Ericaland

My cold is still kicking my butt. Jeremy wants to look for a skateboard this weekend. He wants something to make getting to the Lake Merritt BART station faster in the morning. I found these yesterday, which seem like they would be easier to carry around than a skateboard although they could be harder to [...]

The cold has gotten even worse. I have been keeping myself awake at night with coughing fits and have been depriving Jeremy of sleep with my loudness. The motivation to do stuff isn’t very high at the moment. I’ve been feeling bad pretty much off and on for the last two weeks…
Hopefully I’ll feel better [...]

Yesterday was Jeremy’s friend’s open house in Oakland then eating takeout food in the Mission and Catholic school girl karoake night at 540 club.  It was generally a lot of fun, but the club was a little too crowded for me (I was getting jabbed, shoved and generally crushed at some point) , so we [...]

And had fun, and talked to people and limited the coughing fits. Jeremy’s ability to talk smack in Michael Jackson song titles (and win) goes in the Jeremy attribute list pros column.
Jeremy: “Meow, meow, monkeys meow”
Me: “Meow, meow, Mr. Rogers meow”

Last night Jeremy and I watched the first episode of Life in the Undergrowth. There were huge millipedes that ate bats and scary spider things. The slug mating was really strange. Two slugs twist together, hanging off a rope of slime in midair and then impregnate each other because slugs are hermaphroditic.
I didn’t sleep well [...]

Today I was walking through downtown Oakland and a transit bus ran a red light as I was crossing the street. I’m glad I was paying enough attention to look and think “hey, that bus isn’t slowing down, maybe I’ll stop walking to avoid being hit”. Yay. Also, trying to write something [...]