food, glorious food!

so, since i've officially decided to embrace blogspot, i am going to inaugurate this version of "knowhere" with the friday five.

1) What was the last thing that you ate?
a sugar free jell-o pudding cup that, no joke, i just finished and put the spoon down long enough to type that

2) Who was the last person you shared a meal with?
i had cookies with heather over at cafe mondo not even an hour ago. but i guess that constitutes as a snack, rather than a meal. so, if i have to write about what "meal" i had, it was salads for lunch with adrienne on tuesday after we fixed an exhibit in kendall hall.

3) What is your favorite all time dish (recipes welcome)?
people who know me know that my all-time favorite food is a taco, so, to answer this question, i must write that my all-time dish is the Golden Beef Taco meal i always order when i am home in houston and miss my neighborhood dive, Tequila Lopez...the greatest tex-mex place in all the land.

4) If you could eat one thing for an entire year, what would it be?
tacos...everyday. i can do this. dare me.

5) If you could have dinner with any five people (dead or alive) who would they be?
ooooh! this is like that show on, what is it, bravo? dinner for five! i would love to have dinner with someone i'd like to meet (my deceased sister), one of my heroes (jonathan larson or bono), a historical figure (benjamin franklin or albert einstein), someone from the future (my husband?), and someone i admire (john mayer).

and that, poor people, was the friday five.

motivation, of sorts...

it happened in the winter of 2002...

Cross, by Langston Hughes

My old man's a white old man
And my old mother's black.
If ever I cursed my white old man
I take my curses back.
If ever I cursed my black old mother
And wished she were in hell,
I'm sorry for that evil wish
And now I wish her well
My old man died in a fine big house.
My ma died in a shack.
I wonder were I'm going to die,
Being neither white nor black?

http://www.vanishingtattoo.com/tattoo/celeb-moby.htm (moby's tattoo)

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15047a.htm (the holy trinity)

relativity

it's that time of the year again, and my parents are overseas in asia. that means that i am alone in the states yet again, and if i need anything i have to rely on the many aunts, uncles, and cousins i have in this country, which isn't saying much, since everyone seems to operate on that lovely idiom "out of sight, out of mind." long sentence.

anyway, i know that one aunt/uncle set and their son are currently visiting california, and staying in vallejo, which is roughly two hours away. are they coming to see me? no. do they have any interest in what i have been giving up three and a half years of texas for? no. and before anyone thinks i'm acting incredibly selfish and need attention, i must add that this particular aunt/uncle set needs to have something "in it for them" to actually visit, so maybe my claim is invalid. i don't know. i just wish that those relatives outside of my nuclear family showed some type of interest and caring for why i'm in california trying to make something of myself so i can be someone someday.

it sucks because your family is supposed to be there for you no matter what, yet the only people who seem to care are my parents, and with them overseas it gets hard to feel supported.

brain hurt

over the course of about three days, people have told me so many things that deal with their personal issues that my brain hurts, and is on the verge of turning to mush.

got dumped?

so, yeah...i'm single now, which really sucks. and for some reason, because of the break-up, i have sworn off the xanga, the facebook, and the myspace accounts i have. i just don't feel like continuing on there, because (1) the last xanga entry i have is almost a good-bye to what once was, (2) on facebook/myspace, i'll have to change my "relationship status" crap, and i feel ashamed. so, here's my new home.