Day 2 of Sparkles: Shine On You Crazy Diamond

Woke up late, but got on the bus and now im exhausted at work

i'm leaving in a few minutes or so

i need to do so much today even if im not at work:

mail my financial award statement

get lunch

take bus to museum hill

find my way to the lab of anthropology library

photocopy that catalogue and other materials

take bus back to downtown

take bus home

call/text nica and meet with her mom about the records

get home and SLEEP.

i went to the lab of anthropology to look at the catalogue i requested

it's pretty helpful i guess, i havent really read the heart of it yet

read a manuscript on "inuit artists" but they really meant carvers

i fell asleep reading about the status of women in inuit society

but i perked up because there was only one librarian and it was such an old school type deal where i ahd to tell her the call number and she brought out the books for me and i saw the rolling bookshelves

she was nice, her name is allison and she's canadian so she was giving me some good advice to look at such and such museum or gallery for resources on cape dorset/baker lake prints :)

i officially have a shelf for myself at the lab of anthropology--just a bit of taste of the thesis life

only problem is that the library's hours are the same as my work ones so i'll have to keep asking for half days to do research :(

i still need to go to IAIA's library too since they have more catalogues on pitseolak ashoona and napachie pootoogook and maybe one thing on annie pootoogook.

hm.

of course when i got there there was a crazy man on the bus with a stained comforter and bike. and bright red hair with a 10-gallon cowboy hat. seriously, the bus community gets more and more interesting.

this weekend is the colorful international folk art market, so i saw all the set up and pretty decorations. just a taste of what indian market will be like. must visit again and see if anything is worth buying.

in general i need to be going to more museums and galleries. i feel like i started off so strong--there seems to be so much more i need to see in santa fe and in new mexico in general. road trips for everyone! lol

to do list:

still need to call my doctor back in new york

get to the iaia library

shop (stores and folk art market)

visit corey at the o'keeffe museum

visit museums~

call nica's mom

hsbc

sigh life

Day 1 of Sparkles

Sparkles and flowers everywhere~

Woke up this morning way too early, then late.

I don't know what's going on with these buses anymore but it sucks.

My glamorous nail polish is chipping oh well :(

Work started and immediately clamor about the tinsel haha (yayy!)

Tailinh came with her three of her boys (Micah, Luca, and Taio) who are absolutely adorable

Montana is off modeling a denim jacket that Shonto Begay painted on. This community is so small, it's just weird that I've met his son Dante haha.

So far the day's got good vibes :)

Good vibes continuing, got to visit Autumn at La Fonda Senor Murphy and get some chocolate

I also dropped by The Art Space and got my caricature done by Nick (it looks awesome, i dont know what he's talking about)

and I got a frito pie from the burrito company and yum :)

NO. WHY IS THE WEATHER BACK TO "SMOKE." DAMNIT.

my cubicle is so me :)

OH MY GOD CRAZY KIDS ON THE ARROYO 6 of them ranging ages 5 to 13 with a mallet and a pile of 2x4s

"hey let's kill this cat"

most. horrifying moment ever seeing the kid pick up the cat O_O.

hopefully no animals were harmed

yay train party!

puma punk sneakers, jean shorts, pink tank top, cheetah/purple bra ha

christine's owl necklace

nica's green glitter eye shadow, hairclip, and jewel bindis

nice venue terrible music

the old trains were cool i gotta admit but can get very cramped

at least there werent so many that i couldnt feel like i could breathe

wish more people were dancing instead of watching me, nica, nick, and autumn dance..the dj was..meh. but yay dylan and max came a bit later and people started to dance, even if it was a bit crazy

i mean really? dee-lite, lumidee, sean paul, and nina sky? wtf was last night a throwback jam or something?

met carnell

and saw corey :D

fun fun fun

and nica got back her deposit yayyyyy

Money money money. // Flowers and Sparkles~

So much frustration.

What an adult thing...now I have to bootleg together some contract but its nice to get some order.

I am not being cheated out of $350. I need to tell Leena to use my deposit as my last month's rent and to use that bullshit $25 application fee for utilities.

I printed out all my records and I need confirmation from her that it's true because I don't have a landlady, just a Leena taking my money and giving it to the properties manager/landlady. I need some legal back up, and to make up my own contracts and get this shit clear.

