occurred some time last weekend, when i was at a friend’s party and overheard three people carrying on a conversation about boolean searches.
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June 29, 2008 • 11:25 am 0
we also talked about sartre…but not de beauvoir
Jane and I were talking on the phone about her new career as a writer; she’s writing poetry now.
Anyway, she met some dude, and he’s a poet, and that’s always fun, so we chatted about that, and at one point she said “Yeah, I’ll become like, that lady who was Jackson Pollock’s wife, whose work was totally overshadowed by his fame… wait, what’s her name again?”
And we couldn’t remember. I could remember the actress who played Jackson Pollock’s wife in that movie that came out a few years back, but the actual artist’s name? “Wasn’t it Leigh something?” I said.
And Jane was like, “No, I think it’s something weirder, like Ezra,” but I didn’t think so.
We racked our brains for a few more minutes, but nothing came to us. “So yeah,” Jane said, “I’d be like that lady who was Jackson Pollock’s wife, whose work was so overshadowed by his that we can’t even remember her name!!”
Finally I looked up Jackson Pollock in wikipedia. “Oh yeah, it’s Lee Krasner,” I read.
“Oh, yeah, that’s it.. see, I knew it had some weird syllables in it. Krasner..”
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June 28, 2008 • 12:40 pm 0
thoughts on moving out, part deux
i just realized that even if i end up moving elsewhere in LA, i probably won’t be living in westwood again, not any time soon or even in the distant future.
the prospect of no longer having such easy access to diddy riese is making me unspeakably sad.
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June 26, 2008 • 10:26 pm 0
nothing more than…
i am:
1. kinda freaked out about losing my keys. i left them out on the grass last night. luckily i had a spare car key, so once i stopped freaking out this morning, i ended up being only 20 minutes late to my interview.
2. excited about this place where i interviewed. it’s hard to explain without showing people the materials i have at hand, but trust me, it’s kickass. and when i did further research online after the interview, i discovered that it’s even more kickass than i thought. the prospect of working here is exciting, if daunting. that is, if i get it, i don’t know if i could do the job right. so it’s kinda scary in that way. but still awesome.
3. pretty confident that i did well on the interview. i don’t suppose it hurt that, this evening, i attended a screening put on by a classmate – and found that one of the people who interviewed me this morning works at this same film center, as a side job/hobby! it was weird.
4. exhilarated from the drive down sunset from echo park/silver lake to westwood. truly one of the most awesomest drives in LA.
5. sad about moving out of my apt. esp since i lost my mailbox key, and will porbably have to pay a fine.
6. a craving for fro-yo. i will have to settle for some ice cream.
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June 24, 2008 • 10:01 pm 2
a tale of two gifts
My dad’s birthday falls less than two weeks before Father’s Day, which poses the usual double-present dilemma for my sister and me every year. We actually get it twice a year (4 times?) because my mom’s birthday is only a few weeks before Christmas.
Anyway, this year we got him a digital picture frame for his birthday, a Kodak number that plays mp3s and does slideshows. We thought it’d be nice because he could look at all the photos he took from my parents’ recent trip to China and his daughters’ respective graduations.
But scarcely a week after we gave it to him, I came home to find it neatly tucked away on the back corner bookshelf, not plugged in and not being used.
For Father’s Day, we got him a shirt that was on sale at Banana Republic. Yesterday my sister told me that he wears it like, every day.
I’m going to pin this down on UI issues.
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• 1:14 am 1
need to exorcise
I’ve been feeling a little depressed lately, and am not sure why, especially since I’ve just finished school, which should make me ecstatic! On that level, I surely am, but now that I’ve finally, frickin’ FINALLY graduated, shoes are dropping all around me.
Like, the combination of having to find a sustainable job, the impending misery of entering student-loan-repayment, and the prospect of having to move back in with the parentals – I’m probably not nearly as stressed out about all this as I should be (otherwise, I’d probably have a job by now), but still — it’s bad enough having to make all these transitions; the possibility that none of them will go in a positive direction is pretty discouraging.
On the plus side, I’m starting to get back into the groove of doing computer-y stuff, like for reelz. I spent most of the weekend learning a bit of Python, and while the indentation-consciousness is driving me batty, it’s nice to feel a sense of accomplishment for once. Hopefully I will stay on this track for awhile. Demons in the archivery business, get behind me!
(Also, when I do programming stuff, I forget to eat. Which is always a good thing. Although, since sitting on my ass all day doesn’t burn any calories, I guess it’s a wash, really.)
Maybe I should take up running again. Because then I could eat more ice cream (obviously). Really, there’s no ill ice cream doesn’t cure, or at least alleviate, if only for a few soothing moments.
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June 21, 2008 • 12:11 pm 0
thoughts on moving out, part 1
i found an M&M in a drawer i was cleaning out. then i remembered i’d stowed a bag of dark chocolate M&Ms in there, about 5 months ago. this one must’ve escaped, and stayed neatly hidden under sheafs of bills and recipes.
i debated eating it for about 3 minutes. but finally i threw it out, because i am not liz lemon!
more about "greenzo clip", posted with vodpod
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June 6, 2008 • 11:48 pm 0
will work for…pretty much anything
Digital archiving seminar: I met a lot of new people. One of them gave me stellar advice, when I told him I felt weird about wanting to not go into moving image archiving even after getting this degree: he said it wasn’t the content of the degree that mattered as much as what I went through to get it.
Such good advice! Of course, he went through that experience, which is how he knows. Anyway, I feel a lot freer for knowing that.
As in, I don’t really care if I find a job in archiving anymore. I’m gonna just do what I really feel like doing, which is web work.
I met someone else who offered to give me an informational interview at his firm, which does web developing for the entertainment industry (we *are* in LA). I was sort of tentative, since I’m not really a programmer. But he said I”d learn plenty on the job.
I think he’s right. If I find a problem, I will find a way to solve it. And if I learn to program while I do that, so much the better, right?
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