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Friday, October 12th, 2007
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10:35 am - too funny.
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this was on nothingnice.com today:
i fucking love it. i'm really hoping that an entire alleycat sequence follows it.
speaking of bikes, i haven't ridden in nyc in so long, and it's getting upsetting, especially on perfect weather days like today. so if anyone's up for riding, let me know.
current mood:  chipper
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| Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
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9:40 pm - Netflix?
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What's everyone's opinion on Netflix?
I'd only get the $8.99/month for unlimited 1 at a time DVDs, which is pretty cheap, I think. Especially since I'm getting a new laptop and I'll be able to watch movies on it a lot easier.
Does anyone else have it?
Also, does anyone have good movie suggestions? I'm open to anything, but honestly, particularly comedies.
Lately, I'm especially digging this guy right here:
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i would walk 1 mile - and i would walk 500 more
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| Thursday, September 13th, 2007
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8:53 am - i'm terribly proud of this...
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it's part of the "poetry now" project that i'm doing as a research assistant.
life = busy but good. everything is pretty awesome.
proud of:
this video
issue 5 of so we beat on being done and copied
the awesome dress i designed and made last weekend
notes to self:
play with new expensive but free sewing machine that even has a setting for leafy vine stitching
draw monsters
work on the novel
get food not bombs up and running again, in conjunction with the "anarchist collective" kids (self included)
issue 6 of so we beat on
a website that hosts all of the s.w.b.o archives as pdf files, has videos (like the one above) up, hosts a poetry forum, etc. (all of which will count as my final project in a class on New Media and Writers)
work on new diy clothing line sort of thing with adam and colleen (for rachel's new art "gallery"/store)
current mood: rockin'
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| Sunday, September 9th, 2007
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11:09 pm - all kinds of haircuts.
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| Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
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12:35 pm - everyone should come to this
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| Wednesday, July 25th, 2007
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2:07 pm - question
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should i get a tattoo of this? and where?
i've been a bookworm since i was 2, so it seems appropriate.
in other news, life is going pretty swimmingly.
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| Thursday, April 19th, 2007
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9:56 pm
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the update:
1. saw the vicious tonight. saw cancer kids and ampere last week. had awesome times at both.
New Resolution: go to more shows.
2. semester is almost over, doing much better than i thought i was- thankfully. Just a couple papers and finals to go, and then finally free!
3. may 14-15: Stike Anywhere. I'm so excited.
4. My friend is doing a photoshoot at coney island and i'm in it. it's gonna be awesome.
5. i ran a boot drive for burmese refugees in january, now i'm working on a bike drive for them, collecting shitty old bikes and running workshops on how to fix them up. lots of work but fun. lots of shitty bikes and lots of ways i'm learning about bike repair.
6. Busy with food not bombs since we're cooking now... and on MayDay we're serving at the community picnic. last year was awesome, i'm psyched for this year!
7. working as a research assistant, have 2 documentaries due in may on "poetry now"- awesome job, $15 an hour and i don't have to answer to anyone- I'm getting expensed as well, so all my trips to NY are free free free now!
8. working 20 hrs a week at barnes and noble- shit pay but gotta love the discount! plus i get to borrow hardcover books and read on breaks- i'm reading Dharma Punx by Noah Levine, it's awesome.
9. bartending once a week, and realilzing how much i actually like bartending
10. developing stomach ulcers from stress, apparently. Kinda sucks, chronic pain.
11. working on the novel- seriously.
12. almost done with the next issue of my zine. really. i swear.
13. dying for summer and moving into our new house- only 5 of us instead of the nine guys and me, and its such a nice cute house, plus its not 2 miles from everything like we are now. i'm so psyched for the summer! i'm already planning on decorating in a much cleaner more
14. this summer, i'm also gonna take a martial arts class, a yoga class with mom (and we're working on a childrens book together) and i think a meditation class (maybe it'll help slow me down!)
15. May 11 is my 1 yr vegan anniversary! I'm finally a good and healthy vegan cook!
16. Doing awesome with the new years resolution to stay posi!
party fucking hard.
(this is part of what i get paid to do as a research assistant. i love my job.)
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i would walk 2 miles - and i would walk 500 more
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| Tuesday, March 20th, 2007
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9:32 pm - need help for "poetry now" job that i ended up with
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so i got hired as a research assistant to make a documentary on "poetry now," i.e poetry slams, etc. so if anyone has any ideas of places or things, please let me know. especially if they are in NY, since i get an expense budget and any time i can get to NY in the name of academics and have it paid for, i'm all over that. so yeah. any ideas, please, share!
