Monthly Archives: April 2007

Counting down the days until Sasquatch

Written by serene. Posted on April 25, 2007. Filed under Culture Club. No comments.

If she were any cuter, I think she’d implode.

On the road again…

Written by serene. Posted on April 20, 2007. Filed under Nerdy, Travel. 4 Comments.

Today, on the one month anniversary of my 18 hour flight to Paris (and to Houston), I prepare to descend on Sea-Tac airport again. This time, it’s a considerably shorter flight to San Francisco. And I get to have the best traveling partner with me to go visit good friends and get some comic nerding on.

Our next scheduled adventure is revisiting my old stomping grounds (Albuquerque) for a baby shower, a final induction into the “world of Serene” for Dylan in the form of a lunch with my Dad, and many glorious sunsets.

This year is looking like a pretty ideal year: travel, travel, and more travel. The one place I’d really would like to have on my itinerary this year is Japan to visit Reed and Nicole, but this will have to wait a bit longer until my vacation time builds up and I can save enough. In the mean time, these trips will satiate me.

The best part of it all? My world full of scattered friends is feeling smaller. That is pretty awesome.

Yacht

Written by serene. Posted on April 13, 2007. Filed under Culture Club. No comments.

This may be old news for those in the loop more than I (namely Dylan), but I have been obsessing over the music of Yacht.

He is a producer and drummer from Portland, and what initially drew me to him was an awesome remix of Mirah’s “Make it Hot” that I listened to on repeat something like 15 times. He is also the man behind the beats of The Blow. The first thing I heard about him was that he was MIA during the most recent show of The Blow, where he was dissed for not wanting to make the three hour drive from Portland to Seattle to support the opening for Of Montreal.

Honestly, I don’t care about interband politics. All I care is that he makes some pretty interesting and awesome music. And on a whiny note, he is playing Chop Suey the same day that The Books are are Neumo’s. Dilemma, dilemma.

Virbing

Written by serene. Posted on April 11, 2007. Filed under Culture Club, Nerdy. No comments.

In this day and age where social networking site profiles are acquired and forgotten in the same day, I’m pretty stoked with Virb. It’s so fluid and well-behaved compared to it’s illegetimate cross-eyed cousin Myspace.

 In an ideal social networking world not funded by Rupert Murdoch, people would abandon the woefully inadequate cess pool filled with narcissism, pedophiles, bad music, and spambot. Unfortunately today is not that day.

Curse of the repeating question

Written by serene. Posted on April 2, 2007. Filed under Travel. No comments.

Today I have been home exactly one week from my France trip, and I’m still getting harassed by some of the most annoying words to post to a traveler: How was it?

It’s annoying for a couple reasons. First, no one actually wants to hear about the frustrating things, like taking the Metro in the wrong direction. They want tales of sipping wine and beautiful vistas. Secondly, how do you answer that question succinctly? I can and have sat down for hours talking about the wide array of feelings and circumstances I faced as a solo traveler. No one at work wants to invest in that type of outpouring honesty.  And lastly, they want to interject their personal travel stories that are of little interest to me. Now before you write me off as a jerk, let me explain myself. Recounting a trip where you were eaten by leeches in South Carolina is both irrelevant and not interesting as a response to my tale of crepe ordering in Paris.

 Okay, now it’s opening hunting: I am a big ole jerk.

If I worked with more interesting, more worldly people, I perhaps wouldn’t be burdened with woe when the question is posed. But, for example I was asked what part of Paris I would be visiting. I responded with something like “I’m hoping to take the whole city in” to which a quizzical look and “what city?” was given. They thought Paris was a country. I wish I were kidding.

 Instead of answering the question accurately, I whiddled it down to: it was awesome.

Hello world

Written by serene. Posted on April 1, 2007. Filed under I am awesome. No comments.

Thanks to Dylan’s expertise, I’ve got a site that actually looks like how I want it to look. Now I just need to get my photoblog up and running and I’ll be all set.

I’d like to take a minute to say hello to folks I can’t link to, like Eck and Grumble and the Russell Clan.

Now I promise I won’t slack on blogging nor will I dump this site like I have countless others. With money paid and design edits, I am here to stay. Pinkie swear!