PC vs MAC i hate you all

I heard back from the Inlander yesterday, the lead photographer wrote me an e-mail, yea that all I get after being stud up is an e-mail asking to see my portfolio and wondering how much work I needed. Well right now I am making a QuickTime slide show portfolio and I’m going to try and e-mail it to him. I understand that they are really busy people but this is a bad business practice you wouldn’t treat a client this way so why treat someone who is willing to work for you for free this way it’s very disconcerting and if I didn’t want this job as much as I do then I would have given up the day he ditched my interview. And it makes me wonder if I get the internship I’m wondering if this is the way they are going to be treating me the entire time I’m working there. Well I shouldn’t say they it’s mostly just the lead photographer they do need help there just not willing to let a new person in.

On IMBC news the web site has yet to be refreshed so I don’t get the satisfaction of being in the top five yet. And overall the internet is getting pretty boring.

I need to get some new programs on my Cp cus I’m so tired of going from PC to MAC because the teaches here want things done on MACs that you can’t do on a regular PC. If that makes any since at all, I need to make a slide show portfolio and only Imovie does that within the teachers regulations meaning that I have find a program that is just as good but will work on a PC. It s really stupid I really should have gotten a MAC. This same problem happens with garage band, but I got a couple of program names for a teacher that will hopefully be able to sub for those MAC programs. Stupid PC vs MAC thing…..i guess I’ll just have to buy a MAC sooner or later.

Shoot totally forgot about comic booking got to go…..

Today’s Totd

Getting older……………………

I don’t mind getting older right now I expect when I get in my late 20’s I’ll dislike it. But this year I’m turning 21 and that is totally rocking. I seem pretty young especially around the photography building. My life is just getting started and I can’t wait to be one my way out of school and out there leaving the life of a starving artist.

Just looked at the IMBC page it got updated huum I wonder if he was reading my mind anyway only four of us left now…….and I’m at the top in order of signing up, there were people ahead of
me but they got eliminated . I don’t like being at the top……….save me.

Comicons, cubes, and............mormons?

So today opens with news,

I was watching it this morning and found that out of a percentage of girls taken from that compound in Texas 31 girls from the age of fourteen too seventeen were either excepting a child or have a child. Well there is your proof you sick sick people. I was watching an interview with the mothers of these children a week or so ago and the hole time the Today show was asking “what age are the girls when there aloud to get married” the mothers were “it’s their choice we” “what age are the girls when they can get married” “it’s their choice” here is the link to the interview, the part that I’m talking about is toward the end.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSj3IM-gqIM&NR=1

It’s kind of sickening.

Some more downer news Timco is out of the IMBC…..that one kind of sticks I really did enjoy his blog and the Signing Viking web site and I thought he would be the only one along with me up to keep this going tell 127 days. Well I enjoyed you while you lasted hope for the best for you and your gang. That’s if you read this if not ummmmm you should.

Yesterday didn’t go to bad I went into my internship around 11 we talked about what I would be doing and she gave me a list of things to shoot downtown. So I made my way down town which was harder than you think people in Spokanecanamaniacs I think have been getting worse at driving I almost got on three accidents on the ten minute drive to down town. I know I’m a pretty lazy driver but it’s always calculated and I have never gotten so close to hitting someone that they had to honk their horn to worn me. Stupid Spokane drivers………who are half my audience.

So I got down town and started going and asking random families if I could take pictures of them out with their kids. Which I’ve never really done before. Anyway I got about four families with kids and bla bla bla.

Comicon is only two weeks away I’m pretty excited about it, now Logan is coming……….Yep yep yep. Yep. yeah ok. Weee comicon.

Ok Today’s Totd.

Cubes…………………………………………………….

I use to work in a cubical at a phone company it wasn’t too bad we would toss a football around when we got bored talking to customers and if you got a sale you could blow bubbles. I don’t like those Rubix cubes I can never do them. And none of my favorite foods a cubical. I hate the movie Cube totally stupid, and I don’t think inside the box. So you can say I don’t really like cubes.

uuuummmm.........hey whats up ; )

So today I’m getting ready for my first day interning at Northwest Women’s Magazine. I was wanting to get there around 11 up and ready so hopefully writing doesn’t take me to long. I guess I always find myself in these situations that’s what I get for writing in the morning.

Yesterday didn’t turn out to bad I started feeling better after I got up and going, my sister,
Ryan, and I went looking at lap tops for her and then went out for Mexican which was really good.

