Temporal Stacking of Memories in Space (southern California in particular)
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Victoria "Stokastika"
Apr 13, 2009, 12:09:05 PM4/13/09
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Palm Springs (southeastern California desert in general)
Surge of memories... upwelling from pre-mount Saint Helens
Mapping layers of experience over a unit of space = time and life
history, Reconstructing life history,
as if I were a dinosaur... living 27 years is a long time....
This is a very bad start for me. I just lost everything I was writing
the last hour hour just because I checked couchsurfing. I lost my
memories of trash for a week due to a janitor at UC Santa Barbara, and
that just tipped me off the the wazzooooo! Arrgh! I refuse to keep
losing memories! I must find a way to systematically capture them!
It is altogether overwhelming to be in California because I am in
adoration of my father, who is a mental master of terrestrial
ecosystems--chaparral, pine forest, coastal scrub, as well as being
very climate savvy--and Jules, who is largely a master of ocean
ecosystems in southern California, but more specifically knows the ins
and outs of Mission Bay. Both have their foot in the door in Baja
California. Got most of the land covered with merely two people. Huh!
2009 (April) -- "chilling" or more so "stressing out" at a
Starbucks... I love California, but I need a break from it, I need to
be physically divorced from it, so I can understand where I live...
Came through this area several times in mindless drives--could have
overeaten and needed time to escape.
2008 (November 12) -- I lost my grandfather and it hit me very, very
hard; he has memories and experiences that span across all of southern
California, including extensive hiking in the San Jacinto Mountains
2008 (July, late) -- A wasteful summer with a wasteful, delusional
person, and had a negative, delusional experience, frantically driving
to Phoenix, Arizona in the middle of the night, trying to memorize
Apple Blossom and Muse for the second American Idol (I can't stand
singing other people's crxp, though I may appreciate it)
2007 (September, late) -- My father called me 9:30 am in the morning
to tell me my grandmother Marion passed away, I felt things, I wrote a
lot that day, but? I didn't feel the same way as my grandfather,
inherited knowledge and attachment to landscapes
2007 (January and February) -- I came out to the Palm Springs area
(where the windmills were) and stayed at a Motel 6; I took pictures of
myself, became oriented to my bodily planetary system, mountainous and
oceanic terrains, I was pretty depressed and heavy-set back then,
recently bought the Nikon D80 around that time, I also returned to
Ruby Mountain to take pictures, self-photography, need to expand with
lighting and (unfortunately) make up
2006 (November) -- Thanksgiving was interesting because we went to Jim
and Melanie and David and Alicia's new controversial cabin in
Idyllwild (built in an area with overdensification and prone to
wildland fire damage); got to meet Alicia's new kids (cute!)
2006 (Spring Quarter) -- Went out with Pete Sadler's field mapping
course (notably Paul) to Ruby Mountain to map igneous rocks (and
metamorphics?) I had a difficult time putting things together (issue
of learning things because of inheritance)
2006 (Spring Quarter) -- Went out with Martin Kennedy's sedimentology
course (with Dave Mrofka and Tom Bristow and Paul) to Jackrabbit Trail
around the San Andreas Fault to analyze lake sediments and do sketch
outcrop evaluations
2006 (in between January and March) -- How does it feel to be outside
and stuck in your head? NOT GOOD. I love the Earth Sciences department
at UC Riverside. I just don't like the "greater pigeonholed
bureaucracy" and compartmentalization of UC Riverside. I didn't want
to just analyze rocks, you know.... Rocks are only a piece of the
puzzle. I escaped to Cabazon and took pictures of the two dinosaurs
(there's a trinket store in the belly of one of them)
2005 (December) -- hiked alone to Tahiquas, very snowy, wintery,
thoughts with Sth, it's a strange thing to have complete adoration for
someone without laying a finger on their skin, perfect bear hug in
May, worked very hard on the song "Time Was Governed By"
2005 (September) -- welcome to the UC Riverside Earth Science
Department! Geology of Riverside! all the way from San Jacinto to the
San Andreas Fault and the landslides around San Bernardino Mountains
2005 (Spring) -- epic spring wildflower fieldtrips with Bub (took my
three-hour photography class with Nancy Gall), Indio Hills sunflower
clones, lupines near by Joshua Tree National Park, passing through
Hemet on lonesome (could have gone on a field trip), all the way down
to Anza Borrego (never made it), Yucaipa and Riverside areas as well
(maybe some coastal areas), still haven't been to the poppy reserve!
took tons of pictures of Bub's flowers in his yard
2005 (January) -- went with Kristin and Jimmy to a professional dog
show in Palm Springs, consolidation of my knowledge of dogs, never saw
"perfect breeds" before (I mean, "consciously" saw), stopped by
Hadley's for an Ostriche burger and the Cabazon outlets (lots of
development) for "spendthrift shopping" like discount $100 shoes and
$300 Gucci-like purses, had two great photographs, one man and his
dog, as well as a windmill shot from the car, it seems like most of my
interesting photographs come from the car
2003-2004-2005--several "transects" trips around the southern
Californian mountains to do repeat ground photography, ground-
truthing, and observation of overdensification, bark-beetles, drought,
and fire, controversy of overall human and forest health versus
endangered species protection, prioritization in law, San Jacinto
Mountains (featured in the paper), San Bernardino Mountains, San
Gabriel Mountains, San Diego Mountains (Julian Fire), fall 2003 and
2007 the big years when my father was bombarded by the media...
(industrial media ecology, source to sink users, how consumers use
this information, create a terrestrial map in terms of decision-making
for housing, geologic layers, natural resources, superfund sites, so
consumers can make responsible decisions and scientists can make it
easily accessible to the public); wrote the poem Unsame Road in which
views from the same road going back the other way will never be the
same; climbed Mounts San Jacinto and Baldy with high school physics
class, Blue Jay in the mountains; climbed to Dry Lake (San Gorgu) with
Bub (Jenny and Justin went to the top), had some great photographs
there
HISTORICALLY--pre-2003, used to go to Palm Springs Aerial Tramway (3-4
times) with family and relatives, used to go to Cabazon at least once
a year for grain cereal for Ray and Marion, as well as sampling the
fruits and nuts Hadley's had to offer...
Surge of memories... upwelling from pre-mount Saint Helens
Mapping layers of experience over a unit of space = time and life
history, Reconstructing life history,
as if I were a dinosaur... living 27 years is a long time....
This is a very bad start for me. I just lost everything I was writing
the last hour hour just because I checked couchsurfing. I lost my
memories of trash for a week due to a janitor at UC Santa Barbara, and
that just tipped me off the the wazzooooo! Arrgh! I refuse to keep
losing memories! I must find a way to systematically capture them!
It is altogether overwhelming to be in California because I am in
adoration of my father, who is a mental master of terrestrial
ecosystems--chaparral, pine forest, coastal scrub, as well as being
very climate savvy--and Jules, who is largely a master of ocean
ecosystems in southern California, but more specifically knows the ins
and outs of Mission Bay. Both have their foot in the door in Baja
California. Got most of the land covered with merely two people. Huh!
2009 (April) -- "chilling" or more so "stressing out" at a
Starbucks... I love California, but I need a break from it, I need to
be physically divorced from it, so I can understand where I live...
Came through this area several times in mindless drives--could have
overeaten and needed time to escape.
2008 (November 12) -- I lost my grandfather and it hit me very, very
hard; he has memories and experiences that span across all of southern
California, including extensive hiking in the San Jacinto Mountains
2008 (July, late) -- A wasteful summer with a wasteful, delusional
person, and had a negative, delusional experience, frantically driving
to Phoenix, Arizona in the middle of the night, trying to memorize
Apple Blossom and Muse for the second American Idol (I can't stand
singing other people's crxp, though I may appreciate it)
2007 (September, late) -- My father called me 9:30 am in the morning
to tell me my grandmother Marion passed away, I felt things, I wrote a
lot that day, but? I didn't feel the same way as my grandfather,
inherited knowledge and attachment to landscapes
2007 (January and February) -- I came out to the Palm Springs area
(where the windmills were) and stayed at a Motel 6; I took pictures of
myself, became oriented to my bodily planetary system, mountainous and
oceanic terrains, I was pretty depressed and heavy-set back then,
recently bought the Nikon D80 around that time, I also returned to
Ruby Mountain to take pictures, self-photography, need to expand with
lighting and (unfortunately) make up
2006 (November) -- Thanksgiving was interesting because we went to Jim
and Melanie and David and Alicia's new controversial cabin in
Idyllwild (built in an area with overdensification and prone to
wildland fire damage); got to meet Alicia's new kids (cute!)