So much frustration. Then I get a bitchy hysterical message from Leena on Facebook after our 1am exhausted confrontation where I told her very calmly that I was not used to people walking into my room and opening my closets.

Highlights are:

"

• • Dude, I really DIDN'T touch any of your stuff - it is false and misleading - slanderous at least - I showed you something on the wall when your door was OPEN and we were talking.... Albeit I didn't ask for permission to point at your closet wall - if you dont like this situation maybe you should consider moving out??? Do you want that??
    
    ..... I dont appreciate the FB remarks... seriously and the hostility when i haven't done anything to you intentionally or made you unsafe in anyway"
    
    
    The rest of the facebook exchange was a lot more calm at least but yes. Can't wait for the finances discussion.
    
    
    And Fardeen is a crazy person, getting me flowers and sending them to the office. getting the whole world to come to my cubicle to ooh and ahh.
    "oh so pretty!!"
    "ooh they smell so nice"
    "who are they from?"
    "what's that thing (the seedpod)"
    "im so jealous, i dont get flowers!"
    "awww that's so sweet, enjoy it while it lasts, once a relationship
    gets really long they stop doing things like this"
    her: so your boyfriend got those for your anniversary? how many years?
    me: 3 months
    her: 3 MONTHS? that is adorable! 3 months...wowww what a winner.
    
    
    haha
    
    
    then on the bus wait (augh with the 1 just driving past me and making me wait for the 5:49pm), i talked to corey, who told me about how fardeen messaged him for the address of the building
    i got on the bus and this 17 year old comes up to me, hands me a pink flower and says "you are beautiful" and walks to the back of the bus and sits.
    i thanked him, put it behind my ear and listened to music.
    i got home and about 20 minutes, nica and autumn pull up to my house
    we go to their house and i see the new perler beads and leftover food from july 4th
    nica, autumn, nick and i head over to max's salon (Volume Hair Studio) and each of us got a new do
    autumn got her hair dyed dark red, gold tinsel'd and curled like a divas
    nica got to dye her hair black and get weird short bangs
    nick got a trim and a feather attached to his hair
    and i now have silver and blue tinsel
    
    
    it was fun being in the huge studio and watching nick play witht he three ball and a string
    nica sat in the orange hairdying chair with a trashy mag and looked absolutely priceless. she also told me the best story about how she found a child of the earth (see jerusalem cricket and ALIEN BEE ANT THING) in her house and trapped it in a cup, left it for the night with a note on it saying "This is a bug."
    
    
    after all the prettifying, we went to Dennys and gorged. i had bacon, chicken patty, hashbrowns, and two eggs sunny side up. soo much food and good conversations and times :)
    
    
    kind of makes me forget that i come back to a place of passive aggression and tension.

Mandarin Lime Soda~

nica's chocolate has turned up. from where? no one will ever know. This is a 3-week old bag of chocolate from somewhere. Hopefully from the fridge.

Woke up, took the bus, overloaded my ears with Nicki Minaj haha

Staff meeting: haggard. natural light did not help

Lunch: BLTA (with avocado yum) and mandarin lime soda. and i bought an "indian girl paper doll" bc the irony was too delicious..

and it goes back to shit. so much anger, then sadness, then floated within myself and let it go. and then it got better.

left work early, ill finish my project tomorrow yay i guess

but jhane and gomeo need to find a time, not me. i am not the middle person for this.

i do not have enough text messaging power for this.

shut the fucking power box up with a piece of decorative duct tape (thanks to christine for having decorative duct tape)

then leena proceeded to piss me off

"oh there'll be some students coming by to look at the space for when the school year starts up"

"i don't like it either, but i need to make sure someone will move in after you"

"to really save water and energy, just use the dishwasher and dry your clothes outside"

"i have time now, because im busy for the rest of the time, it filled up"

and the two kickers:

"oh so when utilities for august come in september, tiffany, i'll just keep your damage deposit and deduct it from that AND THEN send it to you"

"well thats what I did with Astrea and she just took the money and left."

"well i haven't ripped you off yet"

"oh there's all this damage--" (waltzes into my room, and OPENS MY CLOSETS AND LOOKS AT IT FOR A GOOD TWO SECONDS)

fucking. bitch.

and then hostile facebook status. hostile words with the most passive aggressive way of expressing it.

best burn: "IT'S SUMMER IN THE DESERT BITCH, YOU'RE JUST FAT"

and the creaking started again.

okay, house, i get it. i do live in a haunted prison. im just gonna do my time, keep my shit safe, and try to keep sane

Happy birthday America, please don't set Santa Fe more on fire.

