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Category Archives: Personal history

Sharing

Today I found myself questioning the wisdom of having such a large amount of data about myself online. I vacillate between thinking it is a wonderful thing and that there is no real harm in it, and thinking that I should be more circumspect.
I have been feeling down lately, and I think it is [...]

Crows, power lines, Mark Rada, love

Today Richard and I went over to cat sit at our friends’ house. I was headed into the kitchen to greet the fat fluffball, Eris, but Richard stopped me and turned me towards the wall next to their Christmas tree. There was a folded up blanket hanging on the wall. I didn’t [...]

Analyzing failure

Today I found myself feeling almost exactly like I remember feeling earlier this decade when I was going to college for the first time. I went to the University of Washington. I got a physics degree. I hated every minute of it. I don’t think the classes were too hard in [...]

The yellow brick road

I realized that even when the artists whose blogs I follow don’t write about their art, I still appreciate knowing what’s going on in their lives. So here:
I am heading into the last week of finals for this quarter’s Medical Assisting classes, and today was the first day in a while I got [...]

Retrospective

Earlier this month I was digging back into my unprocessed photo archives for goodies, jumping back year by year.
September 7, 2008: Little Mia having fun playing in the sand at Matt and Melissa’s wedding at Golden Gardens. This wedding was so heart-warming that I went into a depressed stupor halfway through because I couldn’t [...]

One year ago, two years ago…

It’s time for another game of One Year Ago, Two Years Ago…
One year ago I was not taking photos, but I was in the middle of my 365 Sketches project, and I drew this:

Bones, 2008
Two years ago we celebrated Shawna’s 30th birthday. Before Cynthia, Jen and I went over, we took silly self portraits [...]

Testing for depression

Richard recently mentioned what he believed to be a Chinese blessing, “May you live in interesting times”. Turns out this phrase was actually a (probably misattributed) Chinese curse. Hilarious.
Summer has been interesting so far. I can’t say that interesting is always pleasant, but… at least I’m finding things interesting in the first [...]

Firework abstracts

I don’t know what’s been going on in my head lately. It’s been so hard to decode myself. I have not felt peaceful this past week, but I don’t know why. I remind myself of an abused dog who lashes out insensibly at every startling thing around it.
I had a strange experience [...]

Facial expressions

I just took reference video of myself singing a song that I want to cover on guitar, so that when I finally learn to sing it well, I can look back and feel impressed with myself for no longer butchering[1] it.
Anyway, I just watched it, and discovered something bizarre… I have the facial mannerisms that [...]

Rocking out on the world’s tiniest violin

It’s very bloggy just to post saying that I’m in crisis right now, but… I am doing it anyway. I’m in crisis. I will go into more detail about it more later, but I just want to shake my fist and pound things, because I feel sick, I am very behind in school, [...]