1: clinging to/swinging from a tree
2: "related artists" radio leading me to Poppy Ackroyd
3: sitting outside, just west of Bi Hall, absorbing the nature around me
4: using someone's architectural model to carry a wasp outside the building to freedom
5: detour to a local park (+ snacking on fruit)
6: a student band (unexpectedly) playing some live music on a Sunday morning
7: the story of Ross Capicchioni (his own recounting and Joyner Lucas' rap)
8: serenading a tree with "Two Trees"
9: evening scrimmage of fútbol in practice for the Spanish v. Portuguese game
10: breaking the ice by talking about NaNoWriMo (after looking over someone's shoulder at her Google Drive documents)
11: checking out the cute animals they brought to campus
12: a hauntingly vivid tale of savagery and survival
13: the chill guy working at the Escape Room (and his being impressed at our signing while solving the puzzles)
14: stopping at Crescent Moon Bay to picnic (+ write)
15: meeting a guy who happened to go to the high school where my dad teaches and was incredulously amazed that I could possibly be related to that infamous professor
16: wanderings (climbing down into the ruins, strolling along the wetland boardwalk)
17: giggling and teasing each other about celebrity crushes
18: the great reading and voice-acting by Adam Grupper for The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
19: mindless chatter and jokes with a (cute) coworker
20: brunch with my friends' friends
21: suddenly seeing a fat marmot on the rocks a ways down from where I'm sitting
22: singing along with songs I haven't heard in ages while packing up my dorm room
23: dressing as a Dapper Dave
24: a ruthless establishing-the-rules game of tenasketball with my brother
25: store-hopping and window-shopping (browsing backpacking/camping gear)
26: petting & playing with a friendly puppy that wandered to our house
27: running into an old classmate (/crush) (who happens to work at the store I was shopping at) and him being friendly as ever
28: watching hockey
29: taking the train downtown to visit with a friend at a hipster coffee shop
30: errands and lunch stop in Santa Fe
31: small breakthroughs when working on a puzzle
Thursday, May 31, 2018
Monday, April 30, 2018
April
1: flying down the trails
2: (shamelessly) trying to fall asleep everywhere
3: when two birds' songs overlap and ring out in unison
4: hindsight validation (a few years late) of the confusion I went through in a sweet coming-of-age story
5: getting to know ODESZA
6: an afternoon up in the lighting lab with the improv comedy crew (and laughing until tears stream down my face)
7: indulging in a luscious square of dark chocolate on the walk home
8: El Laberinto del Fauno/Pan's Labyrinth
9: when the landscape is a living painting
10: stepping over the leaf-littered forest floor (to collect data)
11: dinner with fellow vegans (and a chat with the dining hall staff)
12: when the main character destroys almost every significant relationship they have in the span of a couple chapters
13: field trip to a local housing development
14: a cute kids' book my mom definitely would have gotten for us if it had come out a decade earlier
15: tooth worries, and "Swallowing Teeth"
16: singing along with "Silence" while standing in front of the open window
17: Google Earth teleportation
18: "Blind in Light" by Memtrix
19: spending a Thursday night writing in a café (Crossroads)
20: student presentations at spring symposium
21: fruit bowl picnic out by MarbleWorks on the creek bank
22: talking with community presenters at our Earth Day fair
23: when my spine nestles comfortably into the grooves of the bark as I sit against a tree
24: vaulting over things 'cause I feel like it
25: sore all over (hurts so good)
26: the unexpected ordeal of something exploding in the kitchen after it was left unattended, bringing three fire trucks y muchos bomberos to la Casa and catching the attention of all onlookers in the vicinity
27: (a) walk out in the rain
28: learning about futuristic, sustainable city developments in the United Arab Emirates
29: daffodils (drooping in the rain, fragrant in my room)
30: classmates looking to you for answers
2: (shamelessly) trying to fall asleep everywhere
3: when two birds' songs overlap and ring out in unison
4: hindsight validation (a few years late) of the confusion I went through in a sweet coming-of-age story
5: getting to know ODESZA
6: an afternoon up in the lighting lab with the improv comedy crew (and laughing until tears stream down my face)
7: indulging in a luscious square of dark chocolate on the walk home
8: El Laberinto del Fauno/Pan's Labyrinth
9: when the landscape is a living painting
10: stepping over the leaf-littered forest floor (to collect data)
11: dinner with fellow vegans (and a chat with the dining hall staff)
12: when the main character destroys almost every significant relationship they have in the span of a couple chapters
13: field trip to a local housing development
14: a cute kids' book my mom definitely would have gotten for us if it had come out a decade earlier