2006 (Spring Quarter) -- Went out with Pete Sadler's field mapping
course (notably Paul) to Ruby Mountain to map igneous rocks (and
metamorphics?) I had a difficult time putting things together (issue
of learning things because of inheritance)
2006 (Spring Quarter) -- Went out with Martin Kennedy's sedimentology
course (with Dave Mrofka and Tom Bristow and Paul) to Jackrabbit Trail
around the San Andreas Fault to analyze lake sediments and do sketch
outcrop evaluations
2006 (in between January and March) -- How does it feel to be outside
and stuck in your head? NOT GOOD. I love the Earth Sciences department
at UC Riverside. I just don't like the "greater pigeonholed
bureaucracy" and compartmentalization of UC Riverside. I didn't want
to just analyze rocks, you know.... Rocks are only a piece of the
puzzle. I escaped to Cabazon and took pictures of the two dinosaurs
(there's a trinket store in the belly of one of them)
2005 (December) -- hiked alone to Tahiquas, very snowy, wintery,
thoughts with Sth, it's a strange thing to have complete adoration for
someone without laying a finger on their skin, perfect bear hug in
May, worked very hard on the song "Time Was Governed By"
2005 (September) -- welcome to the UC Riverside Earth Science
Department! Geology of Riverside! all the way from San Jacinto to the
San Andreas Fault and the landslides around San Bernardino Mountains
2005 (Spring) -- epic spring wildflower fieldtrips with Bub (took my
three-hour photography class with Nancy Gall), Indio Hills sunflower
clones, lupines near by Joshua Tree National Park, passing through
Hemet on lonesome (could have gone on a field trip), all the way down
to Anza Borrego (never made it), Yucaipa and Riverside areas as well
(maybe some coastal areas), still haven't been to the poppy reserve!
took tons of pictures of Bub's flowers in his yard
2005 (January) -- went with Kristin and Jimmy to a professional dog
show in Palm Springs, consolidation of my knowledge of dogs, never saw
"perfect breeds" before (I mean, "consciously" saw), stopped by
Hadley's for an Ostriche burger and the Cabazon outlets (lots of
development) for "spendthrift shopping" like discount $100 shoes and
$300 Gucci-like purses, had two great photographs, one man and his
dog, as well as a windmill shot from the car, it seems like most of my
interesting photographs come from the car
2003-2004-2005--several "transects" trips around the southern
Californian mountains to do repeat ground photography, ground-
truthing, and observation of overdensification, bark-beetles, drought,
and fire, controversy of overall human and forest health versus
endangered species protection, prioritization in law, San Jacinto
Mountains (featured in the paper), San Bernardino Mountains, San
Gabriel Mountains, San Diego Mountains (Julian Fire), fall 2003 and
2007 the big years when my father was bombarded by the media...
(industrial media ecology, source to sink users, how consumers use
this information, create a terrestrial map in terms of decision-making
for housing, geologic layers, natural resources, superfund sites, so
consumers can make responsible decisions and scientists can make it
easily accessible to the public); wrote the poem Unsame Road in which
views from the same road going back the other way will never be the
same; climbed Mounts San Jacinto and Baldy with high school physics
class, Blue Jay in the mountains; climbed to Dry Lake (San Gorgu) with
Bub (Jenny and Justin went to the top), had some great photographs
there
HISTORICALLY--pre-2003, used to go to Palm Springs Aerial Tramway (3-4
times) with family and relatives, used to go to Cabazon at least once
a year for grain cereal for Ray and Marion, as well as sampling the
fruits and nuts Hadley's had to offer...
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