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i would walk 5 miles - and i would walk 500 more
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| Friday, February 23rd, 2007
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10:12 pm
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...courtesy of demoncats...
monstertrack, me looking cold and awkward.
i missed this.
current mood: psyched.
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| Monday, February 19th, 2007
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11:12 pm
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So, it's been about 5-6 months since I last posted...
Things are going pretty damn great lately though. There've been a few ups and downs in the past month, and i'm pretty sick from stress and being too busy, or maybe something else, but I think that's about it...
But other than that
1. Going to be in a half triathlon in May
2. Got some awesome classes like Queer Contexts and Union Organizing that I love
3. Hopefully will be getting more work done on my tattoo sometime soon
4. My hair is finally getting kinda long, which is exciting
5. Vegan since May now.
6. Mom got me a breadmaker for Christmas, and it's the best present ever.
7. Been running a boot drive and now a bike drive for Burmese refugees in Trenton
8. Food not Bombs is up, cooking, and serving hot chili every other week. I've never been prouder of finally getting something done.
9. Just was at Monstertrack this weekend, having an amazing time. Finally rode fixed in NYC. Caught up with old friends, made new ones. Found out people I met a year ago once still remember me (most of them know me as Gidget or Jersey, but it's really cool that they still know who I am). Went to Food Swings.
10. Speaking of fixed gears, mine is finally a 48:16, thank god.
11. I'm going to get a new, good road bike sometime in the near future
12. I'm getting to be a really good cook. And I found the vegan cheese I love.
13. The house we're living in next year- me, Rob, Matt, Jay, and Rich- is really awesome, smaller and cute, and right down by Easton Ave, thank god.
14. I have a best friend that's a girl. It's weird.
15. January was the weirdest month ever. February has been too.
16. Miami was insane. Dane, Rob, Alex and I had an awesome time Jan 3-11. Granted, the transmission broke in my car in Georgia, we kicked a pinecone for 3 hours at one point, got attacked by mosquitoes, the tire went flat on Alex's car, we sat on a red ant hill. But we had burritos the size of our forearms, went swimming in the ocean, wandered in the Everglades and saw alligators, got matching tshirts, went in the greatest swimming pool at a hotel in Orlando, and generally had the best time ever.
17. My major New Year's Resolution: STAY POSI. I think it's going well.
Things I want to do more than anything:
1. Be in Miami. Warm. Not freezing.
2. To for once, be relatively figured out, personal-life-wise. But right now, I'm happy. So it works.
Te Amo,
Molly
current mood: hopeful
current music: Art Brut
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i would walk 6 miles - and i would walk 500 more
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| Thursday, October 19th, 2006
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11:48 pm - new tattoo
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| Sunday, September 24th, 2006
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8:21 pm - when we go, go out in a blaze.
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phew. september has been insane.
1. cry wolf = best movie ever. bon jovi doing a student, getting shot through the heart, and being wanted dead or alive. brilliant.
2. jewish holidays are not vegan. at all. but foodswings after a family dinner however, is.
3. running an 8.5 minute mile- awesome. running 4 miles in 40 minutes- even better.
4. biking everywhere- great. my bag killing my back because it weighs 45 lbs.- not awesome
5. realizing i leave the house at 7 am and get back at 2 or 3 am because of meetings- tiring. realizing i love the meetings and feel weird when not organizing- such a good feeling
6. ellegirl gave me a contract to do more do-it-yourself articles
7. i've made new friends, and its great. i saw old friends, and that was amazing.
8. finally, i got to sit around a bonfire with a bunch of people again. it's been waaay too long.
9. i've found new productive groups to get involved with, and gotten deeply involved with new brunswick activism. this year, i do it right.
10. i'm sick from only sleeping 3 hour a night at most. but i'm so fucking happy that my life is this busy and active.
11. i admit. sometimes i'm lonely. but then again, a lot of the time, i'm really ok with that.
New Plans:
triathlon by next summer, shit yeah.
New Goals:
amplify adrenaline.
current music: blaze, strike anywhere
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i would walk 1 mile - and i would walk 500 more
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| Wednesday, September 6th, 2006
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1:14 pm - "And now for your monthly update..."
