So, some good stuff happening.

The Good Stuff That's Happening:

1. Finally got to visit my sister at her new pad upstate. It's beautiful. She has exquisite decorating taste. And I feel my bowels clench when I think that she pays half what I do for at least four times the space. Ah, c'est la vie, non?

2. There is, at least, the possibility of plans, things that might happen in a Future Time. If they don't happen, I have no idea What Comes Next, but for now, there is the possibility of plans.

3. Some things that I've done in the past (some of them a long time ago), are popping up on the web. Most notably, FADE is on Amazon.com ready for your clicking fingers to purchase it. If you'd like to see the film, it will only cost you $10 of your hard-earned dollars! Check it out, kidlings. Also, I have a small cameo in a music video by a duo called Happy Ending. I run past a fence!

4. Due to FADE being on Amazon.com, I have another imdb.com entry. Guess it's time to put a picture and resume on there, huh?

Happy Birthday, Ishy-Girl!

Haleakala Nat'l Park - Sunrise
Originally uploaded by AdiaMichelle

Yes, I pulled up a slightly embarrassing photo of you in honor of your birthday. Enjoy!

Hotties

Hotties
Originally uploaded by AdiaMichelle

Back in New York.

There was a dead cockroach on the floor near my front door and the foot of my bed.

Bah.

At least we look like a million bajillion bucks in this picture.

I have to leave for work in five minutes.

It's warm and sunny.

Slippahs

Slippahs
Originally uploaded by AdiaMichelle

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ISHY-GIRL! I always think of you when I make the mental switch from "flip flops" to "slippers." I hope you have a fun day. Do something nice for yourself!!

I'm going to get my new drivers license today. My last one expired, oh, six months ago.

Well, actually, I applied for a new one but never received it because they won't forward driver's licenses. Darn. It's fine, though. New York lets you trade your out-of-state license for a New York one, provided it expired within the last twelve months, and you have "proof of birth" (I think that wording is hilarious: isn't your physical presence "proof of birth"?), and your social security card.

Yeah, yesterday, I was all made up and dressed and ready for my photo. Got to the DMV. Didn't have my social security card. I tried to run back home to get it, but all I got was sweaty and a long wait for an A train that didn't come for 20 minutes. 20 minutes! In the middle of a weekday! That's RIDICULOUS. (Yeah, yeah, laugh if you want. I want my train when I want it!)

And now, I really must go. I'm trying to give myself two hours to wait at the DMV before I have to go to work. I figure that's enough time. I'm probably wrong, but let's keep our fingers crossed.

Green Means Go

Green Means Go
Originally uploaded by AdiaMichelle

What's up with Tuesdays? I didn't take a photo yesterday. *gasp* I KNOW. My weeklong quest to take and blog one photo every day was interrupted. By laziness.

I think it might have something to do with starting to read Snow Crash. Wow. Wowowowowowow. Amazing book, and I'm only 153 pages into it (total of 468). If you like The Fifth Element, the Matrix trilogy, or even Second Life, you'll like this book. It's gooooooood. Aisha, read this book.

Happy New Year.

I am (mostly) settled in my new place, and for the first time since I got here, I feel like I can exhale. I'd been living out of my suitcases for the past month, and never feeling like I could settle in. I think I can here. I get along really well with the lease-holder of the apartment: she's pretty cool. The apartment itself is huge, as is my room. I vacuumed today and had visions of the apartment, remodeled. I could see the floors torn up and then leveled - especially the linoleum in the kitchen. Sanding the molding around the doors and windows to get the gobs of paint off, slate tile in the bathroom and kitchen, and sanded, painted walls. It'd be a real showplace at the end. But because the building is rent stabilized, the owner's never going to put that much work into it.

So. It's a new year, and I'm not ready to give up on New York yet. I'm giving myself a year.


(I still feel - every day - so homesick it hurts, but that just means that I'll have to visit home often.

I loathe trying to think of titles

Polyester Bride by Liz Phair is playing on the stereo at the coffee shop in which I currently sit. Someone told me that the song reminded them of me and that I should listen to it. So I downloaded it, and I found I liked it. I'd listen to it over and over. After college my computer died I lost every single bit of my digital college experience. Hearing Polyester Bride just reminded me how much I used to like that song, and how much it sucked when I lost everything.

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So my folks are going to Hawaii to visit my sister on her 20th (;)) birthday. I hadn't intended to go with them because I had signed up for teaching summer classes. But with the enticement of going to the Big Island and realizing that I hadn't yet signed a contract and the appearance of another class to take the original class's place, I decided to try to go. Now I feel like I'm just causing a big headache for everyone because I changed my mind so late. Why couldn't I have realized this sooner? Boo to me.