03.30.10

1. Oatmeal with dried cranberries and walnuts and
2. Yorkshire tea through the morning.
3. Dispensation from test scoring for a couple weeks (technical difficulties).
4. A lot more time is better than a little more money right now.
5. A nearly clear desk with only one (tiny little laptop) computer on it.
6. Lots of Zotz.
7. Leftovers.
8. Another beautiful yellow-pink moon.
9. A glass of cheap Chianti.
10. Extras in bed again.

03.29.10

1. English muffins.
2. Smoked almonds.
3. Clementines.
4. Yoga.
5. I'm almost caught up on my Harpers reading on the Y treadmill.
6. A couple awesome 99-cent finds at Savers.
7. Black-eyed peas.
8. The full moon surrounded by colored rings of haze.
9. Extras.
10. All-natural sleepiness.

03.28.10

1. A Trader Joe's quiche for breakfast.
2. Yorkshire tea, as usual.
3. The Sunday New York Times.
4. Joel at First Tech, who is honest and helpful and courteous.
5. The new laptop has been ordered (the matte screen is not a standard feature).
6. I can recycle my Blueberry iMac for $75 off and trade in my G4 and monitor for $150 off!
7. I think I have a new roommate for May to August. Cha-ching!
8. A lovely dinner with Rich.
9. More Mad Men.
10. Sleeping in a fancy comfy bed.

03.27.10

1. Catching myself before I got TOO overwhelmed by planning my busy schedule for April and May.
2. I have many more of my embroideries planned out now. Just lots of work to do in the next two months!
3. A short but sweet bike ride on the Greenway.
4. "Up in the Air" at the Riverview. I love that theater!
5. I love their popcorn, too.
6. A nice dinner at Citizen Cafe.
7. A $5 "slightly crappy" screenprint (first Xmas gift purchase of 2010) and a $10 kids T at Aesthetic Apparatus.
8. Running into Amelia at Jen Davis's opening.
9. Running into lots of people I know at both openings, in fact. I like that feeling of community.
10. Watching Mad Man with Rich.

03.26.10

1. I was not awakened by planes this morning!
2. A good meeting at Shelter.
3. I finished and did one wash to felt Rich's scarf. It needs more.
4. A fantastic meeting with Diane and Corinna from the Weisman. I'm IN!!!
5. Seeing Mara, Dan, Dan, Nicole, Keith, Paul, Christopher, Howard, Vance... at IFP.
6. An over the top explosion of color: the Mike Perry show at MCAD.
7. The roll of free prints I brought home from it. Wrapping paper to last a couple of years...
8. Nice chats there with my classmate Sandra and with Theresa, my favorite 3D shop person from my MFA years.
9. The smell of the MCAD darkroom.
10. Pizza and a Furious for a late dinner at Luce with Morgan.

03.25.10

1. One I forgot about earlier in the week: how beautiful the bluffs on the Mississippi River are from the River Road bike path.
2. Sparkling water.
3. The moon in the daytime sky.
4. Not caring much about a day without the phone (battery didn't charge) or iPod (froze again).
5. Green Apple Zotz.
6. I finished Diablo, except for on little part I need to rip out and redo.
7. A good workout and stretch at the Y.
8. Yummy carryout from True Thai.
9. Cracking up over one of the old "Creative Sex" videos I found in the alley with Morgan and Alex.
10. Early to bed.

03.24.10

1. My friend the woodpecker. What is so appealing about that sound, anyway?
2. Max's purr.
3. Feeling efficient at work.
4. Cold (well, room temperture) pesto and a tangerine for lunch.
5. Beautiful, warm, early spring weather again.
6. Podcasts.
7. An encouraging email from Jonathan.
8. I learned a lot at DBT.
9. Surly Furious.
10. Sleepiness.

03.23.10

1. Lots of Yorkshire tea. Three cups has become normal... hmmm.
2. I deposited my $1906 in tax refunds into savings.
3. Yet another way-above-average warm day!
4. Beautiful shadows on Rich's beautiful mural at 5 PM.
5. A gorgeous afternoon for a bike ride. Low 60s and sunny.
6. Riding fast to get to Pizza Luce by 6 felt good. I like being in shape.
7. A lovely chat with the bartender about old bikes, the Twins and embroidery.
8. I actually did a couple inches on Diablo at Luce.
9. A good scrub.
10. Streaming a Sparklehorse album free on NPR. A little uneven, but more good than bad.

