tales from the dentist pt. 2

my dentist continues to simultaneously fascinate and creep me out. the other day she gave me the name and number of her bikini waxer. i didn't ask for it or anything. just because.

and now she tells me that she frequently matchmakes for her patients. she offered to set me up with a "good provider".

she's a really great dentist, though. i swear.

hockney

blew me away.

afterwards, we went out for korean bbq and then tried on designer dresses at bloomingdales.
it was a good day.

now why do i doubt that?

oh god

i just had one of those moments. one of those cringey, lower-lip-biting moments. i went in for orientation at my new internship today, and one of my coworkers mentioned that he had looked me up on friendster. he liked my photographs.

great, whatever.

but then i came home and looked at my profile, which describes me as "unsure and excited and tentative and weirdly passionate and off key." that description may be apt, but it's not exactly how i want to be introduced to a new office.

i may need to reevaluate just how much of myself i should be revealing on the internet.

my dentist is craaaaazy

at first i just thought quirky, but then she launched into this whole dental hygiene analogy in which the bacteria in my mouth are like the taleban in afghanistan, and the cavities are like caves and my toothbrush and floss are ground troops and i guess that makes me george w. bush or something.

what?

i wish i could show you

how cool this is. from here it's just a 2 dimensional snapshot, but on my computer you can walk around in it. you can fly above it. you can touch the trees and look up from underneath the ground. you can move things - whole buildings, blocks. you can add parks and developments without worrying about finances or political support. you can do whatever you want, and no one rains on your parade. ever.

inventing the next los angeles

The next twenty years will be critical for the City of Los Angeles. Projections say our population will expand by the equivalent of two Chicagos, and our housing stock is already bursting at the seams. Transformation is inevitable; just how it will happen is unknown. PropX seeks elegant, if radical, proposals to rework policy and design that could change the face of Los Angeles.

my team has just been selected to compete in the propX workshop! we are architects, planners and developers. they've given us a bunch of money and access to high-level advisors. now we've got three months to solve LA's housing crisis.

game on.

kalley

sigh

captures it perfectly.

i am so bad with names

it's getting embarrassing.

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thank you note

i've been spending a lot of time on trees lately

i miss...

it doesn't quite feel like summer without them.

r.i.p.

mittens jumped.

sunset from the top of a parking garage

taken with a camera phone. does it get any more LA than this?

i dreamt that i was flying

i felt like i encompassed everything. fast and joyous and maybe a little out of control. but there in the back of my head was this little nagging fear - how was i going to land? i had never flown before. but when it finally came time, my feet touched down like feathers.

i awoke exhilarated and stayed that way for days.

i would like to meet the person who made the law

that computer labs have to be airconditioned within an inch of their lives.

if i ever regain feeling in my toes, i'm going to kick his ass.

the cakes ride again

bowling season may be over, but today marked the The Great Los Angeles Scavenger Hunt of 2006. 60+ items and locations. 6 hours. 4 women. 1 car. there was craziness, tension, nudity and whipped cream. there was a very elusive dreidel. we broke every traffic law in los angeles at least twice. we talked to strangers and ran from security guards. we made it from santa monica to west hollywood in under 30 minutes (including parking) at 6:00pm on a saturday. my little car grew wings.

we made it with two minutes to spare.

and we came in a very respectable fourth place.

next year we're going all the way, ladies.

i just started a new book

and i've not read a synopsis or any reviews or even the back cover. i have no idea what it's about. i think this is the best way. i wish i read more books without prior knowledge.

it's really good so far.

chronology

i don't remember ever not liking simon and garfunkel. i have no idea when i was first introduced to them. i think it was a tape my parents had in their car, the one i begged them to play over and over again as a child. but i danced to them in high school, obsessed about paul in college, and rediscovered their dreamy twists and turns in my new york days. i had a hard time deciding where to put them in this chronology.

but this i know: it started early, and has always been with me.

baby driver - simon and garfunkel