January 2012
2 posts
What I'm Traveling to This Weekend...
Ashley: My design team is a pack of young stallions. You'll be very happy with your decision to come visit.
Brandon: You had me at 'stallions'. Hey, are there any 'mos in this Patagonia group?
Ashley: 'mos?
Brandon: Jeez Ashley: ho-mos.
Ashley: Ha! Got it. No, no 'mos, but a few "I can't believe he has a wife and kids", and a handful of lesbians.
Brandon: Ah yes, the ol' "I can't believe it's not butt-er" type. Well you know those boys, they're just one Zima away from turning.
Katie: ... Neither of you will ever know what it was like leaving this chat, and returning to find this conversation 2 hours later.
Getting older.
God was showing off when he made you.
December 2011
2 posts
Mom Encouragement.
For context, today is my last day at WestEd. Come Monday, I will be working at an architecture firm (Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill) as their shiny new Project Coordinator.
This is a tremendous opportunity for me, but I’m getting that feeling that we all get when we’re about to start a new chapter in our lives. The magic recipe is a blend of nerves, excitement, hesitation, faith, and...
November 2011
4 posts
My Burden.
Katie: I couldn't help it, my mind just went in the gutter.
Mel: There you go again, taking innocent remarks and completely ruining them.
Katie: It's just too easy sometimes. It's a smutty place in my head, but I understand it. It's my cross to bear.
Mel: Wow Katie, what a burden.
Katie: I know. A sexy burden.
A Subtle Kind of Love - a story.
He loved her in a removed kind of way, the way a butterfly’s wings can start a tsunami halfway around the world. He knew that it had an effect on her, but he wasn’t sure how great. On a certain level he was aware that if he were to stop, if he were to disappear, it would have a drastic effect. For him it would be one less flap of his wings, in a manner of speaking, if such a thing were...
October 2011
10 posts
Best Fran Advice.
Katie: It's the 'missing him' part that hurts the most. There's nothing I can do to make it go away.
Mel: I don't think you should want it to go away. When it hurts, it's real. You miss him, he misses you, and there's beauty and love in that. It's when you stop feeling anything and you stop fighting to make the situation work-- that's when it, everything, goes away.
Anonymous asked: favorite memory with molly?
Demographic.
Katie: Have you seen Jason's new incentive program? To get people to help set up on Sunday's, he's offering waffles to all volunteers. Jesus doesn't do it for you? How about some delicio...
Luke: THEY ARE OFFERING WAFFLES?! I AM SO IN!
Katie: ... well it looks like their marketing campaign worked. You're apparently their key demographic.
Luke: Seriously, I'm there. The only thing better than the Jesus + Waffle combo is the holy trinity of Jesus + Waffle + Sex. However, I can easily settle for option 1.
One Year.
“Katie, you need to wake Michael up and you guys need to get here as soon as possible… a fire broke out in the building. I… I can’t talk, just get out here”.
Now I don’t know about you, but that is probably the best way to get someone out of bed at 5AM.
Running out of my apartment in a nightgown, coat, and rain boots, I immediately knew that what Luke said on...
September 2011
21 posts
The Threat to Justice
This will be my third attempt to re-write this post in such a way where I am not standing on a soapbox holding a megaphone. Here we go…
I am incredibly disappointed in the Judicial system today. I have been following the story of Troy Davis with enthusiasm that we, as a people, might have the ability to create a voice for the voiceless. That as a collective, we can influence the outcome...
“This is like the Paris Hilton sex tape of parties. You think the general...”
– Ryan during our shift at a Minna private event.
WatchJejune Institute. Probably the best scavenger hunt I’ve ever been on.
San Francisco has SO many things like this. It’s one big playground, if you look in the right places.
WatchOh. my. god.
An old friend from high school just sent me this video of when we were CHEERLEADERS. I must have been 17 in this video and although you probably won’t be able to spot me, I promise you, it is quite a sight to be seen.
The crazy part of seeing this is that she tagged my entire varsity cheer team, so I was able to see how all these people I knew as girls have grown into women....
The Bug and the Windscreen →
Amazing article written by an amazing guy.
Being with him that weekend, I can say that he paints a beautiful scene that is incredibly accurate. From this truth, I can’t help but be further justified in my reasoning that Los Angeles is an overall depressing place. I remember the limo driver that Simon wrote about talking to us about “being either LA or SF”. I guess at the end of...
“The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past...”
– Marcel Pagnol (via kari-shma)
Holy Myspace!
So this afternoon I was trying to track down some stuff I had worked on with a band I used to travel with. I put my name and the bands name into my search bar and the first thing that popped up was my MYSPACE PROFILE.
After 6 failed attempts at signing on, I finally made it through to find that I hadn’t been on the website in over 4 years.
Anyways, I was cruising around, laughing at all...
10 Years Ago.
“Katie, you need to wake up. Something… something has happened”.
Ten years later, and I can still remember the exact moment I began processing what was unfolding. I was so incredibly young and naive, but the second I ran downstairs to see what was on television, I could feel my childhood just washing away.
Reporters were just arriving to the scene of what looked to be a...
Crapplebee's.
Dad: your moms birthday is approaching and we need to think about a plan. I don't want her cooking that day, that's all I know.
Me: well you guys should come out to the city. I think going someplace nice like Flour + Water speaks far more to the monuments of the love we bare for her than Applebee's in Vallejo.
Dad: totally agree. No Applebee's.
Katie: more like CRAPPLEbee's! ZING!
Dad: ...
Katie: it's moments like these when you're most proud of me, right?
Dad: I was going to take the high road, but my instinctual response was to call it CRAPandPEEs. All I can say is you're most definitely a chip off the ol' blockhead.
New 8tracks mix.
Are you feeling particularly sappy tonight? Has your heart recently been inflating faster than our economy? Did you watch Glee tonight and cry for no good reason? Yea, ME NEITHER.
Click here to listen to some tunes to make your night just a bit more sentimental.
I will say right here and now that you can’t blame me if you make a baby to this music. Seriously, you’ve been warned and...
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Home.
The way you say my name makes me feel like it never belonged to me in the first place. It’s never felt more safe than it does in your mouth.
With you, it feels like home.
August 2011
8 posts
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I Had That Dream Again Last Night.
I never talk about Michael. I spent a year of my life convinced I had found the person I was going to marry, and now I am adamant about never letting his name pass through my lips.
People keep telling me how strong I’m being, how logical and clear-minded I seem. It seems to me as though people aren’t looking very clearly at the picture. I can’t even say the mans name because to...
A Million Years.
I love you like grave danger Like moon shining disguise When I wake up with your makeup And spread blush cross the sky Like a meteor crush I’m gonna tell the world Been a million years full of tears But I found my girl
It’s a spun tongue It’s a holy shit It’s a loud cry from the heart It’s a live death It’s a big breath It’s a no more we’re apart
- Alex Ebert
July 2011
9 posts
