Last night I opened mail saying I got Medi-Cal but that my share of cost per month is more than $2000. This is based on their calculation that we make more than $52,000 a year, absolute bunk–it’s difficult to calculate our monthly income because of the erraticness of our work schedules. So workers who try… Read More »
It was an excellent weekend of apple tasting, goat viewing, food eating (mostly Mexican food), and quality time spent with family and friends. I got some really wonderful presents: a MP3 player, homemade photo notecards, an Alice Notley book, old fashioned candy, mini-notecards with sunflowers on them, a homemade hat and scarf, stationery from Germany,… Read More »
This morning I packed for our trip this weekend. For lunch I got inspired and made pasta with sun dried tomatoes, kalamata olives, and peas, with olive oil and salt and pepper. It was good. I hadn’t been cooking much at all lately (living off sandwiches, cereal, yogurt, cream-of-wheat), so I was surprised.
Today I got a call from my friend P wanting me to make a flier for her. I needed to take stuff from two different PDFs and put them together. So I did that. So now I’m a flier-maker, I guess.
Car passed smog. I’ve been tinkering with spam subject lines trying to get poems out of them. It will take some time for me to decide. I think the mistranslations I’ve been doing with my best friend E have prepared my mind, somewhat.
Today we brought the car to a mechanic to get an oil change and smog. I’m waiting for a phone call. I’m nervous it won’t pass. Meanwhile, the truck is running rough. We drove it around this afternoon. We took it to the library, where I got a bunch of CDs and a couple books.… Read More »
Brads can be used for binding a zine. All the brads I’ve seen in my life were golden in color and a certain size, but in researching for this blog post, I’ve learned that they don’t have to be golden but can be any color and can have decorative thinkiedookies on top. It’s like a… Read More »
I got a beautiful zine in the mail yesterday–it’s called Dirty Love, and it’s by Erin. Haven’t read it yet. It’s got a red cardstock cover and is bound with little brads. Listening to Elliot Smith’s XO. My friend J in Chicago who’s sent me a lot of music over the years picked the two… Read More »
I think this is a fantastic project of gathering favorite words of different languages. http://favouritewords.wordpress.com/