Woke up kind of early, waited around until about 11 or noon

Went out to Burrito Spot with Christine and enjoyed some horchata and an adobada taco

Talked for a long time again, but it's always fun with stories about drug dealers, Cici's Pizza, and Memphis as a city.

my boss is weird...inviting me out to flagstaff for the hopi weekend as a joke ( 6 hour car ride with bruce? hmm...), laguna pueblo to meet two artists with another colleague (not as sketch but he gave me 15 minutes notice so no), and then dances at cochiti (but then didnt give me times or anything...) weird....

Had Christine drop me off (in her cute lime green volkswagen beetle) at (Marie)Lena's house, where Tailinh, her boys, and her husband Hermann were grilling burgers, having fun with the sprinklers. Gael was crouched down, looking at the ants, with his babysitter Briana looking after him (who is a senior at Santa Fe High). Lena's uncle and cousin were there, as well, and the cousin and Herman were talking about tacos for a very very long time.

Good burgers, jack cheese, tomato, potato salad, avocado, sweet dark cherries, cherry vanilla creme soda (yum), and cupcakes. Oh Whole Foods haha

Played and read with Gael who at one point climbed onto my lap, and kept tugging me away when I was trying to take photos of Micah

Lena's cousin and uncle gave me a ride home, and I will never cease to take amusement in the reaction to the road that is Acequia de las Joyas.

About to go out for Nica's shindig at her house with Christine. Should be fun times for everyone.

To do:

- check mailbox for invoice

- call Tricore for discount on invoice

- call Allison the librarian about the catalogue

- start research on Pitseolak, Napachie, and Annie

- pick a date for road trip and just GO lol

edited:

Went to Nica's with Christine in her little Beetle, chilled with Nica, Autumn, Nick, Max, Dylan, and then Billy, Melissa, and Zach. Ribs on the grill, hamburgers, hotdogs, white corn, pisola(sp), beer with lime, kool-aid, iced tea, strawberries, melons, cupcakes with sparklers, and of course, the bag of franzia.

Cooked, chatted, went on the roof (oh god I hate heights..) at like 8 to watch the fireworks shooting from Santa Fe High. It went on for 30 minutes, and we kept yelling all things Americans: "Independence! Wal-mart! Meat!" etcetc.

The scary part was that you could legit see the forest fire, red flames and all, on the edge of the mountain, and it moved across the landscape since it started.

So much food, so much eating. Good people, good times :)

Nica: SO YOU'RE GONNA SHANK WITH A SHIV IS THAT IT? IS THAT A WHITE WAY OF SHANKING?

Aaand i have an endtable from Nica. All I need are blinds and my room is so set haha

Gotta love life's moments and enjoy good company

That and MEAT is what July 4th is all about I guess haha

Taos-Bound

So much creaking.

It's not the moonlight that's so disruptive. It's the sounds of the power box and gate just creaking and moaning in pain from the wind.

Went to Taos with Nica and Nick, which was fun. Got to see Nick's gallery Taos Connection

- toy store--little tokidoki cactus pup and charm thing :)

- fabric store

- the "I Am" "painting"

- mcdonalds lunch and pokemon TOYS!! (zorua? and spivey?)

- drive back, nice conversation and landscape

= smoke vs. clouds

- "He's just a pig, there are just pigs like that." - about Bruce

- cute mouse sticker on my phone

- rain rain rain rain rain sweet sweet rain

- got home and had a great fun conversation with Christine from literally 6pm to 11:30pm

- dinner of picante ramen, veggie pattie with swiss cheese and honey mustard with pomegranate limeade yum.

- my hair is weird.

fun night, i just should remember to keep my phone near me

"During my stay I found that New Mexicans are quite strange" - Nick

Fucking. child of the earth, jerusalem cricket.

Three-legged cricket is living under the stove

Spiders galore. I'm gonna have nightmares about the black widow. I'm pretty sure I had one last night.

Woke up late, to a text from Nica and an email from Bruce

Bruce gave me 15 minute notice about going to Laguna Pueblo to meet two artists with him and Gabe and Gabe's wife, which i declined for many reasons

Amanda came by to pick up everything and yet didn't say hi. It felt like a ghost took all of the stuff, her entire presence is gone from this space.

