calculations

my life has improved ten-fold since ending my work season.

i made 2,545.60 this summer, 2,268.55 after taxes.

time to see the world.

swift

the video for you belong with me is really cute

high school musical

had lunch with my junior prom date,

dinner with my senior prom date

so fond of them both

followed by reunion with other high school peers at florentine's. i think we've all grown up a bit, no? it's been

three years.

in san diego tomorrow with brother, future sister. sun, sand.

vacation

IN VEGAS. we were upgraded to a penthouse. living the life. tryst tonight.

hgtv

deserving design with vern yip. sooo good. highly recommend.

i love seeing this frosty asian man make people happy.

bummed about perseid

bummed about not being able to see the meteor shower tonight. i laid out in the backyard rolled in a blanket and kept my eyes open until my contacts dried out and i saw things wiggling and every star seemed to move sort of a little if you stared at it long enough. and i got a mosquito bite on my toe.

monster hospital

i thought i had become fully re-settled in america until i realized that quarters still feel strange in my hand.

Once in Ordos

my father, climbing a hill after a storm, inadvertently

entered the base of a rainbow - the

rarest

occurence! - and found himself

in colored air, in a play of light

as if in paradise. He took one more step - and left paradise.

they are always too slight.

isbjørn

shit let's go to solvang

declaration

i would like to be called froggy

digitalism

drunkkkk. my cocker spaniel will sleep with me on my bed.

grand 11:45-20:15

i really don't want to go to work today. but i really want to make some cash money so i can get away.

judy garland - life is just a bowl of cherries

greene&greene

take me to the gamble house!

indeed

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Who_is_Valerie_Chen

found my name

had dinner with brother last night, discovered that my parents named me after the character on Family Ties. except that character is definitely named Mallory, not valerie.

dreamwalking

two days ago i drove home from downtown los angeles at seven am, arrived at seven thirty, and let myself sleep for an hour and a half before i had to get up and go to work.

i was looking through some sort of box and found a folded rectangular piece of plastic with deep scalloped edges all around. it was purple and when i unfolded it i recognized it as a starfish and was sure to keep its mouth submerged in water.

i looked through another box and found an osprey at the bottom lying on its side. it had a white head with black markings, a great black beak and black tongue. (i recognized it as an osprey in my dream and i just google imaged osprey and that is exactly exactly what i saw in the dream.) i asked it if wanted to be released and it nodded. i released it and soon its osprey wife had arrived to meet it.

i was on a platform with a family of orangutans. suddenly, the platform was in freefall, akin to a falling elevator, but i wasn't scared at all - it was exhilarating. the orangutans were hooting and dancing. suddenly i was seeing everything from an eagle-eye, swooping camera point-of-view and i could see the orangutans and an entire rainforest and i could hear the chorus of birds and music accompanying a joyous rainforest.

and then i woke up and went to work.