southern sun, part 2

I had this song on loop for a while several months ago. These are the colors I picture when I hear it. Vibrant and uplifting, and reminds me of scenic summer drives through La Jolla.

&&&

Over the use of an ampersand on an invitation card:

"It looks horrible. It's not tasteful. Why can't you just use 'and'?"

"Do you want me to spell it out, a-n-d? Or do you just want me to change the font?" (It was Monotype Corsiva.)

"Yeah, 'and.' People aren't going to know what this is."

"Okay, so I'm going to spell it out then. A-n-d."

"No, just use '&.' This looks horrible."

"That is '&.' It only looks like that because of that font. So you want me to change the font?"

"Yeah, because it's not tasteful. When you look at it, do you think people will know what that is? Doesn't it look horrible?"

"No, it looks fine to me."

"Are you serious?"

"Yeah, I mean, it depends who's looking at it. You're asking a really subjective question."

"You only think that because you haven't seen what is the best."

Really? Really? Talk to me again when you discover what fonts are. I mean, what exactly is the "best" font anyway? I would've been less offended if we had talked about what could've been a better font.

&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&!!!

southern sun, part 1

I'm going to see J in less than three weeks! So excited!

Okay, so the weather in LA has been really erratic. A couple weekends ago, we had some gorgeous sunsets and I managed to snap a few shots one day, before the colors faded into darkness.

Afterwards, a storm rolled in and wrapped us in wintery (for SoCal) 50-degree temperatures before jerking us into a 90-degree heatwave a few days later. Whiplash, anyone?

goal-setting

In today's episode of Life as the Office Bitch, Scarlet gets an earful of self righteous drivel about how she shouldn't befriend "losers" who will drag her down, how people don't have direction in life if they don't have goals, and how "scary" it is that some can go through life that way...which was provoked by responding to Boss with a tepid "okay" when Boss told her not to ignore a certain email. Even seemingly innocuous things like acknowledging an instruction is not immune to scrutiny.

For those 45 minutes, I sat there with an inward smirk, wondering what Boss would do if I revealed that I am, in fact, one of those damnably directionless "losers." Why, I would be terminated, surely? Then Boss would no longer have to worry about the likes of me defiling the work environment with my erroneous ways of thinking.

"I don't have the direction or the heart to keep working with you." I almost said it out loud.

Actually though, to say that I don't have any goals or direction right now is untrue...because we all know my #1 goal is to get the fuck away from Boss ASAP.

another player joins the game (but not really)

Everyday I get lunch for Boss at this place across the street from our building, and almost everyday I get helped by the same guy. When I show up, he already knows what I'm going to ask for even before I say it. He also seems to know that Boss is crazy and always gives me extra food to bring back (a sacrificial offering to appease the monster, methinks). Yup, he's pretty nice.

I started to suspect he might have a crush on me. However, I could identify no solid reasons for thinking this so I chalked it up to my imagination getting the better of me in the recent monotony of life at the office. I had dropped the issue until...


Food Dude: You're dressed different today.

S: Oh, because I'm more casual?

Food Dude: *pause* More pretty.

S: Aw haha, it's because I ran out of clothes.

Food Dude: You ran out of clothes? Don't tease me like that.

S: ...haha! I meant I ran out of suits to wear!

And then I ran out of there.


At least he's not creepy like DfmB. Apparently, flirtation is slightly more effective than the charge-in-with-a-boner approach.

spirited away

I really like the moods evoked by these pieces.

The Day We Left Earth by Grzegorz Rutkowski

Heart of the Forest by Tuomas Korpi

Endless Street by A. Rocha

They kind of take you away to another place, even if it's just for a short moment.