niiik

dear jarrett,

i have an xl serenity t-shirt with your name all over it. one more on the pile, i suppose.

love, nik

this monday i will be volunteering time with my employer to build five homes in five days that will be later shipped to the gulf coast region. we are working with habitat for humanity and building on land that was donated by the family of the late bob hope.

we'll be on the today show, so look for me trying to be useful and tough with a hammer or nail gun or something. and if you would like to donate to habitat, you can do so here. they are really an amazing organization and i'm really glad to be given this opportunity to help out.

my mom made some friends on her recent trip to brazil:

tonight i am going to sew and watch the oc. if a certain couple wants to join me, there's a spot at my drawing desk and a place to sew on my couch. we could order pizza, even.

this whole hurricane thing was making me feel pretty helpless. i wanted to help out, but i'm not in a position heath-wise to donate blood right now, so i wasn't really sure what i could do. i donated some money at work with the company's matching funds program, but it still didn't feel like enough.

so i decided to help out with the craft revolution project at etsy.com. you can see the little thing that i'm making. i'm kind of surprised that one already sold! anyhow, you can follow this link to check it out. anyone who's already been to my house can attest to how much gruff loves that toy. anyhow, if you're looking to help out please check out the wonderful stuff that has been donated by lots of really great artists.

and, no. i did not feed them people food. it was there when i got to the beach.


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that "guess my favorite movies meme" stolen from lil_octopie:

just #7 to go! someone's got to know what that is... it's my favorite title sequence of all time! come on, guys!

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last minute hot dates tomorrow night:

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hey, micheal! we definitely should go to little tokyo this weekend... it's the tofu festival!

this panda just gave birth again at the san diego zoo! i really want to go visit her and the baby in a few months... baby pandas are so fantastic. i went and saw her first offspring in january of 2004, and he was one of the most adorable things i've ever seen. [panda-cam!]



(In this closed circuit camera image San Diego Zoo’s female giant panda, Bai Yun, holds her newly born cub)

i finally escaped work and stopped being sick long enough to see it:



it was an odd time of day and there were about 4 other people in the theater with me. i think that helped make me like the film even more. once the lights were out, it felt like i was watching it all by myself. that felt appropriate.

new at flickr:

house and toccata for toy trains

jason bateman and amy poehler doing a neil simon remake with the farrelly bros?

old article (how did i miss this?)