Christine is cool, I'm learning more about her. Half Filipina, from Memphis, college freshman at Santa Fe University of Art and Design. Just got out of a relationship with a 30-something year old, worked at a pizza buffet. Things will be very interesting because she's a cool chick and I don't feel the need to "student fellow" her, no matter how hard Leena wants me to.

Nica picked me up and took me to Jackalope, and I bought a nice small necklace for myself. This creepy old tanned man (part black, Nica says) said "I like the streak in your hair" and Nica said "oh thanks." A few minutes later we're looking at the necklaces and she notices the same guy crouching beside her, with his palm upward and his phone camera on his hand. She immediately goes "WHAT THE FUCK MAN, ARE YOU TAKING A PICTURE UP MY SKIRT?" and the guy gets up, and tries to play it off cool, putting his phone up to his ear and pretends to take a call, saying "no, i was answering my phone." And Nica persisted, saying "no, you were taking a PICTURE UP MY SKIRT," letting the others in the store start staring. Of course what happened was very uneventful, no fiery characters were around to step in. A few minutes later, the guy's still pretending to be on his cellphone and says "I really was answering my phone" and Nica tells me "yeah okay, get the fuck away from me." Crazies. Total. crazies.

This is why humanity can't have nice things. There's always someone who ruins it.

After that, we still went around Jackalope, which was a huge outdoors market, reminding me of Udelnaya in Cankt-Peterbourg (Санкт Петербоург) but there were PRAIRIE DOGS! :)))

Sooo cute! Pictures up later, but they were in a little area with a sand mound with a sculpture of St. Francis de Assisi on top, as though talking to the doves.

Huuuge market, must go back for souvenirs and kitschy galore.

Nica went in to buy a cactus or venus flytrap and decided cacti would last longer--she bought a small red one (kind of). There were no cashiers so we walked out with it. Eh haha

After that we dropped by AutoZone again for another run

And then we went on to going to Dante/Zack/Sheena's house, which had a really old colonial stove. It was definitely reminiscent of a shitty TH, a space that has seen too many parties. Got high, met this guy that Nica is crushing on hard and yet is completely clueless. He reminds me of Nick but a more oblivious version that can't stop and listen and read signals. Dante was nice and cute even if he did remind me at first of Chris Bando in terms of looks, but yeah he was nice. He is apparently the son of the Native artist Shonto Begay, and is Dine, and was on Sesame Street when he was 4. "The Life of a Navajo Boy," the special was called. Oh sigh.

After having a beer and a hit at their house, Nica and I went to Burrito Spot and I tried chincharron. It was interesting, but definitely just pork fat. I've never had it but it was good. Though I think for the same of my half I'll stick to real meaty meat for future meals.

Went back to her house to eat, plant the cactus, talk to Nick and then eventually Max and Dylan came. I don't remember half the conversation because I'm tipsy right now but I know I learned to play the game Space Bag Tetherball which involves taking out the bladder bag of wine that is Franzia, slapping it, then drinking from it hanging above your head. Certainly makes it taste better, for whatever reason. We also had $2 pizza and french silk pie, which was delicious, but maybe that's the tipsy talking.

I know at one point I mentioned God of War, and that's when Dylan pointed at me and said "I like this girl." Ha. He was nice to me for the rest of the night, filling my glass of wine but outlining that he was not pressuring me to drink but to let me have something for my tiny body to sip on. Best moment was when he said that "oh it's always the best friends that leave. Like, they came and they adapt and you fall in love with them and then they go, before you find out all the shit and flaws. And you just remember them as good friends" haha yay?

I wore a panda hat of Nick's for the majority of the night, which was nice.

I need to find more music, I need to look up "Kerli," and "Army of Love."

I also need to go into the desert to see stars

Tomorrow Im going into Taos to take photos and go to a toy store with Nica nad Nick

I need to call Tailinh and ask if she needs a babysitter to take her kids to the Children's Museum

Bruce asked if I'd be interested in going to the dances at Cochiti tomorrow, but I don't know how I quite feel about that without formal information and knowing who is going, how long it will take.

I might text Amanda but who knows, we have our paths to follow

And I hope to bond more with my 18 year old housemate, she seems really nice and interesting

July 4th weekend~