Arnold's Neighborhood...Welcome to California
With elections coming up on November 8th here I thought this was quite appropriate....
It's Always The Quiet Ones...
With elections coming up on November 8th here I thought this was quite appropriate....
Yep, getting ready to make the big move from the temperate Bay Area to Chicago...in December. Anyone have any suggestions on my baptism by fire, er, I mean wind?
It has been the most surreal of days lately. My ex, whom I was engaged to after a four year relationship and a bad breakup resurfaced in the oddest way. My coworker is an internet dating junkie, particularly when looking for good salsa partners so she places ads regularly on various boards. I had recently returned from my trip to Ithaca and was sitting at my desk, attempting to recover from the sinus/tension headache that threatened to split my skull in half, complete with a deadpan look with my sunglasses on.
These are some of the pictures I took at the Eyes Wide Open Exhibit at the Cornell quad on the 5th. The count for soldiers killed that day was 1,945 but I believe it went up by at least five to six by the end of that day. The link in the post title can provide more information but there is of course, no "official" information as to how many civilian deaths have occurred since the start of the war. I find both circumstances around the totals equally tragic, unnecessary, illegal and immoral.
Well, it has been relatively hot my first couple of days here.....and humid....it's raining pretty heavily as I write this post on my boyfriend's computer. The leaves are beginnning to change and different shades of red and yellow break up the greenery around his apartment. There have been a couple of really nice experiences I've had during my visit. The first was a pretty good dinner at Maxie's Supper Club which was decent...although I felt sorry for our server's facial muscles because I thought her cheeks were going to atrophy into a permanent smile.
I was lucky enough to see the play "Two Trains Running" with Laurence Fishburne...it was wonderful.
Pops always stressed to me, still does, that I should "...get connected with a black church. The black church will lift you up like no other..." Understand, I have no beef with the black church itself but growing up as a PK, organized religion in itself, particularly Christianity is a wall I'm not ready to scale back over at this moment. Maybe never. He wanted me to have an all encompassing "black church experience." I think in some ways this was to legitimize my blackness being that my looks are somewhat ambiguous to others.