Things that make me unusually happy: bubble wrap, fireworks, nightly concerts at Café Populart on c/ Huertas in Madrid, simple clean designs, diet cokes, navigating, people who laugh [a lot], the Spanish words pantufla and bicicleta, yo-yo ma, dancing salsa, professors Kent and Jottar, bottles of red wine, clean ears, watered down orange juice, caipirinas, The Shadow of the Wind, secrets. I like cloudy days with low humidity & sleeping in. I’m a world cup fanatic and a politics junkie.

I don't like anything banana flavored and I hate cilantro. I often assume the ambitions of the person with whom I have most recently interacted. I despise the manipulation of certain issues for political gain. In my future lives I hope to be a movie producer, a photographer, a travel magazine editor, and a professional tourist.

I hail from: Palo Alto, Cambridge, Jamaica Plain, Gallup, El Paso, Williamstown, Madrid, Washington DC, Oaxaca, Barcelona & NYC (currently).

These huge inflatable rats are placed in front of businesses that hire non-union labor. The first time I saw of these on a street in NYC, I wandered over in search of an exterminator business—we had a rodent problem in our last apartment. After learning more about this brilliant combination of protest & street art, I investigated slightly more to find out that the rats themselves are manufactured at a company with non-union labor. Oh, the irony.

And, Miss. Nora’s quote ain’t half bad either. Cheers to the return of the primaries.

miss-r:

noraleah:

I loved DC, but I have to say it’s good to be back in a city where the giant rats are on the streets and not in the big white house.

highs | lows and the mess in the middle