Category: The ABL
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How Was Your Trip?
I’ve been back from the States a week—I got in off the plane last Thursday morning, paid an exorbitant cab fair home to Mt. Vic from the airport, fell asleep in my clean-sheeted bed, and woke up in time to have buddies over for tea and biscuits before work the next day. “How was your…
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Confusion Re: The International Date Line
The first thing that happened was that I thought the pilot had got the day wrong when he said, “It’s Saturday the 13th, 10:15 a.m.,” just as I was congratulating myself on a very easy trans-Pacific flight. “Wait, did he get that wrong?” I worriedly asked the guy sitting next to me. “Is that possible?”…
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Up And Running
Yeah, okay, so I guess this site was down for a little while? And I didn’t notice until people started emailing me all HEY WHY NO UPDATES I FEEL CUT OFF HAS SOMETHING GOD FORBID HAPPENED, and I had to be all Huh What? I’ve been too busy not updating to realize I couldn’t update…
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Send
I have made a lot of mistakes in my life and have hurt a lot of people, so I need to apologize and ask for forgiveness a lot, it seems. I am very vindictive and hold a grudge and dispense the silent treatment better than anyone you know, so this is easier with some people…
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Home To Come To Me
Anna and Rob just got into the cab after their week with me here in Wellington. They’re probably rounding the bend bythe Mt. Vic tunnel and heading towards the hill right now as I write this, on their way to the airport. They haven’t even paid the cab or gotten their bags out of the…
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What I’ve Been Doing On My Summer Vacation
I’ve been spending this week in California with my mom and sister, taking a trip down the California coast to Santa Barbara and back up again to the Bay Area, from whence I’ll leave for Fiji the day after tomorrow LA LA LA LA LA NOT REALLY HAPPENING LA LA. Would you like to see…
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On My Way
Thank you so much, everyone, for your kind words and good wishes in the comments these past couple of days. They really help me out as I’m pulling further and further away from everything I know and getting ready to really go. Although lately when someone tells me “Have a wonderful time on your trip!”…
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Superstylin’
This weekend, as well as being the occasion of a very fun house party at my place and the opening of the World Cup, was also the debut performance of the new student troupe I’m in, Nomaditude. Since the troupe and the performance and the rehearsals and the costumes and everything came together really really…
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Let Down, Let Go
I don’t even know why I’m not asleep right now considering I’ve had a total of twelve hours out of the past seventy-two. This afternoon I did the thing where I clutched my aching back and said oooff, I’m not twenty-one anymore, but of course, even when I was twenty-one I still loved sleep more…
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Cage-Dancing Fishnet Stocking Hot Tub Party
Friday night my flight to the Bay Area was a little late and I was standing in line sort of rolling my eyes in concert with the other line-standers, commiserating about how much it sucks to stand in lines and fly in planes. I was jittery because there had been three hundred or so days…
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The Importance Of Being At The Importance Of Being Earnest
In addition to seeing my mom in Monterey this weekend and going to the always fantastic aquarium, I spent a long weekend in Sunnyvale and San Jose with my very talented friends at the good old ABL, who were doing a very complicated photo shoot based on The Importance of Being Earnest. I was there…
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A Very Nearly Perfect Thanksgiving Weekend
Let’s break down my Thanksgiving day by day, okay? Okay. Wednesday: Flew into San Jose and was speedily conveyed to the ABL, where there were many bonhomous companions to greet and belated birthday presents to give and political moaning to do. Much happy anticipation of good times to come. And then it was time to…
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Low Key
You know you’ve had a good weekend when you don’t update about it until the following Tuesday, right? My friends Anna and Rob were here ostensibly for Stockstock purposes but really it was so they could spend twenty-four hours a day entertaining me. I appreciate that about them very much. They came in Friday evening…
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Half The Reason I Came Over Here
It’s weird that I had to travel 600 miles to have a totally low key weekend, but such it was. I spent about 36 hours down at the ABL and it was just lovely. Right now I am a little bit sad that I can’t live there with all my friends and have fun low…
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Bullet Point Burning Man
Things I Like About Going To Burning Man This Summer: It was pretty fun the first time, three years ago. I liked the people we camped with, I liked that we got to use solar panels to power the thing that blew up our air mattresses, I liked wearing fun costumes all week, I liked…
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ABL 2003
Okay, I’ll get this out of the way right now: there was no jello wrestling this year at the Alpine Butterfly Lodge party. None whatsoever. That probably will disappoint whoever it is that occasionally gets here by searching for jello+wrestling on obscure non-Google search engines, but I think the denizens of the ABL are much…
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Come On Over!
So it was a pretty good weekend, in terms of seeing friends and celebrating the fact (all weekend!) that Treasa and John are getting married. I have decided I like house parties very much. Very much indeed. I always like going to the ABL party, and since five sevenths of the actual ABL were here…
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Occasionally
Now, the whole reason behind this trip, besides seeing our sweet friends, was ostensibly to go to a Gaskell Occasional Ball. These are lots of fun…dancing is fun, and dressing up is fun, and a live brass band is fun. And that’s what a Gaskell is. People get all freaky and wear huge period-authentic hoop…
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I Like Otters
I first went to the Monterey Bay Aquarium in the summer of 1993 when I was on my high school graduation trip to California with My Friend Amy. We’d seen a video of it somewhere, I think, and decided to spend a day there. It was the first time I’d been to a real aquarium…