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So I started classes yesterday, Russian was scary since I don't know very much of it and the teacher didn't speak English. By the end of class though, I started kind of getting what she was talking about. The other classes I have (lots of lit classes, a labor studies one, and a feminist one)are going to be more work than last year though, they're all smaller with stricter attendance policies and more homework and participation and not sleeping required. But on the other hand, now that I'm not writing for any certain magazine and spending 60 or more hours a week working in NY, I have more free time to work on that stuff.
In the meantime, I'm busy riding my bike and running and hopefully starting to use the college's pool to start training for the triathlon.
I'm hoping to start helping Tom plan some alleycats around here, and just starting to get really used to riding fixed. I haven't used a brake yet! (OK, I fell yesterday but that was because a car made me have to try to hop up onto a sidewalk to avoid getting hit, and that isn't the easiest thing to do, especially in the pouring rain)
Food not Bombs is taking off in New Brunswick, I'm really proud of how many people were at the last meeting, and we're starting to serve this coming Saturday, and then starting the 24th, regularly every Sunday. It's a lot of planning and work, but I think it's worth it. I can't believe how many people are into it, and really want to see it off the ground.
My zine is all over the country, thanks to a friends band when they went on tour, and I keep getting emails about it, and that makes me super psyched. My friend from Baltimore and I (we met because of zines) are going too start a joint zine as well, with just our ridiculous question/answer emails we used to send each other when we first started getting to know each other.
My friend (from the band that stayed with me when I was in VA Beach, Screaming Females) moved into his dorm and got assigned this awesom roommate Ian. I met him Saturday at a huge dance party, and when I met him, I realized I had known him from stuff in Philly for years! He used to be in the band Mothra, and knows Brett and Gary, and actually played at Ghosthouse! But anyway, Ian lived in West Philly, knows a lot of my friends, and danced in hot pants at a RAMBO show I was at. Actually, he was Hunter S. Thompson at Hallowmas. And even better, he speaks fluent Spanish and used to be involved with Food Not Bombs. So that's awesome.
Speaking of dance parties, I had an amazing time on Saturday at the one I went to in Brooklyn, with Nick and Screaming Females, et cetera. And it was awesome seeing Max again on Saturday, even if it was only for an hour.
My dad asked me yesterday why he hasn't seen Steve all summer, and genuinely seemed sad that he hasn't been around. Also, he threatened to hit a 37 year old guy that asked me out when we went to a bar. I love my dad.
Hmm.. I think that about sums up my life at the moment. School, work, bikes, food not bombs, dance parties... this is going to be a good year.
current mood: optimistic
current music: Just A Friend-- bizmarkie. lame, i know.
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i would walk 7 miles - and i would walk 500 more
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| Thursday, July 20th, 2006
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2:24 pm - i got called a hipster for my fixed gear.
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Most important things first: my bike is almost done!! It's running 52:16, (what the hell!?), but the 52 was the only one we had at the bike library. So for now, good enough. I'll take a picture of it soon, hopefully it'll be rideable after 5 today. I need to add a brake and fix the tires (without rim tape, a tube popped while we were inflating it), but then it's done! I'm so excited. It's pink and cute and I'm so ecstatically happy about it!
Speaking of bike collectives, I was at Times Up!- the NY collective- for a benefit show last weekend and it was awesome that people recognized me from races, and were actually wondering why I hadn't been around in a while. It was really neat. And seeing Leif and Mike was fantastic, of course.
So, Sunday we're having the first Food Not Bombs planning meeting, which is really exciting. It's awesome that so many people are really into the idea- I keep hearing people talk about it at parties and around, and the idea is just spreading really well. We just have to decide in what way we want to start it (just distributing, which makes more sense, or cooking too, which makes less sense but would probably get more people involved... catch 22!)
And I'm going to the beach on Saturday after work with my whole family- cousins, aunts, uncles, et cetera. So that should be... interesting. Every time I go somewhere with them, it invariably degenerates into them making fun of me for a) being vegan, b) dating gay men (not true!), or c) being a lesbian (not really true!). It's kind of funny, but really bad when it occurs to me that they're serious. But they're family and I love them, conservative jerks that they are.
Speaking of veganism, I'm well over the 2 month mark, go me!
I'm reading this nifty book, The Organic Suburbanite, about how to live more enviromentally friendly while reducing costs. This whole sustainable living thing really gets to me... the concept of being entirely self reliant, at least. I don't think I'll ever care to go without running water or electricity, but I'd like to know how to do basic plumbing/electrical work. Speaking of talents like that, I may spend a summer in Maine as an apprentice to my uncle, who's a carpenter. He's also a manic depressive psychopath. But he's great. Plus that would mean renting my own cabin, since it's so cheap, and having friends come stay with me all the time.
