things that are not cool

First Photo of the Trip to Europe, 2007 © ichlebowski, 2011

• red, pink, or any non-white* toilets

• trash-talking co-workers to other co-workers 

• eating mcdonalds for your first meal of the day

• black* shower caulk

• soy-sauce or asparagus smelling pea

• mispelling pee as "pea"

• misspelling "misspelling"

• digressing

*toilet racist!

*caulk racist!

no more/i love today

No more: cream cheese, frizzy hair, books weighing more than 10 lbs
I love: denim on Monday mornings, iced tea with hibiscus, uncompleted to-do lists

i love...

1. hearing from far-away friend who say they thought of me because they are wearing a skirt with chuck taylors. oh yeah. i ♥ being facebook-free.

2. decaf tim's given as gifts on grey friday mornings while i wear all black except on my feet

3. the thought of the weekend

4.crazy orange-colored bathrooms with off-kilter lights and no soap

5. A full week of random rain where my umbrella becomes an daily outfit accessory

six things i love today

1. a warm red coat on an 18 degree march morning

2. hot, hot beverages

3. butter

4. quiet, monday offices

5. a morning re-nap

6. internet access

1. Suggestion: put large blackberries into cereal bowl and observe

2. Buy: photo postcard and other antiques at Antique World

3. Write: letters to your friends while taking photographs of the summer rain

these are a few of my favorite things...

1. fresh cherries in july

2. short shorts at home

3. pre-rinse mouthwash

4. rainy saturday mornings

5. refilling bottles

6. google.com

7. consistently making messes

8. all of the above

time always changes things. i often think about the pace of my life and how it fluctuates. i'm done with school now but still always busy. i think people that are busy always are, and people that are "bored" are often bored. i hope to always be able to say there is something new when asked, "hey, what's new?" this image is my schedule the week prior to my thesis opening; every minute was accounted for-and to use my new word propinguity--even though i am far from this place in my life, there remains a propinguity to the list-making.

The two things I have been staring at and still am:

1. A McDonald's coupon for a free chicken sandwich of my choice available at the not just new remodeled, but newly torn down and rebuilt, McKinley Parkway McDonald's
2. A 68 cent stamp from Ireland

I am reconsidering the "gossip column"--it will take the form of an beginning point for observation and will most likely focus on something specific

tree structures and rain

daunting tasks i have avoided until today:
begin to organize my computer files
make 80's music discs for my brother
rake leaves
[the cover of the disc will be this sketch joey made of the kitchen where he is a dishwasher]