ghosts are good company

It feels so delightful to be productive, even if in small ways.

Tonight I went to an alum event for New College of Florida, cubbie’s school, and it was amazing how self-conscious the event made me feel about my strange path through college, considering New College’s reputation for its liberal beliefs on education. For those of you who just tuned in, I did a few credits of college in high school, and then I enrolled in The Evergreen State College, where I did some coursework and some summer work until I realized that I needed to take a year off to get some health stuff figured out. After that, Evergreen wasn’t really a place I felt safe going back to, so I moved to San Francisco to attend City College of San Francisco. My time at City has been largely successful, and I have learned more at City, maybe, than I did my whole time at Evergreen. So, good. I’ve been thinking about how awesome it would be to be able to contribute to this community, to teach on a community college level, so when I found out about the Grow Your Own program at City, I was excited - but I don’t think I’m eligible. The information about it is here.

Sometimes I feel like the struggle to get where you want/need to be, academically (and in terms of careers as well) can be much more difficult than the education/job itself. All I have to say to that is “bleh.”

we have been working on the Getting Getting Things Done project with our household, and while some things have been highly delightful, others have stalled.

we went to ikea last week and bought a handful (truckful, actually) of shelves from the gorm ’system,’ and i’ve been putting them together bit by bit. i have one shelf constructed, except for the top extender piece - because i really need a drill to do that. also, a drill would be optimal for the brace which will keep it from… slumping over. kind of important. i could just drive the screws into unscrewed holes, but i don’t trust myself in that being secure. another challenge in our gorm experiment is that our favorite piece in the series, the hangers with five knobs, apparently have been discontinued (and are missing from the website, now?). as have the hangers with three knobs. this is super disappointing because 1) we need to hang things up and 2) one end of the shelving is next to the heater, which would have been great for hang-drying clothes.

speaking of drying clothes? i did laundry. well, 2/3 of the laundry. which is an awesome start! i also cleaned out the closet. the next step after that was to install the hand-shower that we got for christmas, but… our waterpik mist and massage showerhead leaks from its “control ring.” it works, as a shower, but it doesn’t work as a mist and massage shower - it works as a spray and dlub shower. dlub being the sound and experience of water dripping in masses from the showerhead. apparently, according to the, hugely obnoxious automated assistant, i will have to get a replacement - however, the website failed me after that step, so i was forced to ask her “how can i contact a real person?” after filling out the form, they will get back to me in three days. maybe.

i just deleted my account with flickr because they insisted that today i merge my flickr account with my yahoo account. which is difficult for somebody who really doesn’t want a yahoo account. i need to figure out a way to easily host and display pictures hosted on my own webspace. thoughts? i could write something myself, but the moral of the story is that i’m lazy (which is why flickr was so nice!). i’m tired of big companies (yahoo, six apart, etc.) buying things that i like and “making them better” but actually making them not so good.

which reminds me that my friend taylor posted a link from her music blog informing folks that it’s boycott the riaa month. the most useful thing i’ve learned about from this (i don’t have money to spend on music pretty much ever) is about the riaa radar, which will tell you if your favorite artists (or their parent company’s parent company’s parent companies) are controlled by the riaa.

and again a speaking of - wanna get me a present? no sweat’s high tops in pink are on sale for $10.71 here, and $5.00 of the sale goes to benefit code pink for peace. i approve of that. civic center blog has been posting some good imagery about war protests recently - both the peace march about how we’re in the fourth year of this war now, and almost weekly coverage of the weekly quaker vigil.

this has been quite a tangental post. hi folks. how are you? oh! and don’t forget to celebrate st. cuthbert’s day! it’s today. my own cuthbert is sleeping to get ready, and i should do my best to join him now.

yesterday, before class, i went to glam.  queer youth are always the same, it seems.  it was awesome.  i couldn’t hit the high alto notes, but i felt comfortable in the baritone range.  also awesome.

today i visited a myofunctional therapist, who told me where my tongue is supposed to live, where it would if i were a normal person.  afterward, cubbie and i wandered around a bit - we went to the palace of fine arts (before actually), and afterward we walked along the marina, and then we took the bus down fillmore, where we had lunch at crepevine, and then dessert at bittersweet.  and then we went shopping for paper products.  and i found an umbrella that was being thrown out because it didn’t have a handle.  it is yellow and pretty.  it was a lovely day.  i like cubbie.
now it is movie night.  yay!