After that I was uber tired and crashed for two point five seconds before we went and played games at the underground. Saturday night we played games also. We started with some Bonanza which we played wrong the first time around which I won the second time Ryan won. It is a pretty good game except that if you want to get to a card in your hand you have to give away the ones in front of it. Making bargain or just give away cards to people you’re playing against. Wasn’t too happy about that. After that we played this one game that I didn’t like and can’t quite remember the name of but it reminded me of Tetris……..i think it started with a G. Anyhow we tiered out before we got to Manhattan. Owell get it next time. So on Sunday we went there me kind of dead tired and played Alhambra the dice game which was a good game although there was a lot of luck to it which you know me the bad luck girl I don’t tend to like games like that but the strategy part of it was great. And after playing it wrong the first two rounds we finally picked up on it right before I had to leave for Spokane.

Then got back and went to sleep I was so tiered…….

Today’s Totd

Hair……………………

ok this topic have been kind of whatever so here goes talking about hair

I like hair wow that just sound really weird ok how bout this you know when someone asks you if you a leg guy or but guy well girls do it too as you all probably know well I like a guy with a good hair still on him with hair or none just one that looks good for that persons body type you know. I do like bald men like that British guy from transporter Jason Statham, and Vin diesel. But I like guys with hair to like my boyfriend has really great hair a really great black and just the right length. I don’t like to eat hair though I have a story about one of the restrains up here in Spokane that deals with me eating hair not to pleasant I didn’t even get the meal free because of it. But Heather did.

blaaaa

Last night’s shoot went pretty bad not only did I not have a spot meter I didn’t have a digital camera. So I guessed a lot I had no idea what shutter speed to use. We’ll just have to see what happens.

Right now I kind o feel like crap I have a huge headrace and I think I finally got the cold thing that I have been fighting off for a while. I blame it on everyone around me being sick and the need to kiss my boyfriend every once in a while…ewwww kissing right.

Yesterday we ran a bunch of errands, we picked up my bike from the shop, got my glasses fixed, went and got my tuck who was getting new tires on him, and pick up some pizza’s for the family.

The pizza lady kind of made me angry, I know she has to sell the specials but every time I said a pizza she tried to fix it in a way like can I get and medium cheese and a medium cowboy………you know it would be cheaper if you got the family size half and half………no I want one medium cheese and a cowboy……but we have a promotion……lady look I’m a god damn vegetarian and I don’t want go god damn meet on my pizza cus let’s face it the meet always runs over…….ok anything else yes on medium cowboy without the tomato sauce because my sister is allergic……would you want to make that a large for a dollar more…..this is the point when I reach over the counter and smash her head into the wall five hundred times saying you want to make that a large it only a dollar more.

so since I’m not feeling to well I’m just going to write the 300 minimum.

Today’s Totd

greatness…………………………..

My head hurts so this is going to suck.
With great power comes great responsibility, right no great power is different from greatness. I think someone who has achieved greatness in their life haven’t done so my gaining power I think it’s more like peace within themselves and good honest work. With the love of other people by there sides. Like Gondi, and Martin Luther King Jr. they didn’t seek power for greatness they achieved peace for greatness.

ok that’s it I could write more but don’t want to.

ttlylolomgbrbgtgjkbffposasl

I had my interview with the Inlander yesterday it went ok besides the photography editor that I set up the interview with supposable wasn’t going to be in that day…….yep pushed to the curb.

It’s ok I guess I got to interview with the editor of the magazine though he was really nice and was slightly upset at the photographer dude. Anyway I just decided that I wanted to just be a shadow or assistant to other photographers for this inter I told him I was not confident in my photojournalistic ways yet but to watch someone in action would be a real learning opportunity.

So that’s how that went he said he’d give me a call.

I am currently in the tri-cities we drove in around 6:30 last night the second I got here I was bored, I think I had to many mountain dews on the way, we hit up the Underground then went scouting for a good place to shoot. I checked out a 4x5 camera from the school and loaded 6 film backs with some color transparency film. I will be taking night shoots of the cable bridge which is going to be a challenge because somebody……..Jason………took the spot meter that I checked out and I stupidly forgot the battery for the digital I have and hand meter though which doesn’t help much. The cage should really start putting those damn batteries back in the cameras.

So today I well go to Circuit City and see how much a battery will cost, I need to fix my glasses so I’ll take those to wal-mart, and figure out how I’m going to get the 4x5 to the location that I found by clover island which isn’t really an island more of a peninsula. I’ll be shooting or setting up and shooting from like 7 tell 8 ish I might have to do a two or three minute exposures, I need to remember to bring a watch.

And I guess Hjo3 is in town so tonight after my shoot we might go to the Underground and play some games.

ok I think that’s all I have.

