i was much better at keeping a journal at the age of eight

[some excerpts probably only amusing to me; spelling, grammar mistakes and all]

11-2-95

Today I had a normal school day...I am now Hanna's very, very best friend. We also watched a very cool video called See How Insects Grow.

11-3-95

Today at school Chase had a fake bug and when it popped out it scared a teacher...

11-4-95

Today I went to the mall and bought a book called The Witches. We went to Home the pote and bought some supplies. We had coke. Then we went to Roasters Roaterie. I had the same things.

11-5-95

Today I went to Chinnese School. We had a test. I think I'm going to have at least 99...

11-9-95

...Today at the libary we learned how to check out bookes using the computer, we also got candy, Outside I played circus with my friends. Hannah and I were the Musical Dancers.

11-10-95

Today at school we made lemen pudding. It taste great. At computer I finished my snake story. Jeremey gave me a pile of baseball cards.

11-15-95

Today at school we counted our stikers, I lost. I have a new friend her name is Lauren. She invited me to a sleepover, I really like, She's my 2nd best friend.

lists

Eero Saarinen's list of Aline Bernstein's good qualities, ca. 1954. Aline and Eero Saarinen papers, 1857-1972.

Image courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art; copyright F+W Media Inc. 2011.

"found" poem: in the office

if i had to describe what it’s like here,
i’d say a cross between mean girls

& the inquisition:

a systematic firing squad
of dis-
empowerment.

my life dream
is to be able to create
my own hoops to jump
through.

but for now, a self-described
flaming pea-
cock
is squawking & honking incessantly
over speaker phone:

“this is a LESSON you need to learn
& ACCEPT
in order to be a successful
TEAM-
PLAYER.”

leave. LEAVE NOW. who the fuck
cares?

next time around, you know
it’s going to be two weeks notice
& here’s my

transition

post-it note.

sketchbook project complete

lessons learned: sketchbooking on a daily basis is a lot harder than you think.
still, a happy camper about the fact that they finally finished digitalizing this baby...six months later!

the final product of my sketchbook project. theme: coffee & cigarettes. enjoy!
http://www.arthousecoop.com/library/2549#page-slide_1

get your pseudo-intellectual on

[pen, collage, photoshop] : brainstorming a theme for the 2011 invitation design contest

her waif-like body

[pencil, color pencil, water color & photoshop]

the expat

I can pack my life in two suitcases, said Guillaume;
like a snail that carries its home on its back
moving several times a year

to be free is to never own a picture frame,
to let a woman occasionally slip
through the door a little bird

mais when she starts to build her nest: a mis-
placed bobby pin here and there a toothbrush
or her scent: au revoir, au revoir.

And he gazed up at the four blank walls
of his Manhattan studio, like a proud Robinson Crusoe
master of his island, stranded in self-

sufficiency before
the footprint in the sand.