come on, people.

okay, so i fully understand that giving out an email address often leads to being placed on unwanted mailing lists. i get it.

but when i start receiving large html announcements about nickleback's latest album, someone's gone too far.

(shudder)

how i deal with chronic indecision

This handy little link.

* ANTI-MALARIAL PILLS HURT MY PARIETAL/OCCIPITAL LOBE
* ALL CAPS MEANS YELLING, YOU KNOW

baby's got some good news on the way now

yeah, could be any day now

i guess you'll know a good amount of this if you see my flickr stream (or, god forbid, talk to me), but anyway:

+ guatemala & belize = visiting colonial towns, hiking up an active volcano, fresa con leche, needing four people to construct one sentence, night hike to catch the sunrise in tikal, getting eaten alive by mosquitoes, swimming with sharks and rays

+ really excited for the academy of sciences opening

+ drinking cold sweet rose tea and have been craving: double chocolate crisps a'la ikea, fried chicken, okonomiyaki/takoyaki, xue li hong

+ saw fleet foxes on friday night (for $10 extra; i hate scalpers.) - amazing show! go see them! they are charming bearded young men!

+ zuni cafe (finally) for dinner on thursday night

you may not love this photo as much as i do.
(flashback to just about this time, last year)

springtime lovin', OR an affair with italics

signs that the birds and the bees have been very busy:

+ a heated conversation about preserved penises. over dinner.
+ being accosted by not one, but two very aggressive guys at a show tonight. with boyfriend right next to me.
+ for the past hour, the ceiling above my head has been squeaking in a very rhythmic manner.

i was cleaning out some files on my desktop and found this gem of a note from a few months ago:

"documenting my strange and unbridled hunger:

9:00am: breakfast. a banana and toasted english muffin with peanut butter. feel satisfied.
12:25pm: suddenly excruciatingly hungry. eat lunch of grilled salmon and broccoli over brown rice. and an entire bag of pirate's booty.
2:08pm: hungry again. drink a glass of water to distract/fool stomach.
2:15pm: still hungry.
3:13pm: still hungry. pull out a (slightly old) piece of gum to chew on. it almost looks pre-chewed. gnaw on it anyway. "

it's a miracle i'm not morbidly obese at this point.