The Berkeley Diaries

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Hello friends! It's been a while since I've updated since there was that whole phase where my computer screen went kaput, and before that phase I had been hoping to expand my online presence again (re: obsessively update posts and statuses so you knew what I was doing every moment every day, and knew that I was doing MUSIC, and working on getting this cd made, because heaven forbid you think anything else...) but then I kind of took my computer dying as a sign that there were other things to focus on, namely, making money so I COULD make the cd, and having a healthy balanced lifestyle so I didn't burn out, so anyway that's what I did through the months of June and July. 

I lived in two different sublets in Berkeley, where there were sunshine and flowers and comfy beds to sleep in, and I worked sometimes from early morning to late at night, at two different jobs in the city, commuting back and forth. And since I didn't have my computer in the off time when I wasn't working, I did things that were previously in my character, like went to the library and got stacks of books (mostly on magic and the music business), and things that were previously OUT of my character, like COOKED. Cooked! Yes, cooked. No really, I did. It was weird. But kind of good! Mostly, sometimes.

Except for when I got all paranoid about the bacteria that may or may not be present in turkey and baked it to a crisp and failed to enjoy it even while crisp-like due to hypochondria about undercooking. I also gave up sugar and bread and alcohol and carbs, and so really my life was very monotonous except for when I gleaned new bouts of inspiration from my books about the music business, or played Break Me Down in the garden and looked for four leaf clovers (I found at least twelve. I'm a freak. A lucky, lucky, freak!)


So, anyhoo. Below you will find pictures from my "Domestic Goddess" phase, its rise and fall (the fall being the popcorn explosion all over the kitchen).