2014: The year in review As I leave tomorrow morning for Marrakesh, I had best review today this crazy year. As if still on academic cycles, I get restless every 2-7 years. The end of cycle, 2014 was my epic year to shake up and shed almost everything. Almost like …
A friend stops me on the street to ask me, “What are you holding on to?” He does not refer to whatever I have in my hands. What can I not let go of, but should? I’ve shed so much this year that I finish the year empty, lonely, uncertain, …
Sometimes I need to step back for perspective. So I’m currently scrambling to finish programming 1000 lights on 6 Triangles before I get on a plane to Marrakesh. I’m coding digits eleven through one to walk like soldiers across triangular arrays for a New Year’s Eve count down, all the …
At the end of every year, I color a US map with the states I visited that year. This time, I have left only one unfortunate red marker, so every state becomes a red state. I visited more states in 2014, thirty-three!, than in any other year. Maine and Delaware …
2014 has been the year of shedding. What I gave up this year My job Commuting My boyfriend Serbecizing Counseling Massage Chiropractic work Yoga Alcohol Sex What I started this year Running Regular writing A career as an artist Next year, I want to bring more into my …
I bike to swim class through the rainstorm. I quite like biking in the rain, much better than over the snow. In this storm, San Francisco declares a veritable state of emergency. Gray Area cancels its evening coding class. At night, I hunkered down in bed under blankets to listen …
The storm descends. Weather forecasters predict high winds, 2-3 inches of rain, and the fiercest storm in five years. In New England, such predictions would alarm residents to stock up on canned goods, buy batteries, and tape windows. Here in California, we faff dismally. Dennis denigrates the hysteria as “The …
The Creative Coding class teaches writing for art grants. I’m surprised how similar art grants are to science grants. Both grant submissions incorporate philosophies, statements of work, timelines, and budgets. I have written many a science grant. Perhaps I can put together a few art grants. The arts and sciences …
I finished the hardware for the six Triangles: measuring, cutting, notching, folding, soldering, stapling, and testing are done. All six Triangles light up as advertised. Now I have one week to write all the software. Go. I lost my lead software engineer in the breakup with Greg, so I stare …
Empty. I have pruned, purged, scourged, and wantonly abandoned. There is little left. I feel alone but liberated, disconnected but portable, puny but compact, hermetic but uncomplicated, sad but hopeful. I lie on my living room couch Sunday at 8pm with little to do. For once, I wish it were …