from new york city, i think. williamsburg, i think (LUV SUZ)
and alex, that story is amazing.
and bianca, of course i have tons of hope for california, and i have full faith gay marriage will be legal with the next few years. those were just my off the cuff feelings about it all. i think written at 2 am, maybe after drinking. more to express emotion that a deeply thought out post… hope that makes sense!!!!!!
xo world. off to an office, again. in the rain, again. but someone who loves me is coming to visit, again, and i think it will be nice as always again.
BLESS THIS WORLD! (an experience by alexander)
Instead of explaining what just happened to me, I will post the criags list RAVE I just wrote and posted in Portland…
BLESS YOUR HEART FOR RETURNING MY MONEY (WellsFargo on Hawthorne/38th)
Reply to:pers-ysggh-1193892499@craigslist.org
Date: 2009-05-28, 3:26PM PDT
Today I stopped to get $60 out of the Wells Fargo ATM on SE Hawthorne and did the transaction and wondered off.. I got on the phone, distracted, etc and it was 20 minutes later at the coffeeshop I realized WHERE WAS MY CASH???… I frantically searched pockets, wallet. Had I dropped it? Had I even taken it? I walked quickly back to the ATM scanning the ground, as if 3 – 20 dollar bills wouldn’t have blown away or been picked up in 20, 30 minutes time. Back at the ATM I decided to let it go and grab more cash… but first something told me just to check inside with the bankers…. I explained the story and they asked “how much was it and which atm?” I answered and they handed me the 60 dollars that YOU, BLESSED STRANGER found sticking out of the machine and decided to return inside instead of pocket. THANK YOU. I LOVE YOU and I LOVE PORTLAND.
- Location: WellsFargo on Hawthorne/38th
- it’s NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests
california, you have let us down (by s)
dear califorinia,
for someone living on the east coast, when things arent as progressive as we want them to be here, we say ‘i wish i lived in california!’. i cant find cheap yoga classes with cool people here! i wish i lived in california.
i cant buy pot legally, not to mention no one in this state has had pot brownies at a party in years! i wished i lived in california.
i dont have a front yard like my friend alex did in that sweet house in LA, and i never will in new york city. i wish i lived in california!
i wish there were more cool hippies around here… i wish we cared about our environment more out here… i wish i could buy cheap avacodoes…
but you know what california- today you did not represent anything good or special or appealing. today you made the entire country and probably much of the world really upset.
today california did not represent a new land of hope and ideals and the utopian left coast is the best coast part of the country. today california, you let us down 
sincerely,
i hope new york legalizes it first and makes you look even worse
graduation, how times lapses and leaps. (hearts, suzy)
alex, i have been thinking of this, too. i was in line at the bar at a concert last week, and the KIDS (haha, how sad of me to say) behind me in line were bitching about how early they had to get up for their graduation ceremony. “i have been up since 8:30. ugh, what a day!” a part of me wanted to say congrats on finishing the whole ordeal, and the other part wanted to smirk and say something about how in the working world, 8:30 am is sort of sleeping in! but i just kept my mouth shut.
the other kid went to school for acting and said he cant appear in anything until late 2010 because ‘his plate is just very full until then.’ i turned around to look at him, and while cute and young, he didnt seem famous or celeb-cute. just standard young 20s boy cute.
its so striking, to me, what you said;;; that we are doing things we never would have expected to be doing with our lives, however, we sort of knew we had it in us all along. as you know i am doing all sorts of things that i can only one day write a tell all book about, but until then, its just for me and a close few to ponder how and why. (and where is always fun!) if you asked me on our cheerful graduation day 5 years ago if i could do these things, my initial reaction would likely be a thoughtless no, and then upon examination, a hesitant, or maybe jokey yes, i guess i could do that…
because its not that i doubted i could do and achieve and bear all these things, its just, how and why would i get there, to actually doing them.