15: tooth worries, and "Swallowing Teeth"
16: singing along with "Silence" while standing in front of the open window
17: Google Earth teleportation
18: "Blind in Light" by Memtrix
19: spending a Thursday night writing in a café (Crossroads)
20: student presentations at spring symposium
21: fruit bowl picnic out by MarbleWorks on the creek bank
22: talking with community presenters at our Earth Day fair
23: when my spine nestles comfortably into the grooves of the bark as I sit against a tree
24: vaulting over things 'cause I feel like it
25: sore all over (hurts so good)
26: the unexpected ordeal of something exploding in the kitchen after it was left unattended, bringing three fire trucks y muchos bomberos to la Casa and catching the attention of all onlookers in the vicinity
27: (a) walk out in the rain
28: learning about futuristic, sustainable city developments in the United Arab Emirates
29: daffodils (drooping in the rain, fragrant in my room)
30: classmates looking to you for answers
Sunday, April 1, 2018
March
1: when my voice makes it onto the podcast (start at about 108 minutes)
2: tuning in to my friend's morning radio show
3: the transformative power of raw nature on the soul (as read in Wild Bird by Wendelin Van Draanen)
4: chilling in the big lounge room while waiting for my laundry
5: "In a Time Lapse" remixes
6: little kids laughing and chasing each other around the library
7: snow as a sidenote
8: reciprocal chocolate gifting
9: the epiphanous impact of hearing a truth from another person, even when you've already learned and acknowledged it yourself
10: a self-published young author story in the library collection (a Beatles fanfic)
11: being invited over to a social house for Sunday Night Dinner
12: uncontrollable laughter as the others flip their shit over the appearances of the monster in Black Sand
13: oddly, being assigned to read a story with a semi-hopeful ending for my "stories recount tragedy" Spanish class
14: nighttime working (and bantering) in the studio with classmates
15: snow piled precariously (impossibly) onto tree branches
16: the awe and relief that my embarrassing things aren't just mine alone
17: cuando todo me hace flipar (when everything makes me flip out)
18: inspiration to revitalize an old short story idea
19: (t)romping across a field of ankle-deep snow
20: fruit phylogenies
21: the cutesicle, quirksta music of Podington Bear
22: friendly acquaintances breaking the pattern of mealtime solitude
23: when there's electronic music playing in the dining hall
24: a pre-spring break departure game of Monopoly on the floor of my friend's dorm room
25: an indigo-to-scarlet gradient from the sky to the horizon
26: Love, Simon
27: "my life according to song titles" challenge (as a family)
28: post-rock radio on Spotify
29: nachos and Netflix
30: cocoon of the mountain valley
31: the streaking tail of a shooting star falling in the clouded night sky
2: tuning in to my friend's morning radio show
3: the transformative power of raw nature on the soul (as read in Wild Bird by Wendelin Van Draanen)
4: chilling in the big lounge room while waiting for my laundry
5: "In a Time Lapse" remixes
6: little kids laughing and chasing each other around the library
7: snow as a sidenote
8: reciprocal chocolate gifting
9: the epiphanous impact of hearing a truth from another person, even when you've already learned and acknowledged it yourself
10: a self-published young author story in the library collection (a Beatles fanfic)
11: being invited over to a social house for Sunday Night Dinner
12: uncontrollable laughter as the others flip their shit over the appearances of the monster in Black Sand
13: oddly, being assigned to read a story with a semi-hopeful ending for my "stories recount tragedy" Spanish class
14: nighttime working (and bantering) in the studio with classmates
15: snow piled precariously (impossibly) onto tree branches
16: the awe and relief that my embarrassing things aren't just mine alone
17: cuando todo me hace flipar (when everything makes me flip out)
18: inspiration to revitalize an old short story idea
19: (t)romping across a field of ankle-deep snow
20: fruit phylogenies
21: the cutesicle, quirksta music of Podington Bear
22: friendly acquaintances breaking the pattern of mealtime solitude
23: when there's electronic music playing in the dining hall
24: a pre-spring break departure game of Monopoly on the floor of my friend's dorm room
25: an indigo-to-scarlet gradient from the sky to the horizon
26: Love, Simon
27: "my life according to song titles" challenge (as a family)
28: post-rock radio on Spotify
29: nachos and Netflix
30: cocoon of the mountain valley
31: the streaking tail of a shooting star falling in the clouded night sky
Wednesday, February 28, 2018
February
1: stories about survival in the wilderness after a plane crash
2: making food and enjoying it together at a silent dinner
3: sneaking an uncatalogued book out of the library because I really wanted to read it (shh...)
