had a visit with my dad yesterday... we spoke about christmas and there's some problems with figuring all that out but it looks as though it'll all work out and my friends from michigan and i are heading out to the methow valley for a wintry christmas holiday! so that's something to look forward to.
right now i have so much to do. finish issue 3. design both student and volunteer sail training programs for this sail non prof i'm volunteering for. finish an online newsletter for same non prof. work on my docking skills... all within a week! yikes.
off topic, today i was listening to my fave local radio station, kexp, but they're talking a lot during their week of fundraising. so after continuing to listen to that most of the day, i decide to turn the dial to "the end" which is what i listened to in my early 20's, before kexp existed. some dj called laslow or maslow is talking about some hospital worker dude who's being accused of having sex with a dead body. this dj goes on to say that in his (the dj's) opinion, dead bodies have no rights and necr0philia shouldn't be illegal. it kinda made me sick. and it definitely made me turn it back to kexp and happily endure the pledge drive chatter. oh yeah... i forgot to mention how the "107.7 the end" dj followed up all this gross banter with nirvana's "rape me."
cookies and parties
Finally I had a friday where I didn't fuck up too terribly at work. Well, actually I still fucked up a lot but substantially less than usual. Sometimes my fumblings and forgetfulness make me think I have MS or early onset alzheimers or sumthin. Even though the guys at work had other plans they agreed to go out drinking with me for a bit, which was fun as usual. I had plans to go see No Fi Soul Rebellion at a club by my house, but my friend convinced me to not go see a show with a cover by myself, and instead come see him and partman play at a private halloween party in fremont. I didn't really want to go because I didn't know anyone there and it's not my "scene" but I was really looking forward to seeing the bands. At 9pm he called to say it was totally dead there, so i didn't bother trying to get a cab until 10:30. no cabs. i hop a bus to downtown and hop a cab on first street, then i get all the way there JUST as the last band wraps up. i actually stepped in the door as they sang their last note. lame. there's all these hot 25 year old cap hill folks from the same large extended group of musician friends... when the opportunity came to sneak out unnoticed, I bailed.
saturday i met up with a sailing group i just joined. that was pretty nice. i guess i'm just as stuck up as any cliqueish person sometimes because i'm not that interested in meeting new people who aren't into boats. although i like hearing everyone's different story and even hypothesizing the psychology behind their behavior or attitude (not too seriously though. i know people don't like to be categorized. or 'figured out'). oh oh i also watched the freakin crazy movie "Deadbeat at Dawn" by jim van bebber. i don't even know how to explain it, but it's AWESOME. awesomely bad!!! it's a tie between bad/badass. so fun to watch. not truly bad like TROLL 2 (sorry, austin folks). A much better kind of bad than that for sure.
today i went to salmon bay with nanette and proceeded to spend FOUR HOURS making my delicious special oatmeal cookies. three batches, fools! AND homemade chai. hmmm mm. i'm LIVING on oatmeal cookies this week.
tomorrow it's lunch with dad and a trip to the OD.
saturday i met up with a sailing group i just joined. that was pretty nice. i guess i'm just as stuck up as any cliqueish person sometimes because i'm not that interested in meeting new people who aren't into boats. although i like hearing everyone's different story and even hypothesizing the psychology behind their behavior or attitude (not too seriously though. i know people don't like to be categorized. or 'figured out'). oh oh i also watched the freakin crazy movie "Deadbeat at Dawn" by jim van bebber. i don't even know how to explain it, but it's AWESOME. awesomely bad!!! it's a tie between bad/badass. so fun to watch. not truly bad like TROLL 2 (sorry, austin folks). A much better kind of bad than that for sure.
today i went to salmon bay with nanette and proceeded to spend FOUR HOURS making my delicious special oatmeal cookies. three batches, fools! AND homemade chai. hmmm mm. i'm LIVING on oatmeal cookies this week.
