organizing

how is it that i can have: a moleskine storyboard book (for quickly sketching out ideas in meetings) a moleskine notes book (for goals) a moleskine sketchbook (for notes and pictures and whatnot) a treo 650 (for SMS messages, trying to browse the web and failing, which only talks to iCal, and sneers at work's entourage and exchange server.... iCal (a calendar i can stand to look at, and is the only thing the treo will negotiate with) mail.app (for personal mail and encrypted mail) entourage (for work mail and meeting reminders, and exporting those to iCal) studiometry (for freelance and studio work) tracks (a web-based to-do list) a powerbook (for personal things and work things work forgets that i actually need a laptop to pull off) a G5 (for work) and still be disorganized?... and now, back to dealing with the latest work bout of annual amnesia, where people forget all about the end of the calendar year and get to tell me that although they took months to do something, could i please turn my end of the project around overnight?

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Camping trip

Had a lovely weekend in Rancho Cuyamaca, camping. The pine and oak forest there is just beginning to recover from the 2004 fire, so there are stretches of trees with blackened branches amidst clumps of scrub and undergrowth. Some trees oddly sprout green crowns, and others are unscathed. As the year's been dry, the meadow grass is brown and bleached gold. I saw an oak with mistletoe, and wanted to immediately cut some, but since the tree was within sight of the ranger station, decided against it.

gallery is back up, and lists

however, that will have to wait until i finish the following: the current task from the man with two silver earrings which if left unfinished, will require a lot of explaining and creative excuses, and since i'm already blowing off color theory and painting from life and a really cool illustration workshop this weekend to go camping, i'd better not push my luck.... …which means i'll have to find all the things i bought from REI after the last camping trip, because i realized they were things i couldn't live without when camping, so bought, then Put In A Safe Place. i'll scour my house looking for the Safe Place I Put Stuff In, not find it, think about making a panicked run to REI, realize they've already closed, say 'fuck it,' and go camping anyway, resolving to buy the things i couldn't live without again when i get back and This Time Put Them In A Really Safe Place I Mean It, only to have them disappear with their co-conspirators when i go on the next camping trip, and repeat this all over again.

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