the lost and the found

soul food.

nobody@vox.com(selena) — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:18:50 -0700

prescilla

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birthday!

nobody@vox.com(selena) — Sun, 11 May 2008 22:20:40 -0700

tomorrow is my birthday.
i am excited for it.
i hope to have an intimate dinner with the people in the world who matter most.

(also: i'm proud of jeff for not telling me what my gift is. though i think i know anyway!)

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busy weekend. to say the least.

nobody@vox.com(selena) — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:24:57 -0700

the last two days have been so fun and have gone by so quickly.

on thursday ela and i found out that there was a zdravko colic concert on saturday in canadia. so of course we had to go. we decided we'd drive up on saturday morning since the concert was saturday night and we'd sleep over because really, nobody likes driving for long-periods of time after a concert. since i'm a foreigner (translation: immigrant) - we were really worried that my non-American passport would prevent me from crossing the border... thankfully, that turned out to not be a problem. i'm going to refrain from doing a marilyn manson concert-esque blog where i squee like a little kid and throw in details between ranting and raving about how amazing the show was. so here it is: in photos.

i have tons of videos of a few of my favorite songs. however, they are very poor sound quality and i was jumping and yelling as i was recording, so i'm not sure anyone really wants to hear those. after the concert we went to our hotel, which was, conveniently, at the end of the block. i love that we planned it that way because by the end of the night, our feet ached. we got up at like nine or ten sunday morning and packed up our stuff and headed back. i still had easter sunday dinner to get ready for. the very nice hutchins' family invited me over - and i can't pass up an egg-hunt. speaking of the egg-hunt, jeff's mom hid 28 eggs and it took us like an hour to find them. she put one down the sink (after cleaning it, of course) and one inside the sugar bowl. she even placed one inside the cardboard tube in the middle of your paper towels. she's sneaky. but i will be ready for her next time. in any case: photos.

clever

easter sunday dinner

the prize to beat them all.

yes, jeff won the easter egg hunt (and our bet, respectively). i came in second place. honestly, i was happy i found any - his mom hid those things well.

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rock out with your barack out

nobody@vox.com(selena) — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 13:27:09 -0800

i don't usually like discussing politics in a place where it is open to the world but i sincerely do not care because this presidential candidate... is worth of all the potentially negative things i will hear because of this post.

OLYMPIA — Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire endorsed Barack Obama for president Friday, providing a last-minute lift to the Illinois senator on the eve of the state's hotly contested Democratic caucuses.

Gregoire, announcing her choice in an interview with The Associated Press, said that taking sides in the close contest for the Democratic nomination was tough, given her great admiration for Sen. Hillary Clinton.

But she said Obama is a charismatic and skilled leader who can bring the country together, help solve nagging problems, and restore the country's image abroad.

Gregoire planned to join Obama in a major campaign rally at Seattle's KeyArena on Friday.
(courtesy of the Seattle Times)

the presidential caucuses are taking place this Saturday. I knew electing Gregoire had been one of the best things this state has done.

Also, way to go Bush on the economic stimulus plan. I'm not sure that it will work exactly as it is planned to work and that it will save America from the recession that is bound to happen - but it will at least make it less severe. Maybe it would have been better for the plan to have been passed before the situation was this bad, but better late than never.

Last but not least, thank you John McCain for changing your mind, although, ideally, you should have voted for this in the first place.

"Sen. John McCain of Arizona, the likely Republican presidential nominee, who had not voted Wednesday, voted for the [economic stimulus] plan Thursday."
(courtesy of the Seattle Times)

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commence

nobody@vox.com(selena) — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 21:19:05 -0800

i never know how to begin things or how to properly end them. i take pleasure in little but what i do enjoy, i enjoy fully. there are few things i love more than books. vladimir nabokov, aldous huxley, edward estlin cummings, arturo perez-reverte, voltairine de cleyre. i like lists and organization but i feel like i'm never really organized. i love music. but i'm particular about it. and i'm really trying hard to open my mind and my ears to new things. i like art. escher, in particular, but other various artists and pieces of art. i'm all over the map. correction: i'm all over the maps.

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