A Treasure Found at Home

from storypeople.com.

this one is dead on.

Known Future THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT THE FUTURE It doesn’t have to look any particular way, but around here, if it doesn’t, a lot of people will never speak to you again.

• watching power shovel clean up rubble this morning
• chai
• new hair goop
• amazon.com mp3 downloads
• super secret andrew-from-high-school related thing i can’t blog about
• xkcd.com
• last year’s birthday mix from hamster_grrl
• wordpress upgrade

when results from new studies make it to mainstream media i’m always a little skeptical. this article explains just why i’m always curious to see the studies themselves.

hello, misunderstanding?

when mom called just a little bit ago i looked at the clock and realized i have missed lunch AGAIN! grah, i hate when i do that.

anyhow, i went out into the parking lot to catch her up on things best not talked about in cubes (like how well i’m doing with the needles - rock on me). as i walked back to the building i passed a car and did not touch it. just with the power of my personality i set off the car alarm.

i… am a force to be reckoned with.

who knew car alarms could be such an ego boost?

a handful of us went on a full moon hike yesterday after work. i’d asked for suggestions. as this used to be a more ritualistic experience i figured someone knew something about where to go.

i got a few replies, all asking me to tell them where it would be.

oh…

i picked a trail that said, “The path descends into a mature bay forest, follows the contour for about half a mile, and then ascends to the botanically rich upper trail.” sounds good, yes? i thought so. some trees, but an upper trail where we could see the moon.

well, turns out by “botanically rich” they also mean tree-covered. we hardly saw the moon at all, but when we did it was beautimous. hiking in the dark, though was really fun.

i scared some small animal, i think, at some point, and it scared me back. i heard some small growling from the bush next to me when i stopped. boy, did i jump! everyone else (there were five of us total) asked what happened and encouraged me to come on over just a little closer when i said i thought i heard growling. then i had to explain that it really was sort of more like chipmunk growling. whatever, man! those buggers probably have really sharp claws! and rabies!

there are, of course, no pictures. it was too dark. i tried to take one of the absolutely beautiful sunset and backlit trees, but they all came out blurry. instead you’ll all just have to start your own moonlight hikes.

• acupuncture!
• bakeries
• “a room of one’s own”
• the beach boys
• paycheck
• dvr
• shuttle to work
• anti-motion sickness bands
• car songs
• amazon mp3s

my goodness, it’s just like 6th grade here in my headphones today. if only trent turner were here to dance with to “in my room”. *sigh* i’ve stepped out of the way-back machine onto jenny lipman’s back deck in boca. man, sometimes i miss that.

i seem to have completely and totally lost the ability to communicate with other humans.

i’m quite sure there was a point at which i was told that asking a question such as,  “do we have guidelines regarding ___________?” would indeed illicit an answer more like one of the following:

• yes
• yes, here they are
• here they are
• no
• not yet
• sort of

instead i have been called prudish, have a bunch of people defending behaviours they thought i was offended by (without me having said if i was offended or not, or what caused me specifically to ask the question) , and told i could just leave if i didn’t like what was happening.

even after i clarified that i am just trying to find out what the guidelines are so i can adjust my expectations, people are *still* talking about how no one did anything offensive. no mention of the existence of guidelines or not.

how else does one ask about such a thing… i mean, how does one ask in order to get a rational yes or no answer?

and good lord don’t i wish this were the first time i’d asked about purpose or guidelines and people got all defensive instead of just answering the question. is it really that uncommon for people to ask discrete questions?

yes, there MAY be a follow up question, but i have asked the first question for a reason. i’m looking for it’s answer!

• hiking
• abandoned WWII military sites
• side trails
• deer
• picnic
• green hat guy noticed me but didn’t push it
• waves
• getting back before we got trapped by the water
• i have a job — but i wasn’t on call
• dancin’
• chatting with friends
• chatting with new people (like i promised myself i would)
• my soft soft bed at 5am
• sleeping as long as i felt like it
• **i found my remote!!!!**

my house is a mess
dust and dried food everywhere
i’m too tired to clean

I haven’t seen or heard a lot of coverage on this, but the mayor of San Diego quite suddenly and unexpectedly changed his position on same sex marraige and signed a resolution he’d previously said he would veto.

watch this video to hear his explanation in his own words. but be forwarned, it’s not for watching in public if you don’t like people seeing you tear up.
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i don’t have much coherent to say today. lots of changes at work. the unblogable stuff got sorted, but we have a new manager and we’re all getting used to the changes.

burning man was a fantastic step away from all the stuff i worry about here. i actually felt my back tensing up the closer and closer to oaktwn we got. hrm. maybe it’s time to look at some big changes here, too.

anyhow, since there’s not a lot of well formed thoughts for me to share, i figured i’d write a gratitude list to get me back in the swing of the blog.

• banana creame latte
• free work shuttle
• my own w/d
• new hair cut (not way diff, but cleaned up for sure)
• new jacket
• dinner w/chef monday
• cuddly cuddly kitten love
• sorting out HUGE ASS misunderstanding
• bookstore i can walk to