Today’s Totd

Beverages…………………………………………………

um I like to drink……not like alcohol but like I’m always thirsty for some reason so I like to drink beverages. I like water but not the tap that comes for tri-cities or Spokane but well water form back in Idaho I still get it every once in a while when we go up to Heather’s parents house. I like mountain dew if you already didn’t know. And yea nothin else to say on the subject……..o what does anyone know how to make a Scooby Snack now this is a alcoholic drink but we heard about it somewhere and didn’t know what was in it.

I hit 1,079 words today hell yeas……bet that whoot.

So today is the day that I have the interview with the Inlander………not sure how I feel about them anymore. I think since I have the intern at Northwest Women’s magazine I might not work at the Inlander, even though it would be really good for me and help me a lot in the future…..I don’t know maybe I’m just nerves I’ll just have to see what happens.

Last night me and the girls hit the town, we got all dressed up and hit the club around 10 only to find that it was closed. I guess it actually opens at 9, which I didn't know, and they waited for about a half an hour and nobody showed so they closed. We got there and the whole place was locked up with no one in sight. Very very disappointing, that would have been the first night that I’ve been out in a while. Since school and things are so busy.

But we recovered the night and went to blockbuster to grab the new Day of the Dead the need to feed movie which we were expecting to be lame but maybe not so much it was pretty boring, and we found ourselves cracking jokes and comments every five second. People hate us in movie theaters, we just can’t take anything seriously, you should have seen the riot we caused the last time the gang went to the theaters we watched Sweeny Todd and we all couldn’t stop laughing.

Anyway on to the Zombieness I have seen my share of Zombie movies but this one was “wacked” the Zombies were all like supper fast and could climb up walls and on sealings, messed up right. And they retained a fragment of themselves when they became Zombies so if you were supper smart or something, you would just be a supper smart dead person who craved the flesh of humans. One the good side of the movie though there were some kick ass chicks in it, you know normal women with all their clothes on fighting like hell against the Zombie invasion. More women survived then men in this movie. Yep girl power. Also Nick Cannon was in it with a kick ass sword, we think his career might be going down because it was about a B movie. And one of my friends was happy to see him go down. I was sad cus his kick ass sword went with him. I know spoiler but come on like your really going to watch this movie and like any black guy survives in films like these.

After the movie we sat and talked about like most weird people do after a Zombie movie what else but how to survive a Zombie attack. Emily brought up the greatest place to set up camp……Wal-mart Superstore. We all agreed that that was the greatest place. First of all come on its Wal-mart, you have food, beds, guns, clothes, batteries, everything you need when Zombies attack. We sat there for a while thinking of everything we could use to make weapons. When you have five somewhat intelligent people, three being photographers who are the modern day Macgyvers, comic book geeks, SCA people, a pirate, a couple ninja’s and people who do nothing else but plan scenarios of Zombie attack you will be surprised of what we come up with. We talked in like a brainstorm pattern, thinking of how we could use everyday things that are all wal-mart to build an arsenal. We came up with tennis ball bombs, a flame thrower, Barbie doll bombs (that one was great), electric fences, Hannah Montana Russian Cocktails, shrapnel targets, remote control car guns, and more. I came up with making a bomb out of those little kid motor vehicle things and sending out the front door with a meaty manikin on it. We would all watch the action on the roof. Some of the ideas that we came up with were really great completely useless but great.

At the end of the night I went home and had Zombie movies, I came up with a great idea though and I can’t believe no one has thought of it yet, if you are driving through a Zombie movie anytime soon why not take some olive oil, I think it would be the best cus I don’t think it catches fire, but anyways get the olive oil and drench your car in it that way you have none of those pesky Zombies grabbing a hold of your car and braking through the windows…….huhu it’s that great……well I thought it was pretty cool.

Today’s Totd

The scariest thing you have ever seen………………………………

This may contain explicit content.

Warning: this is a pretty sad and touchy thing.

I have had a lot of experience with death in my short twenty years of life. A lot more than some people have in their lifetime, I admire those people. I have been to more funereal and have had more friends die then I can count on both hands. The worst of them all though happened my senior year in high school, my good friend, who I knew since seventh grade brother died from mixing alcohol with prescription drugs, he was only fifteen. A bunch of drama lead them to open the casket after the ceremony for goodbye’s I held my friends had while she went up to say goodbye, I didn’t agree with it but had to support my friend. When someone passes away you want to remember them as there were not how they are lifeless and alone and that’s what I told her but we went up anyway. It’s was the most terrible and scariest thing that I have seen. A boy that I have known since I was young lying there like that, it was horrifying. The image still sticks in my head every time I think about him. Afterwards my friend agrees that I was right and that she shouldn’t have went up there but there is no taking that back, ever. I can say now thought that I’m not really fearful of anything and whatever I am afraid of I can overcome it. Now I know that other people have seen way more horrifying things but that was the only scariest thing I want to see in my entire life.