4: (the glory and majesty of) crossing the Delaware
5: dirt-stained clothes after a day of yard work
6: guessing games while we work
7: when "who's the spy among us" games get super amped up
8: hands-on construction work (framing the floor and three walls of a shed)
9: the intense anxiety, then liberating relief of hot-seat truth reveals and learning deeper, more personal things about other people
10: watching someone experience the beach and the ocean for the first time
11: picking up where I left off with a friend I haven't seen in a while (and didn't think I'd get to see again)
12: the strange, disembodied, in-the-limbo freedom of sitting in on classes while not being fully committed to them
13: comfortable, joking rapport with my adviser
14: ordering a tea at Crossroads, then heading upstairs for a more casual committee meeting in the Grille
15: talking with someone at a party
16: Black History Month Jeopardy
17: personalized interactions with patrons (since I know some of them pretty well by now)
18: carried away on autoplay tunes
19: one-on-one alphabet teaching and practice with a first-time signer
20: so much New Mexico representation
21: checking out Queers & Allies and meeting some new people
22: serious throwbacks to the Dimension days
23: writing novel tidbits in left-hand cursive on a chalkboard
24: a sequel to my first ode to Bi Hall, coming at the end of "Show Your Love for McCardell Bicentennial Hall" Week
25: coming across a (somewhat dark) George Harrison album I hadn't heard before
26: accompanying my lab-mates upstairs to release Alfred the ladybug into the greenhouse
27: a good-food lunch after days of disappointment
28: satirical cartoons on architecture and society
2: making food and enjoying it together at a silent dinner
3: sneaking an uncatalogued book out of the library because I really wanted to read it (shh...)
4: (the glory and majesty of) crossing the Delaware
5: dirt-stained clothes after a day of yard work
6: guessing games while we work
7: when "who's the spy among us" games get super amped up
8: hands-on construction work (framing the floor and three walls of a shed)
9: the intense anxiety, then liberating relief of hot-seat truth reveals and learning deeper, more personal things about other people
10: watching someone experience the beach and the ocean for the first time
11: picking up where I left off with a friend I haven't seen in a while (and didn't think I'd get to see again)
12: the strange, disembodied, in-the-limbo freedom of sitting in on classes while not being fully committed to them
13: comfortable, joking rapport with my adviser
14: ordering a tea at Crossroads, then heading upstairs for a more casual committee meeting in the Grille
15: talking with someone at a party
16: Black History Month Jeopardy
17: personalized interactions with patrons (since I know some of them pretty well by now)
18: carried away on autoplay tunes
19: one-on-one alphabet teaching and practice with a first-time signer
20: so much New Mexico representation
21: checking out Queers & Allies and meeting some new people
22: serious throwbacks to the Dimension days
23: writing novel tidbits in left-hand cursive on a chalkboard
24: a sequel to my first ode to Bi Hall, coming at the end of "Show Your Love for McCardell Bicentennial Hall" Week
25: coming across a (somewhat dark) George Harrison album I hadn't heard before
26: accompanying my lab-mates upstairs to release Alfred the ladybug into the greenhouse
27: a good-food lunch after days of disappointment
28: satirical cartoons on architecture and society
Wednesday, January 31, 2018
January
1: New Year's Day feast (or, a more proper karamu)
2: adding more words to my Spanish vocabulary through reading a novel in the language
3: spying on a nub-nub nibbling the plants in our yard
4: jeering and laughing at daytime soap operas
5: listening to Monstercat hate-lists while stuck awake at 3 a.m.
6: positively devouring the audiobook of The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
7: taking breakfast in a booth seat
8: drawing homework for the first time in a long time
9: "Journey" by Jim Yosef
10: working together on our chair ("sitting plus...")
