Writing

Back when I went to visit the Roc, I wrote a bunch in my little almost-moleskine with my hipster kid fountain pen. This is one of those.


Driving at night, you and the darkness become friends. You grow to recognize the different shades of dark: the almost black road ahead, broken by the intermittent flashes of reflectors; the muffled dark of the trees, every so often defining itself in the shape of a branch or a spray of spiky pine; the dark of the sky, a little lighter, broken by twinkling stars.

And then, out of the darkness, a puddle of light. Bright, jarring in its sudden intensity. A bevy of streetlights and signs, so many that your brain stutters for a second before it is all gone again, fading in the mirror behind you. Then it’s gone entirely and the world is a little calmer.

The radio fuzzes and settles, humming lullabies into your little island of dashboard lights and rushing wind.

Another car creeps up out of the night and momentarily you are no longer alone. The night has produced another island and as you pass there is a short-lived sense of companionship before you continue on into the darkness, alone again.

The music falters and regains its strength, singing sweetly comforting words, and the dashboard lights blaze on. Above, there is a fleeting streak in the sky.

Blink and you missed it.

Make a wish.

Keep driving.

Tumblr

I'm working on an in depth post for later this week, but this is just a quick update.

I'm now officially a hipster. I have a tumblr.

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Abby Noo Ear!

It's 2011! Yay!

I hope everyone had an awesome night on New Year's, I know I did.


So, for the last couple months I've been having problems with my laptop. It would over heat, or just plain not work. Last month, my DVD player quit on me. My dad was really awesome and bought me an external CD/DVD drive so that I could still use my laptop and not have to buy a whole new one, which I can't really afford given the whole moving across the country thing.

So yesterday I got back from my awesome New Year's celebrations and my laptop just wouldn't run. I'd get it started, and five minutes later it would click off after overheating. Well, crap. Happy New Year to me.

So, this morning, my dad and I began the very long and laborious process of taking apart my Toshiba Satellite, hoping that maybe we could just replace the fan. I should have taken pictures. For real, once we got it open, the dust bunny inside my fan was the size of a fingernail. Not a small one either; like the size of my thumb.

Tip: don't use your laptop while it's sitting on a fuzzy blanket. Bad news bears.

So we decided, just for the hell of it, to put it back together to see if the fan would work or if we needed a whole new one. Somewhere in this process, I switched around my memory cards. Remember this.

So, I restarted it.
WAIT.

The fan now works like a dream.

And, it turns out my primary memory card was corrupt.
So switching them made everything go right again.

That fancy new hot pink CD/DVD drive my dad was so nice to get me for Christmas?
Null and void, because my DVD drive works again.

My laptop works again, and works like a dream!

Happy New Year to me!

And all of you.

So I owe this to Jerz from last week

Well, Merry Christmas everyone!

I hope everyone had a good morning and got all kinds of wonderful things. I know I did. My entire kit for culinary school is almost put together just from this morning!

Things have been pretty quiet here. I've been working with my dad and getting ready to move, which is going to happen sometime in February or March.
Today we're continuing our family tradition of going to see a movie together. We started it ages ago, when Lord of the Rings was coming out, and now it's a thing. We're going to see True Grit, which looks interesting if only because Matt Damon, Josh Brolin and Jeff Bridges all look like twins in the previews.

Merry Christmas! I hope you all have a wonderful day with family and get to eat delicious food and be happy.

Big Decisions

So.
I know I scared people with my culinary school declaration.

Unfortunately, it's true.

I'm moving to Seattle, sometime in the next few months, to start culinary school in April.

I love you all very much and I'm going to try to visit Rochester before I leave, but I'm honestly not sure I'll be able to.


In other news, because I'm going to Seattle and I'm kind of sick of flying, I think I'm going to take the train across the country!
Does that sound awesome or what?

Jersey and I have a deal

And that deal is that I will post every time he does for the next month.

So, posting.

Things are quiet here. It's Maine, after all.
I'm working on my application to the Art Institutes, and I have a phone interview tomorrow, so we'll see. Maybe I'll be in school again soon! Of course, I'm applying to Seattle or Raleigh-Durham....
SORRY GUYS

I'm also working on a design for my first tattoo! Now that I don't have to worry about it, I think I'm definitely going to get one. I've got some sketches goings, most of them art nouveau inspired. It's an interesting experience and definitely letting me get creative, which is really nice.

So, I'm gonna go reply to about a million messages and go to sleep.

No being mad about me possibly being far away. I miss you all terribly and I will continue to do so.

Take some time out to relax this week. Just 10 minutes or something, no computer, just relaxing and not worrying about things. Try it!

Who has two thumbs and needs to post more often?





This chick.

Working on it guys.