oy vey, I can't help but make comments. and then I just sound vain. damned if you do...
So right now I'm nothing
more than a secretary, whiling away the hours between the duller projects by
surfing the web and entertaining myself. I graduated with an art degree a year
ago may, came home to be with friends and family until I decide to get my butt
in gear and apply to grad schools, and bounced through a number of jobs until
I ended up here at unc-chapel hill. it's neither the most exciting nor the dullest
of the employment I've 
had
in the past year, and it certainly has its perks. the best part: they sent me
to web design classes, bought me software, and miraculously give me little enough
to do that I can teach myself the tricks of the web; this is the product.
it's obvious from my page what my obsessions are... what's not so clear is that it is my friends who I've met through the fixations that keep me doing them. my friends are now all over the place, but through the fantastic medium of email I get to find out all sorts of details about their life without my phone exploding from overstimulation. a few examples:
kathryn
has a lovely web page, with all sorts of fun info about chevy novas and puffer
fish and her life. she's a mean photographer too. 
She
did not take the picture of the two of us, but she looks charming in it anyway.
she's one of the best dolls on the planet; I've realized after leaving a women's
college (smith) that
I don't have much patience for females. despite the fact that I'm a girly girl
myself... she's still in school and entering the never-ending debate of what
to do next; I'm sure we'll live near eachother again soon. we became friends
through school, stayed friends because of swing dancing, and now (though neither
of us are doing that much dancing) are so wrapped up in eachother that we'll
be friends for a good long time. she just moved to boston and is trying to make
her way in the world; I just miss her.
my friend chris took
the picture of me at the top when we were in atlanta. his studio
and his scooter
page are both all sorts of interesting - he's got links to all sorts of
scootery things, and you can peruse his artwork in a 
pleasantly
voyeristic way. he's the one who is set on getting the scooter scene around
here up and running again. I didn't meet him until I had gone out and purchased
my scooter which wasn't perhaps
the wisest of choices, but there ya go. three minutes before he took the picture
of me at the top, I took this one of him.
some of my favorite people in town I've met through dancing, like neal.
he can be absolutely shocking, because he was supposed to be a
science
geek (physics grad student, I mean really) and yet he's such a hepcat. two-tones
and nanotubes? baffling. so he just decided to move on from that and is
now in the linguistics department at UNC instead... one of those evolutions
which seems like it should have happened. he and his girlfriend natalie
share my love of vintage goodness, and he's one of the rare boys I know who can appreciate clothes and
what they can do, without seeming like an utter pansy. the two of them are good
folk, as they say...
my roommate and friend for years and years is joey, and I love the photo of him on his page (even though he hasn't touched it in ages and it has broken links and whatnot) because he's all squinty and it's summer and it proves and despite his serious demeanor he can sometimes be caught out in goofhood. I looked through all of my stuff already online for a picture of him, but couldn't find one... I'll have to remedy that.
there are so many other people to talk about: jessica, grad student, swing dancer and scooterist, morita and deanna, my other two scootergirls in the area, star in wilmington and christine in boston and mina in japan and sarah in new york and and... and family too, like my cousin kaj and my wee (ok, not so wee, he just turned 11) little brother patrick, who both have web pages up in various states.
at the same time as I put in time
on this page, I've also been working on my cv and resume pages. you can go here
and look at them if you're at all interested in the busy-ness side of life.
For the most part, I think the whole matter is rather dull, but I'm doing my
best to keep things interesting. My portfolio is more pleasing than the rest,
perhaps, because at least it's full of images (leap directly there and screw
my resume by clicking on the photo at left: my own new york skyline...).