My friend Sean emailed me today, and one of the things he asked me: "Still dealing with flakey boys?"
So I've decided that I'd really like to either not be dating at all or settle down with one person- or at least have the potential there. I'm really sick of the whole "not looking for a relationship" crap. So as far as boys go, let's just say "I give up" and leave it at that. If something comes along, awesome. If not, whatever.
Anyway, I'm off, I have to give a presentation tonight on Wuthering Heights to my 19th Century Women Writers class. Awesome.
Love,molly
current mood: rockin'
current music: kill the poor
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| Friday, July 14th, 2006
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10:32 am - "though love be a day and life be nothing..."
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Living in New Brunswick makes me happy:
1. I make the best vegan burritos ever. Ever.
2. One of the best ways to spend a day is watching Seinfeld
3. People keep asking me about the Food not Bombs plan. Seems like it's going to happen.
4. My bike is pink. And adorable. And will be done soon. So I'll start racing soon. (Although it came at a cost, half my thumb got snaded off by the electric sander, ouch)
5. I love talking to people in New Brunswick, and midway through conversation, hearing them say "oh wait... you're that Molly." (so far, it hasn't been for anything bad. hopefully it stays that way.)
6. Instant oatmeal is my favorite meal. And does anyone else think spinach tastes like meat? Kind of?
7. My mom found out about my road trip to Milwaukee a year ago. On the one year anniversary, actually. It was kind of hilarious. (She wishes that I have a kid "more hard to deal with" than I am. Awesome.)
8. I can play 'Come as You Are' on my new bass. That's the only song I can play on the guitar as well.
9. My 19th century Women Writers class kicks some serious ass. It's long, and it's a ton of work, but I really like it.
10. I miss people I used to hang out with. But I'm seeing a lot of them in the near future, and I saw a lot of people I missed a lot in the past. And that makes me happier than anything, even if all we're doing is sitting around watching TV and talking.
11. I love being busy more than anything.
This weekend: NY to finally see Leif and a photographer friend, show at Chum Dumpster, saying goodbye to Tom before he leaves for New Orleans, work on bike, vegan dinner a friend owes me... busy busy busy. I love it.
love and stuff,
molly
current mood: accomplished
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| Thursday, June 29th, 2006
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11:00 am - we might try our lives by a thousand simple tests
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All I've been doing:
1. Bartending
2. Listening to the punk rock mix tape my friend sean in baltimore made for me with the volume all the way up and the windows down. the first song is 'fuk shit up,' if that's any indication of how awesome the tape is.
3. Making and eating vegan pizza, drinking organic wine
4. vegan ice cream in highland park with someone i haven't hung out with in a long time, and a good long talk afterwards. and then ice cream again the next day with a new friend, and on the way home, calling my little sister, and when i said 'hi,' she said, 'you have a huge grin on your face, don't you?'
i did.
5. Making progress Food not bombs-wise
6. picking a dreamy trek frame for my fixed gear. i'm painting it pink.
7. being generally happier in the past 16 hours than i've been in months. we'll see how long it lasts, but i'm thinking quite some time.
it's a damn good summer. and hey, it's barely started.
today, i get a bed! and a kitchen table! and a mom and sister visiting my house for dinner!
Things to do in the next week:
1. finish thoreau's walden
2. food not bombs meeting (alex suggested VFW hall to cook. "Hi... look, I know you guys are sitting around talking about war. but can we have an antiwar all vegan group of punks cooking in your kitchen?" may not go so well.)
3. dead poet society?
4. make pajama pants in an unnattractive color. make recipient of said pants wear them everywhere.
5. stop being so damn giddy... actually, scratch that. be as fucking giddy as i can!
lovelovelove,
molly
current mood: can i be ecstatic?
current music: it would be 'what a wonderful world'
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i would walk 3 miles - and i would walk 500 more
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| Friday, June 23rd, 2006
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8:59 am - 'your foot in my face is what keeps me alive"
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we decided to start a food not bombs for sure, so now i'm working trying to put everything together. it will be easier once we get started, or at least get a place to cook. there are tons of kids around here that are really into helping out, and my boss here actually knew the guy that used to run it here, so he's going to put me in touch with places to get food.
in other news, i am the proud owner of a new wheelset... fixed gear here i come!
tomorrow, student union kids, sunday, beach and bikes... it doesn't get much better than this.
