aquatic adventures that actually ended up happening
(after a pit stop for the bathroom at Petco)

she was clutching a dead fish and wouldn't let go
when her hand was being slurped away

everyone else was aged 2-5 in the sesame street playhouse

golden touch!

navigate us

SPLASH ZONE

creatures

speedy

me: o0oo! let's go to in-and-out!

diana: okay!

me: wait, we can't,you're a vegetarian now

diana: *thinks for a second* it's okay, just don't tell anyone.

We keep on getting lost and end up in strange places with
broken airplanes, gun shows, and labs for children.so we just go and buy a bunch of jellybeans
and devour them next to chlorinated areas
(but not the brown ones because they taste unpleasant)

today, I had an epiphany.
better late than never right?

I'm still swaying back and forth in my head.

hehe

my camera fell and broke for 10 minutes.
Everyone was sleeping while I sat there dumbstruck and miserable(and seasick)
The shutters wouldn't close all the way(see below),
but finally after pressing down all the bent parts of metal, it fixed itself!

hairy arms

more shadow play

I've never been covered in so much fish blood, scales, and smell.
But it was all worth it! -I caught my first fish(or two)!

At first the idea of sticking and taking out a metal hook into a wildly flapping sardine
for bait made me nauseous,
but later everyone was too busy to help,
so I just grabbed the hook and yanked it out of the fish's head, which got stuck often ...
(tried to ease pain, but it didn't work)

the shop

sailing into pitch darkness down towards Mexico

fisherman

rust

harpoon it when reeling it up

caught my first fish!
He left a terribly bloody mess, so I wont show pictures of that.

nice stranger man

sailing home

sunsets are amazing in the middle of the ocean

and you might have to plan for the weekend wars

happy birthday :)

Ocean breathes (and tastes) salty.

I hadn't done this in months.
I realized I can only draw at night time.
Maybe the dark quietness with ticking clocks and cricket chirps inspires me?

found a book "(Cacharel) Le Liberty" my sister left behind,
with a bunch of pictures torn out.

wolf like me- Tv on the Radio

hands are probably the most fun to draw, next to girls.
...

happiest moment of today: opening the freezer, and finding the last piece of cake.

come down now.

"sure you can fly. If you run really fast and flap you arms..."
-D C. M

upside down,forwards, backwards,

around around we go.

this is democrazy.

Mr. Mallis gave us all the answers to the final to help us study
(we just had to pick the correct one out of the 4 options).
So each person was responsible for copying down their 4 questions in 8 minutes.
Like usual, some people did a good job copying while others did not.
After John and another person from 1st period
generously offered to type up our combined efforts, these are the results.

I'm curious at who did the 40's

well that's helpful..

i agree.

all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
And it makes our class even duller.

so...when all the work was done,
We sat on the floor,
watched a miserable Mallis who was overdosed on Tylenol(accident this time)
played down-by-the-banks,
ate bunny shaped crackers,
then migrated to the sofa ,

and had a fun time being shaken up by the earthquake which was a 5.4 btw.

a wonder thinketh me.

yes, I'll admit this is getting slightly repetitive
but this is how I spend most afternoons-
wandering around
(and sometimes walking other people's dogs while I'm at it)
There were dragonflies and yellow butterflies with black spots,
they were too hard to chase to take a picture of.

Melissa and I had a nice lunch playdate today after class.

Everything that comes out of her mouth is always hilarious.
So while she devoured her lunch(vanilla frozen yogurt) and I devoured mine(pizza),
we had a nice 2 hour long chat by the birds and water fountain.
ps, melissa, tell me when, so we can celebrate.

Since I didn't take any pictures of her,
I found a picture of my mom and her brother's wife instead.

While sitting on the couch waiting
for Ellen at her orthodontist,
(which by the way is filled with giant glass fish and super high tech technology-it was almost creepy),
I read a science magazine for kids.
Apparently, birds in the African Sahara stop mating so
they can help take care of other bird's babies in order to allocate resources.

Then I read all about dinosaurs, meteorites, why people's faces turn red when they cry, and a new species of mini salamanders.

Merlin's Castle and my beloved bike
(Free Spirits, who is made in Korea)

"..and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them"

I am so intrigued by the man in the background who seems to wearing a fur cape

black and white :)

antique flea market finds

gold <3