KjB

Orange School Chairs, Caledonia Lounge : Athens, GA

I believe I have finally chosen a suitable wordpress template. Why, I wonder, is it so damnably hard to find something simple, clean, and well-designed to slap up on Wordpress? Lots of crap out there - four-column monsters and weird formats that don’t allow room for much text, velvet-black numbers with bad images of sports cars at the bottom, and saccharine-sweet pink, frothy ones. And none of them seem to have good typography. I guess I’m picky. And this one doesn’t actually even work correctly (it’s user error, I know, but I have no idea how to fix it). There’s supposed to be tabbed links at the top, which I’d like to use to link to maybe a photoblog page or fiction page, or something…If I could only figure out how.

Can anybody help?

A really prolific weed.

The scourge of the south taking over the road sign at the corner of my house’s lot. I am, weirdly, a bit proud that my little bit of property has produced such a fountain of life–be it ridiculous to remove, flower-choking, rampaging life.

You go, yard.

Things that have been in my google toolbar this week:

- head pressure after taking allegra

- sinus polyp

-  deviated septum treatment

- CT scan

- hot tea and nasal decongestion

Basically, I might as well have searched “OW” repeatedly all week. I’m wiped out. I have a yard full of kudzu to kill, a house full of furniture to arrange, and a weekend of birthday parties to drag myself to. I’m goin’ for the pseudoephedrine in about an hour. Maybe I should come back and type when I’m all jacked up?

‘Cause the well’s running dry right now.

A few weeks back, my friend Stephanie asked me to write her a little missive about how I view her–strengths, weaknesses, good and bad. (The model actually works more like good, good, good, bad-but-constructive). I said I’d do it for her, if she’d fill one out for me.

Because I don’t feel so hot right now, I am reveling in her response. And I don’t think I did nearly a good enough job on hers, after reading mine.

“Kendra is who she is. I say this because she is a fact more so than
anyone else I know. She is direct and honest and forthright. Still,
you can’t help but notice that she’s also fun, adventurous, and
spirited. Her good qualities are that she is spunky, interesting,
thoughtful, intense, well designed (in her manner of dress, and home
design) highly efficient and pragmatic with a strong will and
creativity to boot. There are few people in the world with her ability
to both flow with amazing creativity and simultaneously produce clear
cons ice and well worded work the first time around( she amazes me with
her efficiency… somehow, even when she’s not doing her work, her
work seems to be getting done…). But if you want to get to know her
you should know 1. that her intensity can sometimes (though warranted)
become humor infused bitterness. If you don’t find this delightful, or
funny, you may be scared. 2.She is friendly and caring but not
comforting or mothering. 3. she has more balls than you.”

I am sinus-troubled and worrying myself over some health things, so it is 3pm and I’m having problems concentrating on case studies and energy articles. A ten-minute diversion into inspiration-land is in order.

Some things:

The most quirkily beautiful wedding I’ve ever seen.

A website for one of my favorite bands.

Biographical justification for all the scraps of paper in my purse.