unofficially, i decided to partake in the whole nanowrimo thing. unofficially, i say, because i had no desire to sign up on their site. i decided to do this strictly as a personal experiment, and, having finally reached the fifty thousand word goal, my assessment is as follows.
fifty thousand is a lot of words. c’est […]
Category Archives: life
national [novel] writing month.
25 November, 2008 – 23h37
love for everyone!
19 November, 2008 – 8h59
last saturday was a day for protesting, as cities across the country joined together to rally against california’s passing of proposition eight. here in seattle, we were part of the estimated six thousand who marched from volunteer park to westlake center with very few naysayers along the way.
to quote king county executive ron sims, […]
the itch.
24 October, 2008 – 10h34
every three to six months i get the unignorable itch to redo one of my websites, which usually leads to the unignorable itch to redo all of my websites [in case you’ve lost count, that’s five sites - two blogs, two portfolios and a splash page]. since it’s inception in june 2006 [just after my […]
inspiration.
9 October, 2008 – 14h30
we should not seek inspiration to create. we should create, and in this process of creation, find inspiration.
we visit museums and galleries, concerts and symphonies, films and plays, to reinvigorate ourselves. we read the words of great authors, we study the thoughts of great philosophers, we listen to our idols, hoping their ideas will make […]
art acquisitions.
29 September, 2008 – 23h37
hans and i have spent the spring and summer of this year steadily building our cute art collection. a few notable findings by particularly interesting creators of cute are listed below.
a springtime gift for hans, a cookie by kickass-peanut. if it can be made plushie, this girl has done it.
a small gift from hans to […]
a final phototour.
11 June, 2008 – 16h20
before leaving saint louis, it seemed necessary to run around with a camera, capturing all of the [underappreciated] gems of saint louis. so that’s what we spent the first of june doing. we didn’t manage to photograph everything on our list, but we did get some interesting photos of spring ave, saint francis de sales […]
seattlebound.
21 May, 2008 – 11h16
after twenty four and a half years in saint louis, the time has finally come to move west. and north. and very, very far away.
plans are fairly certain at this point. boxes are packed, the farewell party is scheduled, even the cat has a reservation to fly to our new home.
moving
hans and i depart […]
