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I'm excited to see how psychotic I am by March. I'm finding the copyright symbol on the first picture funny. I'm not exactly sure who would want to take that photo. I'm sure most people haven't noticed, but this and the post before this have common themes.. My themes were circular objects, words, architecture, and drinks.

Me on 4 hours of sleep...

The console that doesn't see much of me anymore.. I miss it.

 

I need sleep. I have a very long day ahead of me tomorrow. Photojournalism assignment. Hardcore creepin on people. Thank goodness for telephoto lenses. Night.

Tired..so tired.. so tired..

All I can say is that this quarter at AIP is going to be deadly. It was recommended that I not take more than 2 photo classes that involved shooting. Right now, I have 4. Total accident, but I don't want to drop any or switch any because.. I'm hoping this will make my life much easier next quarter. I hope.

I probably should be sleeping and not updating this. But if I don't update this now, it will never get updated. I honestly don't know how I'm awake. I slept for 4.5 hours yesterday night, and it's 3:30am right now. ANYWAYS, my copy of Lightroom 3 came in the mail. Soooo stoked. Now I can do random little edits to my photos much much much MUCH faster than pulling them all separately in to Photoshop. I just spent the entire night shooting pictures for multiple assignments that are due next week. Here's a few from them.. (click to view larger picture)

Oh, and dear Megan.. Please make my little logo so I do not have to put boring copyright symbols with my name on my photos.. (even though, Lightroom makes this SIMPLE). I know I owe you a ton of pictures of Juda and of her in the shopping cart and your skull dress picture, but...yeah. I have no excuse except for that I read your email from my iPod and then forgot.. and then ended up working on my 9 million photo assignments.
Love,
your extremely tired sister

I also heard that people are having issues with commenting on these posts.. I think it's the layout..which I will change when I get a few minutes.. not tonight though. Kthnxbye!

 

The eyes of one exhausted AIP student (that's a lens filter by the way..)

 

 

 

 

 

My miracle pills

I suffer from migraines. By 12th grade, I was getting about 4-5 a week and nothing would help them. It was difficult getting through the school day with a constant pounding in my head, but I somehow managed to do it. I went to a neurologist, and this is what he prescribed me. Thankfully, it works.

Nortriptyline.. it's actually an antidepressant, but in some cases (like mine) it can be used to treat migraines. I was put on this first to get my migraines to spread out more.. once they started spreading out, I was told to stop taking it and go to this next pill...

Maxalt... oh how I love thee.. I do not take this every day, I take it when I feel a migraine coming.  It makes me feel extremely screwy for about 45 minutes, and it makes my head feel like there is tons of pressure on it.. but after that 45 minutes, I feel NOTHING. It's the best feeling in the world. By the way, this is an HDR photo.

I go back to school tomorrow..YAY!!!! Is it weird that I'm excited to go back? I hate the whole getting up at 5:30am thing, but it's only Monday & Tuesday, & I LOVE going to AIP anyways. I'm super happy when I'm there. I can say though, that I'm not looking forward to chemistry. I still can't figure out what chemistry has to do with photography, buuut.. whatever.. I'm taking it online, so it's only 5 1/2 weeks instead of 11. This quarter, I have a film photography class along with my digital ones.. I can't wait to get more in to film..

Professionals use digital.. Masters use film!... I am neither...yet... Just you wait!

That's me!.. with my film SLR and my digital SLR.

Don't know what to call this..

This is who keeps me sane (or insane..) Wayyy too much laughing at 3am. My stomach hurts...

I have a really bad sleep schedule. I am nocturnal. or I don't sleep.

I'm starting to realize that college is making me a lot less afraid of having conversations with people. But it's not helping my telephone anxiety. not one bit. and neither does my job, and my job forces me to talk on the phone..still terrified a year later.

I went to the doctors today, and I found out I gained weight. That is my accomplishment for the week.
--- If you know me, you know that it is nearly impossible for me to gain any weight, no matter what amount of food i eat.. it's pretty awesome having a stomach that's a black hole.

Pictures for tonight -

These were taken in the car..because ... i was in a car.. and I was bored.

