catalina finish
[photo courtesy of gary cannon]

our boat crossing the finish line (i'm the one that looks like a wet dog in seat four). i think that's our chase boat (with omar hanging out on the back) right next to us in the second photo. results for the women and coed races available here.

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help! hairy!
omigawd. it's finally long enough (i hope!) to donate. so now i need a hairstyle. suggestions? wanna come with? (i'll need the moral support, and not cuz of the haircut, call me, i'll explain)...

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25 to go
one down, 25 to go. next up? working on a few books all at once, Serendipities: Language and Lunacy by Umberto Eco, and some fantasy fluffy stuff to balance that out. recommendations always welcome...

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:: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 ::

love punch

weeeeelll...let's just say i overindulged and celebrated my last novice race (and arguably the most scenic race we do) with a little (or a lot) too much love punch. luckily for me, my knight in shiny armor came to save me...it wasn't pretty, but it was a hellova way to end my novice outrigger season. next year, it's open for me, which means twice the work, less than half the medals. oh well, it was fun while it lasted...

and surprisingly, i was well enough recovered to go for a gorgeous hike the very next day (thus the happy dog, complete with lolling tongue).

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complaint compliant
been thinking lately about overachievers and underachievers... in some ways, i'm strictly in the overachiever camp -- my parents schooled me in the ways of eternal dissatisfaction. nothing is ever really good enough, and working hard only ensures a modicum less humiliation in the end. it's a desperate, scrambling kind of existence, and one that i thought i'd successfully left behind when i had my college meltdown (quit premed, declared art as my major, and then came out -- all in rapid succession. it was quite a year...).

but with an impending family invasion (on the heels of a quick visit home a couple weeks ago), i find myself curling up into some sort of emotional fetal position. relatively speaking, i'm calm. my apartment is only a little cleaner than usual (so far), my truck is still bombed out, and i'm only a little more frazzled than usual. but thanks to a conversation last night (thanks sy!), i realized a few things -- something about expectations, and trying to live my life according to what's true for me, but then somehow reverting back to the awful awkward years of my preteen and teenage self.

not sure what it is about family that pushes all those buttons. and not sure how to keep a hold of my calm cool adult self (ok, just adult self) through the impending visit. drinking might help, but i waaaay overindulged last weekend, so i might have to keep chewing on this one...

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:: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 ::

9/8 challenge
ok, i'm all in! 26 books in 52 weeks. yeehaw! and you know i'll read almost nothing in the summer, so i'd better get a few in fast! :-) (turns out that 9/8 is world literacy day...cool, eh?)

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the audacity of hope
fried crispy today, so it was lovely to browse eyeshurt and find this dose of inspiration in the form of Barack Obama's Keynote Address at the 2004 DNC. Oh, you can watch on video it, too. politics of hope, audacity of hope...dare we hope?

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:: Monday, September 11, 2006 ::

catalina channel crossing 2006

newport beach to catalina island. 28 miles. open ocean. nine women. two coaches. one chase boat driver. more gu than i can remember. we did it! hell, ya-ya boat! enuff said.

women's route

men's route

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:: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 ::

visiting foodies
well, i'm slooow at posting my photos, so here's dotorious' take on part of our road trip...

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linkity...
random links i'd like to come back to...this time web gnashing... (mostly css web development canoodling).

quirksmode

box model hack

underscore hack

keep it simple: series of articles on digital web magazine by peter paul koch

quick lesson in liquid design

chinese characters (thanks miz sy for the non-geeky link!)

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