Friday 2/29

Today was, I assure you, the kind of day where it was a mistake to get out of bed. I looked like shit so I didn't take a picture. It was that bad.

Got up around 2, waited for a bus forEVER, finally got into Oakland around 4. The only significant thing that happened was Julian and I fought with Toby for three hours. Three fucking hours. And zero progress was made. If anything I would wager that Julian and I actually managed to regress, progress-wise, because now Toby thinks everything is fine, we're all friends again, etc when really?

Not at all.

Got home at 10 and returned to bed. Attempted to convince Running Boy to come over, but that obviously did not pan out. Turned down CL Massacre, turned down Engineer Girl. Something about maybe having a boyfriend... Right.

I Ate:
-1/2 Crazy Mocha brownie
-Soy latte
-Curry from Kiva Han
-Coffee
-Kiva Han muffin

I read:
x-men

I listened to:
Elliot Smith's Basement on a Hill. Over and over and over and over...
Dashboard Confessional

I don't like myself when I get like this, and you *know* it's bad when the Narcissist Queen doesn't like hirself.

Thursday 2/28

ICP SHIRT DAY!!!



I got tons of compliments on my tights (which are actually a black wool textured pair over a yellow pair) and, surprisingly, my t-shirt. I think most people assumed it was ironic, forgetting that nothing i do is EVER ironic.

Worked worked worked and comic'd. Picked up:

-Grimm's Fairy Tales #22
-x-Men Legacy #208
-Ultimate X-Men #'s 90&91

Got Eat Unique with Quinn of Hot Metal association. It was... well, it was. We then went to the Jonathan Safron Foer lecture. Not a terribly interesting speaker, but he did provide us with this rather amazing quote: "Writing is like pulling teeth. Out of your penis." Word.

Then! Off to the Rainbow Alliance meeting. I know, right? I'm not "rainbow" gay, but whatever. it was about gender/sexuality/labels and things, and I realized that i'm not terribly interested in having an easily defined sex or gender life, and having to define it makes me uncomfortable. I feel like my whole damn LIFE is queer, that should be enough without answering survey questions about who I sleep with. Kelly mentioned the sexual identity "sovereign", and if that word hadn't been ruined by certain groups who will remain nameless I would totally adopt it.

THEN! I was walking home, and Running Boy txt'd, and I ended up sleeping over. He is, I will say it now and I will say it 1000 more times, absolutely lovely. We had a wonderful time talking and sharing warmth and sleeping. It's definetly something I hope will happen many more times, and I see no reason it wouldn't.

I ate:
-Apple
-Plum
-2 packs maple and brown sugar oatmeal
-2/3 peanut butter and jelly sandwich
-1/2 sweet bean hummus sandwich
-small bowl of mushroom soup (eat unique's soup is deeee-vine!)
-lotsa diet pepsi

I listened to:
-Dashboard Confessional: Dusk and Summer
-Portished (Running Boy...)

I read:
x-men!

Wednesday 2/27

Today I am wearing wonderful green elf tights. See, if I have a free minute or two and want to update but don't have anyone on hand to take the day's outfit picture, i just grab a bathroom. This one is in the William Pitt Union.



Slow day so far. Briefly chatted with Lindsay, and am now in the CLP killing time before class.

Kanye West is amazing, and I am in love. I know I'm coming to this conclusion several years after the rest of the world, but he is really quite lovely and my favorite thing about him is how deeply uncomfortable his lyrics make me at times. For instance, my favorite song, Work It Out, is about how if African American women work really hard at starving themselves and stick to their exercise plans they someday might get the privelege of being an NBA player's wife. My, what big dreams our youth have...

More later.

I ate:
-bagel
-plum

I listened to:
Kanye West- College Drop Out
Dashboard Confessional- Dusk and Summer

Tuesday 2/26

I'm a bad blogger and forgot to update. I can't really remember what happened, but I wore this:



Whoa, messy house.

Monday 2/25

Today I am wearing fabulous blue pants.



Toby, Julian and I had a wonderfully delinquent "Withdraw from Classes Cupcake Party!". This is probably the best picture of me taken in a while:



Ran into every fucking person I've persued in the last year!!! First I talked to Hookah (of Valenhookup fame), then Grandpa Ben appeared, then Care Bear, then I got a text from Running Boy, all in about five minutes. It was sort of surreal. Hung out with Ben for a while, then migrated to seeing Lindsay, and then...

Well, and then I waited an entire evening for Running Boy to manifest so we could get dinner as per our plan as of the last time I s spoke to him, but that obviously did not happen as it is 9:30 now and i'm still sitting at Kiva Han. Whatever. I could rant about it, but it's not important. Or, at least, it won't be important a week from now.

Today I ate:
-Vegan mac and cheese from Kiva Han
-Bagel
-3 cupcakes
-cinnamon roll from Paddycake Bakery
-Coffee
-Cigarettes

I listened to:
-Death Cab for Cutie: Plains
-Boy Kill Boy (delightful!)
-Kellis, esp Handfull
-Bright Eyes: Cassadagua (not his best)
-Brittany Spears: Blackout

I Read:
-The January issue of Spin at the CLP while pirating things
-Dan Kimmon's blog
-Go Fug Yourself and Perez Hilton (I wouldn't normally count this, but i spent an awful lot of time reading it today)

Tomorrow is another day, and I assume i'll be up quite a while so hopefully something interesting will go down before i slumber. Probably just me being weepy, i'm feeling very "depressive" and less "manic" today.