11: hilarious short films showing rage to the extent of insanity
12: my excitement, after so long, at finally hearing the entirety of Rogue's "Fortress"
13: snapping pics of and with our chair
14: Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
15: ingenious, innovative sitting+ ideas
16: when sketching something produces a better result (and is more satisfying) than photographing it
17: Spanish House event - making gazpacho
18: class tour of the all-solar-powered houses on campus
19: inviting a friend over to bake brownies for my vegan birthday
20: walking together under starlight
21: shadowed sliver of an orange crescent moon
22: a challenge to be more poetic in my design
23: playing some paddle tennis
24: dreams of simple gestures filled with tenderness
25: 3-D modeling my tiny house design (by hand and through SketchUp)
26: laughs at language tables
27: reading an entire book in a few hours while on my shift
28: going up on the fire escape to sketch and soak in the winter sun
29: a DROELOE kind of mood
30: seeing classmates' tiny house ideas and drawings
31: the calming, repetitive act of slicing through pages with a paper cutter
2: adding more words to my Spanish vocabulary through reading a novel in the language
3: spying on a nub-nub nibbling the plants in our yard
4: jeering and laughing at daytime soap operas
5: listening to Monstercat hate-lists while stuck awake at 3 a.m.
6: positively devouring the audiobook of The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
7: taking breakfast in a booth seat
8: drawing homework for the first time in a long time
9: "Journey" by Jim Yosef
10: working together on our chair ("sitting plus...")
11: hilarious short films showing rage to the extent of insanity
12: my excitement, after so long, at finally hearing the entirety of Rogue's "Fortress"
13: snapping pics of and with our chair
14: Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
15: ingenious, innovative sitting+ ideas
16: when sketching something produces a better result (and is more satisfying) than photographing it
17: Spanish House event - making gazpacho
18: class tour of the all-solar-powered houses on campus
19: inviting a friend over to bake brownies for my vegan birthday
20: walking together under starlight
21: shadowed sliver of an orange crescent moon
22: a challenge to be more poetic in my design
23: playing some paddle tennis
24: dreams of simple gestures filled with tenderness
25: 3-D modeling my tiny house design (by hand and through SketchUp)
26: laughs at language tables
27: reading an entire book in a few hours while on my shift
28: going up on the fire escape to sketch and soak in the winter sun
29: a DROELOE kind of mood
30: seeing classmates' tiny house ideas and drawings
31: the calming, repetitive act of slicing through pages with a paper cutter
Sunday, December 31, 2017
December
1: a breathtaking union of gorgeous vocals and strong, powerful electronic melodies and bass supports
2: Twizzlers dipped in frosting
3: the supermoon as seen through spindly, skeletal winter branches
4: mysterious morning mist
5: the pain and hope of animal rescue and recovery (videos)
6: the rushing of the creek under starlight
7: peer-pressuring two club-buddies into coming to language tables
8: humming/singing "You Are Here" and "Aisumasen (I'm Sorry)" to myself in memory of John Lennon
9: watching and feeling a little kid's excitement over a button-pressed card dispenser
10: the fortuitous discovery of how smooth my bald head can be
11: snacking on chocolate chips
12: informal phone interview with a New Mexico-based tiny home builder
13: some classmates chatting about driving stickshift
14: song mashups (otherwise known as black MIDI for the brain)
15: "imagine a round-table discussion with these influential people" exam prompt
16: library books to educate myself about Kwanzaa
17: being productive while (stuck) in the airport for many hours
18: filling up a bag of books
19: family game night of Cards Against Humanity
20: making vegan latkes for the last day of Hanukkah
21: learning to crochet (again) and listening to an audiobook
22: walking in step as we share a pair of earbuds and traverse the path around the garden center
23: talasimu, or Kwanzaalien
24: dreams commingling with reality and subconscious desires brought to the surface
25: helping plant the Christmas trees/shrubs
26: first day of Kwanzaa
27: gazing out at the far-off city lights and highway lines while on a night stroll at the edge of the neighborhood
28: "Kunze Kwadoka" by Oliver Mtukudzi
29: blackberry bars and relatable rants
30: messing around on the piano and coming up with a joke album
31: just managing to finish preparing the karamu/birthday meal before 2018
2: Twizzlers dipped in frosting
3: the supermoon as seen through spindly, skeletal winter branches
4: mysterious morning mist
5: the pain and hope of animal rescue and recovery (videos)
6: the rushing of the creek under starlight
7: peer-pressuring two club-buddies into coming to language tables
8: humming/singing "You Are Here" and "Aisumasen (I'm Sorry)" to myself in memory of John Lennon
