Amado Mio

This morning at work I “cored” bell peppers for about an hour, and after nearly every pepper I tossed into the colander, I wished for Obama to be elected.  It was surprisingly uplifting and meditative.
This weekend is Halloween, I’m going as the ghostbusters with my friends (complete with awesome silver backpacks with foil hoses) and [...]

“A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.” -Robert Frost

I LOVE being a woman. I take huge pride in my place in the world as a female, and also enormous pride in my fellow fabulous females.  (Yes, this is a post-modern feminist diatribe.) I believe that any man who does not understand that the world does not turn without PMS is sadly forgetting or lacking [...]

Just A Quicky

This blog post is going to be quick and informative because I only have ten minutes before I have to leave for my astronomy class!
Two nights ago I was overcome by a vicious 24 hour flu that rendered me a helpless, suffering, waif-like figure on the floor of a bathroom.  I spent all yesterday recovering [...]

Samba Para Ti, Baby.

I went home last weekend to see Carlos Santana with my dad and one of my best friends:

 
 
It was a very quick, entertaining visit but I decided to come home again this weekend on a whim because I could catch a ride back with my best friends.  It’d been a hard week, and I could [...]

Tomorrows Bad Seeds Are Actually Really Good.

Check out this band, Tomorrows Bad Seeds.  I saw them a few weeks ago and I can’t stop playing them. I’m seeing them again at Cal Poly on October 30th.

They’ve got a really unique sound that some people compare to Pepper, but I’m not as much a fan of Pepper.  Tomorrows [...]

Rest In Peace

Sampson died of a heat stroke today.  It took a long time for me to pull her out of her cage because I was scared to touch her, it was bizarre.  I know that death is natural but touching her didn’t feel natural or easy at all.  She’s in my kitchen surrounded in sunflowers in [...]