I want to cover my walls in plastic bags like these. I will hang ornaments on them, found objects and more garbage, kind of like a christmas tree. I don't really knit as much as I knot, it started out as knitting. I'm starting to count down the days to when I get to leave my job permanently. I'm considering a trip up to the bay area for a few days, aside from that I need to do more reading. I gave up on reading any more of the fluid dynamics text I've been trudging through for the past month and started on a more basic and classic atmospheric text from the seventies. It's a real page-turner compared to fluid dynamics, (I am going to have to start a year long sequence on the topic in the fall), at least I have a small skeleton of a background on the subject.
I can't help but feeling a little daunted right now for the start of school. I am looking forward to the challenge but at the same time fear coming up short. Typical concerns for someone in my situation, I know this so I am not letting my fears get the best of me.
Speaking of fears:
The banking system, (see above mention of conspiracy theories).
The Atlantic hurricane season is finally picking up.
It is hot in Los Angeles.
Fires burn out of control in Santa Barbara county.
Huge earthquakes happening everywhere, (Peru, Indonesia).
The USGS held a press conference on the south-eastern extent of the San Andreas fault. It is over a hundred years over its periodic event cycle. It could erupt in one giant event.
Southern California is ringed by mountains. Vital infrastructure and fault lines both lie along mountain passes. Beach toxicity events in California are way up. A major seismic event could eventually cut off the aqueduct from the Colorado, power-lines, gas-lines.
I am not stock-piling water and canned goods as of yet, but it is a preoccupation.
Warrant-less wiretaps and asset freezing are no longer considered to be abuses of government power, and are now constitutional.
Greenhouse gas emissions are on track for a record breaking year.
hopes:
Boyfriend or at least a few dates in the near future.
A new better body thanks to my fluidity (portable ballet) bar. My posture is already improving and my back doesn't hurt me anymore.
Building a tiny shack someday, somewhere beautiful.
Living off the grid.
Finishing school and getting a job doing something I love. Researching environmental change, teaching earth-science, government forecasting.
Being out of bank-debt by next month.
Getting my 600 dollars worth of pinky-stitches debt subsidized or written off altogether by the hospital.
Trying Taran-Noah-Smith's (the youngest sibling from "Home Improvement") line of vegan cheese.
Liking Taran-Noah-Smith's (the youngest sibling from "Home Improvement") line of vegan cheese.
That my neighbor will stop blaring music on their stereo soon so I can get some sleep.
Boyfriend or at least a few dates in the near future.
A new better body thanks to my fluidity (portable ballet) bar. My posture is already improving and my back doesn't hurt me anymore.
Building a tiny shack someday, somewhere beautiful.
Living off the grid.
Finishing school and getting a job doing something I love. Researching environmental change, teaching earth-science, government forecasting.
Being out of bank-debt by next month.
Getting my 600 dollars worth of pinky-stitches debt subsidized or written off altogether by the hospital.
Trying Taran-Noah-Smith's (the youngest sibling from "Home Improvement") line of vegan cheese.
Liking Taran-Noah-Smith's (the youngest sibling from "Home Improvement") line of vegan cheese.
That my neighbor will stop blaring music on their stereo soon so I can get some sleep.
1 comment:
building a tiny shack? that is a beautiful hope, mark, at least the first one came true, right? and your plastic bag sculpture is amazing, i wish you could knot one for me too.
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