So good.

It feels so amazing to be taking photos again. I didn't realize how much I had missed it. Plus, I've realized that I really have learned a lot the past few years, and my photos have improved significantly. I was looking at photos from my very first photography class, and comparing them to my most recent assignment. There are similarities: I still love shooting in low apertures, I'm all about a tight depth of field. Also, I still feel so much more comfortable with natural light, but I've gotten a lot better at controlling artificial light. And portraits are still my favorite.

I still don't think I'm that great, I think I understand the basics of photography enough to make good photos. I can make my friends and family really happy with basic shots, but I don't think I'm at the level of being an "artist" yet. I don't think I'll ever consider myself an artist. But photography feels good, even as a hobby. I've realized I don't need it to be my life.

I feel good.

OH HAI

Don't you love how you go through those long periods of not updating your blog? I know I totally do. And I come back to look at it again and laugh at the old things I posted, even if they are only a few months old. Oh, how quickly things change.

Anywho, I have to update a blog for my digital photography class, so I think I might start paying more attention to this one as well. Weeeeeee shall see!

Impossible to interrupt.

A life of unfulfilled passion is draining; a small leak of energy, slowly trickling away with each unattained hope, steadily discarding pieces of ourselves. Yet we keep ignoring the bleeding, because it is better to be wan and weak but expectant, than risk the crushing truth that our grandest desires are actually pathetic delusions.

Good start.

Miniature snowman made on the first day of Christmas Break.

'Nuff said.

The Infinite Book List

Christmas Break is coming, which means reading reading reading!! I don't know how many books I will be able to finish, but I might as well compile this list of book I am wanting to read, so that if I continue to have time into next semester, I will have plenty to choose from!

Yay!

Kurt Vonnegut:
  :  Mother Night
  :  God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
  :  Welcome to the Monkey-House
  :  Happy Birthday, Wanda June
  :  Slapstick
  :  Jailbird
  :  Palm Sunday
  :  Armageddon in Retrospect

The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
All Quiet on The Western Front by Erich Maria Remarq
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner

Stephen King:
  :  Pet Semetary
  :  Needful Things
  :  The Shining
  :  The Dark Tower Series
  :  Misery



I know it's a crime that I haven't read some of these books. I will continue to add to this list as I see fit. I looked at some "100 books you MUST read" lists and I was surprised to see that I have actually read a lot of them. Go ahead and comment and suggest books for me to read!

What makes me laugh = what makes me

I thought I would just compile a list of the web comics and blogs that I read on the reg. I don't feel complete if something doesn't update on time and I can't look at it around 10pm. There are tons of other comics that I have checked out, but it takes something really special to capture my interest and make me a regular reader.

Note: Yes, I am aware that the first two are "lesbian" web comics. I love the artists quirky style and stories, plus I like boobs?

I Was Kidnapped By Lesbian Pirates from Outer Space
Yu+Me: Dream
Stick 'Em Up
XKCD the nerdiest web comic EVAR
A Softer World
Perry Bible Fellowship
The Year in Pictures a blog that provides me with a lot of inspiration
Photoshop Disasters
LOLcats life is not complete without this or LOLdogs :)
LOLdogs
Least I Could Do
Anders Loves Maria
Questionable Content the very first web comic I became addicted to over 4 years ago
Bigger than Cheeses
Married to the Sea along with all the others by Drew and Natalie, as follows
Toothpaste for Dinner Drew
Natalie Dee Natalie, obviously
Superpoop Drew
McCain Comics Drew. PS, Drew & Natalie just had a baby!! Squee!
Sad Guys on Trading Floors A more recent acquisition. Yay economy
White Ninja
Dinosaur Comics
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal everything from AIDS, racism, sexism, to abuse are FUNNY!
Ding!
Looking for Group WoW comics are a necessity of life


Wow, it's amazing seeing my obsession in one long list like that. I am truly 1337.

The Most Hectic Semester.

Ever.

German 102, Indians of North America, Art Metals, Art History of the 18th Century, and Introduction to Photography.
A hell of a combination that likes to deprive me of free time and sanity.

This honestly has been the hardest semester I have ever had. I do not even have time to go find a job. I feel like I am having a panic attack almost every time I look in my agenda. Things are always due, there is always reading, tests often. I have to get started on a ten page paper soon. Lordy!

But I wouldn't have it any other way.


In other news, New Zealand was the best thing to ever happen to me. Without a doubt.
Just a few mementos from my life changing experience.