[[[[ one night years ago at a party, someone said 'people always say 'i would never do that', until suddenly you do it. and then its just another thing you have done.' weird sex stuff, drugs, getting hooked on bad daytime tv, etc etc. i see it happen all the time. its not all the profound, but i think about that sentence from time to time in life. its stuck with me. ]]]
the big scary ek omg fun next question is, where will we be in FIVE years from now? i have a feeling someones going to marry a rock star and score that european beach villa, but, i mean, i cant count on it. though, im not saying ‘i would never do something like that!’ heehee.
<3<3<3 and this memorial day weekend was lots of family things and day drinking and traveling though new york new jersey delaware and pennsylvania. cars and people with babies and all these suburban things, that do not remind me of my life, or of living in brooklyn. it was fun good and great, but now i am home without a car, without a family of four or a lawn to mow, and, i am content. <3
Sunny Sunday Notables…. (from Alley)
Good Day!
I found some pants that I bought in London that I kind of never really wore but never wanted to let go of either (I think I spent a lot of money on them to be all designery in Kensington when we lived on Queens Gate in 2003.) I’m glad I kept them, they fit me still and they are pretty funky looking jeans and hear in Oregon I can sport whatever…
I was thinking that it’s just about these weeks we were taking last finals and finishing up papers and preparing for that crazy weekend of multi-graduation ceremonies in Philadelphia – FIVE YEARS AGO… 5 years ago was that time – now it’s this time, Suzy. What did you imagine? What has really, essentially changed in us and for us? I know one thing: you and I both can admit that there are grand aspects of our private lives that we could never have dreamed of being our lives five years ago! Yet, we knew all along, didn’t we! There is such a duality in that.
I’m still hanging around in coffeeshops and bars with more reading material (and now laptop) that I will ever get through in one sitting. That hasn’t changed.
What are your thoughts?
Can you remember 5 years ago’s desires for us?
Anyway,
this is notable:
It seems hospitals in the Houston area are dealing with a 25% surge in births this month – it being 9 months after Hurricane Ike took out power for days. Guess you can only do so much when there is no tv and no place to go….. HAHA!
Wonder what other time periods show that micro increase in our lifetimes….? We know a lot of babies are conceived in the springtime and after wartime, etc…. but how about on 9-11, or during a recession, perhaps?!
and
What is Conan O’Brian doing on the cover of the Sunday NYT Magazine? Is NY making a big deal out of this late night change up? Or do I only notice because I somehow still have a periphery on the television industry… (will that ever go away?)
Ok, I’m about to dive into the paper…. and probably pop back on with more notables my friends.
SUZY! You’re in paperback, I Love it! /// me, and other catching up games /// by AlexANDER
That is fabulous about the book, S! I love being in print, especially physically! HAHA and I like your haircut and I will see it in just a couple months – in person… didn’t we go through a big “should I get my hair cut” debacle in LA and someone was going to come over my house but it didn’t happen? Or it was all drunk talk somewhere? Unclear.
Well, Portland is beautiful as ever… I went to SF and realized the cleanliness here is superior to anywhere… and it is because the people living here all care… like, really, everyone… and so many other cities inhabit so many who don’t take pride and then there is comes, trash and crass on the street….. NOT I!
My lovely San Francisco was beloved as always… saw so many loves and new ones too! Nori and Tess from LA were up for the Bay 2 Breakers marathon . and so I went for the extra curricular activities aka, sitting all 3 days in Dolores Park’s sunshine… surrounded by beauty! Found myself a slip-n-side as well, you know me… it’s what I do.. (((photos below.)))
Back to Portland I’m cleansing on juices and mostly raw food this whole week and will continue as long as I can stand it, feeling really good and whole and clean. ((((But still wouldn’t have minded spending the week many 6ams in Manhattan with YOU!)))
I wish I could have been sharing my whole weeks menus, why didn’t I?… they have been amazing… but tonight anyway: red mung beans (soaked last night) just lightly boiled for a few moments with diced celery, garlic, shallot, green onions from the back yard, kale and an array of spicyness. also, green salad topped with yellow tomato, perfect avocado, some baked tofu and chia seeds tossed with flax oil and white vinegar. so yum and simple. dark chocolate in bed later!
