Chicken Butt! Ok, just kidding. the answer to the question is… I’m graduating today! I mean, I guess technically I’m already graduated, but today I get to dress in a black robe and wear a funny little velvet beret and they are going to give me a rolled up piece of blank vellum wrapped in…

Job interview #1: small friendly company. Employees seem genuinely happy to work there. Manager is excited about my experience and makes me feel smart and useful. Company values are fantastic. Seems like I would feel right at home there. Loud music, interoffice banter, laughter, and smiling faces, beer on fridays. Cute office in a great…

I was trying to cram information in my brain all day when suddenly I hit a wall. What was this strange feeling I was expriencing? Oh, I think it might be some sort of exhaustion. Then an idea dawned on me… Art school was like being on a deserved island for two years with a…

We are in close orbit you and I circling one another gravity tugs us tighter towards one another then looses it’s grip momentarily love takes a breath… now renewed we turn again and face one another arms reaching, yearning we spin again and again our endless, lovely patterns keep our bodies in motion magnetic

Well, my rollercoaster of fear, anxiety ad excitement continues. Sunday was fear and anxiety and the last two days have been confusion and excitement. I’ve been interviewing and it’s giving me warm, fuzzy feelings about my future. Seems things are going to be alright after all.

What do Michael Jackson, Jimmy Smith, Modest Mouse, Wilco, Queens of the Stoneage, and Joe Roland have to do with one another? My new iPod Shuffle! I treated myself to one of those gems yeterday and I am a happy camper. What a great little device. I hooked it to the tank top underneath my…

From a Rebecca Solnit article in Orion Magazine this month: Many of the changes are so incremental that you adjust without realizing something has changed until suddenly one day you realize everything is different. The article is about a revolution going on right now in food production, medical pollution, global warming and all that good…

Two years ago, when I got into CCA, Mod gave me a Daruma Doll. This is what they are: From Wikipedia Daruma dolls (é?磨, daruma?), also known as dharma dolls, are hollow and round Japanese wish dolls with no arms or legs, modelled after Bodhidharma, the founder and first patriarch of Zen.[1] Typical colors are…

Looking for the CCA Painters Yearbook? Find it here.

My emotions are up and down like a snappy, new yo-yo. I think about the long journey to get to where I am now and it feels unclimactic to me right now. After classes I find myself roaming the halls aimlessly or sitting in on other people’s classes. It feels like something should happen/ Maybe…

I’ve got it in my head that I won’t feel officially graduated until I get me some karaoke action. Who’s gonna help me see my dream come true?

That’s right, I went out into the sunshine today. My cheeks are pink and rosey. As a matter of fact, we’ve gone out into the world twice in two days. Last night we had dinner and beers at Luka’s Taproom followed by a lovely concert down the street. We saw the Swell Season at the…

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The New York Times has composed a page with links to all the articles written about bees in the past year or so. You can find it here. SF Gate has n article on the front page right now about bees. Read it here.

I keep posting things and then taking them down. I feel a bit like a train wreck sometimes lately. And it feels icky to be so anxiety ridden over little things when so many people in my life are having such a hard time. I can’t wait to be done with school and get a…