The Well. The town may be changed, health But the well cannot be changed. It neither decreases nor increases. They come and go and draw from the well. If one gets down almost to the water And the rope does not go all the way, sickness Or the jug breaks, it brings misfortune. Six in…

Ha ha, I get to bore you with tedious information about the rice in my life. I went to the japanese market on the way home from school today to stock up. I am going to eat rice for two months until my book is done. I can just throw it in the zojirushi and…

Here are photos from our adventure. The first few are of the church we looked at. If you are intersted in buying an old church in a cool town, this might be for you. But we had some problems with it. It needs a new roof, there are foundation problems, there are run off problems…

Someone is using my url to spam other people’s blogs. I am not Dickinson or Miller or any other name but Alanna Spence. Please delete their posts. We just got back from Oregon. We were looking at a church that was for sale. It didn’t work out but it was still a fun weekend. A…

Happy birthday to me! I didn’t finish the friday finders keepers but I guess I can cheat a little since it’s my special day. maybe I’ll finish it on the way to Oregon. I treated myself to a new denim skirt today and I’m just about as happy as a girl can be. bye!

I’m tired. I’m not too stressed, although I’m sure that’ll come next week. I’m aboue a chapter behind, hopefully I can stay on top of it and only be a couple days behind schedule. We’re going away for the weekend and although I’m bringing my computer, I don’t know how much I’ll get written. I’m…

Every once in a while I take a little tally of how many words and pages I write. That way when I’m feeling down, I can focus on my progress instead of the towering mountain in front of me. In the last two weeks alone, I’ve written 26,399 more words for my book. That’s just…

Fancy and new Originally uploaded by angrypirate. I’m taking advantage of city college’s new shiny library today. There are quiet desks and comfy seats to work in. I get so distracted at home. I’m about an hour away from my 33.3% mark for the book. I need to get two more chapters done by friday.…

I’m starting to panic about getting 6 more chapters turned in my sept 23rd. Am I going to make it? One chapter at a time, baby. Just keep swiming. I am runing a couple errands today, picking up the postcards and faxing some direct deposit info so I can finally get paid. I haven’t received…

I had a dream about floating, marching typefaces. It felt like a cheesey dream sequence in an old movie. I can almost here the war propaganda music playing the background. I can’t remember exactly what was going on but I was somehow responsible for the fate of these typefaces. There were serif and sans serif…

I don’t really have anything to say. I’ve got to turn in a chapter tonight or I’ll never make the deadline. So I type. type type type. Those donuts are making me so hungry!

This is a sketch from the other day. I’m trying to keep up with my drawing class homework of a sketch a day. There’s no time though so I just crammed in 4 sketches in a couple hours. This one is of my beautiful egg dish. I’m not showing you the rest, so there! I…

The very last thing I should be doing at this moment is surfing the web. I have just 14 days to complete the next 7 chapters of my book. I’m only on the first half of the first one. I wish someone would come and take me away to a magic land where the days…

The Corner Cup Cafe on 43rd and Lawton in San Francisco have been accepting donations that they are going to drive out to Texas to help Katrina victims. They leave for Texas on September 13th. They have been overwhelmed with donations and need help this weekend sorting and packing up the truck. They could also…

Here’s today’s Finders Keepers drawing. It’s another 4″ x 6″ watercolor and aqua color crayon. It’s a keeper! I wonder if I’ll finally get a response from this one.