Couch, AFRO work, dawgs, dogs, a couple movies and some running around for Novapolis.
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12.26.2009 - 土曜日
日曜日の仕事, federal holiday, Chris came home, Rutgers Mijail up to BWI, Geoff back from London, Harry and Burger, 火曜日, snow and snow, hanging out, 水曜日, snow and snow, ゴロゴロ, AFRO cram work, Christmas Eve, chilling, over to Poppop and Ms Ethel's, family dinner, Scrabble, Feliz Navidad, Poppops' w/ dad, Saturday cats 5 Guys Route 1 thrift stores dinner Sherlock Holmes.
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12.19.2009 - 雪が降っている
仕事、犬、チップ、新聞、カリフォルニア、タバコ、雲、Ashburn satellite living surrounded in snowfall、今日は大雪。
Sunday work day, Le Matin de Paris, The Office, out with Chach to W St., up at 6:30 for a tow-truck no-show, rain dogs rain and dogs, and repeat. Overnight at Eloise's.
Ze work, ze hanging out, Friday night into the heart of Fairfax County, out to 3rd st Co-op w/ Kavita, Mijail to see Shaun and Rapidcities, the Brain, Food for Thought, back to Vienna, 2:30am Afro posting, up at 7:30 to walk Charlie Parker, pass out, Poppop, Ceferina's bday, internet, pass out.
Work week, Japanese lesson, 雨, f-f-Friday movie night, Storage Unit, Saturday grogginess, Arlington Parent Rockn'roll, Muse with Mijail and Ronald, Sunday Le Matin de Paris, work.
Standard work schedule, found my ipod, once lost, recovered from the depths of the Jeep Cherokee, chilling at Brian's new digs in DC, Springfield Toyota, Poppop's, Mosby w/ Mijail to see George, Sunday all-day non-day.
Class, Fairfax, work, and then. Halloween weekend! Morning class, work, chilling with Chach, pizza, zombification, Sticky Rice, Woo Lae Oak, Mosby madness. Saturday, Springfield Toyota, 2005 Corolla CE, Baltimore! The Gandho, It's Your Boy Bangs, Mark Mehlinger CyberNinja, North and Howard Load of Fun, graffiti, dance party, smoke alarm, jack and coke bottle, the Windup, I love rockn'roll, parking lot chilling, more dance, Guilford house party, back to NoVA, backyard, pass out. Eggs in the morning, route 1 with Poppop, Alex's bday, Afro work, Catch Me If You Can, contemplating UC Berkeley Law, pass out. More work. And now it's Tuesday.
Turn signals go bust, work, work, Enterprise Rent-a-Car, Hyundai Sonata, GW Parkway, 495 traffic, Baltimore, Shivgandho, rrrrip, 3 am drop off pick up courtesy of Michacho, work, cruisin', Comet Ping Pong, shitty singer breaks strings (twice!) and drops a projector, Birds of Avalon, 土曜日, McGill's for Robert's birthday, Unit, 日曜日, d-d-downloads, ze work, ze work.
Work work work, birthday weekend, U St. friday night wanderings, picking up Chris and Eric from Chinatown, chilling in the backyard, Solar Decathalon, iPod Nano, bday dinner, cruising, brunch with Poppop and Ms. Ethel, work, Sunday night Mosby house, ze-work, rambling through the 'burbs with Chris Eric Mijail, Aladdin, Close Encounters, metro, dogs, dogs, dogs, and before you know it Friday, rain, Zombieland, Where the Wild Things Are, cruising, Inter destroys Genoa, Sunday couch work football futbol baseball e-mails zone out.
Wor-wor-working, dip into DC, rambling, no we did not call asking about scales, cigars, backyards/basements/porches with Brain, Nacim, Chris and lightsaber-cut birthday cake (!).
Sexy-Synthesizer - Log In Mix
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9.28.2009 - W-w-whassup
Chilling with Brain, burrs and huuka, rainy Saturday, Route 1 with Poppop, Tokyo Gore Police, Mosby Madhouse, 酔っぱらい, 二日酔い, ze work, Storage Unit, the dogs, 日本語, Gori Vatra.
9.24.2009 - The medium-size scruffy man is missing
Work... sleep... internet... and then helping Ffoeg prepare for London, bags and bags and y'know, failed Renaissance Festival plans, mama takes the Chinatown bus up to nyc, last-minute prep, Ffoeg departs for London, dog-sitting, 日本語授業... about 11 weeks until the JLPT(!!!).
