urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:ceryndipity ahem isabel 2007-06-10T16:38:16Z urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:ceryndipity:131467 2007-06-10T16:38:16Z 2007-06-10T16:38:16Z hello livejournallers<br /><br />i'm leaving for Africa early on Tuesday morning. I'll be working in a refugee camp teaching kids. unless i disappear into the jungle while tracking bushmeat, which i might have a predisposition to do, i will likely be stateside again in fall to go back to school. <br /><br />i might make it to an internet cafe every now and again, so drop me a line if you feel like it. ceryndipity@gmail.com.<br /><br />love to all,<br /><br />isa urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:ceryndipity:131197 2007-01-07T22:40:41Z 2007-01-07T22:40:41Z howsabout a loooong overdue update? <br /><br />i have no idea who is reading this, but greetings to whoever you are.<br /><br /><br />i spent the first half of 2006 living and working on a commune/ecovillage/spiritual center in scotland. i cried like a baby when i left. then i travelled around europe for a good long while, sometimes alone, sometimes with my boyfriend. i got to meet various members of his large, conservative, scrutinizing, bavarian family. i was scared, ecstatic, weary, excited and many other things...<br /><br />back home (new mexico) i worked in a bakery called the Chocolate Maven for what seemed like a lifetime. i made lots of money, cappucinos and friends. it rocked. <br /><br />two days ago i moved to boulder, colorado. i'm sitting in my snow-bound, cozy, empty apartment- looking at the mountains and feeling very content, if a little lonely. tomorrow morning i will attend the orientation horrors of my new school, Naropa University (founded in the 60's by beat poets: jack kerouac, anne waldman and allen ginsberg along with the buddhist monk chogyam trungpa rinpoche)<br /><br />howsabout some random isabel factoids?<br /><br />-i still have long hair, dyed black these days.<br /><br />-i'm still with my boyfriend, Peter, after two years.<br /><br />-i have eleven piercings.<br /><br />-i own and drive a hybrid car, it's bright red and i love it. <br /><br />-i haven't been to d.c. since the two days of thanksgiving 2005, in fact i've really spent extroardinarily little time there since graduation. i'm a new mexico resident and i don't think of dc as home anymore.<br /><br />-it could probably go without saying, but i dropped out of oberlin at some point last year. suffice to say it wasn't for me, though i love/d many people there. <br /><br />- i drink loads of tea. <br /><br />-i don't get drunk or smoke pot, except on very rare occasions and with good friends. <br /><br />-my best friends have spread out all over the world...they are currently in ghana, india, new zealand, scotland, spain, all over the states and many other parts unknown.<br /><br />-i still think of my friends from high school quite often, though i talk to them rarely: anna belew, sam, neroli, jojo, merper, sarah gilburne, kelsey, laura mattison. it may seem i've dropped off the earth but i still facebook stalk all of you. and think of you often. <br /><br />ciao from colorado.<br /><br />-isabel urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:ceryndipity:131062 2006-05-08T09:56:58Z 2006-05-08T09:56:58Z last night i got an entire hippie commune to get up and dance like crazy to the cure...it was teh awesome. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:ceryndipity:130804 2006-02-01T17:15:26Z 2006-02-01T17:15:26Z I'm leaving tomorrow morning to be out of the country for at least five months.<br /><br />the first three and a half months at a commune in scotland. after that i'll be tooling around europe...but maybe just ireland. i have vague plans to meet up with one of my roommates/my brother/my boyfriend. maybe one of them will pull through and i'll tool around with them...<br /><br /><br />i'm teary, i'm sad, i'm anxious/nervous, excited, scared, miss my friends already, miss my boyfriend already even though he's just in the next room...<br /><br /><br />:eep:<br /><br /><br /><br />i wonder if fertilized eggs ever make it into cartons to be sold. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:ceryndipity:130328 2006-01-08T03:23:45Z 2006-01-08T03:23:45Z peter has always wanted to own a helicopter, unfortunately he doesn't have any money, so no haps. so happens i found out he'd never been in a chopper, though. so i called every heli company on maui, none offered lessons and only told me that the only instructor in hawaii is on the big island and charges 1000 bucks an hour, so it seemed like the awesome present i had planned for my man wasn't gonna happen. until i was taking a walk through the neighborhood yesterday and saw a mini helicopter parked in the neighbor's yard...so i knocked on the door...turns out he gives lessons for 250 an hour! so today my love got to ride in a chopper for the first time...and i was on the beach in paia and he flew right over and we blew kisses...oh so sweet.