March 2010
doubledoors asked: No, they aren't levi's. So close! =(
Not sure what to do, sort of in a holding pattern. I guess I could get a haircut. Or I could fill up my tiny notepad with maps and diagrams and notes about the trip to SF, my analog iPhone… hmmmm
Every craigslist ad is starting to look the same, and because people relist ads, I can’t be sure I haven’t already responded. So confusing (I typed “foncusing” at first)
I need a wall where I can pin stuff up, and write things and connect strings together, like an eccentric client on Burn Notice or someone trying to figure out the Flashforwards.
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I have an idea for a Frank Lapidus blog, but on the list of things to do, it is way low. Maybe it can be a retrospective, after the show is over; Bad-Ass Moments With Frank Lapidus or something.
How’s this for adventure?
I am flying to San Francisco on Friday. I will book a hotel for Friday night. I will go around looking at places to live. I will find one and hopefully move in by Sunday. Work starts Monday.
Yeah!
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Ughers drove back to Cincinnati and it was either pouring or at a stand still the whole way. So tired but have to continue looking for a place to stay while packing up the rest of the stuff here, to drive back to Cleveland tomorrow morning.
One plus side, I have my computer and phone chargers back!
Plain Dealings
1. Last night I went to the high school musical, it was Kiss Me Kate. I thought the show itself (plot, songs, etc) was pretty dull, but the kids were very talented, and more than made up for the weak material. Especially the two mobster characters, they were exceptional.
2. Afterward we went to the Brewing Company. Stefi, a friend who is I guess a doctor (residency maybe? but patients call...
Daily Dispatches from the Clev
1. I accepted the job! I just faxed in the acceptance letter! SAN FRANCISCO!
2. I am now frantically searching for a place to live. I’d like to start work April 5th, a week from Monday. Obviously, I am craigslisting up a storm, but if any of y’all have tips on neighborhoods or housing situations (know someone looking to sublet their place?) or just anything about San Fran, send...
Some things:
1. I am back home, the drive was a success. I ended up going with the two-trip method. I took home most everything this time, I shall head back to Cincinnati on Sunday to get everything else, and clean up the room for the next occupant.
2. I forgot both my computer charger and my cell phone charger at school. So, until Sunday, I shall be effectively incomputicado. I am on my...
My mother wanted me to text when I was leaving Cincy, which she said would be “before noon.” I texted at 11:30, saying I was still packing. She called back, I said I was driving, couldn’t talk, was buying more packing tape. She said, “and after that, you are leaving?”
I laughed.
It’s like she thinks I’m going on a fucking day trip. I’m moving...
Ooh I hope this firms hires me, the receptionist sounds cute and gay over the phone!
I leave tomorrow. Hopefully before noon, but I have a feeling that I have more stuff (read: errands) left to do than will fit in the morning.
I also know for a fact that I have more stuff (read: objects) to take than I have room in the car. When I moved in in the fall, I had a fully packed car, but I already had some stuff here, transferred directly from the previous apartment. Thus, more than...
Arrrgggg ran out of packing tape. Have I mentioned lately that moving sucks? Yes? Again, it does. Well, the moving out sucks. Moving to someplace is exciting. But I’m still in phase 1, so yeah, sucks.
I Demand Better Vampires (io9) →
A plea to return to when vampires were bad-ass.
Poop. If I burned stuff in the backyard, asshole neighbor Navi would totally call the cops, because he ruins everything. (@katie: no room to take the models home)
ARG. I was looking forward to taking pictures of the fire. Maybe if I do it fast enough, the cops won’t arrive in time. Maybe Navi has gone to bed by now, and if I do it quietly, no one will notice. Maybe the cops have...
“He built GE into the greatest company on Earth, and the Earth into one of the...”
– Jack Donaghy
Odd question, but Google is failing me: Does anyone know the actual wording of the letter left with Harry Potter on the doorstep of the Dursleys, when he is a baby? In the first movie, it is inside an envelope, so I can’t read it…
I don’t have the first book with me, so I can’t check there… I’m not even totally sure the exact contents of the letter were ever...
I think a model-burning party might be in order for tonight. What is a model-burning party, you ask?
