SPID: Revisited
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
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. [...]
Protected: Fire Island
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Re: Fat Cat
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 [...]
Burgh Facts
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 [...]
The roots
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
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 [...]
Avoidant Personality Disorder
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
I can’t reach
Three-vehicle accident on SPID kills 1.
I know where they hang out on Wednesdays
La Conquista: feminist Tejana band from Corpus that’s getting big. I want to build them a Web site.
P.S. the girl who is seductively drinking from a straw–Ya, totally in my Spanish class junior year of high school.