Been sweating my ass off to help out at Hot Yoga.. man, haven’t ben doing the hot hot 105 degree yoga classes since a stint with it in college.. I used to go to a Hot Yoga class upstairs somewhere around Walnut and 17th or so… Man, Philly days are getting blurrier…
Never have I lived THIS close to a yoga studio, and hot damn its a good place with reasonable prices ($25 gets you an unlimited 2 wk intro… NEVER in NY babes…) not to mention a slurry of other hot yogis and teachers…
check em out… Yoga Union in Portland
and now a segment I call,
Sharing Picture Time With Alexander
first came the berfday fun…
LOOK SEE A JILL THERE ON THE RIGHT ON THE BENCH
Other berfday sillyness
san francisco.. look who i found there..
also found a slip-n-slide… it’s me.
OKOKOK OTHERWISE ALL… I just want to Prove the wonder of Oregon to ya’ll…. just so you know how happy and outdoorsy I get to be… here are some pics from a couple weeks ago, I took a few days to myself for some various nearby hiking… jump in the car with water and snack and drive a half hour or so and all this is to be found::::
(mt hood poking out)
(reserved for wildlife? are we not that?)
shrooooms!
columbian river gorge
and down the street!
my backside is on the frontside of a book- cool!
hi world– cool news of the day is, no not the exciting/depressing news that i stayed out until 6 am yet again last night, but, that i am on the cover of a new novel!
check it out. i was sent a copy and it seems like a pretty good book.
suzy is going to the appollo to see will oldham
whewwwwwwwwwwwwhew its a good day.
even though officejob made me want to curl into ball, this, now, this music will be good. and will save my mental health yeah/
haircut (self indulgant suzy)
hey hey i finally got the bangs i wanted.
as a friend said, maybe i just want to be a little girl again.
this is seriously the haircut i had at 11.
o-well. is that is what i have to do to be happy, so be it.
Mid May Comes like sunlight… /Alexander
SUZY!
Thanks for the birthday wishes and texts, you know I don’t care who and who doesn’t remember that stuff… it is a strange thing whose BDAYS we remember. Easy to remember when people share a date (like you and My grandmother with your exactly 70 years diff)… also, I remember friends from early on, grade school, high school. Not that I have that many, but I still can recall some birthdays… college friends, not so easy. I can usually remember the month. And then work and later-life friends, forget it! I do however, keep most loved ones written in my calender, which means in december every year when I get a new calender/planner, I sit and rewrite everyone’s birthdays for the year. It’s fun.
I’m having coffee in bed. It’s Friday, 8:30AM and chilly. I have to catch a bus to a train to a plane in a couple hours to head to San Francisco for the weekend… Nori and Theresa will be up from LA and I can’t miss the chance…
The new Andrew Bird is good. Jill brought me a shit ton of music… everyone should get a visit from Jill once a year because she always shares tons and tons of new music. (Free!)
Also, is the east coast loving BLIND PILOT yet? They are Portlanders. Now touring with the Decemberists and I hope to see Decem’s with Andrew and Blind Pilot at a Oregon winery in July!
Blind Pilot on NPR:
Oh, and Suz, re Below: DISNEY… why were you there? You know I often really get judgmental about that whole ordeal… the mickey mouse shirts on 3 years olds that were made somewhere else by 6 year olds. And I always grimaced at my LA friend who loved popping over to D land… yet I was at D world as a kid and loved it… not to mention worked a few gigs for some awful ABC tv show, owned by Disney and I had to go onto the studio lot and deliver paperwork, where they would make me and my paper work go through X ray…. those paranoid nazis!
BUT STILL… yes, I bet it was fun and if I was with friends and it wasn’t too crowded, I’d surely get off on all those rides.. I LOVE ROLLLLLERCOASTERS and the video you linked too was so cool and I’m missing that I no longer live a few minutes from major amusement parks, like in SF and LA… I loved bringing a flask and enjoying the day!
Well I love you and the month of May and SEE YOU IN JULY… I’m looking into these nifty cabins/lodges on the Oregon coast… there are big “apartment” style lodges for like 180 a night in July… if it is 4 or 5 of us, then its super cheap… we load up groceries and head out there for a night or two, huh?!