03.22.10

1. Another warm sunny day.
2. Traction.
3. I'm done my sleep logs!
4. I made an appointment to show my stylist book Friday.
5. I decluttered my stuffio a tiny bit, a good feeling.
6. Diablo is almost done, without too much ripping out and redoing.
7. A lovely late afternoon walk around Powderhorn Park.
8. The geese and ducks are back,so winter must be over.
9. Really gorgeous clouds in the western sky.
10. A nice young woman came to look at the room for rent.

03.21.10

1. English muffins.
2. A NY Times magazine article about "Treme." Now I have to figure out how to see it on HBO on April 11.
3. A nice walk to Uptown.
4. $20 Calvin Klein skinny jeans from Everyday People.
5. Feeling OK about having an unproductive day.
6. Bike shopping for and with Rich.
7. A good talk with Alicia about my website and life.
8. Moros y cristianos with avocado.
9. A delicious Sierra Nevada with dinner.
10. Watching "Curb" on the laptop in bed till I drifted off to sleep.

03.20.10

1. Sleeping till 8:30 AM.
2. Funny emails from Eliot.
3. Saturdays on NPR.
4. Blue Sky Root beer.
5. Brown Cow vanilla cream top yogurt.
6. Having my checking, savings, VISA and mortgage all at one bank.
7. I finished a bunch of small prints of my painted walls AND
8. A good bit of Diablo in preparation for my big studio visit Friday.
9. Watching "William Eggleston in the Real World" with Rich.
10. Falling asleep next to the person I love.

03.19.10

1. Grape Nuts.
2. Remembering the sequence of steps to print properly in Photoshop.
3. Finishing my McKnight application and feeling pretty good about what I submitted.
4. Yummy "pink" pasta sauce. Mmm. Cream.
5. David Sollie's jam-packed opening at Bockley Gallery.
6. A good chat with Scott about lymph nodes and Espon printers.
7. Running into my old friend Glen Jones at the opening.
8. A cold can of fizzy water.
9. A beautiful crescent moon. Why is it hovering at the bottom of the sphere lately?
10. Haagen Daz raspberry sorbet and vanilla swiss almond. So good together.

03.18.10

1. Still enjoying that Yorkshire tea.
2. Cereal for breakfast for the first time in a week.
3. Brown cow vanilla yogurt with ginger-raspberry jam mixed in. Yum.
4. An amusing conversation with my client Dave about his famous father-in-law.
5. Milky Way Midnight.
6. A nice young lady came to look at my room for rent. Fingers crossed, hopes not too high.
7. First bike ride of 2010 on a cloudy but balmy late March afternoon.
8. A wall full of tags to go back and shoot near the Greenway. Too dark at 7:30.
9. A nice chat with Alex.
10. Early to bed. Boy do I need a lot of sleep right now.

03.17.10

1. Sleeping in late.
2. Finally starting to feel well again.
3. A fairly easy work day.
4. I deposited my State Art Board check!
5. A good DBT class.
6. A nice chat with new DBTer Rachelle about the housecleaning biz.
7. Good news about the Weisman show: apparently I'm in!
8. My first real dinner in days.
9. Chilling out with "Bad Girls of Film Noir."
10. Another easy-to-sleep night.

03.16.10

1. Yorkshire tea.
2. Not being sick in bed all day!
3. Car Talk podcasts.
4. Finishing my afternoon client fifteen minutes early.
5. Another package in the mail of Aveda curly hair products to test!
6. A brief but nice Facebook chat with Chelsea.
7. The B.R.A.T. diet. Good to stick to for a few more days.
8. I've started Diablo.
9. A long, hot, lavender-scented bath.
10. An hour of Curb before bed.

03.15.10

1. Finding a sub to work for me today without too too much trouble.
2. Going back to sleep at 8:30 and sleeping till 10:30.
3. Watching several hours of Extras and The Office.
4. Being able to eat a little for the first time in two days.
5. An early evening delivery of apple juice and more DVDs from Rich.
6. The feel of nice knitting wool.
7. Finally starting to "get" The Office, I think.
8. The way Max stretched out his front legs like a sphinx while sitting on my lap.
9. A good phone call with Lynette. It looks likely she's leaving Red Cross HQ in DC for six weeks in Haiti.
10. No more fever. Back to my normal 97.5, quite a drop from 102.4 this morning!

03.14.10

1. Yorkshire tea.
2. Heidi Ehalt's help shooting my embroidered pieces.
3. Amazingly balmy weather: 63 degrees.
4. A nice walk around Powderhorn Park.
5. Running into Gio and Natasha there.
6. Climbing the stairs in the park for the first time since fall.
7. Putting a clean end to a confusing problem.
8. I didn't totally freak out when I couldn't get the disk of images from Heidi.
9. But I finally did at 9:30 PM and was able to format them for my application.
10. Falling asleep almost immediately.

