cairo and lebanon are like hollywood

my apologies for the lack o' post. i have been working a lot of late days and last weekend i slept through the majority of the 2 allotted days/evenings. moments in between have been spent lounging on my living room couch with my three spanking new housemates - and i think they're super great so have decided to post this entry about them. these dyyyudes are freaking hilarious and HIP, as you will see below:

in the wake of my new camera's arrival, i have decided to post a series of emails between myself and housemates using myspace photos (i KNOW).

From Jen:


















hey folks -

1) so. two of my toothbrushes have disappeared. not sure how, but i'm not going to judge. could we all identify our current toothbrushes and then throw away whichever ones we aren't using?

2) and has anyone seen either of my towels? um, really i don't know what's going on. perhaps we should do the same thing with the towels as well?

now for the party:

3) have we decided on sat feb 3? who has a start-time preference (eric!) and what are they?

4) food and beverage decisions: i vote for no dinner provided but heavy snack content. beer/wine etc: i think we should use the housewarming/bday excuse to suggest people bring stuff to drink, but we should provide some nonetheless. i'm thinking less keg and more so cheap wine from costco. and you?

*Insert various not-hilarious, boring emails from Eric*

And this is Eric with "hops", who is super nice and often hilarious though failed miserably at the former in most recent email exchange:

And now to continue with Ruthie's response:

















Ok. I haven't been checking my email. I don't know why. I just haven't been. But the string of email conversations that have occured in my internet absence are fucking hilarious. At the same time, I feel like my non-response makes me the tooth brush and the towel culprit. How is this happening? What the fuck? And if it was a "guest" that offended... its equally as wierd because if you were going to secretly use a tooth brush at another persons apartment would you leave it blatantly mistreated, wet and not in it's holder? We need to re-evaluate our hos, Jen. And yah I don't know about the towels either, hope that works out.

As far as the fiesta goes, I'm thinking.... a very limited quantity of snacks... a bottle of Stoli + mixers, a red and a white... and I don't know.. I just don't really drink that much beer.. we can get some of that though... yah, costco has reasonably cheap wine.. Eric and I staked it out.
Do we really need to specify a party starting time? I say 10? I dont know. I'm just telling people... party... February 3rd... People are like pigeons.. they just know.

And the kicker-closer, from Ryan:
















Last night I saw a ghost coming from the bathroom with toothbrushes and some towels draped over his/her/its head. I am assuming it was a ghost because it was sort misty/blurry and smelled like a swamp. It had eyes like weak LEDs on an old VCR. It also made some strange sounds....kinda sounded like the breathing one does when trying to clean their glasses, but just longer and harder. It scared the crap outta me and I noticed it was staring into Jen, Ruthie and Eric's rooms. Mostly Jen's though. Please don't try to stop it. I tried to punch it and I got a heart pang/electrocution zap that ran through my body and ended in my cerebral cortex. It Effin' hurt dude. (Reminded me of food poisoning + fork in a outlet.) I fell on the floor and could barely breathe for about 10 minutes as it floated over me and morphed into different monsters ( i.e.- the one from the ring with the long hair+goo), progressively scarring me in different parts of my mind. After it left the room, I cried for about 30 seconds and then I was all better. Keep alert for this a-hole, as I don't want to have to buy a new tooth brush.

This is what i am talking about.

Photos soon, kids - I love you -

jen

"are you kidding me?! jen would never let you sleep in her room!"

hello loves,

this week has been full of sudden realizations:

1) i was so bored at work yesterday, i felt that going into the bathroom and just standing there would work more brain cells than what i was doing at my desk (which was nothing). i have been touted as a "self-starter" at work, but i have self-started all that i can and now am bored to oblivion. while standing next to the mirror checking out what really was on the bathroom shelves, i realized that instant that something had to be done. i have to look for something job and soon. how freaking ridiculous.

2) while talking to a boy i was kindofsortof dating - while helping to support him in his (super super trivial) problems, i realized after 3 hours of his ranting that hanging out with him was a total waste of my time. it wasn't going anywhere. i wasn't helping him and he is 183% selfish. i realized it completely suddenly though. one second i was putting tons of effort into listening, offering advice, telling stupid jokes. and then the next: bam. i just smiled, walked to the bar to get another beer and left within 5 minutes - recognizing that everything was over and i was totally fine with it.

3) so long, naivete: i witnessed another way money dominates politics. in grad school, i watched this first-hand in regards to foreign policy. while in san francisco, both at the non-profit last year and now at my current job, i'm recognizing it at the local level.

our firm was hired to the landscape design for a historical building in the city (actually super close to my old flat) - it's a beautiful space: an old armory for the military in the early 1900s, all brick, hasn't been touched since 1950. it was a really exciting project: we had been talking to the local community (in my neighborhood), non-profits, figuring out what design could actually help folks out there. well, we found out the day before christmas that it had been sold to a new developer. even a bigger "well," we found out monday that it was sold to a pornographic video production studio *stares at the computer screen* - i think it says a lot about the direction this town is going in, and its frustrating as all hell. the details about how i found all this out is pretty hilarious though: be sure to ask about it if we ever talk voice-to-voice style in the near future.

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i'm trying to avoid using lists in the near future, but i feel like that is impossible being i am doing a shoddy job at maintaining this thing. in future posts i will try to focus on my feelings or why my fingerless gloves are the greatest purchase i have made in the previous 8 months or why nine huge windows in one's room are so much better than 3 medium sized ones. and of course rudy is constantly my saving grace (he brought flowers to my work john cusack style on wednesday. seriously now).

i love you a lot. keep it real, etc etc

jen

nancy pelosi

is one of my new heroes