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[24 Dec 2008|04:15pm] |
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i lead a fairly legitimate life as a web designer now.
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[27 Jun 2008|07:38am] |
i have a client that is situated in a troubled neighborhood, sometimes i visit them to have meetings. i take the light rail and then the bus. it is a pain. the last time i went, the bus was 25 minutes late. i was pissed and hot and sweaty by the time i got to my meeting. my client is nestled a block away from a main boulevard, and i get dropped by the bus and picked up by the bus on that main boulevard.
last time i got dropped there, after my heinous 25 minute delay, a guy a few feet away from me was hollering, "somethin special! somethin special!" something special on the corner of a drug-addled neighborhood? oh whatever could it be......? it was about 4 in the afternoon.
yesterday at 2:20 in the afternoon a woman got shot in the side on that block.
these are among many reasons i will not be staying here permanently.
i wonder why this woman was shot. i'm glad that the paper mentioned that she will survive.
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[25 Jun 2008|11:51am] |
the more salad i eat the more coffee i drink.
i think i am going to walk to the inner harbor today. i need to find a spot to work that is not my apartment so i can uhh, get fresh air and things of that nature. panera bread has a time limit on how long you can stay there so that's out. and i don't want it to be someplace where people think i'm an asshole. but i guess anywhere i end up people will think i'm an asshole because i'm typing on my laptop in public.
but i'm not an asshole!! i'm just a freelancer who doesn't like to be in her apartment all the time!! :|
and i can't afford to rent a space yet. i would love to rent a little space to use as a studio and office. but that requires money i don't have.
hmm.
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[22 Jun 2008|09:13pm] |
on friday i was walking in the grocery store downtown and a mouse popped out of its hole under the bread and almost ran into my foot.
tim and i went out to dinner tonight and he lifted up the ketchup on our table and there was a clusterfuck of baby flies under it. it was like looking into the face of satan.
i hope this isn't one of those things that happens in threes, i feel like i've had enough grossness in my life to last me a while now
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[31 May 2008|11:28pm] |
i'm so ridiculously excited for my mta monthly pass to go into effect tomorrow. freeeedddooommmmm!
tonight i was walking around midtown and feeling pretty ok about life. i guess finally starting to emerge from this heinous polymorphic phlegm plague is having a good effect on my mood.
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[28 May 2008|12:15pm] |
back in baltimore....for good i guess. for the forseeable future. setting up camp for the next year.
this illness of doom i have has migrated from my throat to my ears to my chest and now into my sinuses. awesome. i'm sure everyone at work will be really thrilled to see how freak nasty i am today. phlegm everywhere.
this is my first post on the sweet new battery tim gave me. so far, so good.
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[16 May 2008|09:10am] |
to livejournal user x___d3votional:
i tried to respond to your message with another message but it said your privacy settings don't permit that, so i will post it here.
my account is not inactive. for you to assume it is "going to waste" is rather rude on your part. as a result, i must deny your request for my password.
regards,
christine
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[02 May 2008|10:03am] |
WHO IS PUNKING ME RIGHT NOW WITH THIS E-MAIL IN MY INBOX? COME FORWARD. I KNOW THIS IS A TOTAL PRANK AND I COMMEND YOU FOR GIVING ME SOME LAFFS THIS MORNING.
SHOW YOURSELF! you should know that i am a sleuth on the internets and i will figure out who did this eventually.
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[18 Apr 2008|08:42pm] |
i am so beat. only 3 more weeks.
i hope this summer is the best ever. iced coffee, bike rides, visiting all exhibitions in the baltimore region, photo safaris, making stuff. i need to fix my bike tire, it is really upsetting to not be able to ride in this awesome weather. i just want to blow down howard street in the middle of the night with the wind all up in my hair.
you know that spring is here in baltimore when people start driving around with their windows down and their music blaring.
fashion show tomorrow yesss. i am going to get $paid$ to watch the show and tell people where the bathroom is.
tim learned how to ride a bike so we could ride together this summer. :) such love!
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[08 Apr 2008|11:50am] |
i have so much stuff to do today that it's truly frightening to me.
hopefully at 7am sharp tomorrow i will be waiting inside a building downtown with my gigantic painting leaning against the wall and my laptop on my lap so i can do homework while i wait. i will be feverishly guarding my spot in line to hang aforementioned gigantic painting in a well-managed gallery space. i will likely be running on little to no sleep.
but once the painting is hung, i will be home free! kind of. i'll still have a novel to read for thursday and likely a bunch of website coding to do for later on that day. hah.
if this painting sells....i will be so thrilled. and while part of that does have to do with my pile of debts, most of it is just that i would be honored to have someone spend so much of their money on something i made. (i will likely be pricing this painting at near a thousand dollars.) i want to feel like my time and my thought and my effort do have some sort of investment value. and i like the idea of someone living with my work the way that i live with it in our apartment. i have some paintings hung on the wall here and they take on a new sort of life when they're in the space with me day after day. the ones that i file away in a closet aren't like that. chances are if this painting doesn't sell i'll make sure to hang it somewhere in the apartment so it can still have a conversation with people.
but paying off my credit card sure wouldn't feel bad either. shiiit.
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[05 Apr 2008|01:34pm] |
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i am stunned by the drama in my life. for real. i was sitting here today and i realized oh shit, my life. kids don't even know. i don't even look for this business anymore, it finds me. that's the true drama. drama that doesn't need an invitation. drama that rolls out whenever it damn well pleases.
