tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58731062024-03-14T01:34:45.961-07:00We Don't Need to Bring Ink and Paper Into This.What do you do with a BA in English? You blog.Stevihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00441900692713255068noreply@blogger.comBlogger265125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873106.post-30722270025822737452008-03-12T12:58:00.001-07:002008-03-12T13:37:22.355-07:00T-minus 8 and counting.While I wouldn't say that I woke up on the morning of my wedding hungover, I would say that I was incredibly nervous and skittsh for the entirety of the day, making me look like something of a -- how shall we say? -- crack addict.I woke up at 7 and couldn't get back to sleep, which worked out okay, I guess, because Bridesmaid Jenn was already awake and had already wandered into a local Starbucks.Stevihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00441900692713255068noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873106.post-16106053292698450662008-03-02T22:07:00.000-08:002008-03-02T22:43:03.275-08:00Posting falls second to spending time with my new husband.Really. When finally you move in with someone that you've been with for years, the notion of alone time seems to fall by the wayside and you spend every evening making up for the number of evenings you didn't get to spend together throughout your relationship.Marcus and I have been together for over 6 years, moved in together in July and got married last October. So we're still doing that "Stevihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00441900692713255068noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873106.post-60254144666051066542007-10-01T19:51:00.000-07:002008-01-14T11:16:10.690-08:00In which I appease Drew and Meg.I spend a lot of my time these days on the train to and from San Francisco. This is actually pretty great because it gives me two guaranteed half hour blocks of time each day to read. As such, I finish 200 pagers in about 2 days. It's awesome. Other than the fact that I have to get up early in order to get parking at the BART station, I will never ever complain about this commute. I'm on the Stevihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00441900692713255068noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873106.post-65157888024019436322007-08-21T21:09:00.000-07:002007-08-21T21:25:47.989-07:00I love a good Dutch Oven.I am getting married in about 8 weeks.My evenings consist of creating spreadsheets for the caterer, using multicolored post-its notes to arrange seating, scouring the internet for gifts for the groomsmen, purchasing things (favors, accessories, place cards, thank you notes . . . and so on), and obsessively checking my registries to see if anyone has bought me presents.Certain presents have Stevihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00441900692713255068noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873106.post-81851963937888121772007-07-31T11:14:00.001-07:002007-07-31T11:36:29.859-07:00In the bedroom.Easily the most important room in the house, the bedroom was the first room we set up on our very long, very tiring moving day. This is the fantastic Cal King bed we got off Craigslist for $350. There is a large possibility that it could be one-of-a-kind, as we purchased it from a furniture craftsman with an obvious pituitary gland disorder. (He was a giant, close to 7 feet tall, and his larynx Stevihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00441900692713255068noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873106.post-81544066405762674812007-07-30T09:30:00.000-07:002007-07-30T09:55:14.303-07:00Mary, what kind of homosexual are you?That color right there is mauve.I actually wouldn't call that mauve exactly. The best name I have for it is perhaps "dusty rose" or pinky-grey, the latter of which seems to be the most truly accurate. It was not our color choice, but rather the choice of previous tenants, whichever one decided that the carpet du jour should be uncleanable, unnice feeling burbur. So that's the true wall color. LetStevihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00441900692713255068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873106.post-82416447263075069062007-07-29T10:30:00.000-07:002007-07-29T11:27:25.333-07:00Welcome to our evil lair.I decided I would start sharing photographs of the house by starting with the least put together room so that your expectations have nowhere to go but up.Welcome to our study/office/kitten restroom/evil lair/library/editing room/Marcus' closet.We've got about five bookcases in here and all of them are full-ish. The anal retentive part in me spent about two days attempting to organize the books inStevihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00441900692713255068noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873106.post-42656882074588250542007-07-28T10:22:00.000-07:002007-07-28T10:46:10.050-07:00A massive life drop.While I'm sure its obvious to most of you, I haven't been posting in awhile. There are reasons for this, I assure you. Chief among them is the fact that I moved away from the Santa Barbara area and back to the Bay Area, and for the first week and a half of this new residence, I could not actually use my laptop at all. It seems that as I was selling off