why sir? (wiser)
some days i realise people will love me, just the way i am. the way i am, and not just the way i am, but JUST the way i am. someone, maybe lots of someones, love me, just exactly the way i am.
amazing.
maybe i am getting older, wiser, slowely, surely.
though, some days i still do feel like complete strangers hate my guts. but, maybe once i am, like, eighty, i will get over that.
older. why sir.
it will be figured out. yeah. PS greece recap coming soon! to a blog near you.
HAMLET (FACEBOOK NEWS FEED EDITION).
omg- click on the mcsweenys link. its funnnnnnnnny.
alex have fun!
be careful! dont do any drugs that you dont know! get some sleep! hahah. ok, now that the mother talk is out of the way-
HAVE SO MUCH FUN! meet so many artists and musicians and people. loving people.
take pics.
remember i love you!
look for erin and her sister.
bye- going to a beach in aegina now. i cant wait til we are in CT together – soon : )
but, oh, ps, exciting, i may fly out to CA right after that. will tell you details later. xoxoxoxoTONS OF LOVE FOR YOU TO BRING TO BURNING MAN!!! xoxoxox
oh vwaw (chow)
sunday. shopped. packed. drinks now. LEAVING FOR THE BURN! lov lov love luv love luv luv
burning man..
offers a shuttle for those that need out of the camp an to the nearest town in nv. the rules:
*IMPORTANT: you must be sober and fully clothed to ride the bus. Please respect the locals – they are patient beyond belief, and tolerate our teeming masses when we invade their community each year.
hahahahahahahahaha
YES YAY YEA WOO YAAA HORAYY TO IT ALL. to it ALL!
suzy, your life is so amazing. as is mine. i just smile for you over there working in greece. what a dream. where next? everywhere?! get me jobs like that! write down the dishes you eat. or blog them, i just want some ideas and inspiration – greek food or not – what items are they incorporation that we never think to use, herbs, spices… the flare of a greek mans wrist?
i’m in my little house and the last moments of burning man preparation. i’m looking again at the survival guide’s and to do lists and making sure i covered my ass. dad gave me some useful shit you’d never expect to be needed – a 3 gallon gasoline container. buckets with lids (yes, bathroom emergencies to be planned for), a mallet. getting super food list together. bringing a tub of miso (salt helps retain water in climate), hemp seeds (not for getting high but excellent source of condensed protein and omegas). i even baked brownies that are PLAIN. yes, PLAIN brownies. they probably be the only sober brownies at this gathering, but eh.
CLICK HER FOR COOL PANORAM FROM LAST YEAR. BE SURE TO SCROLL RIGHT!
i will be without phone and internet and blog, of course. sorry my friends! i will be with camera and notebook and body, so i will have much to share in september. yes i will be with 45,000 other loving, beautiful, artistic friends in the nevada desert from aug 25 through sept 1. 8 days and 7 nights here:
TAKE IT!
what a wonderful country! plus the usual over 100 degree days are dropping to our favor.. perhaps low to mid 90s in the day and 50s at night. how beautiful the sunrise must be, and i shall be seeing that fucker more than once.
i wish everyone a wonderful week and i will post some picture of the final caravans as we head out in mere hours…. and be back to blab in 10 days.
LOVE!
absence of blogs because of overabundance of other things!
hi alex. hi world. how are you?
i am in greece. that should be a hint that i am doing better than fine;)
i am in aegina, an island about 45 mintues from athens.specifically, here:
just now, at sunset
which is: a very nice place the photographer i am working for owns. it was a club, but this island is small and it really didnt succeed as club, so now it is pretty empty. he lives here part of the year. there is an industrial sized kitchen and a cook and a freezer full of ice cream and when i pick out what i want to eat i feel like i am picking whatever i want from the entire supermarket! i have a nice room and it is cool to be in this quiet and beautiful place. and, also, we are taking very cool pictures!
why i came to greece
view from poolside
here is a blog post that i wrote while on my flight:***
i dont have internet so i cant blog. but, i will copy and paste this soon.
i brought a phrase book from the 70s and the tao teh ching with me. thats it. you know many things i have backlogged to read in life. and that. that is what i brought:)
drinking red wine. waiting for them to call boarding for my flight. once on flight, will drink again. then sleep. then be over the ocean. yeah yeah yeah.
the tao ching is the best best best. it really is. i mean, i KNOW we all know this. but. really. i want to sleep and wake with it at all moments.