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[05 Apr 2008|10:55am] |
i'm eating the brownies my boss made me and taking a moment to agree with the history channel here. public transportation like the one i'm watching in athens right now is truly righteous. this is one of the few topics i feel really evangelical about. public transit:
-reduces pollution
-reduces traffic congestion
-aids low-income people who can't afford a car + gas + car insurance
-saves consumers money in general
-it's safer, physically. i'd rather get mugged on the way to the bus stop than get fucked up in a car wreck.
-promotes redevelopment of blighted urban & suburban areas alike
-encourages a more socialized society - instead of being alone in your car you're interacting with other people.
-reduces dependence on foreign oil
i can't wait until i live someplace with a more developed public transit system - i took san fran's muni while i was there and it was pretty great. maybe baltimore will be a different place one day once they build all this.
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[31 Mar 2008|02:53pm] |
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i am working so hard on my portfolio. thank bob i got this javascript to work, it was driving me nuts. ugh. now my content slides and fades in, because i'm fancy like that.
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[21 Mar 2008|02:57am] |
i remembered this thing and i thought i should post notice that i'm alive and all.
has anything exciting happened lately? not really. just:
illness
work
painting
work
work
work
mucus
work
work
painting
but it's getting not so cold out. i keep jumping the gun on emerging from the apartment sans winter coat. i don the thin pink hoodie only to regret it. one of these days it'll be warm enough to be fine in a thin hoodie. i am so, so glad that this is my second to last winter! good riddance! nothing makes me nostalgic for the west coast more than ugly winters. baltimore isn't even so bad. i don't know how i would have survived in chicago, what a bullet dodged.
i can feel the hip factor draining out of my life. anything remotely young or fresh about me is getting pounded out with every rent payment. oh well. bring on the routine.
today there was a lot of venom on the internet toward my school because of a student's public art installation in mount vernon park. it was pretty illuminating. i've been chewing over all the comments in my head. eventually i'll probably write about it at visual-scope.net. (this is where i do a majority of my writing now)
ok, time to go enjoy some of that luscious spring break sleep.
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[25 Feb 2008|10:23am] |
note to self: q lofts
can't i just be part of a traveling circus for the next year.
adult/kid limbo is the worst. i'm so broke, it's pathetic. i laid out all my meals for the week on a sheet of paper so i could make sure that i'm not going to starve. i'm saving for my rent over a month in advance. if i can just make it through finishing up school i think i'll be ok. but in the meantime it's living in constant sneaking panic just waiting to overwhelm me.
i'm trying to do good work, but man is it hard.
i was going to do an underwater painting - i started it out - and then i ran out of blue ink. what do i do? the ink is between $4-$5 bucks a pop, and it's not like you can only use one type of blue.
bitch bitch moan moan. just 3 more months. 3 more months.
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| ATTENTION: HAPPY NEWS |
[13 Feb 2008|06:47pm] |
to anyone who still may read this, i present a post that is different from my normal bitching and moaning:
I AM IN A SHOW! i have a painting featured in this group show and the opening is happening this saturday.
"eureka: happy accidents and exquisite failures"
february 12 - 26
load of fun
120 w. north avenue
baltimore, maryland 21201
OPENING RECEPTION: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 7 PM - 11 PM
:D
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[12 Feb 2008|06:16pm] |
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i got schooled by my apartment building's side stairwell and now my right foot is fucked. it's 6:17 pm and i haven't heard about the new york times so i'm guessing i didn't get the illustration spot. harsh times dude, harsh times.
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[10 Feb 2008|09:46am] |
i went to a party last night (i know, right) and had this fucking cranberry juice that didn't have high fructose corn syrup in it. it was from trader joe's....and so i looked up where i can go get some of this juice for myself....only to find that there are no trader joe's within city limits!! fucking baltimore!!! :( in order to get myself some non-HFCS juice i would have to go to the motherfucking county, unless i can find something good at whole foods :( whole foods' vitamin water knockoff doesn't use HFCS but they only sell it in the individual sized containers, that's sooo much plastic.
it is really depressing to go to rite aid across the street and look at the labels on everything. no wonder we are so fat.
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[07 Jan 2008|11:58pm] |
to do list
-stop being a tool and go to gallery openings. i mean it
-eat fruits + veggies and not pasta + cheese
-work out at least every other day
-sell artwork, lots of it.
-build screen exposure unit and start screenprinting posters, cards, and other stuff
-keep apartment cleaner, organize monster bin of ugly paperwork
-do more baltimore city exploration
-get blog going, not this thing here, but you know....something where i write about things other than my financial distress....like things people actually would want to read about....
-self-publish catalogue of recent work
-get into some fucking shows
-spend some more time in the lovely district of columbia
-take more photos
-rescue myself from debt as much as humanly possible
unfortunately i think all of this ads up to me not sleeping much. o_o
coffee will always be allowed in my diet. or tea. i could maybe live with tea. but coffee with chocolate silk soymilk isn't too bad for you, right? right?
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[12 Dec 2007|01:43am] |
i am pitifully awake and hacking away at code while watching this over and over
something about snoop dogg sailing through space on a round bed makes me really at peace with the world despite the carnage that is finals
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