Last week (labor day) was the big move day, 自由的な生活がスタート!Moving books and shelves, organizing, music, Skeletor, the Revenge of Skeletor, busted speakers at the Black Cat backstage, random sightings and overpriced goods, Md., Sublime chocolates, Jason Statham, Poppop's, work, Robot Chicken and $9.50 gone scrabble hookah and Chev Chelios. Dogs, 日本語, dinner and ice coffee.
Morning/noon/night work, dog walks, way too much youtube (소녀시대), chilling and hanging, moving furniture and rooms and people, a bit of Route 1 on Saturday with Poppop, pet sitting, sick dogs.
Work and some other running around... Jump Off a Building, skate music, free nachos at Hard Times, going back to Mijail's and passing out. Annnnnd rain. Into the city, getting lost, Adams Morgan mehnocity, lighting cigarettes in case of sniper fire, sudden violent reactions from my stomach. ゴロゴロ土曜日, rolling around Kingstowne, Harry and George's party that they were not at, the police, conspiracy theorists, awkward kids. Up to NYC on Sunday morning, lunch at Tia Isabel's, 69th and York, work, pizza, the trek back home.
Tia Olga's on Saturday, Rod n' Reel (!) Crab Cake Grilled Cheese (!!), Inglorious Basterds, sleep deprivation and being super-pissed at the Universe, dinner nap, Aladdin and yeah'p.
Heat and humidity, naps, letters and correspondence, Ian's basement, rambling around, Fast Eddie's, morning brunch at G'Offrey's, warm haze glow, 手紙, naptime, into the city with Alex Brian and the Boy, Pharmacy, the Raven, Ben's Chili Bowl, 帰る.
仕事の事, pet-sitting Murphy, Friday Night brief jaunt into the city, Jack Bauer saves the world for the 4th time, strolling through Old Town, brunch with the Miller clan, Storage Unit, Ffoeg's house, ze dogs!
Working for the weekend and then Severna Park Super Chill Time (w/ cigars, hookah, beers, bbq, pool, jacuzzi, dogs!), story ideas, kpop kablammo, Sunday-night Shirlington Mexican place, dogs dogs bike accident dogs, Blood Simple, backyard rambling, dogs dogs dogs, Storage Unit, Tokyo Eyes.
Slightly braindead, work, and then work, and heeeyyyyy more work. Plus intense August heat. Whoooooo. Also, margarita fajita drunk and bumbling about the monuments at night (Lincoln, Korean, WWII, WWI aka Rivendell) with Ffoeg and Burger.
Well let's see now... 先週末の土曜日にあまり何もしなかった、日曜日にstorage unitに行った、平日に普通な仕事を働いた、いっぱい反省した(いろいろの事について...人生、未来の事、時間や所、など)and more - late night hookah sessions, depressing Bungalow background banter (with cover songs!), jaunt into the city for the worst Popeyes service ever and a ditching of the last Fort Reno show for the season, the Alex Bergerson Experience, up at 11, 運動, Annapolis with mama, The Boy, Lily and Suri, steaks wine beer and jazz.
Cats, Route 1, IHOP, cats, Saint Elizabeth's church, Tio Teodocio and Tia Julia's 50th anniversary, Miller Pyramid, up and in the car, BWI (Chris forgets his pocketknife), clean-up, work, a desert landscape with a laughing star.
Ze dogs! Storage Unit, bicycle frustrations, exhaustion, true summer heat, Waltz with Bashir, waiting and waiting, late-night hookah ramblings, money(!!!), korean bbq, Fighitting Club.
Guess a bit of this and a bit of that happened... box-making, le matin de Paris, Roy Rogers, Dynasty, putting the eMac in the kitchen, storage unit and storage unit, pokerface, texas hold'em, 電話,筋肉空想, waiting for duh moneyz.
Finishing the e-blast, night drive out to Video Vault with Mijail and Chris, The Rock. Marley, the Storage Unit. W-w-work. Ryan's 21st, Ledger(!), more Storage Unit. And then.
BBQ goodies, mortars blowing up on the ground, Happy Lamp, 酔っぱらいの事, jamz, what goes down must come up, pass out.
Michael Jackson died on Thursday, Billy Mays on Sunday. Work and then more work. Failure to work. Head full of work. Moloch to work. The incredibly disappointing Safeway BBQ Battle. Billy Obama. Cuh'mo-on, a-hi-hi. Hilltop with Brain. Rainy-day cruising with the Boy. 香織ちゃん! Bicycle rides, sprouts, house hunters, attic climbs, Buddy (the Weimeraner) Peanut (the cockblock) and Marshall Brian Rusty (the rest). Exhaustion. The anticipation of moon money!
