July, 6, 2005 archives

“i get very infatuated with people i come in contact with every day. someone i work with, someone i see regularly, someone i don’t even talk to. i develop ‘crushes’ on almost anyone mildly attractive or interesting, with no real reason. it always last for long periods of time and it’s pretty pathetic really. my way of dealing with it is to never act on it and never discuss it in any way, with anyone, ever.” — “puke & cry” answering a question about crushes on askmefi.

“i never have found the perfect quote. at best i have been able to find a string of quotations which merely circle the ineffable idea I seek to express.” — caldwell o’keefe

“to try to be better is to be better.” — charlotte cushman

“the ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.” — w. somerset maugham

there were a bunch of these in the marketing stockpile in our seattle office. i grabbed a bunch, but now i’m almost out.

i also grabbed a nifty travel mug. now i just need to start drinking coffee. and travel.

this history of suck is a good read — it sounds like it was one of those too-rare confluences of great people and great fun.

you would have to lay down some heavy incentives for me to brave fantastic four this weekend, so my current plan is to spend saturday or sunday taking pictures of outdoor fountains in downtown. there’s a certain hubris to putting fountains in a city that imports a huge amount of its water from hundreds of miles away. and on top of that, i like fountains.

but the following weekend, charlie and the chocolate factory is absolutely in the cards, even with the possibility that it will fall short of willy wonka and the chocolate factory. i’d say it was worth seeing at arclight, but they won’t have it.

awake before 6am, struggling (and often failing) to stay awake until 11pm.

the benefit of working from home is that i never use caffeine to wake up in the morning — just to stay awake at night. (and not very often for that.)

current favorite song: “goodnight and go” by imogen heap.

skipping beats, flashing jeeps
i am struggling
daydreaming, been sitting, the corner cafe
and i’m left in bits, recovered tectonic, trembling
you get me everytime

“when a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.” — george bernard shaw