tomorrow it's lunch with dad and a trip to the OD.
there was a lull
i have so many pics i'd like to post and explain, but i'll probably end up just putting them on flickr instead of waiting for blogger to upload them. doing both takes forever. until then, this girl took a lot of nice photos.
the Classic Boat Show was a success. i almost won the heaving line throwing contest. almost. i definitely sucked at the "throw the eye around the bollard" contest. but my new friend colleen from a noaa boat almost won that. i saw Morgan Schneidler amazingly enough. it's been years and years. i saw some noaa crew that i hadn't seen since last spring, made a friend named jennifer from bounty and hi. sea. took some videos (check my youtube later).
i escaped right after to enjoy happy hour with cass and eric, then returned for a nice dinner aboard Virginia V. a lot of people that i haven't met before seem to know about my magazine, which is cool.
that was pretty much my weekend. besides last night when i bought some leg warmers from american apparel. i've been doing a crappy job at work lately - breaking stuff by accident and screwing up my deliveries, but hopefully that'll stop soon.
the Classic Boat Show was a success. i almost won the heaving line throwing contest. almost. i definitely sucked at the "throw the eye around the bollard" contest. but my new friend colleen from a noaa boat almost won that. i saw Morgan Schneidler amazingly enough. it's been years and years. i saw some noaa crew that i hadn't seen since last spring, made a friend named jennifer from bounty and hi. sea. took some videos (check my youtube later).
i escaped right after to enjoy happy hour with cass and eric, then returned for a nice dinner aboard Virginia V. a lot of people that i haven't met before seem to know about my magazine, which is cool.
that was pretty much my weekend. besides last night when i bought some leg warmers from american apparel. i've been doing a crappy job at work lately - breaking stuff by accident and screwing up my deliveries, but hopefully that'll stop soon.
mytube
i posted several old videos to my youtube account. check them out here - but all the ones of a chanty sing on the Bill are black because there was no light. it's hard to find regular old sailors singing chanties on the net, so i thought i'd post them anyway.
internal diablogue
jarad said he read that rant/post, and told me i am too nice and when i "turn" i have such an unexpected commanding presence that a guy can't help but go screeeeeeech! what the fuck did i do? oh shit! my only argument to this is that number 1, i think people should ALWAYS treat me well if i'm treating them well... a few bad days being the exception of course. and number 2, before i "turn" there's plenty of subtlety proceeded by clear communication (i'll draw pictures and instructions and really give you the benefit of the doubt for a long time!). yeah not to start ranting again, but that shit seems to go unnoticed. it's the claws and teeth that really do the job.
ACTUALLY no. you know what i'm missing? that there IS a point between kindly copious instruction and full on confrontation. it's the firm but calm I'm Not Taking This Any More tone and sticking to that. resolved!
this week at work was standard. friday deliveries were super-fucked in the morning, though. i deliver to a lot of places where i have to wait around for the receiver to show up, and one place is notorious for keeping me waiting, then sometimes sending me back without even receiving my delivery. friday morn found myself and 3 other drivers hanging out in a hallway for half an hour waiting for the receiver to show up from her coffee run. the wait was ridiculous but it was entertaining to hang out with the other drivers. later i had to take several heavy boxes up 3 flights of stairs. have i mentioned that i'm leaner than i've pretty much EVER been in my life? thanks to this job. oh oh and i found a STUMPTOWN coffee up on cap hill yesterday, thank god. that coffee was one of a few things i miss about portland. to quote Geoff Carter in this article: "You'll want to wear this stuff like cologne and breathe it in lieu of air." and also... the best chocolate chip cookies in all seattle! so work was done around 3pm and later went to the taco truck and watched the movie "chumscrubber." pretty dumb overall but they did accurately capture the selfish and retarded social attitudes of suburban parents. kid throws knife in wall, parent says Who Did That? Yr Gonna Fix That! not What's wrong? What made you do that? Are you OK? nobody believing or even listening to any kid speak, so the kids, sensing the dumb confused look on parents' faces, just say it's a "school" thing. everyone taking tons of prescription drugs, etc. etc. Strangely there were LOTS of big names in the film, like Ralph Fiennes, Glen Close, Rita (tom hanks wife..), carrie ____ (trinity from matrix), and several other recognizable faces. The adult actors did a good job. Maybe this was pitched to them as social commentary regarding the fucked up hotbed of dysfunction known as upper middle class Suburban Life. in that respect, it works, but most of the dialogue/plot/acting involves the teens and it sucks.
