We get our first assignment tomorrow.
Tomorrow is also first grade.
Protected: Fire Island
Posted on June 28, 2009
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Re: Fat Cat
Posted on June 28, 2009
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So, yesterday my cat received the required shots in order to get declawed in a few weeks. Because he weighs 16 pounds (or more bluntly, because he’s fat), it’s going to take him a bit longer to recover.
In honor of fatty getting ready to fly up here with his checked luggage and move to PA, I must post the following pictures:
Burgh Facts
Posted on June 27, 2009
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1. Big Mac, Klondike bars, Heinz ketchup: invented in Pittsburgh.
2. Men make up 61 percent of CMU’s undergrad population.
3. But CMU also holds the title of 2nd ugliest school in the nation (meaning its attendees).
4. There is no such thing as “going downtown.”
5. To this day, there has only been ONE drug-related arrest on the CMU campus.
6. Driving sucks here. For real.
Thank god the majestic Scottish terrier is our mascot.
The roots
Posted on June 21, 2009
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This week’s influences:
1. Lisa Frank
2. Sweet Valley High
3. The Body of Christ, Texas
4. Soy ice cream
5. And an excellent weather forecast.
Pact
Posted on June 19, 2009
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I need to write more than this.
Moving is sort of an excuse; Moving through the states of Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania is definitely some sort of excuse.
I’ve had my share of Waffle Houses, hush puppies, Twizzlers, and bagels. I think that was all I ate for three days while I stared at the back of the Budget truck my dad drove. My only activity was screwing around with my FM transmitter that doesn’t work anymore because I slammed it in the car door.
It was nice to hear the phrase that I had expected to hear: “The longest part of the drive is just gettin’ out of Texas.” People love saying that.
I got to Pittsburgh Sunday afternoon. It took about three hours for us to carry all of my junk up the stairs to my apartment.
We stayed at a hotel. The next morning my dad left, and my mom and I went by IKEA–the most annoying store in existence. Plus there were small children there.
My next adventure included me driving the 16′ Budget truck an hour through Pittsburgh to the drop-off point. I almost died x+y amount of times. I had horrid anxiety for a few hours after. Luckily I found a vegan ice cream shop and ate chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream.
Since then I have been unpacking and etcetera. The weather is tolerable. My thoughts are tolerable. I like living alone. I like everything in walking distance. I don’t like finding parking on the street. I don’t like wine not being available at grocery stores. I love open windows and window units. But, god, I hate that damn GPS thing my dad lent me. Recalculating…
It’s not that I don’t miss anything. It’s that it hasn’t completely sunk in. And I realize that all of the reasons why I love Austin, i.e. the people there, have started to not be reasons anymore–Either they have left, are going to leave, or want to leave.
It’s off to the land of insignificant birthdays and one-bedroom apartments–where no one will hear your excuses.
Avoidant Personality Disorder
Posted on June 16, 2009
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I could blog about the obvious. But I would rather list the 100 most beautiful words in the English language:
Aestivate
Ailurophile
Assemblage
Becoming
Beleaguer
Billet-doux
Brood
Bucolic
Bungalow
Chatoyant
Comely
Conflate
Cynosure
Dalliance
Demesne
Demure
Denouement
Desuetude
Desultory
Diaphanous
Dissemble
Dulcet
Ebullient
Effervescent
Efflorescence
Elision
Elixir
Eloquence
Embrocation
Emollient
Ephemeral
Epiphany
Erstwhile
Esculent
Ethereal
Evanescent
Evocative
Fetching
Felicitous
Fluke
Forbearance
Fugacious
Furtive
Gambol
Glamour
Gossamer
Halcyon
Imbrication
Imbroglio
Imbue
Incipient
Ineffable
Ingenue
Inglenook
Insouciance
Inure
Lagniappe
Lagoon
Languor
Lassitude
Leisure
Lilt
Lissome
Lithe
Luxuriant
Mellifluous
Moiety
Mondegreen
Murmur
Nemesis
Niveous
Odalisque
Offing
Onomatopoeia
Opulent
Palimpsest
Panacea
Panoply
Pastiche
Peccadillo
Penumbra
Petrichor
Plethora
Propinquity
Pyrrhic
Quintessential
Ratatouille
Redolent
Riparian
Ripple
Scintilla
Sempiternal
Seraglio
Serendipity
Surreptitious
Sumptuous
Sussurous
Symbiosis
Talisman
Tintinnabulation
Umbrageous
Umbrella
Untoward
Vestige
Viridescent
Waft
Wherewithal