SO! Weekend celebrations for アレックスの誕生日、おじちゃんの日, a mixture of here and there, McFadden's (ugh), cruising around NE DC, backyard bbq with Ronald's super-sweet Canon, Ninja Warrior (Sasuke 2008), 香織と電話した, le nuit est frais, and then today boy howdy bike shop pentagon city aurora falls library and back home at 9. Backyarrrrrd.
Out to work, dogs!, wine-colored grass patches, torrential rain, Crimson Gold, hot and sticky DC, pickup, Chinese food in Dupont Circle, e-blasts, up at 6:20, Baltimore at 8:15, Hampden, AFRO, Roland Park, dogs!, Oldtown, Ghostbusters, Route 1, steak, moon rockets, Year One, pass out.
Up and atom, TFAW office for keys and coughing Jack, Chutney, dozing in Fort Scott park, Billy Ray and Charlie Parker and oh yes hello hi there, commuter traffic, Afro, entering the West Baltimore labyrinth, back to DC, Wendy's, backyard Big Easy Rider Trouble in Little China, Arrested Development.
Sleeping in, Poppops, Alexandria and Annandale, Jackie Chan Sammo Hung Yuen Biao forever, the Image of Bruce Lee, out to Chili's on Route 1 for Poppop birthday celebration and awkward interactions with extended family, nap, 香織, 7-11, Nirvanasoft board meeting.
Dog walking with Charlie Parker and Billy Ray Valentine! Running around town doing this and that, studying. Out the door at 9, Afro at 10:30, Karmic Connections, Il Scalino, BMA Sculpture Garden, DC DC DC paycheck, Aladdin, The Storage Unit, dinner, The Storage Unit, Brain at the house, the boy arrives late.
Studying in the backyard, music, guns and murder, backyards, Arrested Development and Nintendo. Up at 6:30, proctoring, sitting, proctoring, botching the attendance for the Doves pre-party, cigars in Huntley Meadows, lomo saltado, cruising around, Video Vault, backyard and JCVD.
Rolling about the house, job prospects, charades chilling and chilling, Tuesday DMV patience with Poppop, super-fly at Franconia Pizza Place, darts, workin' Wednesday, the Storage Unit, incredible rain, hit-and-run, jams sunglasses and microphones, Tropic Thunder, interview for dog walking job, oh Annandale you little slice of heaven, rain, procrastination, nap, burrito, Up, Conan, and yep. Now it's friday.
Route 1, Bertucci's, and maniacal summer rain with Poppop and Chris, 40 oz. and coffee in Tartan Village, backyard wax, Saturday ゴロゴロ, Top Golf with Harry and Greg, play me a little bit of that "moon music", Roy Rogers, failed attempt to purchase Colossal Donuts, Krispy Kreme instead, pass out. Another successful block of summer living.
So many tings. And then no things. Sitting in the back, tiger in the parsley, inside playing music, passing out at 8, waking up at 1, working on this and that, playing music at Mijail's, darts, Krispy Kreme, backyard chilling, up and at them, Ballston boy-eee, changing the oil filter, talking to Mini Yakuza, Barnside Diner, chilling. いい生活ね。
Oh ho ho, well let's see, lawnmowing, adventures in Annandale including the bookstore, le matin de Paris, myondong shady-as-fuck billiards, Big-K, over to Huntley Meadows, bbq at la casa with Chris, Harry, Mijail and Sean, Aladdin, Tran house, rain and cigars and... yes...
Into DC with Ffoeg for paycheck, bourbon, and a jaunt over to the British Embassy, back home and out to Route 1 with Poppop. Night-time cruising with Mijail, Annandale o'Annandale, asian prostitution rings, korean bbq, gas stations, Rose Hill wanderings, sitting under a tree in Amberleigh blowing cigar-smoke chatting. And then the next day.
Up to Ithaca, falling asleep at the window while watching it rain, strolling, cleaning, strolling, watching Predator, sitting and astro-chilling, up again and down to Hollywood casino, back into VA, Tio German's birthday celebration, watching Aqua Teen and playing foosball, home, over to the Tran house, chilling.
This and that, animation, drums and hookah with Brian, running around Route 1, Preston Blood and the Black 8 Balls, back to Aladdin, cigars and Ruby Tuesdays, casio keyboards, examining the time vortex with Harry and Mijail.
