brisk

fall is here. the leaves have just started to gently cover the sidewalks and porch. i think sweater weather is the best time of year.

alex is uncomfortable in her brace. her incision is healing nicely, though. miraculously, we are both in school. and coincidentally we are taking the same kind of classes: painting and english. i also have an economic development class, and an architecture 101 class that masquerades as an urban design class (urban design is about the complexities of the built environment, and architecture is essentially about buildings, though architects would probably argue otherwise).

alex is taking her first anthropology class. it is funny to have her at the table asking me about the difference between emic and etic, giving me examples of naive realism or ethocentric behavior or querying the ethics of anthropology, as in "can you bring modern technology to populations that don't have it or is that imposing our culture on theirs?"

school is great. fall is great. school in the fall is the greatest.

supoena

okay, maybe santa monica has friendly people, but apparently it has bad apples, too. i got a supoena to appear in court today. mind you it was to appear at the Los Angeles County Courthouse on September 20th, and I received the supoena in my mailbox on September 24th. it is for the case where some worker at Santa Monica Honda went through the files and stole social security numbers and other information, including mine. she opened several cell phone accounts in my name and racked up large unpaid bills. the postal inspector (of all people) caught her, and now she's going to trial, hence, the supoena. one thing is for sure, i use a shredder all the time for anything with personal info on it. clearing up credit reports: ugh.

alex

the bills are trickling in.
the brace: $6300
hospital room and board alone: $130,954.
have yet to receive the surgery bill.
straight back worth every penny.