Go forth and fill your libraries with media.
Seriously, thanks to everyone for being so amazing and patient. You are the reason I love Vox.
I was just told that the Amazon Conduit will be fixed by tomorrow. I will post here as soon as I get word that it's back up and running.
I know this has been frustrating and I am sorry there wasn't more I could do to make it less so. I really appreciate your patience though.
Cheers,
Just popping in to say hello. I finished a midterm paper that is due midnight tonight (in a couple of minutes!), but I totally had that done by 9, so don't worry for me.
Although it is worrisome that I feel entitled to a reward after finishing something I was supposed to do anyway. It's been painful to wake up at 6am to make the 6:55 train to SF, in order to make it to the elementary school for tutoring at 9. I just finished a 6-pg paper in one day (I HAVENT LEARNED FROM MY UNDERGRAD YEARS), but really, I've been reading my books and outlining it for weeks, so it wasn't that bad. I have two weeks' worth of papers to grade for CW101. I have to give feedback for a WS, that I've also procrastinated on for the past two weeks.
Instead of working on all of that grading tomorrow, I want to get a manicure (that I never get but like once every two years). I want to get new tops that don't scream "hongry student." I want to get new shoes that are pretty but don't need to be broken in (HATE breaking in shoes! did I ever mention that I walked around the city with A with my new flats, and my heels were bleeding and I had to get all McGyver and shit with scotch tape at a convenience store in North Beach?). I also want to/need to get a pore extraction, bc the pores on my nose look like strawberry seeds. Not exaggerating. I think my pores got bigger because of an extraction last summer, like my pores became addicted to the extra squeezin and lovin they got THAT ONE TIME.
So I'm a little tired but happy. Happy that I'm busy enough to not miss Texas so much. I've always liked it here, but talking to loved ones over the phone/Skype isn't the same. I think everyone should just pack up and leave and mosey over to California.
Just kidding. There's no money here, statewise. My school's having yet another furlough weekend, shutting down offices on Friday and Monday. And yes, I'm sure I'm going to a "real school." I have loans to prove it.
Bad news. As many of you have probably noticed, the Amazon Conduit was not fixed in the last week's release. Unfortunately, there was an undetected bug that is preventing the conduit from working.
We are working on this bug fix and hope to have the Conduit back up and running this week.
I will keep you posted.
Thank you for being so patient.
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~ daisy
From looking at how frequent my blog gets updated, one would assume that I'm busy with work/school (I haven't even started work yet), but really, I just don't think I do interesting things enough.
But stories accumulate over a couple of weeks, so here I am.
- I just got Wendy's for lunch, because I had a craving for their chicken nuggets and baked potato. This is a bad idea since I woke up at 3 in the morning with an intense desire in my stomach to puke. I talked to my mom about this sudden indigestion problem, and she thinks I ate too much, too quickly. She could be right; she mailed me a container or seasoned perilla leaves this week, and I ate that shit with Korean ribs and rice without chewing last night while watching a biography on Celia Cruz. Salsa music makes for excited eating, apparently.
- I got lost on the way to Wendy's, which isn't a big deal, but this reminds me of the time I got lost on the way to Palo Alto for a Monday drinking night last week. I missed ONE TURN and ended up driving around for an hour while talking to A on the phone for directions. I never made it, because I started crying and wanted to go home, mostly because I was frustrated about being lost and also because I had a big poetry workshop the next day (and I didn't feel like I was ready). Sometimes I have my good days and my bad days when it comes to adapting to the Bay Area.
- About that poetry WS--I went into it with no expectations of anything. I took 4 poems (others have usually shared from 6-13 poems), because I still don't pump out large amounts of shareable writing/revising's where the money's at, and that takes me a while too. To my surprise, my prof had really great comments for me. He gushed like he'd never gushed before in our class, so that felt pretty unbelieveable. But of course, that nicey-nice feeling of accomplishment tanked in 30 minutes when I was back on the BART train, being cold and missing everyone.
- Yes, I miss home, but I've been forcing myself to go out at least once a week (I know, but throw me a freakin bone here). It's hard to eat delicious food when you know your final bill is like 20 bucks. And no, I didn't have to get that delicious 9-dollar mango-mint margarita at that tapas place, but it tasted like smoothies and I felt the tequila within 5 minutes of drinking it. So worth it.
- Went to a FOF's birthday party, where I witnessed a lot of making out between friends. Texans don't do that, do they?