I well leave this on a good note though……well for me.

I hit 1,079 words today hell yeas……bet that whoot.

Bored to death yet well you will be...after this

So blog blog blog blog blog.

I got pie, that was the big thing that happened yesterday, besides me getting the internship for Northwest Women’s Magazine, the pie was to celebrate that.It was really good pie the same kind I was gushing over last time. I think it is Maire Calendar or something like that frozen desserts. Nummy Dutch Apple pie.


So I went into Albertsons to get me some pie and found some there was some discounted, because the box was broken from 7 dollars to 4 sweet right the pie was in plastic so it was ok. so I went to the front to check out and told the lady it was discounted she thought I was talking about the Albertsons card thing. So she charged me 7 dollars I got some balls by the time I hit my truck and turned back and went to the customer services desk telling my tale. And the lady sad sorry and gave me the pie along with my money back. This = free pie.

Nothing really going other than that cool story though.

Didn’t get any good sleep yet again and I’m going to keep commenting on this tell something or one helps me.

Going to the tri-cities again this weekend this will be the last time for a while that I can go down cus school is getting me busy.

Yet again if you want to hit techno night at elements with us we will be there tonight.

Shoot I have nothing else to really talk about sorry you guys this one really sucks it might just be because I’m kind of tired or bored as hell well here is a story about my pie finding if you are
really bored it might be fun to read.


The story of pie

Hi I'm Hammy * waves*

(Yes I know I’m breaking the fourth wall for you comic book geeks but o well.)

I got myself an internship with a really great Magazine today and wanted to celebrate so I’m off the local grocery store to me some pie…..and maybe some ice cream to really spoil myself. Plus dad’s buying.

La de da deda I walk in to the store, hi welcome to ________. I walk passed and smiled.

don da don

Upon entering the store I notice nothing out of the usual parents with winy little kids, old people that walk to slow, but something catches my eye in the right side of the store in the produce section I see the produce misters go off spraying nothing but roughen produce.

I walk passed them slowly in suspension of why they were spraying on the produce, that would kill them dead like that.

I don’t touch it but walked faster as to not contaminate myself with the foul smell.

I have an overwhelming feeling that I need to get my pie as fast as I can so that I can get free of this demon hole.

I’m still making my way ‘why does the pie have to be all the way in the back’ I think to myself.

Then suddenly, out of the blue, with no warning I hear a manly scream.

don da don

I run full heartedly to the scream’n man or what I belived was a scream’n man worried that poor person has sarcom to the evil produce misters.

I see some poor thing lay’n on the floor

“hey mister you’ll ok”
…….

“mister” I poke him with a stick

The body roles over and I see the evil that has plagued this store printed on this poor man’s face

don da don

“Oreo’s what the h@#$ I thought some brother was getting shook up.”

I yells

“Na it’s some skinny guy stuff’n his face with Oreos.”

“what the h#@$’s wrong with you man”

I kick the guy for maken me run and mess up my pop and locken outfit.

My foot goes right through the SOB skin and all.
Hi it’s me again Hammy I’ll give you the rest of my story tomorrow if I feel like it and if I get positive responses it so far that means if you read it and liked it and want to hear more than
COMMENT –k-

See told you I was bored

Today’s Totd.

Hugs………………………

Up until my second year at college I really didn’t like being touched by anyone not my family boyfriends best friends none. Even when I was a little squishy thing I cried every time someone picked me up. So when ever family would visit or even saying goodbyes at my high school graduation I cringed at the feel of being hugged. But know for some weird resign I’m slightly over it not fully but just a little I can stand it when my friends leg touches mine and when my Ryan hugs me I like that a lot. He is a good hugger. So I’m getting better.

Just try it I dare you

You will not defeat me so easily, I’m stubborn as hell, love to write, have somewhat interesting things to talk about, and I have no life.

Woot I think I’m the only girl left in the IMBC now, but you never know with online things. And I promise you I will rock this, I will rock it so hard. Yes I know how that sounds. But I will win, who is with me……no one……………I see how things are……….fine………I’ll go Emo in the corner.

I had my interview with Northwest Women’s magazine today and totally rocked it. Well not really the editor really needed a photographer on the team and who else better than an intern that you don’t have to pay for. But it’s ok though I really don’t mind it gets my name out there and my work. I get great resume and portfolio stuff. And learn how it really is to work for a magazine. If this all goes good I will graduate with my AAS and work experience in magazines which will help me land any work gig in the tri-cities.

