Another amazing day

Another amazing day, my third in a row. The kind of day where you keep getting to the bus stop RIGHT BEFORE the bus arrives. I sort of only have two speeds: ultra-focused or a complete mess. But when I’m really focused, I am unstoppable. In just three days I’ve done a considerable portion of what I need to do to get ready to move, including lots of sorting of clothes, boxing of stuff, selling my bike, got 4 big apple boxes from Safeway yesterday, and may have found a good home for Lucy as well – she’s going to get back to me this weekend. Woke up this morning, had a light breakfast of Caesar salad (been eating it morning noon and night since I bought a big bag that will go bad soon) and tea, exercised, worked on my artist resume which I hadn’t touched since I lived in the Melcliff, submitted “Mistress Violet” to Butt Magazine (I sent them “Natural Born Faggot” a while back but it’s too long and I’m sure they won’t be able to use it). Spoke with Pat yesterday, I’m meeting with him tomorrow for the Hat Party piece, also discussed my birthday/farewell gathering and he said we can probably have the patio which is AWESOME, the Chameleon’s patio would be perfect! I took the "art pig" photo above the other day on NW 23rd Ave while scouting my cousin's old house. Had my optician appointment at 2pm and went in with a combative attitude because I get so angry about how the PSU insurance doesn’t help one bit with vision and apparently there’s a law that says you have to update your eye prescription once a year (who wrote that law? opticians?) and then the guys turned out to be pretty nice and assured me I can have a copy of my prescription to transfer to Maui/San Fran and it will be good for a year, so then I calmed down and things went pretty well. Doc said my eyes have actually improved ever so slightly so my glasses prescription is a little too strong for me, but the stigmatism in my left eye has gotten a little bit worse, so it pretty much evens out. I asked him about the prescription law and he said for contacts its federal but for glasses it’s not and varies from state to state. He did that numbing/dilation test on me so for the next few hours I felt like everywhere I looked I was staring straight into the sun. I got a pair of lenses to try for a week and then go in and see if we need to change to something else. Then I bussed up to Minuteman where Patrick very kindly printed me a proof copy of my book on the spot as I waited in the showroom, and it looks really fantastic! Really I wasn’t expecting such quality for the price he quoted me, the images especially came out way better than I thought they would, since I hadn’t even prepped most of them for black and white. I’m going to make the final adjustments this weekend, then go back in Monday to drop off the absolute final version for printing. Then I went to the bead store on 48th & Division and fixed the bracelet I made ages ago when I worked for Susan Matlack Jones (before being fired due to my personality conflict with the incredibly annoying lesbian receptionist who picked at the scab under her nose and complained after coming back from a lengthy vacation), the girl working there was very nice and did the crimping and clasping for me, the part I don’t know how to do, so I gave her a little tip. The bracelet will be good to wear on the beach, I made it very African looking without consciously setting out to do so. Tomorrow I think my roommate will take me to UPS to ship my two boxes off to Maui. One thing I will NOT miss about Portland: walking along 82nd Ave. every day breathing car exhaust (benzene inhalation = hello leukemia!) On the way home stopped by Trader Joes and picked up some groceries including those butter waffle cookies that are devastating. There’s a cute boy working there who’s probably much too young for me. All in all, a productive day. I think it’s going to be like this from now until I leave. I’ve been sober for a week or two except for weed, and I’m going to stay that way, except that I will allow myself to drink on my birthday, if I’m good til then.