i am changing this blog

and possibly moving it to a different address.

but mainly i want to talk about my lifelong dream of making bras that don't hurt, and how today i looked up patterns for underwear that is homemade and adorable, and adorable because it is homemade, and also this book: http://www.beautifulbras.com.au/book.htm which i really want to own.

i am making lots of homemade xmas presents this year, which i will post after giving them to people and not before.

hey, recently i applied to duke. (!)

also i read 'the good earth' by pearl s buck. depressing and not depressing and i'm glad to have read it, finally:

"Then Wang Lung set himself robustly to the soil and he begrydged even the hours he must spend in the house for food and sleep. He loved rather to take his roll of bread and garlic to the fiekd and stand there eating, planning and thinking. 'Here shall I put the black-eyed peas and here the young rice beds,' And if he grew too weary in the day he laid himself into a furrow and there with the good warmth of his own land against his flesh, he slept."

Tomorrow, I fly home.

mister potato

for those of you not on facebook

These are photos from the last road trip alex and i took, when we drove from chrsitchurch to picton and took the ferry back to wellington.







today we're leaving to drive to auckland to pick up ruthie who's flying in from dc. then we're going to the bay of islands and the coromandel penninsula for some much needed beach time. then back in wellington then the south island one last time, then home.
i'll try and update for you all.
love

south island

alex(mine, not girl) are going to christchurch and the surrounding area for a few days to hang out and then see joanna newsom and jens lekman play. then we are renting a car and driving along the east coast of the south island to picton and catching a ferry back to wellington.
next week we finish work and i finish my thesis and then we do more fun things.

i saw a tuatara, live, in the wild

here is evidence:


and also some kakariki:


and this is michel in her native habitat:


after a week of catching up on things i've always wanted to do in wellington but never did because when you live in a place you forget that it can be cool, i have to do lots of thesis work for two days. then alex and i are going to the south island for four days, then back in wellington for a week, then ruthie comes and we start our road trip.

poverty, here i come.

waiting for some words to jump at me

Michel, me, and Alex

Camera Obscura

Wellington Botanical Gardens