Swimming, laundry, tele-conferencing

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Today was a great day. I had the day off from Der Strand...so i checked greenhomenyc.org to see if they had any interesting lectures scheduled...there was one...somehow related to the american bar association and ceep...It wasn't free but I figured I had been to so many free events that I could pay for a change (so to speak).

It turned out to be a teleconference which I couldn't really spend my cell phone minutes listening to for very long, but the whole experience of figuring that out (I didn't read very carefully) and calling in was kind of fun...The best part was having/taking time to read the material and formulate questions. My question was "Can someone please create a LEED-like rating system for legislators...and if so who would our "platinium" legislators be?"

Since I had no lecture to go to...I went swimming at riverbank state park...a good move on my part...I forgot how good swimming feels. Swimming followed by reading in the sun...followed by shopping at the 99 cent store...followed by speaking a little spanish with my neighbors...followed by six raspberry fruit pops...followed by taking out the trash...followed by making up songs based on a 199(8?) new york times article about a new entrance in a garmet district loft building...followed by a santiago caltrava doc...following doing laundy and talking with Dave...followed by not doing my taxes (again).

all in all a very good day.

our new super-helper
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Socorro Cordova, Mechanical engineering student at City College now studying abroad in Germany.
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my neighbors, Lydia and Pedro up on the roof top.
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ant farm

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It's been a fairly good week...I went to an all women bike mechanic's workshop...shelved some literature...picked up a little book about Guerrilla television back in 1971 by Michael Shamberg and raindance corperation.

Last year sometime I sawa wildly painted bread truck that said Ant Farm on the side...I think it had an address for an art collective in new jersy...I was intrugued but not enough to do anything about it. This book the Guerrilla TV book is designed by Ant Farm...who I learned are the same people who made the cadallac ranch out in west tx. This must be really old news to most people.

I am so out of the loop...anyway, I find that this guy chip lord was a founding member and there seems to be a show of art farm stuff in philly but that might be old too.

anywho...ant farm...seems worth looking into.

copyright? what copyright?
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terraced housing est tres cool
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first peak flow day

It's HOT!

Tonight I went to the Municipal Arts Society's Urban Center to hear about nyc's plans to deal with energy demand. From the Bookstore I bought a periodical called LOG. It looks pretty interesting I hope it will inspire me to work on the GROPE 'zine...Ugh...then I spent some time with my friend Emma who is (thank god) quitting smoking. Now I sit on my futon listening to WBAI and sweating.

The big news is Casey just became a Baby-Daddy.

Yawn...free wine makes me sleepy.

Tita is Bernardo's very sweet cat. She likes to destroy my wool carpet.
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My roomate, Bernardo hasn't cleaned his cat's box in over a month.
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Everyday my roomate, Bernardo goes into this closet to get the cat food. Everyday the cat walks around in this. Bernardo doesn't seem to find this unsanitary.
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muppets, sorkin, Butchie

It's been a while since I've posted anything. I fell into that trap of waiting until I had something interesting or clever to say instead of just taking time to write whatever is on my mind. So here goes:

I've been thinking some more about graduate school and being who I am...I am looking into city college since it happens to be near where I live. One of the programs I was interested in is the Masters of Urban Planning (MUP). Turns out the director of this school is an architect named Michael Sorkin. I did a little reading about him and am finding out that he is pretty wonderful and amazing. So far I have been impressed with everything about him. He seems to epitomize everything good.

Ok...for example here is an article about how planners from Israel and Palestine are working together to plan a future Jerusalem. How much more relevant could anyone be? Anyway, I am impressed. I don't know if I can get into his program but I am definitely interested in what he is doing.

Coincidentally enough I have been thinking about muppets. I saw a video clip of sesame street characters lip sync-ing an NWA song...and two clips of REM (worlds greatest band) with muppets...AND I came across a great book of Jim Henson's sketchbooks...it reminded me of a similiar book of dr seuss's less seen work.

This morning my mother told me that our Aunt Butchie passed away last Friday. The full sadness of this news didn't really hit me until this afternoon. She was an amazingly thoughtful and full of life and love. So much personality and energy packed into a tiny Japanese frame. It's sad to imagine a world without her in it.