I’m really wary about the Inlander now though I would love to intern for them but things are getting really busy with Blooms day coming up and I’m not that fully confident in me photojournalism yet. We will see what happens, I wouldn’t mind just being an assistant and not actually taking photographs just to get the feel of the environment. But they so only run about ten photographs each issue.

Went comic booking today had some good conversations with the guys, we even talked about ‘munchkin’ I didn’t think any of them where bored games but they seemed to like it just as much as I do.

On other news I will be going to techno night this Thursday at Elements be sure to come if you are in Spokane. People in Spokane don’t seem to like techno to much so if they don’t get enough people soon they won’t do it anymore.

Today’s Totd……………..gosh I’m kind of getting tired of these things

What's your favorite entertainment medium quote?.........................................................

This is my most resent favorite quote. Ok so this one is hard it you never seen the thing but there are this mini stop motion action figure movies on youtube called DC vs Marvel, I have talked about them before. Anyway Iron man is a recovering alcoholic, as in the comics, well superman or is it batman well one of them gives him alcohol so he precedes to get plastered drunkenly saying “I am Iron man da da da da dada daaaa” in the tone to the Iron man Black Sabbath song, over and over again. When I think about it is that really a quote or is it a phrase or a song…….hum I don’t know. If all else fails this quote is my second favorite “We are

Sparta”…..great movie.

Sorry about the smushyness Blogger won't publish my blog with brakes today for some resion

turkey of the day

So I’m such a retarded spaz that when I looked at the IMBC page to see if anyone was eliminated I mistakenly thought that I was, giving myself a heart attack. But no fear blog followers I am still in the running to be America’s Next Top Model….wait that’s not right is it…See spaz.

So yesterday I did the whole run in the morning and run around town go to school work thing and it completely wore me out I hit the sack around 8:30 but didn’t get any good sleep. Well so much for the natural bring on the sleepy pills. From all that execution of energy I woke up with a head ach this morning and it didn’t go away tell me and Care hit the IHOP’s.

And OMG guess what………I totally got an interview with both the Inlander on Friday and Northwest Women’s Magazine on Wednesday it’s it totally rocking cool, but I can’t get my hopes up or anything like that. I don’t have very much photojournalism photographs in my portfolio well none really but I just decided to become one and am totally shy. Someone better wish me luck cus bad luck girl is going to need it.

After our Lab this morning me and Care went to Target to get her a bad hair day hat, she really needed one every time she walked in front of me I laughed my ass off, due to the many cow licks. We went there then got breakfast at IHOP’s which was really nummy stuffed French toast with strawberry’s and some hash browns. Good breakfast haven’t had one of those for a while.

We were talking about photography and me maybe interning for the coolest free news paper in Spokane while we were paying for breakfast. And got in a conversation with the waitress about photography. I know this is lame but it made me feel like a real photographer.

I went and shot St. John’s cathedral too yesterday among many other this I forgot how beautiful that church was and how welcoming the people there are to photographers. It’s truly a great place I will have to post the pictures when I’m done editing them.

Today’s Totd!

What are your feelings on hot dogs?..................

Personally I think there made of lips and well you know the rest. Other than that I can’t say much for or against them I haven’t eaten one since I was about six years old and think there icky to look at but fun treats for my cat DC. Up until I became a full time tree hugging, bunny love-in, vegetableterrain I liked eating baloney which was only tell like age seven yep a year later. Big whoop.

and......the end

So the one person that I though could win it all is out of the IMBC. Sad....aww I’ll get over it.

Every time I go to the Tri-cities I always get pulled five different directions between, Ryan, my sister, my other sister, things I need to get done there, my mom, it’s pretty hard. I know poor me right I just can’t wait for school to be over and moved down to the Tri-cities.

Only 53 more days tell I hopefully graduate.

It snowed today again and won’t stop for a while I’m getting really tired of it and everyone else is to there all grumbly and mad all the time because it’s not spring yet.

I went for a run today and found out that I’m in worst shape then I thought I was only bad it about a half a mile before I killed over in some grass wesing. I’m going to start running and doing a little work out every day see if it will help me with my energy levels and sleep. I figure if I get up around five each morning run work out take a shower do home work write my blog then go to school work school angina and when I find an internship go there I think I will be tired enough to get some good sleep and I want to lose some weight. Since complaining about it like so many other girls do won’t do anything, I got to get out there and get shit done. That’s my new outlook on life. And I have to stop being so darn shy and call places and get an internship.

After I right this I have to right a blarb on the photo club trip since I was widely nominated for the position. They think I’m a good writer *>>>>>><<<<<<<* <- that’s a uber squeeee. I think when I start at CBC (Columbian Basin College, in Tri-cities) I’ll take some writing and of course journalism classes and get involved with the school paper, if they have one.

