â?¢ Swimming at night. Floating under water in the pool lights feels like flying â?¢ Vietnamese sandwich from Cam Huong cafe â?¢ New rose garden to explore â?¢ Wanderng through Chapel of the Chimes â?¢ Knowing I’m coming home to my sweet sweet husband to be and out wonderful home.

I just got a Sparks flashback. Do you remember the 80s band Sparks? “I wanna go to new places tonight, I wanna go to new places with you, and after a while we’ll stop off for a bite, sammy sammy sammy sam sammy sam sam.” The sammy part isn’t really in the song, just that’s…

Yesterday we got up late, went over to the Martha & Brothers cafe on California and Divisadero in SF to see my work hanging (it’s up til August 1st), then drove on over to the East Bay for some nature. We walked in Tilden park in the hot, hot heat until we could walk no…

Guy breaking into cars in the Haight Originally uploaded by Fuzzyraygun Every few months we get a new car vandal in our neighborhood. This seems to be the latest culprit. Tom has seen him scoping out the contents of cars. Some mornings there are two or more cars on a single block with windows smashed.

Bakery Originally uploaded by angrypirate. Walking on Grande Ave this morning I saw this painted in a bakery window and nearly fall over.

Our Nintendo Wii came and I took Bart back over to San Francisco for some dinner and Wii time with my tré sportif fiancé. That damn video game machine is about the coolest invention for home use that the world has ever know. It’s the perfect fix for lazy Americans. The country is full of…

I walked to and from school on Monday. Adding in a trip to the bookstore, it was 10 miles total. I’m out of shape! The muscles that run along the sides of my back are so sore. For yesterday and today I’ve been doing shorter walks, waiting for my muscles to recover. Within the next…

I had my first, and hopefully my last bridezilla dream this morning. I was at my own wedding, thinking “Wow, this has been so easy. Everything’s done, now I get to just relax and enjoy myself.” I was going through a list in my head, making sure everything really was done when I suddenly realized…

It’s been good for me to get a little alone time during this cat sitting. But I spent the whole weekend with Tom and as he was packing his bag to leave this evening, my heart ached. He really is the most amazing company. I feel so happy around him. He’s a generally sunny guy…

A little background: Torodel, the place I’m speaking of in the IM conversation below, is a friend’s house in Morgan Hill. We’re planning on going there in the end of July. I’m doing some writing work on rituals, ceremonies, vision quests, etc., and I had a bit of a revellation today about my writing assignment.…

Walking Originally uploaded by angrypirate. I took a walk today. I started at oakland aquatic park, down tio jack london square, then ro chinatown to poke around the open market, a few loops around chinatown, then to the oakland museum. What a great place. $5 with a student I’d gets you into the three main…

Many cultures have healing rituals that involve transferring an illness from the patient to another object in order to remove it from the patient’s body. In the Andes, A shaman uses a cuy (type of guinea pig) as the transfer object. He/she rubs the cuy all over the patient’s body, then kills the cuy and…

I’m watching a lot of movies lately for my two classes. Last weekend I saw a film about the Canadian classical pianist Glenn Gould, directed by François Girard. Similar plot structure to the Ray Johnson movie: How to Draw a Bunny. The film is made up of snippets of interviews of Goulds acquaintances mixed with…

It was way too hot to paint today so we watched a movie in a nice, dark, cool room. The movie was called La Cienega. It’s a portrait of a very strange family in Argentina. The movie includes middle aged, leather-skinned drunks, wild, untamed children, wild, untamed dogs, lots of water, thunderstorms, guns, machetes, dirty…