this has been a good week, spending time with people i love, dancing with people that make me smile, staying up all night hanging out. the doctor yesterday sucked, another at least 3 months of hot flashes and mood swings before i find out if i'm menopausal, somethings fucked in my brain, or i have a weird virus. either way, these migraines gotta stop.
manic at the moment, ready to list everything i want to learn. carpentry being at the top, and i may be spending next summer in maine doing an apprenticeship, and renting a small house, so everyone better visit, it's incredible up there.
welding, electronics, basket-making, weaving, knitting/crocheting well are also up there. and economics and spanish and blah blah blah, the list goes on. also an instrument. being a renaissance woman would be pretty awesome.
so much to do, so little time. and now i'm off to file at work.
love,
molly
Also, if anyone feels like sending me music they think i should have, please do! i just realized while cleaning my computer out last night, that i have almost nothing (it was all on my old computer that crashed) and i'm very upset by it.
current mood: wanna-be-productive
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i would walk 5 miles - and i would walk 500 more
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| Friday, June 9th, 2006
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11:51 am
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last night was the first really good night in a long time. thai noodle and vegan ice cream with tom, singing along with 'olde tyme memry' in the car because it was too rainy to bike, walking around highland park making fun of the big houses talking about action within community, something new brunswick so desperately needs. we had made a good start on mayday, but it shouldn't end there. we had the community together for what may have been one of the first time, the college kids and the rest of the city, playing soccer and talking and eating and having fun. it was a great day.
i ordered a wheelset today, and tom's going to help me finally build that fixed gear i wanted, so i'm ready for a summer of biking and barbeques and vegan ice cream and amazing times. we were talking about starting a food not bombs. i would love to so much.
i'm excited about all of this.
things got pretty fucked up a week ago, i don't know what happened between then and now, but i'm ok. everything is falling into place here in new brunswick, it really is like being home again.
i can't wait for my summer class to start. i can't wait to be at the beach next week. i can't wait to start having cookouts in the backyard. i can't wait to get issue 4 of so we beat on done, it's almost there now, and i'm really happy about it.
and all of this shit is going to work out, sometime. so we'll play the waiting game.
let's go for a ride,
molly
current mood: productive
current music: olde tyme memry
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| Monday, May 15th, 2006
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9:14 am - home again, home again
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So this Thursday I went to Baltimore to visit my friend Sean, who I met via zine writing (he mysteriously got his hands on a copy of So We Beat On and ended up reviewing it. I'm still not sure how that happened, but awesome.)
Anyway, Baltimore. We went to Inferno, it was great, danced a ton, ended up with a million bruises, but it didn't matter.
We biked around all the next day, went to Druid Hill Park (which was so pretty) and played frisbee (I'm awful), and sat on the swings and talked for forever. We went to an orchid conservatory, looked at all these amazing flowers- there's a whole palm tree room! It was incredible.
We went to Poe's grave, and then Red Emmas, the infoshop, and I got a book on the oral history of the IWW and the Defiance, Ohio cd I had lost.
(Here's me outside of Red Emma's)
by mollygidget
We ate tons of great tofu (Sean taught me how to fry it) and vegan chocolate cake, watched movies, hung out, had a great time.
After seeing Mischief Brew again, the same thought came back to me- I think I want a Mischief Brew tattoo of some lyrics and maybe a black cat. Suggestions for lyrics? There are so many great ones. Also, location?
I'm a born again vegan, I made mom pad thai and vegan baked pears with soy ice cream for mothers day, and vegan pancakes for breakfast. Hanging out with Sean made me want to re-adapt that whole healthy lifestyle thing I've been not doing lately.
After a horrible bus trip back to NY, I got to see Dan, which made me so happy. The end of the bike race he was in was fun, skids and trackstands and friends and people recognizing me, and I can't wait til this weekend (Superhero alleycat!)
While I'm thinking of it, 2 awesome things:
1. Zine World finally reviewed So We Beat On, and they gave it a great review
2. My article and book review finally came out in ELLEgirl (the article is about zines, and theres pictures of all of my zines, including copies of picutres Dan took)
Now that it's summer, I think in June I'm leaving for VA Beach for a week to surf and bike and not talk to anyone. Yay! I need to get working on writing again, cleaning my room, all that fun stuff. And I need to get shit ready to move in. Awesome.
While all this good stuff is going on, I still feel antisocial and like something is missing and kind of sick. Ehh, whatever.
love,molly
current mood:  ...just okay.
current music: mischief brew
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| Tuesday, May 9th, 2006
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