Tuesday, March 16, 2010

I'm tired out by the distances achieved walking in my sleep


This morning I am up early to finish studying for my final which is at 4pm today. Hopefully I'll be done in a couple hours and can start studying for my next one.

Yesterday my friend Paige and I left the dorm at 6am to catch sunrise in the near-by hills to do a photo shoot. It didn't come out exactly the way we wanted, but I think we got some good pictures out of it at the very least. We wanted models, but nobody wanted to a) get up before dawn nor b) walk a mile and a half out to the hills. The walk out there was life-threatening and gave me quite the fright because we had to walk through the dark, mountain-lion-infested woods. Obviously, we made it. But probably mostly due to my following the directions on the sign at the entrance which said to yell in a "firm loud voice" if approached by a mountain. Just to be safe, I yelled "firm loud voice" for the whole mile walk. Prevention is the key to life.

Monday, March 15, 2010

A poet's home is in their head


Ok. So my friend Kevin R. told me about how great this coffee place, Black Horse, is. I've come to love it as he does so. I was walking around downtown by myself, as I periodically do and stopped at the Uptown Cafe (aka Blackhorse) to drink a caramello (beats a carmel machiatto by a longshot). I sat down at a table inside to do some recreational reading. My friend Jaq gave me a book of poems for my birthday. It's called The Beautiful, by Michelle Tea.

The Smiths were on the radio, and I was proud to be able to recognize that. Total indie cred.

As I was reading and scribbling some thoughts over the poems, I began to eavesdrop on four women at the table near by. They were probably in their upper 50s, low 60s. I laughed out loud when they were talking about the Twlight book/movie series and one of the women said in reply to her friend's, "It's so juvenile" comment, "It's not juvenile, it's moronic."

About a week later I eavedropped on another conversation in the same coffee shop. A scruffy guy said, "That guy is crazy if he thinks that just because a judge ordered it I'm going to pay him $6,000."
Smart.