day one of training my replacement; then i conveniently vomited at work for the first time ever and have been doing so ever since

help,

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went to a benefit for the LA derby dolls last night.  totally random and interesting.  art, music, men in underwear gyrating onstage?!, godzilla, and a sea of twinkle lights to saunter through with 3D glasses.

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so this guy i dated for like fifteen minutes just got engaged

cool

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long weekend of BBQs, hikes, drinks, and recovery

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LA is burning, New Zealand is freezing, NYC is raining

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for our senior art exhibition, brandon styled and photographed melanie and i in a remote field in austin. i would never have done something like this had melanie not been with me. at the gallery, brandon printed two images gigantically. the photographs of us life size and captivating — not because of mel and i, but because of brandon’s ability to capture the very essence of that afternoon. a few weeks later, melanie and i were in Gas Pipe on south 5th buying brandon a new pipe because i had broken his. i found and bought us the most beautiful pair of pipes, brandon’s a handblown yellow beauty, and then mine: ruby ruby red. when i was paying, the cashier looked back and forth between melanie and i trying to connect something and stopped: i just saw ya’ll in a gallery, in those photographs.  he recognized us. it was a chance encounter with a stranger who had been to the exhibition — then i purchased ruby, with my very dear friend melanie, for our very dear friend brandon. i loved that day. i think so fondly upon it.

ruby slipped out of my hands and shattered against some stairs tonight. you yell noo after it’s too late.

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Nicaragua sounded dangerous; she liked the word. Nicaragua! It sounded like some kind of spider. There it goes, under the table – Nicaragua!

Dave Eggers, How We Are Hungry

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Nokia held a competition for filmmakers to create a short movie filmed on one of their new phones. This was the winning short. Quite a lovely two minutes.

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the sun beats and beats and beats on you and then somehow, you’re charged

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