Two days of work (distributing budget books for the Delta Regional Authority in the offices of the representatives and senators, filing and stuffing envelopes for Oceana), heavy rain, old English lady temper tantrum at Kinko's, 電話で鈴木ちゃんと話した, late-night rambling, and then Saturdayyy. Morning drizzle and yard sales, pizza, napping on the floor for 3 hours, rambling out to Tacoma Park, basement circles and kids on chemicals, backyard cigars, 2 am and out the door.
Momma's day, Into the Wild, Old Town and then rambling around with Geoff (Bikers convention at Silver Diner, Rideout's backporch). Work, Springfield Mall, Animal Collective at 930, thennn space! More work today, this and that, music, Baja Fresh, and backporch アサヒビール and 枝豆, yum.
Working on web stuff, bbq over at 11th and M, shisha, Saturday ゴロゴロ, 緑茶 and backyard chat, musings on music, cartoons and flashing neon "Party Over Heah".
Oh boy, so many things. Pops, Cincinnati, climbing roofs with Clint, the mechanical golf-swing contraption, gastropods and pelecypods, all-in-all a good trip. Up at 4 to Columbus to BWI, back home and out the door to an interview and a barbeque. Trolling the Mall, Kenny G references and Flaming Lips.
Up at 5, avoiding the gambling bug in Wheeling WV, Bigg's Mega-Monstrous Food Warehouse, suburbs here is more or less suburbs there, suburbs everywhere.
Thursday, Cherry Blossoms shrimp and stuffed crab, ballin' weather. Friday, picket-painting with pops, Route 1 exploring with poppop, Good Friday Family Feast, chilling over at Mr. Tran's House of Norwegian Horticultural Imports.
なぜ「OH YEAHHHH」を書いた分からない、でも今チョッドいい気分なったよ。Anyways, morning musings, illustration work, study study study, King Street with Pops, 音楽練習, bajando bajando y mas bajando, Pass Out!
Hmmmm lots of bands, pals and good times! Driving down to Harrisonburg, My Disco, Fing Fang Foom, Medications, Rapid Cities, Order, Whatever Brains, Monument, Cinemasophia, Snacktruck, End of a Year, hanging with Pizza Cookie crew! Country roads, block party spill-over, "The Friendly City", clean air, bbq and ska.
Oh boy howdy, well let's see here... working on various things, H Mart, カウボイービーボプ, music and Treebeard considerations, 寿司 and すき焼き with Geoff and Sarah, free floating.
Organizing, peeling wallpaper, Arlington traffic screw-ups, Screaming Females and Ponytail at American University, 24 oz. Duron store-front shoots, eu amo a música brasileira, pizza and beer, and beer, good times and homeward bound, breaking and entering through the rec-room window.
(On the astral-front, previous evening included an island, swimming, ornate visual phenomena, large friendly eels, and the next, Japanese familiar faces, a house overlooking a city waiting to be plundered).
Morning driving, two well-dressed thinkers and their mama walk into a Denny's, housecleaning, spice-induced sweating, musings on Ithaca and the future, fields of stars, Hollywood PA, basement chitchat with Sofija and Sascha, black and milds.
Great weather, got the City Staff o.k., ate burritos in a park with Geoff, Watchmen, "Mama Gets Her License Taken Away", early-morning DMV and ゴロゴロ, Isabel's memorial and Radiohead, Space Travel Programs for Suburban Thinkers.
The Further Adventures of Kid Green Thumb (featuring a spaced-out, tea-offering youth at Abaca Imports and a long-haired, self-taught Asian-style guru), fantasies of floating away on a deckchair strung with weather balloons, interview prep.
Got myself some car insurance, a 50 dollar bill suspected of being counterfeit, and a couple library books (including the very approachable 'A Man, A Can, A Plan' series)
Mars Attacks, Gravally Point, police at the 5 Guys in Georgetown, beers in front of Ross, small neighborhoods all over the place, space space and cosmos, overlook hill, goofy and loose, loofy and goose. Beyond epic.
Home home home... Settled in by now... Being back is not as exciting as it could be, but I'm really looking forward to these next couple of months. I've had more time to focus and concentrate on what I really want to accomplish, long-term goals-wise, and I think things could be really interesting in a few months. Brief rundown of projects:
-Self-study: php, Japanese, French, Spanish
-Working on turning the garden into a really cool, chilled out space
-SuperDuperZenbu.com and NomadEmpire.com (!!!)
Fueling my concentration is an intense desire to get back out. To be able to live my life as chill as I want to. This level of chilled out: