Viewing the Climax

Naked Apes, today is the last day of the month of June. It was a swelteringly hot day in this town and especially this apartment. However, I happily enjoyed minimal movement, the cancelation of one of my classes, a wonderful book, and lots of light food throughout the day. Baby Cereal with fresh strawberries, carrots and dip, corn tortilla chips, watermelon, bananas, yogurt, water, sliver of cold cheese cake, bran cereal n' milk, pb&j in a wheat tortilla...I'm rambling about nothing important.

The facts are these:

- I'd like to have a cool reason a.k.a. a wicked-awesome and or personally meaningful literary or musical piece that served as the inspiration for my blog name; but I don't. I looked. And no one cool has thought up "Raining Heaven" yet. Can one of you get on that please?

- I have an entire roll of toilet paper at the ready, in my bed, so I can blow my schnozz all evening.

- Yesterday during my 1.5 hour math class, I bounced up and down in uncontrollable anticipation for nearly the entire class. It seemed as though the previous 23 months of anticipation had finally converged on me and I could not last another minute of being good and sitting still. I'M SO FREAKING EXCITED!

- Becca does not sleep well in heat.

- "Lakota Woman" is a great book. Read it if you have any interest in Indians. The ones we killed off and striped of their culture, land and religion when we came to the New World, not the ones in India. Yes I know it was foretold, but really Americans? Really?

- I want to grow old and be like each of these people in at least one way.


Cutely Coupled and Dreaming Everywhere ~




A Laugher ~



Adventurous ~



Ride on my Own Horse ~




See and Feel Time and Life Kiss My Face, then Slowly Seep Within Me to Stay ~




Have a Spot in the Middle of My World where I can Talk and Live with Friends. Friends with whom I will Agree with Nothing and Everything ~




Still Love Breakfast Something Fierce ~




Live Life on the Edge ~




Be Absolutely Adorable ~




Fearless ~



Be ALIVE ~




Have My Own Stories ~



Be Happy ~



Live at the Height of My Own Fashion ~




Still Connect With Young ~




Be Beautiful. Wise. And Look Fine in My Hats ~





Night Y'all : ) Sweet dreams.

p.s. none of these pictures are mine. I live without a camera. I'll let you know when I stop stealing other people's moment-captures and can take my own.

Things I Wouldn't Mind Having Endless Supplies Of

1. Charmin Ultra Toilet Paper. I love love love this invention. Kudos to those bears.


2. Bananas


3. Chapstick


4. Water. Cold. In a water bottle.



5. Chocolate. Specifically ice-cream with chocolate in it.



6. Books. Good books.


7. Blankets. Specifically quilts and other soft coverings.



8. Music.


9. The feeling that I have right now:



plus

As Sherlock Would Say

What can you deduce from the Carly before you?

1. The sticky blue residue on the planes of your laptop would insinuate a blue popsicle has been consumed within the past four hours. *lick, lick*. Hmm. Blue raspberry. Overly sweetened and falsified flavoring.

2. The unusually smooth upper half of your left and right shins would lead one to believe a grainy substance has been used to rub the dead particles down.

3. The spectacles on your nose, used even when working on a computer 18 inches from your head, would imply either a stark near-sighted visual impairment or a slightly less prevalent far-sighted one. We'll go with the first since you raise your entire head, not just your eyes, in order to look across the room.

4. The open math book beneath your laptop would indicate that while you wish to have your studies finished, so much so that you have pulled out all the necessary tools to do so, you have left the discomfort of mental dedication for less arduous and more pleasurable tasks presented to you by a computer.

5. The used up kleenex by your leg is the remnant of a small allergic reaction, no doubt from something that wafted in through the open window behind you.

6. The cap-less water bottle on the stool beside you shows a hastiness for hydration or a carelessness for cheap plastic-ware. Ah now I see the cap on the floor just over there so it must be the first one.

7. The striped pajama pants you wear are neither extremely formal nor cheap therefore I'm betting they were a gift from someone, a woman, older than yourself.

8. You've no ring on your left hand, yet you've one on your right ring finger, thin, no other jewelry or watch, you don't care for heavy adornment, although your left wrist has slight discoloration on it where the absence of sun has left the skin slightly lighter, and your ears have holes in them therefore you do like accessories of some kind.

9. Your position on the couch speaks of general fatigue but not exhaustion as the sleeping form on the opposite couch does. Though the time is late, and all should be in bed, you stay awake even though you could sleep. Why. For the duty unfinished? The water only half drunk? no...

10. You stay awake because of what is on your face and in your mouth you have not opened once during this interlude of inspection. Your skin carries the weight of a facial mask, over-dried, and your lips hold captive the breath you are too afraid to emit due to it's unforgiving odor.


Run along, wash your face, brush your teeth, leave the work and frivolities, throw away the tissue, drink the water, wake the sleeping form and shush it to bed. Sleep and left-off-bangles will be found soon enough.


Yep that's right naked apes. This is how my mind works. Creativity comes from crazy.
I'm off to bed, you best do the same or you'll turn into Robert Downey Jr. in your head too.

Six Months Almost Exactly

Has it been six months since I last wrote on here?
YES.
Do I mind?
NO.
But my dear naked apes, I do want you to know what I've been up to.

I am so deeply in love with life : )

Okay synopsis!

January - college

Roommates: 5 GORGEOUS GALS

Jess

22 years old, grew up in California, soccer ref. extraordinaire, guitarist and crooner, loves her popcorn : ) We got to room with Jess winter of '09 as well. Helps being in the same apartment : )



Tonya aka "Tonya T"

23 years old, lived all over the world, served her mission in France, excellent dancer and ice skater, buff buff buff. Engaged to Evan the wonderful.



Ariel

19 years old, from Texas (woot!), sweetheart, loves her doggies, has the cutest y'all and cowboy boots you'll ever see.



And of course my best friends here:

Alisa Grace

20 years old, from Iowa, amazon woman, cup collector, talented burper, loves her family, hilarious, taught me my first big bunch of guitar chords.



Becca Boo

20 years old, from my home town, sarcastic jokester, dedicated creator and designer for company and sports logo's/ad's etc, talented barista, my best friend for the past 11 years.




Naked Apes can you believe these amazing women are all single except Tonya T?!
There are four naked apes out there who are going to be very lucky lads someday.


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In January I also became hallway friends with

Mikey, and eventually his lovely wife Cambra




and my life hasn't been the same since. Haha it's been really fantastic : )

Mikey [aka "Michael", "Mike"] has become my adopted big brother, he and Cambra have become my good friends, and Mikey and his friend Garrett introduced me to the Mackles.

"Mackles" or M^3 is short for "Mid-Morning's Mackles" the guerrilla poetry group Garrett started. I didn't know it at the time, but the Mackles meeting Mikey invited me to was actually the first one ever. Since then we have met every week on different days and times, just a bunch of college kids who like poetry. We write poems or bring poems we like and read them to each other. It's my favorite part of my weekday-week. It's hilarious, fun, and the best nest/cocoon of creativity and freedom of expression I've ever been a part of.

This was the first night of Mackles:



other mackles meetings:

















and at the local laundromat




The last Mackles meeting of winter semester:



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p.s. Tonya T and Evan got married during the break:



are they not the cutest?

p.p.s. In case you were wondering what to get me for a present at any point in my life:




mini pigs.

that's what's up.