<br /><br /><br />i love it here, by the way. tropical island+hippies+weather+ocean=girl likes it here. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:ceryndipity:130171 2006-01-03T23:08:25Z 2006-01-03T23:08:25Z i'm housesitting in maui... a rather ridiculous house...it has an orchard with passion fruit, avocado, oranges, lemons...and a huge hot tub of lava rock and sand with a waterfall. my boyfriend may not be rich but he has rich friends so i can pretend he's my sugar daddy anyways...<br /><br />yesterday we drove around the whole island, went shnorkling, tooling around rainforest...i hopped onto somebody's yard to steal bananas off their tree, almost got shot at by a naked native hawaiian...hee. (i saw an eel while shnorklin and almost drownded...for those who don't know i have a big bad eel phobia) <br /><br />picking fruit off the side of the road, hopping in the ocean when it is too damn hot...this is kind of an idyllic time...heaven for free. and i get to be with the lovely man.<br /><br /><br />today the tsunami sirens went off for 20 minutes...we are up on a mountain so there wasn't anywhere to go...but what do you do when tsunami sirens go off? <br /><br /><br />in a month i'll be on a commune in scotland.<br /><br /><br />happiness to all in 2006. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:ceryndipity:129796 2005-12-26T02:41:48Z 2005-12-26T02:41:48Z i left oberlin on thursday in a flood of tears. wont be back until september. my lovely friends threw me a surprise party, could have cried i was so happy to see so many people in one room that i loved so much. leaving my roommates was the hardest thing i have done in a while, i have lived with them for a year and a half, they are my sisters, i love them dear and true.<br /><br />i'm in santa fe now, my whole family is in california except for my mom and brother. i mustered no merriness for christmas this year, in fact i didn't give much of a shit about it... though i did get an embarrasingly fancy new digicam...we didn't even have a christmas tree, we just put lights on a houseplant. <br /><br /><br />leaving for maui on thursday...will finally see my man after two months...tis our one year anniversary...i'm so happy to go i can hardly think.<br /><br /><br />and i'm leaving for scotland in a month. who knows... urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:ceryndipity:129622 2005-12-21T06:54:14Z 2005-12-21T06:54:14Z you people may all know this already, but as the apollo is really slow on the uptake:<br /><br /><br />the new harry potter is really, really bad. <br /><br /><br />at least it was only two bucks, thank jeebus for ohio. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:ceryndipity:129467 2005-12-17T15:31:01Z 2005-12-17T15:31:01Z i came home from being taken out to dinner last night to a surprise party in my room. there were more people than i could count...and all of them loves! how wondrous indeed...i will miss these people.<br /><br />i'm leaving oberlin on thursday for nine months...oof. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:ceryndipity:129178 2005-12-16T23:28:33Z 2005-12-16T23:30:57Z this is a nytimes article that literally takes place in my neighborhood in santa fe on christmas eve, and talks about places i've been going to since before i was born. there are also pretty picatures:<br /><br /><a href="http://travel2.nytimes.com/2005/12/16/travel/escapes/16santa.html?pagewanted=2&amp;8hpib">Santa Fe</a><br /><br /><br />(place references: canyon road and acequia madre are both a block from my house. the school of american research is quite literally across the street from my house. i've been hiking at tesuque and tsankawi pueblos since i could walk...tesuque market rocks the casbah as does ten thousand waves) urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:ceryndipity:128849 2005-12-16T20:56:50Z 2005-12-16T20:56:50Z "Explain and evaluate Doppelt's limited defense of the incommensurability of scientific paradigms."<br /><br /><br />over-intellectualizing pig fuckers.<br /><br />blow my hobo and get back to earth. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:ceryndipity:128632 2005-12-12T21:39:23Z 2005-12-12T21:39:23Z it is amazing how often you hear the word 'aderall' around during finals. <br /><br />silly pill popping college kids. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:ceryndipity:128456 2005-12-05T06:15:06Z 2005-12-05T06:15:06Z i just bought myself a ticket to maui. <br /><br />:grin: urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:ceryndipity:128131 2005-12-02T18:35:24Z 2005-12-02T18:35:24Z List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying now. Post these instructions in your livejournal along with your seven songs.<br /><br /><br />1) Bonnie and Clyde- Serge Gainsbourg et Brigitte<br />2) Fat Man- Jethro Tull<br />3) Alice's Restaurant- Arlo Guthrie<br />4) Shade and Honey- Lou Barlow<br />5) I Need a Man to Love- Janis Joplin<br />6) Where do the Children Play?