03.13.10

1. Being able to sleep late (10:30) to try to get rid of this strange head and stomach bug or food poisoning or whatever it may be.
2. Ginger chews. Good for removing that leftover vomit taste from your mouth.
3. Watching Frost/Nixon with a...
4. Nice 90-minute nap in the middle.
5. A pumpernickel bagel and tea.
6. Alex kindly brought me crackers and a Coke.
7. I got all of my embroideries framed and ready to be photographed tomorrow.
8. I was pretty much able to eat dinner despite the bug.
9. Having Rich's company while I rested up.
10. The DVDs of Extras he brought to entertain me.

03.12.10

1. A good portfolio showing with Chapin at Fox Studios.
2. TC Moulding frames.
3. A productive afternoon of errand running.
4. A good meeting with Maren.
5. The several compliments I got on my yard sale cashmere sweater and Bakelite bracelets.
6. Catching up with Christian at Spill the Wine.
7. Two nice shows at Minnesota Center for Book Arts.
8. Allen Brewer's lovely show at Chambers.
9. Getting a ride to my car from Morgan.
10. Watching Curb Your Enthusiasm with him.

03.11.10

1. A list with a heading: Things that are better now than they were one year ago. The first: my ear, or sinuses. Whatever it was seems to be cured, as I never get dizzy anymore.
2. My back. I'm so glad I don't have to sit at a desk all day anymore.
3. My finances, miraculously and perilously.
4. Alex. My best roommate in years, maybe ever (in this house, at least).
5. My mental health.
6. My understanding of what I need to do to improve it even more.
7. I have one art project well underway and
8. Another conceptually in place and just waiting for me to get my grant money, get a camera and GET ON IT.
9. My sleeping habits.
10. My biceps and quadriceps.

03.10.10

1. Keith at TC Moulding, who is kind, patient, helpful and conscientious.
2. Six frames for $70.
3. Podcasts.
4. Being an Aveda product tester. The latest one came by mail. No trip to Blaine needed!
5. Maple turkey from Everett's.
6. Art Happy Hour.
7. Running into Paul Bernhardt there unexpectedly. He just happened to be at Bedlam.
8. "A Single Man."
9. A nice talk with Rich after the movie.
10. Herbal sleep supplements.

03.09.10

1. Yorkshire tea.
2. Grapenuts with a very ripe banana.
3. Two clementinas.
4. Mushroom risotto.
5. Broccoli.
6. Sparkling water with cranberry juice.
7. A glass of Sangiovese.
8. Pesto with asparagus and roasted red pepper.
9. Haribo gummi bears.
10. None of these were consumed in a car.

03.08.10

1. A big bowl of Grape Nuts with a banana.
2. I didn't mind work so much today.
3. The ugly dirty snow keeps melting.
4. An excellent yoga class at the Y.
5. Good treadmill reading: the NY Times spring fashion magazine.
6. As well as Francine Prose's piece on Robert Frank in Harpers.
7. Catching up with Alex after not seeing him for a few days.
8. Delicious mushroom risotto from Aldi. I don't recommend making it in your rice cooker, however.
9. Having enough wisdom to see that I was too tired to embroider, or even to make a decision on how to fix problems with "Shadow."
10. I guess falling asleep watching "Curb" is still a good thing, but I wonder if I'm missing key parts of the plot...

03.07.10

1. A lazy Sunday morning.
2. Rich's potato pancakes.
3. The Sunday New York Times.
4. Editing Rich's artist statement made me feel smart, competent and helpful.
5. My back sidewalk has no more ice (lots of kitty litter mud, though).
6. Leftover moros y cristianos (black beans and rice) for dinner.
7. Four hours of embroidery.
8. I didn't freak out when I discovered I'll have to rip out or otherwise redo about two hours of that work.
9. Feeling happy and loved and hopeful.
10. I no longer panic when I get insomnia. I just tolerate it.

03.06.10

1. Yummy brunch at Common Roots.
2. Warm weather again, nice for a little walk.
3. "Parallel play," i.e. company while doing work.
4. Feeling more positive and secure about Rich and my "complicated" relationship.
5. A good meeting with a potential roommate.
6. Speaking Spanish for an hour. Boy am I rusty...
7. A delicious dinner at Quang.
8. A good show at Art of This.
9. I loved Jesse's story about Isabel Baker, the 60s Christian pop singer whose LP he found at an estate sale and sold for $300.
10. No problems falling asleep--just the opposite.

