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Wow, I feel like the world's biggest asshole. There was something to do with Ezra and the fucking cats her friend saddled her with, and I could've helped, but did I write down the fact that I had to get up at 7:30 today to help her out? Did I email myself a reminder from Ezra's place? Did I put it on my phone or iCal? No, of course not, so of course I forgot.
Damn craptastic memory.
I had a pretty fun time yesterday, photographing the blurry white world. I took over 200 shots and I didn't have to change rolls of film. But I do wish I had my SLR on me as well: there were certain shots that the digital camera was just not sensitive enough to handle, and an SLR with 3200 ASA black and white film (for the night shots) would've been just peachy.
Actually, they would've taken completely different images of the park. My goal was to go to the birch grove, but I spent so much time at the Temple to Music area (and the floating ducks) that I had to run off to class. I took a few shots of the outside of the school. Sometimes I think I don't really see something 'til I see it through a lens. There were details in the arch- and in the Temple to Music- that I'd never seen before.
After class, the night was still foggy, so I went to the gazebo area. Got some really cool shots of weird lights in water and such. I came home all cranky, and Coyote asked me if I'd had a bad class.
"No," I answered, "I just wanted to take photos all day."
But, hey, not everybody could take two hours of photos before work and one hour after. It's a nice schedule, and if it paid double, I'd be able to happily work just there. But I may have some actual freelance web work coming my way, I just have to figure out more clearly what the client wants before I can give him an estimate.
Mom might pay for web work, too, though of course I'd give her a big discount. I actually have an idea for revamping her site. And getting it off frames forever, yay! Frames, as I was telling fellow webgeek Silentstephi last night, are just the worst idea in the history of HTML. Suck, suck, suck. Let's break everything into compartments! Then it's really confusing to code AND nobody can, say, bookmark JUST the online rock-paper-scissors thing on the OWBN site, they have to go through the whole thing! Grumble grumble grumble.
Speaking of OWBN, Elutul's been handicapped. I've still been reading the boards, more out of habit than anything else, but I could really ignore all but one thread. I find myself suddenly with a lot more free space in my creative thinkin' area. Good: Roundabout needs it. Maybe I'll be building Roundabout's site at the same time as two paid ones . . . nah, probably not, but at least I can be thinking seriously about it. I'm thinking when I move the Roundabout forums, I should put them right in the folder that they'll really go in.
It's so freeing, not having a grouchy lover telling me that when I do web design, I must not use Flash or anything with motion or rollovers or . . . Gods, he's so fucking boring. If I see him at Arisia again, I should yawn at him. I may well repeat my reaction last year, which was to yelp and run in the other direction as fast as possible. But that's so funny, how can I fault myself with making me laugh?
I'm going to be actually registered for Arisia this year. I already am, and I'm running a Roundabout game. On the schedule and everything. And I'm staying in a hotel room with brynndragon and three of her friends. I'm slightly intimidated about that. What if even one of them is a terriergirl-style blend of intelligence, interestingness, and beauty that makes me utterly unable to talk or do anything but stare like a moron? I guess it doesn't matter that much: they're my roommates, not the people who are going to be stapled to me all con long. I might not even see them, except a bit at night and a bit in the morning.
It's another overcast day, this one greyer with no fog. I hope it snows again.
I was disappointed to hear that nobody but Silentstephi and her fiance were coming to my Drunken Rage party Saturday night, but it IS the weekend before Arisia. And I was slow to re-remind people. Coyote says he'll make me have fun, and I know I'll have fun because I'll be playing the absolute best card game in the world and being drunk at the same time. I haven't drunk alcohol in ages. I think I had a glass of white wine sometime in the fall, but I'm not sure when.
When am I gonna do this new icon thing? Hmmm. Roundabout one I can do soon: the others must wait.
Damn craptastic memory.
I had a pretty fun time yesterday, photographing the blurry white world. I took over 200 shots and I didn't have to change rolls of film. But I do wish I had my SLR on me as well: there were certain shots that the digital camera was just not sensitive enough to handle, and an SLR with 3200 ASA black and white film (for the night shots) would've been just peachy.
Actually, they would've taken completely different images of the park. My goal was to go to the birch grove, but I spent so much time at the Temple to Music area (and the floating ducks) that I had to run off to class. I took a few shots of the outside of the school. Sometimes I think I don't really see something 'til I see it through a lens. There were details in the arch- and in the Temple to Music- that I'd never seen before.
After class, the night was still foggy, so I went to the gazebo area. Got some really cool shots of weird lights in water and such. I came home all cranky, and Coyote asked me if I'd had a bad class.
"No," I answered, "I just wanted to take photos all day."
But, hey, not everybody could take two hours of photos before work and one hour after. It's a nice schedule, and if it paid double, I'd be able to happily work just there. But I may have some actual freelance web work coming my way, I just have to figure out more clearly what the client wants before I can give him an estimate.
Mom might pay for web work, too, though of course I'd give her a big discount. I actually have an idea for revamping her site. And getting it off frames forever, yay! Frames, as I was telling fellow webgeek Silentstephi last night, are just the worst idea in the history of HTML. Suck, suck, suck. Let's break everything into compartments! Then it's really confusing to code AND nobody can, say, bookmark JUST the online rock-paper-scissors thing on the OWBN site, they have to go through the whole thing! Grumble grumble grumble.
Speaking of OWBN, Elutul's been handicapped. I've still been reading the boards, more out of habit than anything else, but I could really ignore all but one thread. I find myself suddenly with a lot more free space in my creative thinkin' area. Good: Roundabout needs it. Maybe I'll be building Roundabout's site at the same time as two paid ones . . . nah, probably not, but at least I can be thinking seriously about it. I'm thinking when I move the Roundabout forums, I should put them right in the folder that they'll really go in.
It's so freeing, not having a grouchy lover telling me that when I do web design, I must not use Flash or anything with motion or rollovers or . . . Gods, he's so fucking boring. If I see him at Arisia again, I should yawn at him. I may well repeat my reaction last year, which was to yelp and run in the other direction as fast as possible. But that's so funny, how can I fault myself with making me laugh?
I'm going to be actually registered for Arisia this year. I already am, and I'm running a Roundabout game. On the schedule and everything. And I'm staying in a hotel room with brynndragon and three of her friends. I'm slightly intimidated about that. What if even one of them is a terriergirl-style blend of intelligence, interestingness, and beauty that makes me utterly unable to talk or do anything but stare like a moron? I guess it doesn't matter that much: they're my roommates, not the people who are going to be stapled to me all con long. I might not even see them, except a bit at night and a bit in the morning.
It's another overcast day, this one greyer with no fog. I hope it snows again.
I was disappointed to hear that nobody but Silentstephi and her fiance were coming to my Drunken Rage party Saturday night, but it IS the weekend before Arisia. And I was slow to re-remind people. Coyote says he'll make me have fun, and I know I'll have fun because I'll be playing the absolute best card game in the world and being drunk at the same time. I haven't drunk alcohol in ages. I think I had a glass of white wine sometime in the fall, but I'm not sure when.
When am I gonna do this new icon thing? Hmmm. Roundabout one I can do soon: the others must wait.