tonight from 7pm-8pm

mother tells the good stories: when auntie bit down on her fiance's balls, making 4,000 to 40,000 from hair styling to flower arrangements to designer boutique, crashing her car in a robbery, moving to america and MORE.

2010 Resolutions

i. understand investing (profits and risks)
ii. contribute to IRA/prepare & calculate for retirement
iii. visit thailand
iv. master the art of grafting
v. more photography resources
vi. tai chi

my other song

my song

man is wolf to man

help us eat

xmas breakfast here, the best thai-chinese morning joint:

chinese porridge w soft boiled egg and fish (or egg and pork), soy milk (home made, served w beans and skin), chinese donuts, ginger tofu soup (w mini chinese doughnut), egg noodles w duck, thai coffee! the parents ordered cow blood soup, but i did not try it.

another big soup dinner waiting for us at pong's house. the kind where there is a grill and hot pot of water are built into the table. you dip your meats and vegetables in for a few- with 8 or 10 people, it makes a great light and savory broth.

p.s. mom thinks i should be 110 lb, not 125 lb. steve, our mechanic, agreed previously, and today all of the four men at the table agreed at the table. but the owners of siam sunset did not agree. in that funny thai way, the husband and wife told my mom to leave me alone. mom says "you are american skinny, not asian skinny!" ha.

really hope this is a gift!: the grafter's handbook

i saw santa on his harley today on the 10E! my family plus family friends carpooled to alhambra for all you can eat seafood. nine bucks per head- it was great in its volume and mediocrity.

so into this: Cactus Rescue Crew


MERRY XMAS

i can think of eight 40 or 50 somethings who have never had health insurance in their life and they are ecstatic.

learning how to round braid leather- not easy.

soy sauce covers wallet, wallet drenched soy sauce. i keep my wallet in my back pocket. back pocket smells like soy sauce!

farted on by brother- just comes in the room to "poot poot poot" and then leaves.

broiled mackerel and rice omelette for dinner.

"abdominals and thighs... thank you ladies"

my favorite girl is second to last (hyper-tanned to a milk chocolate from the neck down but with a bobbing head of white @ 1 minute and 20 secs).






aggressive beauty

this brings me back to my previous obsession w Larry Weaner.

brother is home!!! we are filled to the rim w sushi.

to be the universe

i did not know that the galaxy could be made up of bodacious babes in sequins and dancing. i think that dance looks fun (video is bearable when mute). I'm going to learn it.

2.5 hour phone conversation w zach

my people

the fishing was great today

finishing applications for competitions after competitions.



reading list:
Herta Müller
Seamus Heaney
Wislawa Szymborska

GETTING MY GROOVE BACK

8 months of scalpel work, so worth it:

i did it!

string figures! I learned the Apache Door today.

I wrote to Andrea recently saying how I took a break from working, but the longer I put myself on hold the less confident I felt in my direction. And so it goes, I must keep working. I have been covering the field from photography proposals and editing to location scouting and taking photographs. I turned away from my color work quickly after the debut of the sophomore work, but I've spent time re-editing now and I really like where I am going. I can say this is me, this is how I think. I especially think I am not done. I always forget the time it takes to accumulate work. If I cultivate one amazing series, I will be satisfied.

I am lucky to have a resource for free developing. 10 rolls of film today: maine coyotes, irish wolfhound with hydrangeas, yellowstone forest fires, geysers, sheep, palm trees, pine beetles, lemon trees, ewen wright's wedding, etc etc. I can't remember. 9/10 rolls were Black and white. I haven't seen them, but I am excited to see what my investigation looks like. To think in color is so different. I feel like I am just starting to get the hang of it. But really, I am more wowed by black and white gelatin prints and in that way more devoted. You can enjoy the surface of the paper, the depths of black- have you ever seen 40 different shades of black? That is what I mean, there is simply nothing like it.

I have not enjoyed a good black and white print in a long, long time. Tomorrow, I hope, will offer goodness at the Irving Penn Getty exhibit. We will see what kind of a printer he is! At the SFMOMA, I was really impressed by the post-war Japanese work, but especially the diverse exhibit of contemporary asian photographers. Some of them are doing pure poetry.

the things i could be doing in massachusetts

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