- Hearing Californian boys talk makes my skin crawl, but I'm getting used to it. They all talk very effeminately, but it's because I was raised in the south where men afix swinging balls onto their trucks and they can't get through a conversation w/o saying GAY 6 times. Being here just makes me reorganize gender roles I've assigned to men and women, even though I talk a big game about equality.
- Oh, and the undergrads at SFState dress funny and their hair's all ugly. This makes me sound like a crotchety old person, but what can I say, I am my mother's daughter.
The Amazon Conduit will be working again on October 15, 2009. Thank you to everyone for your patience.
Have a great weekend,
daisy, Team Vox
what I've been up to lately:
- I slept from 11pm-9am after wolfing down a bowl of instant cold noodles, which I'm guessing included 3 tablespoons of MSG in it. My eyes are understandably bloated and resemble dried apricot halves this morning. I also have a weird, sodium-induced hangover as I type all this out this morning.
- I've been so tired at night that I get this close to not showering before sleep, even after having endured an hour back on a dirty, smelly train with other tired, smelly people. I hop into the shower, with grand plans of shaving my armpits and actually using my expensive conditioner, but in 5 minutes, there's only enough time for a half-assed scrub of my hair and a swipe of baby soap for body wash.
- No matter how much I try to write during the day (waiting for class to start, waiting for train to come, on my long weekends in coffee shops), something always happens to me at night, with writing. Usually, I'm a good sport and I get out of bed to start writing, but last night, I thought it was a brilliant idea to start dictating my ideas into my phone before sleeping.
Not so brilliant. I played it back this morning, and it goes something like, "...we have these fights. Over the fact that I assume that I'd still love him if he only had one nut and that he wouldn't feel the same if I had one boob." - I have a hotel party in San Jose to go to this Saturday. This is much fancier and more brag-worthy than staying in, watching the A&M vs. New Mexico game while finishing off the junk food section of my pantry.
This is a problem, because I don't have anything fancy to wear (I mean "fancy" as in it doesn't involve blue jeans or muumuus). The last get-together I went with these people, they were glitzed out and and the girls were all legs, and I was sitting stumpy in my jeans and tank top-cardi routine. - Don't tell my parents this, but after I graduate with an MA from SFSU, I might a) not pursue an MFA from there and try for somewhere else (which isn't a bad thing, really) OR b) get a "real job" in some corporate setting and pursue an MFA later in life, before age 30.
The reasoning behind this is that I am starting to see that MFA programs really want people with more experience than just having been out of school. This seems critical, whether it's about me being a better writer or about me becoming a more experienced human being (which makes one become a better writer). - I was gonna chill and eat kettle chips in bed all day (since I'll be doing laundry soon anyway), but I think I should write.
In my last Team Vox post, I let you know that we're aware that the Amazon conduit is broken and that we're working to fix it. Many of you want to know when it's going to be fixed and I'm so sorry I haven't gotten back to you about that sooner.
Unfortunately, I don't have an exact date to give you, but rest assured, the Amazon conduit will be fixed in the coming weeks.
In the meantime, I'm about to finish my latest book and I could use a few suggestions as to what to read next, so... if you don't mind, let me know in the comments what's on your nightstand and/or what book you think I absolutely must read next.
Thanks! :)
I've had a busy week, with the beginning of school and taking care of missing paperwork/getting forced into classes/doing lame administrative stuff one does when starting school.
It's even messier here than it ever was at A&M because California is broke and so is the CSU system, so they're off on "furlough days" twice a month when the whole university shuts down. This is an annoying but sad fact of life, but I won't be complaining when I get my 5-day Labor Day Weekend rolls around. Seriously. We're out from Friday to Tuesday (9/4-9/8). I told A that we should have a super-secret rendezvous in Las Vegas bc from OAK to LAS is $178, roundtrip, but I think he still has school AND I should save that money for groceries instead of jetsetting then arriving home to scrape pennies together for measly Hamburger Helper.
The two-hour commute to school and back, 3 times a week, isn't horrible. I sometimes daydream what it'd be like if I lived in the city, like the Mission (good food but scary at night) or the Sunset (boring but mostly residential). I guess living in the East Bay is a sacrifice I have to make to not be greeted outside with a lungful of urine stank every morning.
I do love the city, but I also like being able to sleep in a relatively new townhouse instead of dealing with a crap apartment that's falling apart while living with a roommate in a shoebox studio, because you know that's all I'd be able to afford in the city. That's why my master plan involves luring A out here so we can be cramped together in a $1200 studio. When we fight, we'll probably retreat to our respective corners of the room, and I'll weep silently for a minute until he gently nudges me and says, "There, there." Oh boy, can't wait!
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