Ok I got to finish this fast so I can get going.
today’s Totd!

Color…………………

Color is what the makes the world somewhat less disgusting…and somewhat more. In photography it is either helpful or hurtful you can have a great photograph but have a red trash can that draws your eyes away from the subject or that trashcan can be the subject drawing people eyes into the photograph. The lack of color is good too some of my favorite photographs are black and white and wouldn’t work any other way. But color is great you get sunrise/sets, the sky I love the color of the sky. And without color I wouldn’t have my favorite thing on earth the color green.Ok done I need to read over the roles again to see how the Totd actually works.

Family time, family ties

Yay we are in the twenties only 107 days tell I bet last year’s IMBC winners blog that’s if someone in this contest besides me can last that long. Yes I’m calling you out….yes you the one in the IMBC…no not the guy next to you…you…gosh.

We’re dropping like flies know in the IMBC whoot. One more is out leaving eight.

yesterday was the fateful day that Ryan met some of my family. Besides him getting me lost once then me getting myself not really lost just took the wrong road, I knew where I was going the whole time, we got there without a hitch. First thing my cosine does when we get there is she hugs him and says welcome to the family, I chuckled and though about what was in store for him, poor guy never saw what was coming. No I’m joking it wasn’t that bad every one hit it off good and besides him felling a little out of place, welcome to my world, everything went great. At the end we took a group picture and said our goodbyes.

Then it was the trip home in the dark on the back roads. We were following my parents but I just had to stop and get a picture of this lone tree on the side of the road with a full moon in the back ground. But my camera decided to shit out on me…….grumble grumble errrrrrr… it’s really my fault for not having a camera of my own yet……but mostly I blame all the people who don’t treat them right and the school for not keeping up on fixing them I told them like five hundred times that, that camera has something wrong with it and every time they “take it in” and say they fix it but in actuality it still doesn’t work. Sorry that was just a little rant.

Anyway on the way home we lost my parents when we stopped for the picture, I thought that I knew the road well enough to navigate my way back. Not the case we took a wrong turn somewhere and ended up in Pendleton…we took like the thirty mile route to Pendleton from Adams when it’s only 10 miles away on the highway…we stopped to eat, me knowing my way around Pendleton a little, and got to the freeway. I would have been more confided in my direction if all the signs on the freeway weren’t saying 170 miles to Portland….130 miles to Portland…..and so on….it wasn’t until I saw a Hermiston 25 miles sign tell I relaxed then got freaked all over again when they stopped. It was like did we pass it or blink and it was gone. So I take the next exit which was Hapner or something and ask for direction, since I’m a girl I can do that, I come to find that we are in Hermiston and just need to get back on the freeway and follow the signs. Long behold about five miles after we stopped for directions there is a stupid sign saying Kennewick 22 miles.

I ended up being tired as hell and having a weird worry stomach thing on the rest of the way home holding down whatever was wanting to come up and trying to stay on the road. I could have let Ryan drive but was stubborn and wanted to see the whole trip through. You know the whole if you start something you better finish it thing. All in all it was a good lost trip me and Ryan got to talk a lot and we found out new things about each other. It was good, next time I think I well get a map where ever we go.

Today’s Totd….and I’m guessing that right cus know one has corrected me yet.
Bugs………

I am an unusual girl I don’t mind buts, spiders, flying things, beetles, whatever they don’t really bug me, hehehe get it bug me….hey these are the jokes people. So the only bug that gets to me though are ants I hate ants there just so small and I don’t know I just have a hatred for them I step on everyone that I see, and I’m a vegetation. I think it goes back when I was a kid we would be walking through one of our fields and stumble upon a fire ant hill every once in a while and get bet to high heaven. This happened a lot with ants, hornets, bee’s nests. I must have been stung by all those a hundred or more times a summer. It’s weird that I’m not dead or allergic to them now. So that’s why I don’t like ants and can feel completely calm around bee’s and why I’m ok with other bugs once you leaved with them for thirteen years of your life you don’t really mind them anymore.

I do miss the good old days running around in my Leonardo pj’s sticking my sisters with my staff and yelling calla bunga dude at everyone

today’s blog is slightly boring I blame it on the weekend……and I'm tired

Well I’m up in the Tri-cities and couldn’t get a wink of sleep, I really should start looking into sleep aids considering that I wake up every hour or so in the middle of night and wake up at 6:00 not being able to go back to sleep. Mwaa so this blog might be a little tired word talky things babble.

