No maps for these territories

I missed the UC Davis Student Farm okra cook-off! OMG! this is the only link I can find, but I was assured by a farmer at the farmer’s market — where I was buying okra! — that it had happened… last week. Items of amazement: 1) There is such a thing as an okra cook-off [...]

…thank goodness I’m not a freshman anymore.

is when it gets used in commercials. I bought that Feist album before the song got used in that Apple iPod spot, I swear!

things I am unlikely to want or need: * an Exxon-Mobile credit card * a better mortgage rate * Viagra * a nice girl to chat with me I’m just sayin’. On the other hand, I do get librarian spam now (overstuffed children’s book-shaped furniture, anyone?) which is kind of funny/awesome.

This is the part where I would be writing things in a real journal if I had one still, ongoing. I received a couple long-lost old journals in the mail today, from an ex who kindly mailed them back. It’s a little disconcerting, though, to realize I have been so casual with my thoughts as [...]

I have been depressed, a condition that I’ve learned how to live with out here in what feels like the wilderness, with few people to love or talk to or prop up my weak self esteem for me. I am annoyed at this, while learning to live with it; it feels like I can’t get [...]

My father, who is one of the more talkative people I know when he gets going (quiet mostly, but watch out if he starts telling a story) does not type very well. I showed him how to use gmail over last Christmas and so every once in awhile I will see him online. “Hey dad”, [...]