nothing happened today. unless you count that i can now DIGEST EGGS!!!!! yippeee!
ACTUALLY no. you know what i'm missing? that there IS a point between kindly copious instruction and full on confrontation. it's the firm but calm I'm Not Taking This Any More tone and sticking to that. resolved!
this week at work was standard. friday deliveries were super-fucked in the morning, though. i deliver to a lot of places where i have to wait around for the receiver to show up, and one place is notorious for keeping me waiting, then sometimes sending me back without even receiving my delivery. friday morn found myself and 3 other drivers hanging out in a hallway for half an hour waiting for the receiver to show up from her coffee run. the wait was ridiculous but it was entertaining to hang out with the other drivers. later i had to take several heavy boxes up 3 flights of stairs. have i mentioned that i'm leaner than i've pretty much EVER been in my life? thanks to this job. oh oh and i found a STUMPTOWN coffee up on cap hill yesterday, thank god. that coffee was one of a few things i miss about portland. to quote Geoff Carter in this article: "You'll want to wear this stuff like cologne and breathe it in lieu of air." and also... the best chocolate chip cookies in all seattle! so work was done around 3pm and later went to the taco truck and watched the movie "chumscrubber." pretty dumb overall but they did accurately capture the selfish and retarded social attitudes of suburban parents. kid throws knife in wall, parent says Who Did That? Yr Gonna Fix That! not What's wrong? What made you do that? Are you OK? nobody believing or even listening to any kid speak, so the kids, sensing the dumb confused look on parents' faces, just say it's a "school" thing. everyone taking tons of prescription drugs, etc. etc. Strangely there were LOTS of big names in the film, like Ralph Fiennes, Glen Close, Rita (tom hanks wife..), carrie ____ (trinity from matrix), and several other recognizable faces. The adult actors did a good job. Maybe this was pitched to them as social commentary regarding the fucked up hotbed of dysfunction known as upper middle class Suburban Life. in that respect, it works, but most of the dialogue/plot/acting involves the teens and it sucks.
nothing happened today. unless you count that i can now DIGEST EGGS!!!!! yippeee!
g.r.a.p.e a.d.v.e.n.t.u.r.e
Yesterday I joined Brian Clampitt to go check out the Arthur Foss hauled out for an annual check-up at the Northlake Shipyard. There were a few people working on seams and paint and getting ready to splash at 3pm. I took pics but of course I can't upload them.
JB was in town so I met him for lunch at the 5-spot on Queen Anne, where he's staying with his sister, and we walked around and eventually went to buy a bottle of wine for him to drink on his train ride later that night. I suggested he buy Owen Roe's Sharecropper's Cab, and he offered me a glass before I rode my bike home. It's pretty good - not worth $20 though. I definitely should have let it breathe a little longer before that first sip. Owen Roe's Abbots Table Red is still my favorite lately. Although I have a bottle of Terres Dorees Beau Blanc and Bellevue La Foret Fronton Rose in the fridge so I should check one of those out tonight. I'm learning more about wine, and for anyone reading who was as ignorant as I when it comes to picking wines, know that you CAN find really good wine for between $8 and $15. Abbot's Table is not that cheap, but there's a lot of good ones that are. I'm so done drinking Gato Negro, Fetzer and all that other bottom shelf crap. I drank it for a year and got burnt out on wine altogether. I'm willing to spend an extra $4 for a decent tasting wine. Especially since it doesn't make me bloaty like beer does, and it has a higher alcohol content. It's kinda fun, too. If anyone reading this is going out to buy wine soon, domestics by Owen Roe winery and Syncline are great. The french wine Les Heretiques, the italian wine "Boira," and a champagne called "Godme" are all really popular. I still don't know much about wine, but I wish I'd had someone to tell me what kind to take to dinner parties over the years!