03.05.10

1. Several productive hours of embroidering in the morning.
2. A noontime talk at MCAD between John Gossage (who has displaced Saul Leiter as my current favorite photographer) and Alec Soth.
3. A peanut butter and raspberry ginger jam sandwich for lunch.
4. An enjoyable visit to the Walker with Rich.
5. A nice walk around Lake of the Isles afterwards, peppered with a lively discussion about art and ideas.
6. A nice "wake" at Sellout.
7. Catching up a bit with David Malcolm Scott.
8. Scott's lady friend Rachel, who just makes me laugh.
9. Ginny Maki's piece "Continental Divide."
10. A lovely late evening with Rich.

03.04.10

1. My friend the woodpecker. I much prefer that he wake me than those silly 6:45 prop planes.
2. The bed and bedroom.
3. The view from the bed of the gallery of tiny art in my staircase.
4. I saw Kat Bjelland driving a maroon Plymouth Voyager minivan on Park Avenue on my way to work. I am not sure why this is a good thing. Maybe just because it amused me a lot.
5. Shoebox only took about nine minutes to deinstall. Seriously bonked my head, though.
6. Milky Way Midnight.
7. Lucy Lippard's lecture at the U of M.
8. Stars.
9. Moros y cristianos for dinner.
10. "Curb," season 6, episode 1.

03.03.10

1. The odd percussive sound of a woodpecker at dawn.
2. A productive morning before work.
3. Having the flexibility to change my Shoebox deinstall date to today.
4. Two fairly ordinary, low-stress jobs for the day.
5. Good podcasts.
6. Some beautiful painted-over graffiti on East Lake Street.
7. A nice chat with Karin and Heather after DBT.
8. Delicious Bongard's white cheddar cheese. Where did I buy that? I want more.
9. A new DVD of "Curb."
10. Falling asleep while watching it. I'm really trying to observe the 12-12:30 bedtime the doctor recommended, but I think I should have crashed earlier last night!

03.02.10

1. A gorgeous sunrise.
2. A calm, uneventful work day, even without my iPod to distract me (another good: it's not broken, was just stuck or something).
3. A nice chat with my client Eve.
4. Red pepper pesto for dinner.
5. Taxes are done, and I'm getting almost $1800 back!!!
6. I'm almost done tracing and transfering "Shadow."
7. Throat coat tea and Girl Scout shortbread cookies (thanks, Jerry!) for a late snack.
8. A long, hot lavender-scented bath with a clay mask and lots of scrubbing of nails and skin.
9. Finally finishing watching "My Brilliant Career." Wishing Netflix or the library had "High Tide," the next movie she did with Gillian Armstrong. Maybe Nicollet Village Video.
10. A good night's sleep in a real bed, in a bedroom. A nice change.

03.01.10

1. The first day of March. It's possible to feel the end of winter approaching.
2. A pumpernickel bagel for breakfast.
3. A brief chat with my AM client about photography.
4. Podcasts.
5. A delicious mojo bar and apple for lunch, since forgot my leftover pasta.
6. PM job went super fast.
7. Warm weather!
8. Rachel, Mike, Sean and Rich came to my Shoebox closing happy hour at Sunny's.
9. I am really and truly ready to meet the tax lady today.
10. No trouble falling or staying asleep.

02.28.10

1. A lovely, lazy, late morning with Rich.
2. Not too much to clean up after the party.
3. Delicious brunch at the 501 Club...
4. with pleasant company from Jerry, Alex, Amy and Rich.
5. Decisions made about Shadow and Diablo.
6. A good talk with Jerry about being ADD and anxious.
7. A lazy but nice walk at the Y.
8. Alex did most of the rest of the party clean up while I was there!
9. A few slices of Alex's Luce pizza for dinner.
10. Having Jerry's company on a tired Sunday night.

02.27.10

1. A fun morning hanging out with Jerry.
2. The Sudek show at the MIA.
3. Seeing a bit more of Foot In the Door, too. Little by little...
4. Free admission to the Walker.
5. I enjoyed the talk on "Abstract Resistance," but I still resist the work!
6. I think Jerry enjoyed the talk too; I was a bit worried he'd be bored.
7. Nice chats with folks after the talk, especially Xavier, Allen and Pam.
8. I managed to finish getting ready for the party calmly and on time.
9. A lovely Mardi Gras party with many wonderful guests.
10. A nice talk with Jerry, Rich, Alex and Amy till way too late/early in the monring!