I am 29 years old.
I have a fake birthday - it's September 23rd. I have a real birthday too, but I like the way I write September 23rd.I don't own a pair of white socks (or black socks). I hate the mall. I sing in my car. Sometimes I dance too.
I eat donuts for dinner.
My closet is color-coded. I am not welcome at my high school. I have never owned a plant that lived.
I usually beat my alarm clock by ten minutes. I read The Jungle when I was 15, and I haven't eaten red meat since.
I spent the first 18 years of my life in Belton, South Carolina, population 4,561. I have wanted, at various times in my life, to be an astronaut, a seismologist, and a postman.
I have a fear of standing water.
I once successfully acted out the word "colloquialism" in charades.
If you play Red Faction, you know me as Ender or PixelGirl; you were pwned. I have been in 5 weddings, none of them my own.
I've taken a liking to this fellow named Jens.
I am a Pentaxian.
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Rather than get a drastic haircut, I opted to change my layout. What’d'ya think? Does anything annoy you so much you’ll never visit again?
I tried to fix all the things that bugged me about my old layout (namely, the photography section), but it’s 4am, and I have to go to sleep.
I decided to update the “Photography” section of this blog. Just having the section within the blog construct seems still a big incongruous to me, but since it’s primarily about photography, I feel like I can’t leave it out. All of the photos are now (basically) the same sizes, and I changed the categories, deleted old photos, and added new ones.
I also added a dedicated section to my 365. I don’t see that link staying there forever, but since the project comprises roughly 75% of all my picture-taking, it makes sense to place a spotlight on it (I think, anyway; it might just be vain). At any rate, I categorized my favorite SPs. Lots of the photos work well in multiple categories, but the three “Laundry” photos seemed different from the others. I’m not entirely comfortable having that category, and I wish I had more than three photos in it, but it’s there for now.
Things I wish I could do that I can’t figure out:
Please feel free to throw any suggestions out there!
The New York Times has an amazing interactive feature on all the US inmates who have been released due to DNA testing. You could easily spend hours there (I just did), but if you’re looking for a quick, painful introduction to the difficulties these men (and one woman) face, this should suffice.
I have many more thoughts on this issue, but I have to be at work in 5 hours.
A little off-topic from my usual photography-related posts, but since when did 75% of the stories covered on CNN revolve around celebrities? Why is it that when I go to the nytimes.com, there’s a “front page” story about Jerry Seinfeld’s wife?
I suppose these news venues should feel like they have to cover every facet of the “news,” but I think there are enough tabloids and channels devoted to this type of non-news for these outlets to knock back the percentages - say, to 50%? Maybe less?
Please?