Pictures from the minor bumper thumper..

^^^^^

This is after she moved the car (no idea why).. her car was actually on the other side of my bumper the first time...then this white suv thing (below) came and slid in the back of her car.. pushing her car back on to the other side of my bumper. but the ford focus is awesome and came out with no scratches or dents at all! cant say the same for the suv though... looks like the door is dented.

I always knew my first accident would be from someone rear ending me

What I am thankful for tonight -
1) Me & my friends are alive
2) I did NOT slide in to the main road
3) I was at the front of the rear ending..I'm responsible for nothing!

THANK GOD. Nobody has any idea how HAPPY i am that I did not slide in to the busy main road.

I did have a new photo thing planned.. which didn't exactly turn out considering I ended up getting in a 3 car accident. Nothing bad. Let me explain...

So, I made the decision to go to the high school with my two friends to go see the talent show (why I suggested this idea.. I have NO idea...Anyways, the roads were kind of icy on the way there, not bad if you're driving slow. So yeah, I showed my face at the high school, and after it was over I walked outside with my two friends to discover the entire school parking lot COVERED in snow. I went out, extremely extremely slow.. and decided leave out the one exit near the back because I thought that I might have a better chance at not getting in an accident that way than going down the massive hill. Going down.. going down.. slowly.. I look in my rear view mirror..and one of the first things that came out of my mouth after I left the school was "Why is that car driving so close to me??" It was super snowy & icy on the road I was driving down, and it was a hill. So there I am... creeping down..and then I started sliding right toward the main road (which at the time was very busy)...and all I could imagine was me and my friends getting completely annihilated by the cars on the main road..BUT.. since I could not regain control of the car, my first reaction was to head towards the right off into the grass by the trees.. i would much rather take a chance at sliding into a few trees at 5mph than get nailed by several cars going 35 mph. I did manage to pull off the road and come to a complete stop without hitting anything... buuuut, the car that was driving right on top of me didnt. they ended up bumping in to the back of my car (my moms BRAND NEW FORD FOCUS!! i took it because it has better brakes than my cavalier and my mom suggested i take it).. I got out of the car to check out if there was any damage, and it didn't look like there was but it's dark out and we couldn't see..I still don't know if the car is ok.. the girl that hit me reversed her car and backed it away from mine. I don't know why on earth she would do that.. several other cars were coming down that road (most were sliding but stayed away from our cars) and then I saw a white car (i think it was an older jeep) trying to make its way down..and the jeep ended up sliding down the road side ways and hit the back of the car of the girl who hit me...and that pushed her car back in to mine AGAIN. It was all really minor stuff, but I called the cops and my parents.. and I LOVE MY PARENTS. Mom & dad to the rescue! I got out and took pictures (I know what goes down with these kinds of accidents, I watch Judge Judy! :D ) This is another reason I ALWAYS carry my camera on me. I never ever know when i'm going to need it.

Basically, the accident was teeny. Just a few fender benders. But it could have been a lot worse, and I am so thankful that God helped me stay calm while I was sliding toward traffic so I could think clearly and pull off to the side of the road instead of panicking and sliding more.

Brittany says she was impressed with how calm I was.
THANKS!

I have said this several times before..
-My first car accident is going to be from someone rear ending me, because everybody drives so effing close to me since I do the speed limit!-

I was right. WIN!

I have to post these since I couldn't really get new pics tonight..fail. Claire is always a good subject though. Best friends rock. and so does finding toads in your best friend's driveway.

I still believe

"You light, light, light up the sky

You light up the sky to show me You are with me
And I, I, I can't deny
No I can't deny that You are right here with me
You've opened my eyes so I can see You all around me
You light, light, light up the sky
You light up the sky to show me that You are with me"

-The Afters

Pittsburgh

I already explained in my last post how I love cities. Pittsburgh is one of my favorite places to be.. I haven't really been many places though..One of my dreams is to go all over the world. I want to travel so bad. I want to learn a bunch of languages. There is so much to see and so many people to meet. The world is an amazing place.. Just look around. Click the photos to view them larger.. use browser back button to come back..