Sunday 2/24

Today was more or less a nothing day. Parted ways with Running Boy around 3, hung out with Toby, then Carebear and Toby and Julian. Eventually parted ways with Care Bear and Giant Eagle'd with Julian, Toby and Alex. Buffy the Vampire Slayer'd with Andy. Layed around in bed with Toby.

Today, in Kiva Han. I love this t-shirt, it's really lovely.




I Ate:
-Vegan Mac and Cheese from Kiva Han
-Bran muffin
-bagel
-1/2 c Brownie Bit ice cream
-1/2 c Mexican Hot Chocolate ice cream
-Snickers Charged (found this randomly, actually)
-White Chocolate Reese's
-Orange juice
-the last of my chocolate soy milk

I listened to:
-The Early November

Saturday 2/23

I wasn't sure how today would play out. I went to the East Liberty library, and had a mixed bad expirience. While it's awesome that none of their CD's are in the annoying plastic sleeves that require actually checking them out in order to pirate them (yay!), it smells like piss and transient. I sat there for a good hour or so pirating CD's and hating the smell.

Met up with Toby, and took this picture in his bathroom:



We watched Resident Evil 3 and ate pizza. It was awesome. And by watched Resident Evil clearly I mean had text-flirts with Running Boy. Eventually I convinced him to come over, and I am sure glad that I did. He is charming and lovely and everything I would want in someone i'm sharing an evening with. We talked about all sorts of things, from past relationships to life to post-modernism to ICP (which I convinced him he likes) to the future or lack thereof. Stayed up until 6 am. Nothing happened, but it was the best night i've had in a long time.

I Ate:
-vegan burrito
-1c roasted potato vegetable assortment
-1/2 Crazy Mocha brownie
-3 peices of Adrian's Pizza

I Listened to:
Brittany Spears: Blackout (!!!)
Kanye West: College dropout
The Cure: Bloodflowers
Elliot Smith: From a Basement on the Hill
The Early Novemeber

I Watched:
Philip Glass things on YouTube
Resident Evil 3

Friday 2/22

After an exhausting night on the town, I didn't get out of bed until 1 pm today. Yay! I reallllly wanted to try a dramatic red lip, and for fear of the lip clashing with one of the brights I usually wear I erred on the side of black.



I need to stop taking my full lengths at the 7-Eleven. Or just work less.

Speaking of work, that's all I did today. Got lunch briefly with Julian to re-cap our nights over Crazy Mocha and then straight to the salt mines. Nothing interesting to report. Will probably go home and enjoy a nice evening of music and comic books.

I Ate:
1 sugar free Red Bull
1 Vegetable Medley sandwich from Crazy Mocha
1 plain bagel with tofutti cream cheese
4 Reese's Peanut Butter cups*
1 apple
1 package fruit snacks
1/2 Nature's Path peanut granola bar

I Listened to:
Every Time I Die: Gutter Phenomenon (suprisingly listenable!)

I read:
Details
GQ
British Glamour (Don't ask me why the 7-Eleven gets this...)

Thursday 2/21

After posting I went home and bleached my hair, the results of which are this:



If you don't want to see an infinite number of narcissistic pictures of me you probably shouldn't read my incredibly shallow style blog :) The kit i used worked quite nicely and overall I'm very pleased with the results. Toby came over during the dye process, we chatted until 3 am, and then i woke up at 7 to go to work. Dreadful! At work I looked like this:



The 7-Eleven polos are actually fairly flattering for a work uniform...

After work I Phantom of the Attic'd for new comics and picked up
-Grendel: Behold the Devil #4
-Wildstorm: Revelations #4
-Grimm's Fairy Tales #21
-X-Force #1

After that I went to the Carnegie Library to pirate new musics for my seriously anemic iPod and musical tastes.

I wanted an outfit to wear my new boots with, and came up with this:



I like the contrast of the yellow and green quite a lot, though I think the boots make me look stumpy.

Sat in the Kiva Han for most of the afternoon, and though the coffee is piss mud water, I'm starting to see framiliar faces and can see why people go there so much. Covered for toby at work for about 20 minutes and ran into Eric. See, Eric is one of those stoner-hipster types who is just sooooo in love with the "universe" in a way that is both charming and irritatingly naieve. We bussed home together, durring which he encouraged me to fufill my dream of becoming a tagger and gave me his half-used silver paint pen. Intriguing offer.

Went to Pegasus for the 21st annual Happy Hooker drag pageant. It was a lot of fun! I kept the green and yellow on and opted for black skinny jeans and purple Chucks. I looked very generic hipster. So generic, in fact, that at the club i ran into AZN and she was wearing the same fucking outfit only with a red shirt and a black hoodie. We ended up sort of entwined with my hands on her waist, and I really wish my iPhone had a flash because the pictures would have been stunning. She's about three inches shorter than me and I got to be all butch and shit. After a kiss goodnight (!!!) i walked home and got in at about 3:30.

