Archive for May, 2008
Thursday, May 29th, 2008
a couple of weeks ago after the last milonga i'd attend in austin before moving, i hung out with timbo's crew and ended up at karaoke again. it sounds strange to talk about karaoke being emotional for me, but sometimes i feel incredibly sentimental while they sing jay chou or ...
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Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
believe what you like, guys. i was totally Latina in another life.
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1. guelaguetza's big tortillas. lucy's txt: "emy, you should never eat anything bigger than your head." but damn it was worth it.
2. piggy banks on olvera street
3. aydee chased after the tamale man on friday ...
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Saturday, May 17th, 2008
i have officially moved in. i spent the entire morning on my hands and knees scrubbing the floor. at 2pm i promptly fell asleep for four hours.
here's to new beginnings.
"I create my transition from within. Geographic location is junior to our own place of home, which we carry inside ourselves."
- copied from ...
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Kristan provides a quote from The Sun Magazine:
"Years ago, I was trapped in a newspaper job I couldn’t stand. Then I heard Graham Nash sing, 'Make sure that the things you do keep us alive.' The next day I walked to work, quit my job, and kept walking. Better to ...
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
(photos to come after my life is in order again long enough for me to upload photos.)
i had been hearing about Wink for a very long time. i chose it as my goodbye for my last night as a resident of Austin.
hieu and i arrived and i teased him ...
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
honestly, i feel like i'm in shambles. i don't know where my passport is at the moment. my shoes are scattered in several different places. my showerhead doesn't work. i have no idea if my A/C works. i swear i'm the first person to get mosquito bites every year before ...
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Friday, May 9th, 2008
last weekend, i got off the plane in American Airline's tiny terminal at RDU. jason picked me up and promptly took me to get something to eat. note to readers: ginormous chocolate fudge cake at midnight is not always a good idea.
on friday night, we struck out for the 4 ...
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Friday, May 9th, 2008
it's been three weeks since i was in texas. it's been three years since i spent summer in america.
i walked into our house and it smelled of copal and hot texas summer. i remembered mexico.
the lazy reflections of the sun slid over the hardwood floor of laurie's empty ...
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
the first evening, i felt cold.
your movements lengthened across the floor
and i watched as the clutches of your occasional grin
swept girl after girl into your billowing sails
(more often, i'd imagine you were a pilot,
and that my left side was your wind)
sometimes my long waits were melancholy,
and ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
"Too often, leisure time that is not used in a satisfying way turns into idle time, or is used to do a single thing to excess (like overeating, or getting into family quarrels). It can even turn negative, which is what happens often in the cases substance use, delinquency and ...
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