home! sweet (ish) home!

a full week with extended family... i'm spent.

i wanted it to be perfect - a full hollywood production (with great editing & magical score).

it wasn't. but it was real and occasionally fun ♥

*side note*

Beyond Golden Clouds:
Five Centuries of Japanese Screens
at the Asian Art Museum is splendiferous!

moi et ma famille @ the AAM

jejune (with benefits)

i suppose

the shiny & new have been removed from the penny. (but at least i have a penny ♥)

Did you think I'd crumble?

happy!happy! happy!happy!happy!

ridiculously excited to be part of something academic, creative & respected!

a proper, full-time, career position for me! and back at cal! my lay off was exactly the long overdue kick in the tukus i needed to get a better job & move the f**k on. (queue gloria gaynor ♥)

oh yes, it's '80s night & the feelin's right!

i had a wisdom tooth yanked out today. i feel so loopy & pouty (in a vicodin cloud - yawn). it scared me so much beforehand that my legs went completely wonky and twitchy. i really scared myself. feeling better now, but need a little t.l.c.

of course i'm once again having a movie night (any excuse, right). this weekend is pretty in pink, fame (1980), amadeus & desperately seeking susan! so now i'm cuddled up on the couch with my tea and blanket, (sent the boy out to the bars so i can be swollen without the embarrass) and waiting for my kitty-love. Suki! Strawberries! Get in here!

*Also....I have an interview on Monday!!! Fingers crossed! I had to have my phone interview today with gauze in my mouth...ridiculous!

the dork side

A few job prospects! Hoorah! Nothing definite, but the possibility of hope has lifted my spirits. As well as letting myself embrace my monumental dorky & nostalgic tendencies. Now that October is over (the month of the year when I need to feel hopelessly wistful and melancholy) I'm letting myself do what I need to do to feel better in the moment (read: wine, crap movies, sleeping in). Obviously, as I'm unemployed, just had a root canal, and have to have my wisdom teeth out in a couple weeks (fingers crossed this will finally put a stop to eating altogether) I think this is okay...prescriptive even. But, yay...job prospects!!!

This weekend I went to Napa to see my darling friend, Ashley (had lunch at Oxbow Public Market). I had the most amazing Meyer Lemony Lemon cupcake!


I baked a cake for Jimmy; we watched the divine Big Trouble in Little China (which I'm writing a piece on for the film blog) & a truly painful movie from 1990 called, Lisa (which I, embarrassingly, used to watch at sleepovers). Oh, the cruelty of 15!


And I've been listening to the Grateful Dead -American Beauty (a rarity for me, but its reminding me of a beloved and long-lost mixtape from my early undergrad years).

Like I said...this weekend is dorky, low-key and comfortable ♥

getting laid (off)

i really wanted a new job...obviously on my own terms and not because the museum is going under. 60% of the staff gone. i'm gutted. we all are.

sigh. time to start over again (again).