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Day 1, Emeryville, San Francisco, Oakland

did:

breakfast - chicken sausage w. caramelized onions, shiitake mushrooms, arugula salad w. cranberries & pecans & raspberry gorgonzola dressing

got a library card! - well the SF library does not really compare to the Santa Monica library, but the homeless are more courageous to tell you when they think you look nice. but they also like to check to see if you're a student. and if you're not a student, well to see if you "work a really hard 9 - 5." even if you don't, you obvi say yes.

looked at a really shitty apartment - it's the first of places so it seems funny, but i'm sure after five or something more i will be so sad.

tattoo parlor - i'm obsessed w my sister's new bf. he is SO nice. and his japanese friends are very, very sarcastic. we even tried explaining to them what sarcastic meant, i dont think they understood but maybe they did? also skull and sword is a really cool place. they are tattoo warriors!!

kung fu panda - five stars!!

blue bottle holiday party - wow, everyone loves working at blue bottle. i am really excited for tomorrow!!

to be filled with a great longing

TO SAN FRANCISCO

i dont know if i have packed enough sweaters!

had a great day at the gardens yesterday. escorted by sarah montana and seven 4x5 negatives total. way too excited to see what the work will look like. what is interesting about working with a large format camera, especially after a short hiatus, is the focus and time it takes to take one photograph. you have to really mean it. and i love that. (also one sheet of 4x5 film is $3, to develop must be another $4 or 5)

which reminds me --> this woman's (malavika sarukkai, my recent inspiration/model for devotion) soul is dancing, and i am really into how she expresses her rethinking of tradition here:


got my 120 film back from megan and i am pretty psych to scan in work from late august and september.

also why my mom is the best: she came in while i was packing with 3 huge trays of raspberries, cherries, and blackberries for the road!!


am going to miss my LA friends so much!!

"he will let you coat his throat with cotton"

i dont know what it is about citrus trees, but i was in the hills yesterday and they were driving me crazy.

why i think the refreshing sensation of fruition in big lumps just gives me a cranial embrace! maesa and i hiked up and around her estate w a view camera. so many crazy agaves. big guys and their babies and babies of their babies. one or two successful maturation trees. i look at them and think, man that is family. also have you ever seen someone draw agave nectar? here it is:

TMI

Some days I feel like I've striked gold on the internet:

California Rare Fruit Growers Contest

Fruit Facts



Bay Area Archery Range

Discovery Classes

can't wait for the

huntington desert garden!!!

recent finds:
a kind of oral health history, strange but moving. something about their voice, the objective of speaking to be heard, and sincere articulation.

also i wish they built this program for non-iphone users. it offers a way of ringing your phone when you've misplaced it, or send a message to your phone when its in the hands of another person, or map its gps location, all so you can find it.

Readibility is another sweet program that simplifies the webpage in front of you down to text and photos .

I was born to be a Thai Pop Star, my dad says.

ATTENTION! I have been swooned by the edible arrangement! Yes, cheesy! Yes, delicious! and Yes, I'm in love with this gesture- the sensation of appreciation that is experienced when there is a witness (messenger) to present the sender's token of affection- OH man, there is nothing like it. I mean, even my mother was swooned. I am SO impressed with my doctors (They are great doctors).

also noteworthy, ill but eating well (can't help it):

Breakfast: mom's rice soup with steamed cod and fish sauce, OJ and pineapple for desert.
Lunch: Goddess tea.
Dinner: Dad's tuna (so fresh my brother and I tasted blood), sea urchin sashimi, squid sashimi, raw oysters in sweet rice vinegar and green onions, and ice cream!