the image on the far right is BEES. that was a grammatically correct sentence. it's hot out, saturday. pride weekend in san francisco. its the first weekend i've had off for about a month, enabling me to catch up on things like this blog, eating an omlet, making computer music, sweeping, talking on the phone, going over student work, watching a semi-corny but amazingly drawn/gestured anime called "the place promised in our early days", taking a shower, hanging out with bill in the secret kaiser garden roof top, watching cats sleep, listening to bill callahan and the second to last song on the david pajo covers misfits songs album, renting bolt but not actually watching it yet. so far so good.

the second week of school ends and the third begins. three hours is just a little bit too long for an english class. "pad it" johnathan suggests. its nice to come back to work and to have work for all of july, not enough at the moment with 15 hours in class and needing 22~ at the academy's pay rate to really make ends meet, to preserve my luxurious lifestyle. one dollar and eighty cents a can for all tuna cat food. would like to go see the movie named moon.niece beatrix on the left. on the right the beautiful boats my brother built for the wedding. a marvelous time, busy for most of it but got time to relax. the back of the uhaul with knight standing in the center. brother and i drove that sucker to brooklyn. 18 ft. it was hard to park. hard to drive sort of, big to drive more like it. we also loaded the docks into the uhaul .rained on the wedding day. am told this is good luck. more like torrential down pore on the wedding day, or at least during the ceremony. cleared up at night. on sunday people took boat rides. buttermilk falls...kind of yellow. saw all family, many of brother's friends, met some of lindsay's friends and family. sister and i gave a toast, we were nervous; aunt gave a really nice toast, very smart and moving, honest. much love at the wedding. did not make me want to get married or have a wedding. bill callahan sings: if...if...if you...if you could...if i could only...if you could only stop...if you could only stop your...if you could only stop your heart...if you could only stop your heart beat...if you could only stop your heart beat for...if you could only stop your heart beat for one heart...if you could only stop your heart beat for one heart beat. strings. end of song. too many birds. okay. now off to school work. see you around.

wow. i'm in d.c. at my sisters. i flew in yesterday for my brother's wedding, which is in new york, upstate from the city a couple hours. i'm not sure why i flew into d.c....oh yeah, i flew into dc to a) have some quality time with my sister, knight, and niece and b) help transport the boats that my brother has built for the wedding up there. the wedding's on saturday. today is wednesday, it's overcast and threatening to storm but i've been told it's been like that all week. beatrix (my niece) is walking and talking. it's a little amazing.

last time we spoke i was about to head out to a vipassina meditation ten day course which was really something else. very difficult at times and spending ten days with 100 people without talking is a whole other kind of strangeness but all in all it was quite the experience. i learned so much and highly recommened it or something like it and if you'd like to know more about it send me an email and i'll write you back,

but i'll say no more about it on this blog. i got back from that on sunday and then the semester started on monday...one section of LA202 and some ESL and tutoring work. we met in the afternoon yesterday and feels like its going to be a pretty good class. an interesting mix of academy students that all seemed reasonable happy to be there. once we start talking about mla formatting and fallacies in argument this may change but in the mean time its memoir writing which is generally a good time, writing about what one knows best (hopefully): themselves.

in other news, two cultural items that might be a little out dated: saw an interesting movie at the end of may, "The Girlfriend Experience" that may not be the best movie but is pretty interesting in terms of all that's going on / was going on with the economy and the other week in the nytimes magazine there was an article about a comedian named zach g.(cannot spell/remember his last name) that lead me to this youtube clip that also features the comedians (?) tim and eric. it's pretty amazing, but really, everything is pretty amazing after meditating for a week and a half most everything is pretty amazing but soon i'll go back to being paranoid and weird, maybe while trying to find parking in brooklyn for a uhaul filled with boats. talk to you later.

today is the first of june. happy june. i've been off of work for the last two weeks...doing a whole lot of nothing. i feel a little guilty for not having been posting but really, there hasn't been much going on to post. seeing movies, playing checkers, playing videogames, taking walks, sleeping in, swimming, reading, getting ready for my brother's wedding, getting ready for the coming semester, and getting ready for the ten day meditation class that I leave for on wednesday, which I'm kind of nervous about. partly because i've had to quit smoking because i definately do not want to go through withdrawl symptoms while away. symptoms include sleeplessness, sugar craving, horniess, and exterme irritability, all of which i'm going through right now. please understand that i'm not "quitting" smoking, but am stopping for the time being because i cannot and do not want to smoke while away.

but about this class, it's ten days and there's no talking (no email, no phone, no books even!). ten hours a day of meditation beginning at four in the morning. it will be kind of intense, but i generally feel like i'm ready for that kind of study, a natural progression from the weekly meditation thing i've been going to and some more formal and intensive practice. plus, it's free and something i've always wanted to do so there. when i come back i'll have a weekend and then the new semester starts. the following weekend i'm heading out to the east coast for my brother's wedding which i'm looking forward to, seeing the family and my sister's baby. all that is to say that June will be a very busy month in comparision to the last two weeks of boredom and low level debauchery.

pluuus, this month, may, the cats moved in with me, so there's been a lot of cat influenced life recently. thoughts like: cat food is expensive! or, wow, you're soft! they came over from oakland because amy moved out of her place there and her new place didn't accept animals so now they are here. which is nice, though i feel a little bad for them that my digs aren't as nice as the ones they came from but they've adapted pretty well. anywho, that's the news. no plans for the blog in june asides from randomness.