rashidah - day 13

Tron. 3D

rashidah - day 12

Ya'll are probably going to have a great idea of what my room looks like before the end of the year comes around.

The drawing by the window was given to me Christmas 2008. Apparently my old roommate painted it on one couch while I was asleep on the other one. And the black and white photo is my new 2011 calendar for this year.

Oh, and in that trunk, under the dvd player, under the tv, under my timbuk2 bag are all my old candy grams from BHS. Not a clue where my high school diploma is though.

rashidah - day 11

My friend Leila came home from working in Honduras for the last 6 months to visit for a week before she had to get back. These are some of the yummy plantains she made. This was before she almost started a grease fire, but we won't get into that.

rashidah - day 10

I met these two gentleman while watching the Oregon Ducks play that other team... auburn I think at a bar on campus. After the game was over, I asked the guy in the white hat if I could take his picture. To be fair, he was smiling and then apparently decided right when I pressed the button that he shouldn't because his mouth was full of hot tamales (the candy) and he would look like a chipmunk. His friend asked why I was taking a photo of white hat guy.

I explained and he said that his friend was a terrible picture subject and I needed to take another, of him. This is what he gave me.

He may or may not have been a little intoxicated at the time.

rashidah - day 9

Day 8 is on a friend's camera. I'll have to wait until she finally uploads it and sends it to me to share with ya'll.

On to day 9.

This little guy is the creation of one of my housemates. I found him on the kitchen table waiting for his paint coat to dry. Tyler said she made it out of some substance that allows you to mold it until you bake it, and then it hardens.

rashidah - day 7

This is at Samara's (on left of screen) birthday party. It was pretty brilliant. I learned a new game, fishbowl, that I will now try to get my friends to play incessantly until they are no longer my friends and I have to ask strangers to play it with me. I'll probably be thrown in jail for being weird, though.

rashidah - day 6

Sorry ladies and gents, I'm a little behind.

This is my awesome friend, Laura. This is how we spend our time hanging out in the mall for no real reason. Later we stared at rocks for what seemed like an hour. They were pretty rocks. Anywho, my birthday is on Friday the 13th this year and I'm throwing around the idea of having a masquerade party for it. Hence the time spent in the wicked cool mask shop.

rashidah - day 5

I think this is what comes to most people's minds when they think of Portland. To be fair, two days ago it was lovely and sunshine-y, though really cold.

rashidah - day 4

I get souped delivered to my house every Tuesday afternoon by bicycle. This week's selection is chicken, white bean, and escarole. I had no clue what escarole was before eating this soup. It's delicious.

rashidah - day 3

My friend told me to take a picture of the license hanging over my bedroom door. So, I did. It's not really that dirty. I took it while lying in bed across the room, zoomed in like crazy and in the dark.

rashida - day 2

There are a lot of gardens in Portland. The Chinese gardens just happen to be smack in the middle of downtown. They were having a "it's freezing cold out and no one in their right mind would pay to come here right now" week of free admission. I thought it was cool to see the stylized gardens against the downtown Portland building.

rashidah - day 1

My friend Kelly brought this perpetual motion toy from visiting her childhood home. The cat, Mr. Peters, was not gonna take all that movement without interference of some sort.