- Cat Stevens<br />7) Jerusalem- Dan Bern urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:ceryndipity:127526 2005-11-26T21:12:37Z 2005-11-26T21:23:25Z sappy love talk, avec sappy foto:<br /><br /><a name="cutid1"></a> <br /><br />jeezy creezy. sometimes it seems clear to me that peter and i will be together for quite awhile. there are times when we tune into our relationship and eachother in such a way that we are bowled over by a wave of love and there is nothing for it but to be together- wood doesn't leave a fire while the fire is burning as brightly as it is, and will not leave until this fire has burned down- and who knows how long that could take. for some people i think it doesn't ever burn down, for others it doesn't take so long to peter out (do pardon the pun...) after nearly a year (!!!) our relationship is still bound by such love, care, affection, authenticity, that regardless of all there has been absolutely no step taken away from it. love can suck- it can cause more visceral pain than almost any other thing- but the reason for that is caught up in all the beauty and value of it- else wtf is the point, mate?<br /><br /><img src="http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2005-3/969587/NOOK.JPG" alt="title or description" /><br /><br /><br /> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:ceryndipity:127344 2005-11-20T22:36:15Z 2005-11-20T22:36:15Z i'm coming to dc on wednesday... urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:ceryndipity:127129 2005-11-16T19:37:47Z 2005-11-16T19:37:47Z the first snow of the year is supposed to be calm and peaceful. this one is sharp and hurts to bike in.<br /><br /><br /><br />yesterday at work i trained a woman more than twice my age to do the same job as me and make 1.10 less per hour. how positively silly. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:ceryndipity:126728 2005-11-14T02:15:26Z 2005-11-14T02:17:58Z thinking about the other night the strength of it was that we were all wanting to know about each other hungrilylike -bareyourselftomeifinditfascinatingandwantingtobeseen. <br /><br />chumchum. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:ceryndipity:126628 2005-11-13T20:44:34Z 2005-11-13T20:44:34Z band name: <br /><br />the suspender menders<br /><br /><br />and we wear broken suspenders on stage...you know, to be ironic. :cough: urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:ceryndipity:126005 2005-11-11T05:59:15Z 2005-11-11T06:05:27Z sam munford is the shit.<br /><br />hope you got home alright. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:ceryndipity:125924 2005-11-10T19:50:09Z 2005-11-10T19:50:09Z last night i was leading my horse around the barn and he bucked up and broke away...he was really ancy and nervous, so i got on him to ride him around and calm him down...<br /><br />then he got spooked and broke into a gallop, stopped suddenly, and bucked me off. i flew over his shoulder, landed on my upper shoulder and bounced to land on my hip. <br /><br />then i got back on the bitch, but the teacher and everyone else could see the buck in his back, and i could feel it, waiting to come out. so i got off, and took him to his stall to clean his hooves and take off the saddle and such. he didn't like the closed quarters, so he slammed me against the wall of the stall.<br /><br />i stayed there, and brushed him for another hour, talked to him, and at the end he was like putty. <br /><br /><br />i feel like i got in a fight, im all bruised and sore in the strangest ways. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:ceryndipity:125638 2005-11-09T04:01:45Z 2005-11-09T04:01:45Z my grampa sent me a care package with chocolate and red chile in a victoria's secret box...<br /><br /><br />so adorable it almost made me cry... urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:ceryndipity:125379 2005-11-03T05:43:44Z 2005-11-03T05:43:44Z I just read a poem by my creative writing teacher. she photocopied it for us, first one i had read.<br /><br />it was teeerrrrible. <br /><br />it reminded me of the "Purple Lake" poem anna used to write on the wall in Hayes' cw class... urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:ceryndipity:125045 2005-10-28T20:29:33Z 2005-10-28T20:29:33Z it has been apparent to me for quite some time that birkenstocks and new mexico are simply not a good match sometimes due to the abundance of cacti and red ant hills in this lovely state. <br /><br />apparently, though, i'm not so hot at the whole learning curve thing- as i continue to go for walks through the desert and i consistently return home with quite wounded feet.<br /><br />sometime this summer i lay down to watch the sun while on a hike. i was bitten by a scorpion on my arm(still have a scar from that) i=silly girl. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:ceryndipity:124817 2005-10-25T18:19:03Z 2005-10-25T18:19:03Z i love building fires- piling up dry pine needles and juniper sprigs- building a kindling pyramid- breaking sticks on my leg- layering bigger logs- making sure there is a path of air around each piece of wood to feed the flame- filling a room with heat, light, juniper and pine and crackling burn.