Today I listened to:
Kellis, especially "Handful"
Ultimate Kylie- Kylie Minouge
The Early November- The Mother, The Mechanic and The Child

I ate:
1c green beans
1 Vegetable Masala veggie burger
1c potato wedges
Vegan Curry from Kiva Han
1/2 sweet bean hummus sandwich from Eat Unique
Small bowl tomato feta basil soup from Eat Unique*
2 packages maple brown sugar oatmeal
1 peach
1 apple
1c 7-Eleven popcorn

Didn't read or watch anything. Sad.

All in all a very good day.

Wednesday 2/20

Wednesday

Today was lovely.  Woke up around 11 am to get ready for the day.  Met up with Julian at 12 to skip my lighting class to go shopping!  We went to the Waterfront.  I love going out with Julian because we get such great reactions from people.  Julian was wearing his 4" heel ankle boots, grey/black jeans, a t-shirt in that wonderful azure blue color from American Apparel, a purple hoodie and a superbly tailored high-waisted leather biker jacket.  I was wearing this:

It's a trapeze dress that hits roughly three inches above the knee with pockets on the front near the bottom. Sorry for the lack of full-length picture! I was also wearing primary blue opaque tights and my new mid-calf boots from Journey's. My favorite thing is the chartreuse eyeliner... ah, Urban Decay..

Now, for us, these outfits are relatively tame.  Aside from the boots and some eye make up Julian's outfit was downright normal, and mine was not nearly as day-glo as I tend to wear these days.  But something about us throws people off and makes going anywhere together a whole lot of fun.

Shopping Aquisitions:

At Journey's I aquired a wonderful pair of mid-calf flat black sneaker-like boots for 20$.  I've been wanting a pair of these for a while as I love the way tights look with boots and only have rain boots.  While adoreable, rain boots are simply not appropriate for everyday wear.  Jules and I had a lovely time driving the shop girl crazy by being ourselves, which is to say trying on a million pairs of shoes and being outspoken about everything, ie CLEAR Chuck Taylors!?!?  Who the hell would wear clear shoes!?!

Then off to Ulta, where I broke down and got an Urban Decay eyeshadow sampler.  It has nine lovely shades of brights that I'll wear as eyeliner and have a ball with.  Oh, Urban Decay, how you are going to have all my money....  I'm amused that Cory Kennedy is their new "it" girl, she really looks like shit in the photos they have of her on the display.  Again, had fun terrifying the Ulta woman.  She seemed like someone's mom and her eyes nearly bugged out of her head.

At Target I aquired a few shades of assorted red lip things, including a lipstick in something called "Target Red".  Hopefully one of them works out, as I REALLY want to do an all black outfit with smokey eye and red lips tomorrow.  Also aquired bleach kits, and will be bleaching when I get home, provided it's not too late in the day.

Then off to TGI Friday's for lunch.  Oh dear, worst idea ever.  Portion sizes were enormous, everything was recently frozen and nothing was especially tasty.  In fact, Julian and I both got sick.  Vegan options would have been limited to bare bones salad so I sad fuck it, it's a special occasion and boy oh boy was that a bad idea.  Afterwards we Kiva Han'd and read fashion blogs while nursing huge tummy aches.

Film class was boring.  I fell asleep during the film (again).  Txt'd AZN to hopefully meet up with her this evening, but she was hookah bar-ing and we shall see.  Txt'd Hookah to see if he wanted to booty call this evening, but he was at the Symphony and seemed cool to the idea.  Could it be that my hot Hungarian sex freak grew a conscience?  

Anyway, What I Ate Today:

-2 Red Velvet cupcakes

-4 TGI's mozzarella sticks 

-1/2 entre at TGI's of "Dragonfire Chicken" or whatever it was called

-1 slice Peanut Butter Pie at TGI's

-1 16oz regular Red Bull

-1 Peppermint Tea

-1 sugar free red bull

-1c blueberries and blackberries

-1/2 carrot cake Odwalla bar

-1 medium godawful Kiva Han coffee

I Watched:

Alphaville (French New Wave film)

Eireville (recent Irish take on Alphaville)

I Listened to:

Soundtrack to Once (I REALLY need to get new music on my iPod...)

Meet Alden

As part of my goal to live more intentionally, I'm starting this blog.

You, dear reader, will have the chance to witness my entire life. You will know what I'm wearing, what I ate, what I did when and with whom, who I'm dating (or not dating) and anything else you could want. If you have a question, ask. It will be answered.

My life is intentional, therefore everything I do is done with the intention of seeing, being seen and living the best life I can possibly live, having the most fun I can possibly have. It's post-modernism in the flesh. There is no identity, only the self- I'm quite fond of myself and I think you will be, too. Watch me evolve.

My blog title? Do as the Vikings. Conquer cities, towns, obstacles, challenges. Take what you will from them- pillage them, destroy them, burn them. And move on. Leave nothing behind. No regrets.

And then be re-born from the ashes...