A model-burning party is when you put all of the architectural models you’ve spent months making together in a pile, and you give them a proper sendoff in cleansing fire.
Pictured above, an estimated 200 hours of work goes up in flame. Tonight is perfect; it rained earlier today, so...
I am looking forward to living in the same place for a full year. It’s not coming up anytime soon, but when it does, I will have a big party at whatever place I live. The One Year Anniversary of Kevoh Living in A Single Space Extravaganza Party Spectacular.
The last time I lived in the same place for a full 12 months was in high school. The last time I lived in the same place for a full...
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frequentative flyers
kissdistinctlyamerican:
ragbag:
it turns out that the guy who was sitting next to me on my æroplane was studying linguistics so i axed him what was the hawt new thing in his field that gave him wood every time he thought about it. he didn’t answer me outright but he did tell me a little bit about frequentatives.
according to him, there are some languages (finnish, lithuanian, and turkish)...
Moving is a bitch.
Not knowing where I am moving is also a bitch.
Today I saw a caricature. A checklist made flesh.
Thick black frames, jacket over hoodie, lil’ cappy-cap, white earbuds, manpurse, keffiyeh scarf, and to top it all off, an American Apparel shopping bag.
jqsk asked: buy noise-cancelling headphones
your mistake is using Apple headphones to block sound
your mistake is using Apple headphones to block sound
At the fashion show, the “look” for the makeup of the models was really dark, big eyebrows, and pale and understated everywhere else.
They didn’t feel the need to give me any makeup.
[earlier, asking for advice re contacting a former TA now working at a firm I am applying at...]
me: someone needs to just fucking hire me
tyz: that is true
me: I'd start sucking cocks at this point
me: to get a job, I mean
me: not as a job
tyz: you wouldn't do that anyway?
me: well I mean, normally only with attractive people
tyz: ah
me: not old boss-types
tyz: [TA]'s?
me: well yeah, but I doubt it would do any good
tyz: cept the cock sucking part
me: but I'd still be out of a job
As finding an architecture internship is becoming a grim prospect, I’ve decided to look into other lines of work (via craigslist).
I think I would be a kick-ass butler for rich folk or live-in caregiver for some 2-parent-working family, or someone’s personal assistant/entourage. The challenge is how to get hired, to appear qualified.
Sure, I don’t know a whole lot about...
switchblades:
faucet:
I wish there was a drive-thru place that was fully robotic (I suppose automated is the proper word).
You would order by pressing buttons maybe, and the money would be like on a vending machine, and then the food would come out on one of those things, like they have at libraries/banks.
No interaction with other humans at any time.
Yeah, I’ve gone to Wendy’s/Sheetz/Wawa...
I wish there was a drive-thru place that was fully robotic (I suppose automated is the proper word).
You would order by pressing buttons maybe, and the money would be like on a vending machine, and then the food would come out on one of those things, like they have at libraries/banks.
No interaction with other humans at any time.
tyznik:
I really want a smoothie. I google-map-searched, but there is apparently no place in Cincy that sells them. That’s crazy. I should obviously move somewhere more beachy, I bet there would be lots of places there.
Are you half-tarded? Smoothie Kings are all over Cincinnati.
Lies! There is one all the way downtown, and one in Hyde Park.
I really want a smoothie. I google-map-searched, but there is apparently no place in Cincy that sells them. That’s crazy. I should obviously move somewhere more beachy, I bet there would be lots of places there.
I then looked into how to make my own smoothies, but I don’t think I can. I don’t have a blender, well maybe someone in the house does, but I don’t even have...
Debating making a late night run to Taco Bell… start hearing sex noises next door… tacos here I come!
On the walk home, I passed a UDF, and thought to myself, “Milkshake!” But I looked inside and there was a line, so I skipped it.
Later in the walk, I thought, “By now, I would have had my milkshake.” Should have waited in line.
Fashion Designer: You don't mind showing your chest, right?
Me: Uh... I guess not?
Not sure what I got myself roped into. So the fashion show thing, that I’m helping out a housemate with: my involvement is steadily increasing.
I just drove her to it, she had to get there early and didn’t want to walk in the heat. I’m going back in 40 minutes, they need to fit the clothes for me, and then I’m working the door. Sure there will be champagne for everyone...