all my Santa Barbara furniture, Calliope no Stevihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00441900692713255068noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873106.post-59902653137269390882007-06-19T10:09:00.000-07:002007-06-19T19:05:13.944-07:00Pop Art: Non-Warholian Paintings of CelebritiesI saw this link on PopSugar and decided it was too cool not to repost some of my favorite images. Worth1000.com held a Photoshop contest in which people photoshopped celebrities into Renaissance, Baroque and 18th century art (although there are definitely some modernists, post-modernists and impressionists that slipped in there). I think some of these work a lot better than others, by which I Stevihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00441900692713255068noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873106.post-68792812214956464402007-06-19T09:23:00.000-07:002007-06-19T09:42:17.391-07:00Awesome Band Names, Part 1I spend a good deal of time turning example sentences from my linguistics courses into band names. These are usually things taken from the word for word translations or example sentences in languages other than English. I'm hoping to make regular lists of these, and lists in general. (Because clearly, the thing I'll miss most about my current job is making lists every week.)So, my first list of Stevihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00441900692713255068noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873106.post-3558035918114806152007-06-15T09:11:00.000-07:002007-06-15T10:01:04.587-07:00I am full of facts.I have managed to resist these for a while, but part of me always secretly wants to fill them out. So now that Jenn, Bri and Drew have done it, I will cave in to peer pressure.1. Each player starts with eight random facts/habits about themselves.2. People who are tagged need to write their own blog about their eight things and post these rules.3. At the end of your blog, you need to choose eight Stevihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00441900692713255068noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873106.post-23711663697791965222007-06-06T19:05:00.001-07:002007-06-07T17:26:43.493-07:00Cake or Death?Death by Cake by Daniela EdburgEddie Izzard does this bit about poorly designed executions in which the soon-to-be-dead are given a choice between "Cake or Death?" Naturally, everyone chooses the cake, and when there is no more cake, cheeky dead men walking suggest that they'll have the chicken instead. That's only mildly relevant to the photograph above, but it appears that the subject has Stevihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00441900692713255068noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873106.post-72689095656298863232007-06-05T21:29:00.000-07:002007-06-05T22:29:27.967-07:00Living on the HellmouthTo those who have seen my Netflix queue, it is no secret that I have been immersing myself in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.I realize that I am about 10 years too late for this show, but how was I to know that when I was 11, Buffy the Vampire Slayer would become such an important part of my life?I can't say that it will replace The X-Files at the top of my Television Shows I'm Obsessed With list (Stevihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00441900692713255068noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873106.post-23855132151636079672007-05-25T09:31:00.000-07:002007-05-25T09:54:04.182-07:00Pestillence and paper products.On Tuesday, a fly infestation was discovered in the kitchen of my office. On Wednesday, I arrive at work to find our kitchen has been quarantined for bug extermination. The place had been "bug bombed" the previous evening.On Thursday, the power goes out twice after I have left for class. In addition, the source of the fly infestation was unveiled upon the discovery of a rat carcass in the Stevihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00441900692713255068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873106.post-26136598006402297662007-05-22T22:10:00.000-07:002007-05-22T22:26:18.078-07:00Because dishes don't just clean themselves, you know.I once wrote a note to some rude playgoers and gave it to them after the performance. (I wrote about it once, but I don't feel like going through my archives to find it. If you're curious, I'm pretty sure it happened in Spring 2004. Possibly April.)This was the beginning of my journey into writing and leaving passive-aggressive notes.Because Cassie knows that all of my notes left around this Stevihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00441900692713255068noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873106.post-76410468945555444892007-05-21T15:28:00.000-07:002007-05-21T15:44:11.208-07:00For the apparel doth oft proclaim the man.I have a Denmark sweatshirt that I made when I costumed Hamlet on the Moon. It's just a thing. When you are involved with Hamlet, you can own a Denmark sweatshirt even if you aren't Danish or haven't been there. And when you costume an entire production by yourself, you definitely are allowed to own an item of clothing commemorating it. I wore this to work last week, for some reason.Today, I haveStevihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00441900692713255068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873106.post-90505195336741099782007-05-11T11:25:00.000-07:002007-05-11T11:30:16.310-07:00Yeah, about that whole saying "no" to rehab thing . . .I love listening to Amy Winehouse. Her soulful doo-wop inspired sound is something I haven't heard in the past decade or so in pop music. Not since Lauren Hill's reinvention of doo-wop for "That Thing." But man, this girl is not fun to look at. I try to believe that every woman has the potential to be beautiful, and somehow the makeup and hair gods managed to make Amy look presentable for her Stevihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00441900692713255068noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873106.post-29537711985543255742007-05-09T12:53:00.000-07:002007-05-09T13:12:05.066-07:00Cooking South Beach StyleTed Allen, of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy fame and an occasional judge on Iron Chef America, will be joining Padma, Tom and Gail as a fourth judge for the third season of Top Chef, which I will be watching religiously when it starts up again on Bravo on June 13. (The rest of the cast is up on the website, as well, but I only see the judges via this link.)The show will be moving to Miami for Stevihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00441900692713255068noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873106.post-56453321776466980432007-05-03T16:30:00.000-07:002007-05-03T21:38:11.937-07:00Photographic DNA evidence.From Meg, via Will. Read my VisualDNA™ Get your own VisualDNA™I'd say that the program's analysis of the images is pretty accurate. It was very difficult to choose my form of art, however. There were so many good choices. And I missed the vice section entirely, yet the program seemed to know that I have an absurd number of shoes, among them several pairs of Chucks . . .Stevihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00441900692713255068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873106.post-16997000747200987092007-05-02T14:20:00.000-07:002007-05-02T14:30:34.344-07:00Baba kreslo.Marcus: "According to 'The Amazing Race,' Polish people hate dwarves." Stevi: "It's cuz dwarves steal their peroghis.". . .Marcus: "Clearly, my eyes aren't in as much pain because I'm making jokes about dwarves."--discussing the exploits of Charla on the current season of The Amazing RaceThis discussion was later followed by my explanation of what peroghis were called in various Salvic languages,Stevihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00441900692713255068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873106.post-29689648743305227762007-04-27T20:57:00.000-07:002007-04-30T14:46:48.296-07:00Six degrees of Dr. Blight and MAL.Meg H. brought up the character of Dr. Blight in the comments section of my original Captain Planet post, which brought up some extra strange intertextual coincidences on this blog.Dr. Blight looks like she could be Jem's mother--they both seem to share an affinity for pink clothing and bleach-blonde hair. Prior to my Captain Planet research, I had received a text message from a friend stating Stevihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00441900692713255068noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873106.post-44169305167251983292007-04-27T13:46:00.000-07:002007-04-27T13:59:37.525-07:00Now if only he'll take us to the Dairy Queen to show off our new Balenciaga bags.Tim Gunn has a new book out, and I will be rushing to Borders after work today to purchase it and read it while drinking and watching What Not To Wear tonight.Behold: There is an arcticle on MSNBC that features some exerpts from the Almighty Tim Gunn's Guide to Quality, Taste & Style. The kicker for me--which makes me want to run out and buy this immediately--is not Gunn's many suggestions for Stevihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00441900692713255068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873106.post-62540727913595042492007-04-26T10:07:00.001-07:002007-04-26T20:10:23.684-07:00Gonna take pollution down to zero.I love Captain Planet. I really do. The girls from WETT and I spend a good deal of time yesterday talking about how early 90s cartoons indoctrinated us into a variety of forms of environmental action, and how that is the current purpose of a film like Happy Feet. (Which also has a lot of other things going on in it that I will not discuss now.) We learned to save the rainforests and not create Stevihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00441900692713255068noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873106.post-63864097268778700002007-04-20T20:51:00.000-07:002007-04-22T09:07:08.261-07:00Bringing the shag back into style.Another wonderful text message:"Meg Ryan's dog looks like her."I wonder if they see the same stylist.Stevihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00441900692713255068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873106.post-46969043466993520652007-04-20T15:03:00.000-07:002007-04-20T22:56:00.280-07:00Filthy gorgeous.Text message of the day:"I want to lick your mutton chops and grab your love handles" From Marcus.My response: "Do I have to be in drag for this activity?"Stevihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00441900692713255068noreply@blogger.com0