9: watching and feeling a little kid's excitement over a button-pressed card dispenser
10: the fortuitous discovery of how smooth my bald head can be
11: snacking on chocolate chips
12: informal phone interview with a New Mexico-based tiny home builder
13: some classmates chatting about driving stickshift
14: song mashups (otherwise known as black MIDI for the brain)
15: "imagine a round-table discussion with these influential people" exam prompt
16: library books to educate myself about Kwanzaa
17: being productive while (stuck) in the airport for many hours
18: filling up a bag of books
19: family game night of Cards Against Humanity
20: making vegan latkes for the last day of Hanukkah
21: learning to crochet (again) and listening to an audiobook
22: walking in step as we share a pair of earbuds and traverse the path around the garden center
23: talasimu, or Kwanzaalien
24: dreams commingling with reality and subconscious desires brought to the surface
25: helping plant the Christmas trees/shrubs
26: first day of Kwanzaa
27: gazing out at the far-off city lights and highway lines while on a night stroll at the edge of the neighborhood
28: "Kunze Kwadoka" by Oliver Mtukudzi
29: blackberry bars and relatable rants
30: messing around on the piano and coming up with a joke album
31: just managing to finish preparing the karamu/birthday meal before 2018
Thursday, November 30, 2017
November
1: my friend informing me of a new veg restaurant opening in our hometown
2: epic music playing in my head during a stats test
3: perusing accidentally vegan snack options at the grocery store
4: heavy, dark music to match a pissed-off mood
5: binge-watching vegan "what I eat in a day" videos
6: a killer Uncaged Vol. 3 album mix
7: joking with the guys in the tech booth while they set up lighting cues for our performance
8: Cheat Code 2.0 album mix
9: not getting stage fright in front of the bright lights
10: failed churro experiment (and having a friend over to help out)
11: planning out the closing chapter
12: bath time for Patchie
13: examining the individual patterns of snowflakes sticking to my sweatshirt
14: neatly and efficiently completing my one-page-a-day goal for my final paper
15: music to motivate a workout (and breaking a sweat)
16: catching up on telenovela night
17: everyone reaching to take a freshly-baked sugar cookie off the plate
18: "Dreams" by Rogue ft. Laura Brehm
19: Bi Hall walkabout
20: deliberating on Athens' first move in the 4th-century-Greece (BCE) political simulation
21: bringing a stack of books back to my dorm to get me through Thanksgiving break
22: listening to an audiobook while cooking and doing food prep
23: a simple, filling bowl of mashed potatoes with gravy
24: tiny chickadee hopping onto twigs and dry leaves and belting out its eponymous song
25: "El Deafo" by Cece Bell
26: annotating a manuscript to prep it for draft 2
27: getting unreasonably excited when they serve some of my favorite food in the dining hall
28: the huge, stupid grin that I can't suppress upon revisiting my favorite Spanish song ever, "Billy y las botas"
29: the comforting familiarity and overwhelming beauty of listening to George Harrison's music (even/especially after going so long without hearing it)
30: Monstercat merch package
2: epic music playing in my head during a stats test
3: perusing accidentally vegan snack options at the grocery store
4: heavy, dark music to match a pissed-off mood
5: binge-watching vegan "what I eat in a day" videos
6: a killer Uncaged Vol. 3 album mix
7: joking with the guys in the tech booth while they set up lighting cues for our performance
8: Cheat Code 2.0 album mix
9: not getting stage fright in front of the bright lights
10: failed churro experiment (and having a friend over to help out)
11: planning out the closing chapter
12: bath time for Patchie
13: examining the individual patterns of snowflakes sticking to my sweatshirt
14: neatly and efficiently completing my one-page-a-day goal for my final paper
15: music to motivate a workout (and breaking a sweat)
16: catching up on telenovela night
17: everyone reaching to take a freshly-baked sugar cookie off the plate
18: "Dreams" by Rogue ft. Laura Brehm
19: Bi Hall walkabout
20: deliberating on Athens' first move in the 4th-century-Greece (BCE) political simulation
21: bringing a stack of books back to my dorm to get me through Thanksgiving break
22: listening to an audiobook while cooking and doing food prep
23: a simple, filling bowl of mashed potatoes with gravy
24: tiny chickadee hopping onto twigs and dry leaves and belting out its eponymous song
25: "El Deafo" by Cece Bell
26: annotating a manuscript to prep it for draft 2
27: getting unreasonably excited when they serve some of my favorite food in the dining hall
28: the huge, stupid grin that I can't suppress upon revisiting my favorite Spanish song ever, "Billy y las botas"
29: the comforting familiarity and overwhelming beauty of listening to George Harrison's music (even/especially after going so long without hearing it)
30: Monstercat merch package
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