))))))
its all exactly as i predicted; i just awoke, after glasses of wine.
i am in the ocean under barcaleno, under a place called the gulf of lion which i never knew existed.
some sentences from lyrics from the ipod i was listening to for hours on the flight:
“you need enemies to get you out of bed in the morning”
” ..umm i had another one that was better than that but just forgot.
i am also above algiers. romantic sounding, huh?
for some reason i flew in a dress and heels. ABSOLUTLY odd, no? ive been flying in like the worst yogapants i owned and flipflops for as long as i can remember. i think in the the back of my mind i was probably paranoid that they would look at all the clothes, esp. lingerie, i was bringing, and say how you are staying and id say a week, for holiday, and they would think it sounded fishy. and then i would say, no, ok, im actually going to model, i was hired by an artist to come for a week, and they would look at me in old yogapants and glasses and say yeah sure. and call the customs patrol or something. so now here i am above the ocean in a cute dress and black heels. weird.
i think i am flying further than moscow, from this map they keep showing. i need to ask dustin. that sounds not right, but i think it may be true. no no no no not true at all. just looked at the map more correctly. but still, im going sort of far.
i had heard this thing on NPR about how to prevent jetlag and the crucial point was something about eating breakfast- either to make sure you ate breakfast at the normal time for you, OR at the normal time at the place you are traveling to, even if it is like 3 am or 230 pm where you are arriving, or vice versa. however, i cant remember which of the two options it is. and that is kind of the important point…
near rome now. if going to london i would be there already.
i want to stop by all these places on the way home, of course. i am plotting out fantasic routes in my mind. sassari, next destination!
ahh man. so many places and so many reasons to go EVERYWHERE. and meet all the everyones.
the place i live this week
oh crap!
Regulators expected to allow radiation for spinach, lettuce.
This doesn’t look like a step in the right direction… what the fuck are we going to eat in this country?
Ask those farmer’s in greece if this could ever fly, suzy…..
listen!
the weepies. sing nobody knows me at all. this band is so very cute.
good night.
fucking magic
and coincidences in this world ———>>> a few posts down i included a picture of a wooden sculpture sitting in the desert at burning man !! very cool. i stumbled on it when i starting talking to an area artist about his going there. and low and fucking behold, the ACTUAL piece is on display in front of whole foods i entered today. (yes, reno has a whole foods.. brand new and shiny and makes me horny in there).
also, looks like the desert heat is going to be more around the mid 90s all next week, a big improvement from last weeks 105s…. THANKS!
(suzy, your on a flight to greece!)
Dear FutureME,
suzy, have fun in greece. while there you should check this out and write about your experience in greece for the future you!
everyone should do this!!
i just wrote something to i will get in a year the next is to write something for 30th bday, 50th?, 100th????
alex! greece! airplanes! yogurt! yes yes yes holy shit!
ahh.. of course i stay out way too late yesterday and wake today and have to pack uber quick and my hair probably wont be that clean. but it never is. and of course nothings going to plan…
except, wait, i never have plans.
except to get on my plane by 430. except to spend a week in greece, and come back tan.
alex, thanks for your concern sweetiepie, but yes, my mother and father and friends know where i will be, and even have the contact info for me there. i am a safe small suzy.
and guess what- best news ever- i just bought a really really really great new camera. so i will have PEEKTURES of greece and all else. yessss. i, for one, am so excited about this.
i will blog if i get bored in the airport. my coworker who was an international reporter for the wall street journal and has traveled extensively brought me a greek phrase book to borrow for me trip. which is so nice of her. but its from the 70s and all these really really funny phrases in it… i need to tell you some.
lovelovelovelove and sunshine and love to you.
nyc weather is actually super amazing today. it sort of sucks i am going away during some of the only good weather we ever get around here. but hey, its all so so OK. okloveloveok.
alexander leaves this world in 5 days..
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