009.

this post is dedicated to EARL GREY TEA
the SOLE reason why, after 26 hours of intimate relations with adobe illustrator
i am still mildly conscious while writing this.
you should have heard the conversation i tried to have last night.
vocabulary of a 5 year old.

six ways to kill your boredom today:

ONE
make your own screen for t-shirts and stop paying ridiculous amounts of money for simple ass designs...and yes, i'm talking to you.


TWO
Tread david byrne's survival guide to actually making a living off your music.
[i'm still a staunch believer in the owning-your-own-label notion]


THREE
school yourself on up-and-coming contemporary african [you know..."black"] artists before you get schooled by someone else.


FOUR
peek into the sketchbooks of some amazing artists. seriously. you have to see this.


FIVE
re-read the sixteenth amendment and begin to wonder why on earth you still pay taxes.


and SIX
watch an online animation on the cycle of manufacturing, consumption and disposal and start questioning your habits.

(NOTE: just noticed the screen link was wrong...fixed it.)

008.

i needed to hear this today.
i'm sure one of you needs to as well.

007.

Today was MOST unproductive.

in summary:

+ sleepily stumbled out of my body cushion at 1-ish
+ walked to the bank
+ did my part to contribute to small business by buying a mango smoothie
+ surfed for hours and found this
+ spent another hour tinkering around with RSS feeds
+ walked to mellow mushroom and bought some dinner
+ did homework for an hour

and now i'm 'watching' the playoffs.
man. seeing my day listed out like this makes it even worse.

seriously, check out that flock browser. it has singlehandedly resolved my little issue i have with obsessively checking facebook and gmail every 5 minutes. not to mention that new tabs are opened next to the current window (which current firefox users may find annoying like i do). quelle idee.

now for one of my favorite jazz songs ever:

006.

DID YOU KNOW

...that the cashew is the seed from a FRUIT?





well now you do...sucka.

005.

i think i've made every pasta dish imaginable (without red sauce...and veggies)
and needless to say
I'M TIRED OF PASTA.
looking at this site doesn't help any. i think i'm going to go vegan. [then again, maybe i should go vegetarian first?]

say hi to my mother from a past life:



legend...nuff said.
maybe you can manage to watch it all before i do.

interesting bit on Cooperatives...I'm particularly interested in how this applies to businesses. The graduation scramble is near, so this is definitely something to chew on.

last link of the day goes to lifehack.
I've been frantically printing out articles for the past two weeks, in an effort to get my LIFE together [read: nonexistent time management skills]. It's amazing what fear of moving back to your parents house will do. So far so good.

004.

one more week of school.
i'm so unfocused right now.



loving this girl right now:







Naija represent.