Work

Sunday I went in to work and worked by myself in an empty office until 8:45pm, which was fun until I started to imagine that there could be ghosts in the building. Monday Graham and I worked feverishly until 8pm to assemble a prototype for demo in the morning. I was so tired that I kept making dumb decisions and  dropping things on the floor. Naturally we didn't finish so the next morning I arrived back at work at 7:45am and discovered that the models I had printed overnight didn't fit together, probably because I was delirious and dumb when I made them, so I took a Dremel to them until they fit, then drove everything to the big meeting across property at 9:30am. This morning I rolled into big meeting day 2 at 8am and literally didn't stop meeting until 5pm, at which point I went and had a beer by myself at the bar at the contemporary and then walked around magic kingdom by myself for a few hours and watched a parade that annoyed me so much that I put in my ear plugs.

Last night I had another fish dream, where I was at Neil's house for a fancy children's birthday party which was being held on the patio and it was beach themed but also flooded like the shallows of a beach shore and there were dead or dying fish everywhere. The first one I saw was stiff as a board and I blew on it to see if it had any life left in it but it was dead. Then I tried to save a bubble-eyed goldfish but the moment I threw it into a body of green water I knew it would probably die in there.

growing pangs

this makes me want to give my parents big hugs

red fraggle

Red Fraggle is one of the five main Fraggles in Fraggle Rock. She is yellow and her hair is red with yellow and orange highlights which is always in big pigtails. She usually wears a red sweater and has the most hair of any Fraggle.

Red is athletic and energetic. She likes to think of herself as the fastest and strongest Fraggle in the Rock. She is highly competitive with her friends, which sometimes causes extreme interpersonal problems, especially with Gobo Fraggle (though, as revealed in a recent SFX interview, despite their constant competition, she secretly admires him).

Red also has her share of insecurities; she especially hates to admit her mistakes.

birds

in florida there are lakes everywhere. they serve as obstacles to triple the driving distance between any two points and blockade the zealous development of tightly packed track housing. anyone can have a house because they come as cheap as eighty thousand dollars. the lakes, however, are amenable housing for the birds. big cartoon birds stand knee-deep in every body of water. i once saw a heron in the night staring into the darkness of a lake. suddenly it plopped into the water and came up with a fish in its mouth, which it swallowed and then the fish stuck out horizontally in its throat, still moving. in the morning on my commute to work cormorants stand on the shore and hold their arms out wide to dry in the sun. the dry birds are big black vultures as big as dogs, always swooping around my apartment complex, and wild turkeys who stand in herds around by the golf courses and baffle me with their existence. the not-birds are the armadillos that root around in the bushes by where i park my car and the 8-foot gator my boss says he saw on property walking around near the contemporary resort a few days ago.

Goodnight world

1:30 am and I fall back into my freshly laundered sheets

starve a vampire

This morning I donated blood for the first time in 2 years and for the first time in a truck. I was pleased to find that my resting heart rate is 63 bpm despite my sedentary Floridian lifestyle. They (OneBlood) had a curious device that rocked the bag of blood back and forth as it fattened and was mixed with anticoagulant, like a baby rocking in a cradle. I was lying  next to a woman who was donating for her 57th time! And then I got this horrendous shirt. All afternoon I could feel my heart working harder than usual. представьте себе - up to three people walking around with my blood in their bodies.

Where should i be in December?

My extraordinary ability to agonize over a calendar should be added to my list of extra-special talents. 

Chens take Orlando

I'm in my parents' hotel room at the all stars music resort. It's nice to be in a bed that is bigger than a matchbox and feel like it's filled with one million slinkies. It's nice to probably not be woken up by a roommate wandering around the room in the dead of morning, opening all the doors and drawers. Ma and pa and me had a delightful fancy Africanish dinner at the Animal Kingdom Lodge and tomorrow we're spending the day at the food and wine festival, which will be my parents' first trip back to Epcot in 24 years.

WWWD40D?

I'm such a light sleeper that it isn't exactly altruism, but I bought a can of WD40 at Target and lubricated every squeaky damned hinge in this apartment, from my roommate's walk-in-closet doors from hell to our shared bathroom's rolling door and even to our roommates' regular swinging bathroom door and no one seems to notice or voice appreciation (except for Sinay, bless her). It reminds me of all the little things my dad did silently and thanklessly around the house all our lives to make us comfortable, like changed the air filters and pulled long girl hair out of the drains, like the time that I was in the garage about to leave for my hourly job at Disneyland and he watched me expectantly as I put on my work shoes and voiced his sadness that I hadn't noticed that he'd shined them for me.

It's alive

Though I may have intensely burned my finger with a soldering iron and the skin turned gray, I replaced a fan, thermocouple, and motherboard and got the Makerbot working today for the first time in almost two months.

surprise

almond milk is the fucking worst

todayland

Last night I bumped into my 2006 parade trainer in Epcot again and this time he was with a guy with whom I also used to work at that time, back when I was at Buzz and he was in a blue jumpsuit across the way at Star Tours. Epcot, the great unifier, across years and coasts. 

cliff and char

this baby is starting to look suspiciously like a grown-up

reboot

i wrote my first cron job this morning to run a python script on a raspberry pi.

Fire dreams

Last week I dreamt that I spilled acetone everywhere and my hands were on fire. Last night I dreamt that I had to cremate my own body. I only had a small fire and I was worried about the smell. Last week I bought concert tickets to see CHVRCHES on Tuesday and Lykke Li on Thursday and tonight I went to see CHVRCHES and on my way out was given four free tickets to see Lykke Li on Thursday?