friends project 365 (2009)

Day 207: Visitors

I don’t get to see my oldest friend Tamara nearly often enough, but it is so so awesome to catch up with her when I can. Bonus: This time she brought along her boyfriend, who had to overcome a pretty stiff North-to-South language barrier and put up with people at gas stations calling him “Jesus.” My goal is to get up to Buffalo to visit before the year is out. [Project 365]

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friends project 365 (2009) work

Day 203: A Bit Brighter

My boss had her baby! So we sent her some flowers. The kid emerged a giant: Nine pounds, fifteen ounces. THAT’S LIKE THIS BIG. Can’t wait to meet him. In the meantime, I am tasked with keeping my department running. Until October! Last week was a clusterfuck because of scheduling mistakes (mine, naturally) and vacationing co-workers and the feeling that I had tossed myself into some kind of boiling vat of stresswater. But that was…

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flickr friends porn the internet is NOT fun

The internet still has the capacity to surprise and disgust me, oddly

See this photo? I titled it “neck veins” for obvious reasons. Someone called “veinale” on Flickr favorited it tonight. I clicked through to veinale’s profile and found this (probably NSFW unless you work at a nipple clamp factory). (One of veinale’s contacts is nudedude840, whose photostream is full of women’s necks, stressed so the veins pop. Bokay.) Anyhoo, many of veinale’s photos advertise a site called veinywoman.com. I’m not hyperlinking it because oh, for fuck’s…

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art friends project 365 (2009) travel

Day 194: The MindField at Dusk

Monday evening, Stephanie and I got all itchy for a roadtrip so we headed east and slightly north and ended up on the sleepy streets of Brownsville, which, for all we could tell, had been emptied out by the zombie apocalypse. Oh, except for RJ’s Hibachi, a greasy spoon that gleefully abuses the “hibachi” part of its name by completely ignoring it. It was hoppin’. We had some time to kill before the sun sat…

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