Feeling Yourself Disintegrate

Do you realize??
Originally uploaded by zombie squirrels.

I went to see the Flaming Lips play on Saturday (for the 3rd time since I've been in San Diego) at the free (!) Southern Comfort Music Experience downtown. It's always incredible to see the Lips play, but I'm getting too old for day-long shows and festivals. After being on my feet for 5+ hours and crammed in with thousands of people, I was numb from the knees down and just wanted to go home and soak in the tub.

Dinosaurs fight bad animals

Found dinosaur poster
Originally uploaded by zombie squirrels.

This dinosaur poster that I found in the middle of the street a while back (currently living on the fridge at A Street) was featured as Find of the Day yesterday at Found Magazine.

Goat with panther ride

Goat with panther ride
Originally uploaded by zombie squirrels.

Talking to Julie the other day, I found out that Yahoo! Photos was going to be closing its doors. I totally forgot that I had pictures over there, and I was pleasantly surprised to find that they had it set up so that you could easily move your pictures over to flickr. So now I have a whole new treasure trove of photos to sift through, tag, and organize, like this gem from a trip to the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia, circa 2000.

The Lady, or the Tiger?

Tiger
Originally uploaded by zombie squirrels.

A lot going on, but also a lot of nothing at all. I joined Michelle in NYC over Memorial Day for a design showcase for recent grads, and was lucky enough to meet up with a few friends as well. After a few days there, we endured some travel challenges before making it down to Maryland for a quick visit. Got to see a lot of friends on Memorial Day, and took Michelle for a quick spin downtown before heading back to San Diego. The folks at DCist decided to use this pic that I took at the National Museum of Natural History while we were there, which is pretty darned cool.

Engaged

As of Wednesday, May 2nd.

Crazy, huh?

Sabrosa

Rest in peace, buddy.

Coffee and cigarettes

Two nights ago, I dreamt of coffee and cigarettes (no, not the underwhelming Jim Jarmusch movie).

The former I'm drinking a lot of these days, including two cups this morning (I would never have imagined myself as a coffee addict, but it has definitely come to pass). The latter I'm not partaking of anymore, and in the part of the dream I remember, I was halfway through smoking one when I suddenly realized that I wasn't supposed to be smoking anymore. Kind of like Julie's Jamaican beef patty story, except that mine was just a dream.

Smothered

I took this picture at the Birch Aquarium this past weekend because of a nature program I'd watched not long with some friends, which included a feature on sunflower stars and how they just move across the sea floor smothering and eating up everything in their path.

I think smothered kind of sums up the way winter makes me feel. Even being out here Southern California, winter is still oppressive (albeit not quite as cold). The days are still short. I leave work when it's dark, lose my motivation, and have little to no energy to do the things I want. Walking up the sidewalk to work today, I was trying to think of why it still felt like winter to me, when it was sunny and in the 60s outside. I guess it's the daylight, and my body responding to the shorter days, urging me to lay low, conserve energy, and hey, that bed looks comfy, why not just lay down and sleep for a while? I really wish that I didn't feel so slow and heavy, because aside from this torpor, things are going really well and I want to be able to fully take in and enjoy all the stuff that's going on in my life right now. Can it be March 11th already?