We did end up doing some important work for that lab class that I was late for yesterday… I think I’ll just name Fridays as my late day. Anyway got done with that and ran over to the photo building to get my camera, then went to the comic book shop to get my weekly comics, which I usually get on Wednesday, nothing new though I finally am caught up with Spirit whoot.

I had to run back to the photo building before they closed around 3:00 to get a lens cap and sat there talking with a couple photo friends for a while. We talked for a good half an hour it was nice to have someone other than the normal people to talk to plus these guys are like the “fun” people in the photo building.

Anyway we are taking our track to Adams today I might get lost since this well be the first time I have driven there without my parents guiding way (don’t tell Ryan) and we are taking the back way. Well hopefully we well have phone service when we get lost so that I can just whip out good old map quest or google maps Ryan can be my navigator. Yea right whenever you need it, it won’t be there right. It well either be bitterly cold there or hot as hell we haven’t decided yet.
I have noticed the degrading state of Saturday morning cartoons. The old saying there not as good as they use to be hits me. You remember when we had the bugs bunny show, good old teenage mutant turtles, and the first session of Pokémon (I love how word thought my spelling without the accent was wrong so it corrected it for me) . Ooo I miss the original Digimon and caption plant. Know you have the good mixed in with the bad we are know in the what 11th session of Pokémon and it’s no longer japans, there are weird stupied shows like skunk fu, chaotic, the weird TNMT, Tak and the power of juju cartoon, and world of quest. They are even having more live action shows on ABC which aren’t as good as cartoons. I do think there are some good ones though like teen titans, the batman, legion of superheroes, and Avatar. But I do miss the good old days running around in my Leonardo pj’s sticking my sisters with my staff and yelling calla bunga dude at everyone.

Ok enough reminiscing time for the Totd….still don’t know if I’m writing that right….too lazy to check.

Heat…………..I would rather be cold then hot, that might just be because I grew up in north Idaho were it was cold most of the time even in the summer or that I just find recovering from cold is easier than from heat. Like you can get frost bite and have some chance of not losing any limbs but it you get burnt well they burn off thats the extreme of both cases though. I think it is easier for me to put on a blanket and find a comfortable warmth then it is for me to find way of reliving heat besides getting wet.

I find it good for cooking though and there is too much of it in the Tri-cities.

no really mom there is a monster in the toilet

I’m going to try and see if I can write this bad boy in under a half an hour…. I don’t think that I can do it.

After yesterday’s fiasco with all the 101’s running around with clucking like chickens I’m not quit looking forward to today.

aaaa only like two sentences into this and I’m getting distracted. Why can’t word just read my mind and write it down or I could just talk and it would write that down. Dang technology not being up to my comic book mind standers curse. It’s not like I can’t just post this when I get to the Tri-cities today but if I start doing that then I will be like all the other IMBC people posting at the last minute and it might become a habit.

Speaking of IMC another one is out leaving…..hold on let me check….nine people in the running.

I hope to make it to the top three…can we do it ….this is the part where you shout…..yes we can…..come on I know it’s crazy to shout at your computer but I do it all the time. I even swear at it, good thing I don’t have kids right.

Any way I’m deciding to go to my 10:30 lab today just because the last time I missed it we did important stuff that I missed out on know I’m late on the first assignment. So I shall force myself out of my blogging need to go to class when the time hits 10:24 that’s the plus about living right next to the school.

I got five out of fourteen of those nasty little Photoshop assignments done know I can say that getting that book was a good idea. The assignments are really…..boring well not challenging for a second year photography student the only challenging part is doing what the book tells you since there are a lot of easier ways of completing the assignments. I just haven’t figured out how to cheat the system yet so that I can do it the faster way without getting docked points.

wow this thing is going to be full of Grammar mistakes because I’m trying to write it so fast.
I didn’t go comic booking Wednesday cus I just didn’t feel like it blasphemy right well I am kind of busy with school stuff and I’m a little behind in every class, that’s what I get for cramming in 21 credits.

I am slowly running out of Photo Club Trip pictures I got about three days more should last me tell the weekend is over then I will probably have more form going to Adams. My poor boyfriend will be stuck in my truck with me stopping ever five minutes if I see something cool to photograph plus Adams is a really old small town I’m sure to find some interesting things there.

And five minutes in counting I will talk about the Totd… did I write that right? we may never know


The moment in your life that you're the least proud of

I’m not proud of a lot of things that I have done just like everyone else. Stilling when I was like five, lying to mom that I didn’t break that antique tea cup, blaming things on my sisters you know the everyday things that we go through growing up. That’s the point of growing up you make mistakes that you’re not proud of and learn your lesson, most of the time. If we dwelt on the things that we went proud of it just makes us miss out on opportunities to make other mistakes and learn from them even in my twenty’s I’m learning all sort of different things, especially being in college from mistakes that I make and sure I’m not proud of them but I think I’m a better person for making them and learning form them.

