october 2008

oil paint stained hair, elbows, cheeks, pants, shirts, shoes, ipod, books - gesture drawings, paintings, green shadows and purple highlights - frantic writing scribbled in notebooks in disney world lines - 3 am developmental biology readings - eyes glazed over 2pm mmbio 441 lectures - kant, labels, understanding, fighting set-points - teach for america, orca grants, exhibitions - midnight painting and philosophizing with morganne - late night speakerphone calls with palette knifes and figure paintings - canyon drives and sigur ros - robert ryman and white having a tendency to make things beautiful - corn flakes with soy milk and bananas, coconut cream pie yogurt with stolen bookstore spoons - 25 minute swim workouts and yoga and cardio cinema running - autobiographical essays that say nothing autobiographical - falling into the atlantic ocean and embracing pure nakedness with patricia - roommate councils and dancing and laughing and walden at 6 am - thursday tofu dinners and vegetarianism and bean burritos from taco bell when i'm busy - curled up nights on the couch with my laptop - prokofiev and piano concertos and biking - three operas and two shopping sprees in five days - stream-of-consciousness lunches and walks and gatherings and fallings.