Adventures of Isabel

Still in California, Still Alive.
There’s just something about grad school that kills my urge to write.

But I’ll be traveling a lot in the upcoming months. A research trip to DC in November, a short family visit to Utah in early December, and then an indefinite relocation to Southeast Asia. So here’s hoping life gets [...]

I went to the Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Festival this afternoon. It was a nice escape from the daily routine, but the whole affair had an “end of the Roman Empire” vibe I found a little hard to shake.

Scenes from the Pumpkin Pie eating contest.

Some photos from the May Day march in San Francisco
More, and more to come, on my flickr account

The (semi)final cut of my series on the drag show at Marlena’s Bar in Hayes Valley:Check out a few more from the series on my flickr acount

The Sun Sets on 2007

from my back porch. 

(Squint and you can see the Golden Gate Bridge)

From my bedroom window.

Happy New Year everyone. More posts in 2008.

Winter 2001: Minnehaha falls, frozen. Me, so acclimated I’m not even wearing gloves.

I’m not going to pretend there aren’t things about California that make me want to spit nails. People, for example, who actually think talking about chakras is a reasonable way to chat me up. Or endless discussions about feelings that never actually [...]

Angel Island. {Clearly} not by me

The eucalyptus grove — my favorite place on the UC Berkeley campus.I wish these photos could capture the smell of sunlight hitting the leaves drying on the forest floor.

walking home, bone tired, the air tastes of rosemarythis city has its own consolations

Writer’s block. A fancy word for procrastination?I just know that I’m having to rip every single word of the article I’m working on out of me like I’m pulling a tooth.I often wonder if everybody sometimes hates doing the things they love quite as much as I do.I spent some time this afternoon biking around, [...]