I flew Southwest for the first time to return to Iowa and now I've experienced the "luv" and can briefly outline it for you.
On my Oakland-Phoenix flight last week, I enjoyed my first layover that involved landing, staying on the same plane, picking up some more passengers, and then taking off again. At least that's how it was supposed to work. Being an amateur to this flight procedure I got off the plane with EVERYBODY ELSE. I then got confused and luckily flagged down a Southwest agent who kindly ushered me back into the plane on which I should have stayed. oof! I felt a little dumb.
Then there was the "choose your own seat" phenomenon, which I think is a pretty awful idea. It's a well-observed fact that people are governed by the same properties as gas molecules when confined in sealed spaces for any amount if time - elevators, bathrooms (namely urinals), buses, etc. So when you board a Southwest plane you see these laws in action; people are, fittingly, staggered aisle-window (with the middle seat empty) or sometimes (for those a-holes you know just HATE people) just sitting right on the aisle with their stuff filling the other two seats. This is great if you board first... the plane is like an untouched resource ready to.. uhh.. occupy. But if you happen to board toward the end you're forced to violate these rules and squeeze in where you can. Very awkward to both DO and to WITNESS.
So that's my Southwest experience. Overall good, and if I needed to check mucho luggage it would be a totally huge value. Still no fees for two fifty pound bags!
Things I'm excited to be bringing back from home:
- my ikea glass-vase lamp that will provide my room some much needed light ambience
- a smattering of clothes that I had to leave at home in Operation Move-to-San-Francisco-in-Six-Days. PLUS some newly-shortened jeans compliments of my mom's mad sewing skills. :)
- my (almost worn-out) sandals that I got in Greece and love oh-so-much.
- my "kabuki " (make-up) supplies for when my gays come visit me and we fem it up to go out to the Castro.
I arrive in Oakland at 7pm and should be back to my Treasure Island nest around 8:30. I am very hopeful that my Treasure Island 108 is not super full so my suitcase doesn't make me feel like a douche.
Next "I'm bored and traveling and have a new livejournal toy on my phone"-induced post may be today and be about my post-vaca recharged -and-ready affirmations.

i made out (yes i said made out) with a boy last night while watching a movie

apparently i am sixteen again??? which is great because being driven everywhere was fabulous, i still hate having to wait for red lights to eat

also home is like boring already, partly because i can't drink in the early afternoon here. ok entirely because of that

how are you guys doing?

tick..tick..tick..tick, boom

• 14:11 drinking coffee and staring at my geeky boyfriend #

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As I'm always down for new toys on my new Palm Centro, I could obviously not resist "upgrading" to an ad-supported Plus account to get mobile access to posting.

And just to fully test this new tech, a picture of my screen. Chatting on meebo because I've never installed AIM on my work computer.

It's the last night of my first visit back to Iowa since moving to San Fran. It's been overwhelming in mostly good ways to touch base with many (but sadly not all) of my Iowa loves.

Testing 1 2 3! T e s t I n g

Awwww, Frenchy :( Thanks for clearing the spot in the starting lineup of my All-Star Team of Hotties, though, I was having trouble fitting in Ryan Braun.

Also, David Wright, I am sorry your groin hurts. >:)

hi i am home

yay jersey!!!!!!!

um i'm moving out tomorrow and i have yet to start packing

but it's 2:51 and i just started drinking

This is basically the best thing ever to happen to me. I used to leave dishes in the sink and put off doing them, but with the DISHWAND, washing dishes is seriously so much fun that now, when I leave dishes in the sink, it's because I'm SAVING THE FUN FOR LATER!!! I also use way less soap. You all should get one.

ETA: This is the second best thing ever to happen to me. Download it. It will change your life, boy I swurr.

i just paid $6 for half a gallon of milk

i've started giving myself pep talks

out loud :[

UGHHH I CANT FIT INTO MY GRAY JEANS

I WANTED TO WEAR THEM TODAY I HAVE BEEN PLANNING THIS OUTFIT FOREVER

YOU KNOW WHAT FUCK THE WORLD I AM GOING TO FORCE MY MUFFIN TOP ON THE DISTRICT

thanks to xr2 i am craving this shit SO BADLY:



even if i had some it isn't the same without homemade yogurt. store yogurt is so yuck, it has this weird greasy taste to me. and the only rice i have is fucking uncle ben's. i want to go home :(

White sounds,
escaping the naunce for a winter found
a holiday for far away


Things I have enjoyed this week:

Enough Rope - Andrew Dention and his series on Elders. An amazing interview with Dame Elisabeth Murdoch who turns 100 next Febuary. Stunning woman. I loved the way she described what it was like being her age and her perspective on life although sad sometimes. Denton said he was speaking to another woman around her same age and that she had decribed it beautifully as well and said "it's like I'm standing on the a peak by myself, that everything else is receded, all my contemporaries have gone."

For some reason it took my breath away. To be able to look at life with such gravity, such realisation that you have partaken in so much of it. I can't ever imagine living to 100 which is why I think it is just such a wonderous thing, albeit incredibly sad for those of us which do survive without any of those who we grew up with.

Things I have disliked:

So I had a craving for salmon - I had never cooked salmon steaks before and so I decided to do them in the frying pan with oil so I could easily check to see when they had almost cooked. I may have accidently slapped one of the salmon steaks down with little grace and frying HOT oil spat up in my face and I now have a second degree burn on my upper lip under my nose which blistered immediately. I also have 3 other burn marks on my chin which are less of a worry but I'm so worried I'll still scar from all of them. Just what I need - more spots on my face ! Freckles and now this!

I have also disliked getting up early to go to the gym each morning before work but know it's doing me such a world of good. It's been 4 weeks and I have been going consistantly 4-5 times a week. I know it will be at least another 2 months of going at it hard before I lose the amount of weight I want to again but for now I'm simply happy feeling better and more fit. It's amazing what a better perspective it grants you for such little effort.

I think that's it.

Well there could be more but you will just have to wait. So - what is going on in all of your worlds?

In other news, I can't fucking wait to do this:

Friends are good at making you feel jealous with photos like these.

I just had a thought that began with "When I grow up..." :|

When I was little and imagined myself at twenty-two, for some reason, I was always wearing a suit, with my hair in a neat chignon. I also always imagined myself to have breasts, so even though I never pictured myself in the V-necked shirt I'm wearing now, if I had, I wouldn't have predicted it would hang and gape at my chest. My hair is in a bun, so I guess I should give little Ashwini some points for that, but it's loose, lopsided, and frizzy.

I also thought I'd be done with college BUT LET'S NOT GO THERE

How did you see your (present) self ten years ago?

GUYS DON'T BE ASSHOLES

KARMA APPEARS TO WIELD A LARGER AND HEAVIER FIST THAN I THOUGHT :[