We (and some other people) totally rock!

You people certainly do rock! Thank you so much for all of your voting and for your tolerating my electioneering. I'm going to continue to vote for other projects in my area, but now I can stop FREAKING OUT over the fact that this book which I planned on teaching in November wasn't coming.

Sigh. It was a surprising end to a long week.

ita, is the bearded guy in this video: [link] doing yoga or capoeira? Also, around 2 minutes 35 seconds a guy goes from handstand to updog and back to handstand. It's AMAZING

If we had a Sonic in town, I'd go out and buy a shake to celebrate.

I DO feel compelled to go do something for sonic. I'm going to write one more grant for books for a US Cellular challenge. I have had four grants funded since June. . . people are amazing.

I always hope to, but my top half presents even more an issue now that I'm this size. Dresses are a bitch. But I'll try.

You have jeans, right? Just get a cute top! And by cute, I mean slutty.

Very glad you were able to get the books, Kat. My friends on Friendfeed.com were happy to help and glad to hear the funding was granted.

Today consisted of getting up early (for me), riding my bike to the Metro Rail station, taking 2 trains and one bus to the Sunset 5 station to see the Harry Nilsson doc. The light rail ride was GREAT but the bus really sucked. Got a surly driver and it was crowded.

So I semi-foolishly decided to see if I could walk from Sunset 5 to Sunset/Vermont station. I had seen Amoeba on the way there and figured it was a good time to consign my album with them (I consigned with Amoeba in Berkeley before). It was a very stupid decision to make on behalf of my knees but I guess I can be stubborn that way. The guy at Amoeba was very helpful and there's now a copy of "Songs the Brothers Warner Taught Me" in the Pop Vocals section. I hope I can get people to go to Amoeba and buy it so that I can get them to consign more in the future and maybe even order it for real.

The walk was so LA. Filthy cigarette-butt laden sidewalks, really great faded classic H'wood architecture alongside less classic porn palace liquor store architecture. And then the bizarreness of the Scientology mothership. I just looked it up on Gmaps Pedometer and that walk was about 4.25 mi. So today was GRONK and now CONK.

Kat, he's halfway through a capoeira position...it's quite frustrating. Interruptus indeed. There's some amazing work in that video. I never had the upper body strength for that stuff.

Whooh! Got Thai from a different place from my usual because the normal place was too busy and the duck curry is way hotter than I'm used to. Sweaty nostrils. Glad to share.

Heh. I actually haven't put on but one pair that is too short since winter. Really need to go through all my jeans since I have multiple sizes.

I'll work something out.

Sonic. Mmm, green chile cheeseburgers and cherry limeade. How I miss them. I've heard there is a new MD Sonic, but I'm pretty sure they don't carry hatch chiles like the LC ones do.

Some of the poses he does (like one armed handstand) are so beautiful.

So this afternoon, as I was waiting for the staff meeting to get underway (an hour and half late), I was plugging away on the computer when the ED and Director of Development wandered into the office in quiet conversation.

They said something like, "So, what do you think" or "Isn't that a good idea?". Since I had no idea what they were talking about, and that the raised voice levels must mean they were talking to me, I turned around and said, "Hmm?"

One of them busts out with, "There's no need to get snippy with us!" And then I'm trying to explain that I had no idea what they had been talking about, what they were still trying to talk about, and that the whole "this is a GOOD thing!" meant nothing to me because I hadn't heard a word of their subsonic conversation.

So later the ED is trying to pacify me that moving into the office of my beloved coworker isn't bad. I'm still so fucking upset that either they used the "snippy" as a joke, or they went in expecting me to be, and acted accordingly. Except that I love my coworker and they think I'm upset over the absolutely wrong thing.

It's in my performance evaluation that I get "defensive". I have absolutely no foothold for having contrary opinions. Expressing such is seen as "argumentative" and defensive. How the hell am I supposed to react when my legs are cut out from under me before I even get an actual word out?

The bloom is off the fucking rose.

I meant to add, but other poses, like where he pins his arm underneath his hip to form a shelf...so biomechanically bad. Shoulder out and back, man! alignment!

Juliebird, that blows. It's a terrible place for you to be in. Is there anyone you can discuss it with?

In Sonic/Donors Choose news.... They've actually funded 761 projects so far. So mine certainly had enough votes. I wonder if they are doing it by amount...like we're giving ~$100,000 this week, how many of the top projects is would vary?