2 minutes & 44 seconds of weird

but i love weird…

what happened?!

to daloop!?  well, for some interesting reads go to http://www.kimannti.wordpress.com.

peace.

i don’t mind making fun of myself…

… this picture cracks my shit up, not only am i the only girl in this drunk mess of a scene – but you can’t tell me that i don’t look nekked.  i promise you that i wasn’t though.

i was on the phone…

… at work today using my headset.  just chatting w/ a colleague in NYC when all of a sudden it felt like there was construction or something upstairs – nope.  two seconds later i say “are we having an earthquake!?” the guy on the phone was like “woah – what?” i have no idea what to do, i look over and see the guy at the next desk hang up his phone and get under his desk.  i am laughing to the guy on the phone saying “i think i’m supposed to get on the ground.”  so i slowly sit down while laughing & talking on the phone still.  he could hear the people and the blinds hitting the window.  it was crazy.

the thing is that it wasn’t a “shaking” earthquake.  it basically felt as though our office building was put on a boat and then another boat went by wicked fast leaving us all wavy on their wake.

i saw that a friend wrote on her facebook that she wished i would move back from earthquake-land and i told her that essentially i could.  i’ve met paul walker & nick hexum, i’ve dated a surfer, and now experienced an earthquake – isn’t that all LA’s got offer?

t minus a day and a half…

… until nate’s big bday extravaganza!  ok it might not be an “extravaganza” persay, but i do promise that i will go back to my old ways and take as many random pics as possible.  i hope to get nate in some random shots that i will revert to shane to create excellent captions for.  kinda like this one where nate told me to pretend i had a chalupa in my purse and i think that he and ry were supposed to hit on me or something.  i still have no idea what he meant.  could someone enlighten me?  shane – wanna create a new caption for this one?

 

Be Thankful…

i caught a few episodes of BBC4’s 5 part documentary series called ‘A Year in Tibet’ and was sort of hooked. i guess because i can be naive when it comes to the rest of the world and it fascinates me to learn about how other people live while i soak up the sun in southern california and ease through the work days. this just added to all of the other thoughts that have been going through my head since i’ve been back and i’ve been talking some people’s ears off about how i have no tolerance for people who complain about certain things when there are millions of people who go hungry and have next to nothing. each episode is an hour long and i did find this link that breaks them up into 6 ten minute clips (2 are available as one full hour streams) and seriously, even though there is some controversy about the series – i think it can help people appreciate what you’ve got. i know that there will always be mean, selfish & lame people in the world – but if i can spread a little knowledge out there, i’ll do it.

check it out: http://keeptibetfree.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=58:latest-videos-west

london… kinda dirty

i recently made my first trip to london, ever. before you go on a big trip you get advice from everyone… i mean everyone – your friends, family, co-workers, mailman, the barista at starbucks that overhears your conversation on the phone – everyone. but no matter how prepared or unprepared you think you are when you first get off that plane and step into the streets – you can’t help the first things you notice.

a few things i had a problem with in London: litter, smoking, dog poop.

LITTER: it appeared to me that people don’t think that littering is a big deal. it might not be totally their fault because i didn’t see a lot of trash cans available, but it seemed that they did it like it wasn’t a bad thing to do. i’d walk down the street and see people throw newspapers, paper cups, whatever just on the ground without a second thought.

SMOKING: ok, for some reason culturally smoking is more popular or common in europe – i don’t need to understand that. but there doesn’t seem to be any control – at restaurants, if you’re a non-smoker you have basically no choice to breathe it because everyone around you is smoking and blowing it in your direction. what if it makes you sick or if you’re allergic? it’s just very respectful in my mind. and yea, i used to be a social smoker – but no matter how drunk i was, i think i was respectful to the people around me when i was being gross.

DOG POO: they don’t pick it up. be careful – it’s hard to walk around a new city and try to take in all of the sights when you have to keep looking down so you don’t step in it. and on a side note, dogs in europe seem to have longer bodies… or possibly shorter legs.

i took in the borough market for a few hours when i was there and took this picture of the biggest pile of brownie i have ever seen. it wasn’t until after i came back and took a look at it did i realize that i would not want to buy a brownie that spent the entire day out in the air or smoke, trash and dog poop. so now i’ve ruined this picture for me. but still – that’s a lot of brownie!