K XO Have a nice weekend, I’ll be sans laptop and absorbed into the bay area sweetness.
good morning world (LOVE s)
gooood day to all.
still still raining here.
alex i hope you had the best birthday.
i will send you something big and unexpected one year. soon:)
getting a decadent lunch at the office today bc the weather is crappy and everyone is low energy.
weekend should be fun. i will write long and hard about my life for you soon. i am going to get to sit down for the first time in soooooooo long.
lovelovelove
may 12 is alexander
hello. I have turned 27 years old today, how the numbers grow and how I like it so! Didn’t know this day last year I’d be living this new life on my Birthday!
Sitting on Tuesday in my own stinkyness… Jill is sitting in my living room and we’re watching movies and eventually going to Bamboo, Portland’s sustainable, green sushi… YUM.
FL/ more buses/ back to ‘real life’ for a little bit (by suzy)
whew… spent the last 5 days in FL, today in MD. am slowly getting home to NY. i have been doing this for awhile now, but right now i really feel like i have been traveling too much and need to just be at home for a bit. so… am getting ready to do that. maybe for the entire month of may! i love may!
floridia: i never went to disneyland or world. so this was a funny and big trip! i got to experience weird disney stuff for the first time, just like all the children who were there. it was a fun few days, and i enjoyed the rides and parks and all much more than i expected to. rides are fun! whether they are linked to a corporate entity or not. i also went to sea world, which was really cool, and took a car trip to naples to work for a great photographer (johnathon kane). we also tried to make his opening for a gallery show, but, i am bad at keeping track of times, we got pulled over for speeding, saw a family of boars i had to stop and freak out about, and we stopped to pee way too many times. so, we sort of missed that. but i still got to model for him: )
check out this rollar coaster i went on>>> def. though there was a chance i was going to die. the seat buckle system was not working on the coaster were on (there are two that leave off side by side), and it was making me really freaked out. they finally switched us to the other coaster, but by then i was so so scared something was wrong, i could barely enjoy the ride. but i like rushes like that, so i am glad i did it.
what people who write about this stuff say:
“The Manta is an inverted, or flying, roller coaster, and from what is known of the Manta, thrill seekers strapped in to their seats in an upright position and then the coaster will tilt the riders into the prone position. Just above their backs is a gigantic 12 foot manta, sculpted to look like the giant ocean dwellers. The coaster riders will then be boosted along the tracks, initiating a journey throughout the entire park that includes a trip through an immense aquarium, complete with ocean animals such as manta rays and sea horses. The wings of the Manta structure will skim the top of the water. Whether you are a spectator or the rider, there is a chance that you might get a little soaked from this experience.
The Manta can reach top speeds of up to 56 miles an hour, and when you add this in with the twists and turns that only this roller coaster can bring, you will be in for the ride of your life. “
none of that really explains it… i just cant believe it am still alive!
pretty shitty weather/pretty charming blog (lovesuzy)
NOTE: ALEX, i think we just published posts at the exact same moment. i dont think thats ever happened before!!! epp!
“this is the first day of my life. im so glad i didnt die before i met you…”- aw, bright eyes. came up on my pandora, and i felt like i was in college again. eons ago… anyway>>>
so, it seems that people pay me to look like an alien.
but, thats fine with me.
hee. hee.
in other news, this blog is the BESSST thing i have seen in awhile. a very talented illustrator illustrates missed connections off of craigslist. swoon. http://missedconnectionsny.blogspot.com/
going to orlando tomorrow, where hopefully the rain will not follow me. i feel like my entire nyc existence is full of rain, and that the god of ny is trying to drown me in dreary days and late subway cars. but, im not going to take it! im going to a place where its going to be 92 degrees with a 20% chance of fleeting rain each day. ahhh good.
going with ryan’s family. a member of this family is his sister’s young son, ethan, who i am pretty much obsessed with. he is a happy funny baby, and i think i will talk to him more than anyone else.
maybe i will post some pictures of sun.
loveyouallers.
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