JB was in town so I met him for lunch at the 5-spot on Queen Anne, where he's staying with his sister, and we walked around and eventually went to buy a bottle of wine for him to drink on his train ride later that night. I suggested he buy Owen Roe's Sharecropper's Cab, and he offered me a glass before I rode my bike home. It's pretty good - not worth $20 though. I definitely should have let it breathe a little longer before that first sip. Owen Roe's Abbots Table Red is still my favorite lately. Although I have a bottle of Terres Dorees Beau Blanc and Bellevue La Foret Fronton Rose in the fridge so I should check one of those out tonight. I'm learning more about wine, and for anyone reading who was as ignorant as I when it comes to picking wines, know that you CAN find really good wine for between $8 and $15. Abbot's Table is not that cheap, but there's a lot of good ones that are. I'm so done drinking Gato Negro, Fetzer and all that other bottom shelf crap. I drank it for a year and got burnt out on wine altogether. I'm willing to spend an extra $4 for a decent tasting wine. Especially since it doesn't make me bloaty like beer does, and it has a higher alcohol content. It's kinda fun, too. If anyone reading this is going out to buy wine soon, domestics by Owen Roe winery and Syncline are great. The french wine Les Heretiques, the italian wine "Boira," and a champagne called "Godme" are all really popular. I still don't know much about wine, but I wish I'd had someone to tell me what kind to take to dinner parties over the years!
another weekend not spent learning InDesign
this weekend i joined my friend fluffz at the wedding of his bandmate. somebody posted an entire album of pics on flickr. it was pretty fun. i like events like that, even if i dont know very many people. plus the coconut coolouts played, and i've wanted to see them for awhile, after hearing a few songs on the radio. highlights of the reception for me: the couple's dog trying to jump on them during their first dance as a married couple, cupcakes with frosting that looked like the groom, catering made up of delivery pizza, sparks, a keg, peanut m&ms, and plenty of booze, the groom taking over the job of bartender (one shot for you, one for himself) and calling out to everyone when his mom came to the bar "EVERYONE, THIS IS MY MOMMY......SHE MADE ME!!!..... YOU SHOULD ALL THANK HER!"
we then went to ballard to see a band called PartMan PartHorse for the "Reverb Festival" and got there too late. so fluffz said we should go see The Lights but instead we sat in a dirty alley waiting for the show time to come around, then ended up leaving anyway and taking (waiting for) the bus. anyway everyone seems to think the band Partman parthorse is amazing, so maybe i'll check them out another time.
the arthur foss is hauled out so i might go take some pics of that tomorrow.
we then went to ballard to see a band called PartMan PartHorse for the "Reverb Festival" and got there too late. so fluffz said we should go see The Lights but instead we sat in a dirty alley waiting for the show time to come around, then ended up leaving anyway and taking (waiting for) the bus. anyway everyone seems to think the band Partman parthorse is amazing, so maybe i'll check them out another time.
the arthur foss is hauled out so i might go take some pics of that tomorrow.
bitchiness reigns on Mars
thanks, men of the world, for teaching me that i'll get your attention and respect if i act irritated or bitchy... (but nothing during the majority of time we know each other and i still really care).
and the funny thing is that i often befriend or date the type of guy who says "girls don't like nice guys like me... they always go for assholes!"
and the funny thing is that i often befriend or date the type of guy who says "girls don't like nice guys like me... they always go for assholes!"
