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I’m in the process of conquering a blank canvas.  It’s no longer blank, but it’s not conquered yet, so stay tuned.  In the mean time, you should really check out my new favorite music video.  Here’s a link to the link (worry not, she’s a good messenger!).

Dancing With Myself

Lately, I’ve been sort-of sluggish in the evenings, only to gain a second wind around midnight. Tonight is different. My body is slowly winding down after a satisfying evening of dancing with myself, capturing a skyline at dusk (my nice way of saying that I was too late for the sun), and thinking about lots of things like:

I should change my attitude at work, no matter how much I hate log veneer, and Highlands Ranch.

“Manhattan is an accumulation of disasters that never happen.” I didn’t think of that, Rem Koolhaas did. I thought about it a lot though. It’s a quote from Delirious New York, which is on my newly acquired reading list that I received in the mail from my future professors. I get excited whenever I get mail that isn’t junk, but I was really excited about this one. I jumped up and down..for homework!

I’m going to be so old by the time that I get married, my bachelorette’s party will consist of me and my girlfriends inviting the chip n’ dales to play bridge with us, and it’s going to be so fun!

I need to have a few really bad hair days so that I don’t hesitate to chop it all off on Saturday morning. I’ve never been one freak out over cutting my hair. What’s with this unfamiliar anxiety?

I should sketch more often.

Dancing is so fun (just not so much with other people)!

Such Great Heights

Sometimes fear is exciting. I’m scared of heights, but I can never resist looking, or even leaning over the edge.

I recently made the biggest, most expensive decision of my life. I’m scared to death, in disbelief, and it feels great! The next few months are going to be strange – too fast and too slow simultaneously.

1,000 Square Feet

The current issue of Dwell features a few amazing apartments that are less than 1,000 square feet in order to illustrate just how useless 40,000 square feet of a 41,000 square foot megamansion might be. I happened to be escaping my own 1,000 square foot apartment while I read the article at a coffee shop down the street. I started thinking about where I live, and why I like it. I have found that the greatest advantage to living in a small space is that I am more likely to make use of the neighborhood I live in, which is really a pretty cool neighborhood. Instead of a few thousand of square feet filled with my own boring stuff, I have a few square miles filled with interesting people, with things that are familiar mixed with things I’ve never seen.

Mass Transit

Today I rode the light rail to work. I think it took a little longer in both directions, but the experience was much more pleasant than any traffic jam I’ve ever been in. After work, I went to the liquor store and was pleased to find a six pack of Mass Transit Ale. It’s good. Cheers!

My Color

I used to be known for wearing too much color. Any colors matched, as long as they were bright enough. The longer I work in my cubicle in an office with inoperable windows, the more beige my wardrobe becomes. Right now, I’m wearing white and brown. If I searched through my entire closet tonight, I doubt I would even be able to find my bright turquoise shirt that I wore with pink shoes and an orange and white scarf tied around my waist. These days, I’m lucky if I can squeeze in my red shoes with an otherwise completely colorless outfit. I miss my color. I think I should start being colorful again.