I can tell you all the things I am proud of though it may go one for a while, I’m proud that I’m the first person in my family to make it through college, I’m proud of the people I know and have meet through my life, I’m proud that I have a great boyfriend and achieved happiness through him, I’m proud of all the people I have helped and will help in the future friend family complete strangers, but most of all I’m proud of who I am and how I came out and am proud of my parents for doing that god forsaken job of raising me.

Well crud late for class so much for that idea.

Blogger was being a butt and not adding my image I blame it all on you blogger....bad blogger know go sit in the corner. A nother glad moment i dont have kids.

Big red shiny things and what not

ok so I need to write my blog real fast so that I can get back to work. I finally just broke down and found that book that I needed for my online Photoshop class cost me 40 dollars but I’m going to be done with the class like in four days because I can just sit down and do the assignments on my own time.

I finally figured out how to make that dang water mark on the Pc with help of one of my teachers. it ended up being totally easy but not like you couldn’t use any of the short cut keys and sometimes you used alt and sometimes ctrl for the substitution of Apple. So if you need to make a Watermark action droplet on a Pc just let me know I’ll be happy to help.

It’s not too far into the quarter here at SFCC but people are running around like chickens with their heads chopped of this morning already is crazy as hell. Working in the cage I get most of it of the crap, something’s though are truly funny. Like this morning a 101 was rinsing her film in the sink were the Photo flow is (if you are in the photo program you know where it is) anyway she put the water tub in her tank and instead of tuning the water down she turned it way up shooting the water out a medium size hole. It got the entire sink and sealing, the floor all the way to the chemical mixing room socked and herself slightly moist. I laughed my ass of as I helped her clean up but that was the most fun thing to happen so far. Most of the 101’s mess up one their first time developing film, another story is of a girl that forgot to turn of the main light in the developing room and yanked out her film…yep it came out black as night.
I really should start talking about the Totd…… aeee…. I’ll just wait for one that I like I guess or know can talk about for more than the definition.
Exuberance-joyful enthusiasm

Ok so I wanted to start talking about stuff that was actually worth wild…..any suggestions….I got nothin.

I love how Microsoft work corrects thing that you mean to have wrong, yep I type my blog in word first. Mostly b/c of the spelling but also if for some reason my cp crashes or freezes like it likes to do or I accidently erase my blog I can always recover it with the system I have it auto saved if anything gets turned off and I have a undo button the most glories button in the entire world…besides the big red one in the white house that can blow everyone up…yes yes the second most glories button in the world… well technology it’s not a button is it…..I don’t know... it’s just really cool and well save my ass one day.

Well I should go help this 101 found the world of photography….she doesn’t know that it sucks the life out of you yet. Another soul down the drain.

Errr And everyone is just a little too impatient around this photo building.

Highly intelligent animals might I say

Ok this is the first day that in the morning I just didn’t feel like writing a blog. But I’m going to force it out of me anyway.

On the home front, I sent an e-mail to Northwest Women’s Magazine to see if I could get an interring gig with them this semester. The Inlander seems very hard to communicate with but I’m still very persistent on interning for them I really like the news they report on and how much of a free press magazine it is. I will be e-mailing or going down in person to the Communicator our local school news paper and might e-mail the Spokesman review. I really need to find an internship soon so for the best chances for me to graduate.

I got my Graduation notice today in the mail saying that I’m all set to go as long as I pass all my classes this semester hopefully. It was a real relief to here that I have got everything right and am in the right classes to graduate. I didn’t think that it had that big of a hold on me tell I was relived.

I went and did my taxes yesterday I took them to H&R Block who I thought were going to give me some hidden deductions but really didn’t do anything special and I didn’t end up needed all the things that I thought I needed (tuition statement, Loan balance), anyway I could have done them myself but I wanted to make sure that I wasn’t missing out one anything. I don’t think that will do that next year it cost me $60 to do and I only got $100 back.

Finally someone else has dropped out of the IMBC. It has really started to slow down know I

guess these are the real competitors. I looked at last year’s final three people and saw that the top one and third person are already out this year leaving the second place person to seem like the best choice to win this year not counting myself out though. Girls can be quite stubborn and we seem to be stereotyped as liking to talk. The best two qualities in blogging I’m screwed in the real world most of the time though.

So have you ever just disliked someone, like they never really did anything to you but every time they are around you get this urge to hate them and be rude or mean. Well this is happening me I don’t know if it just that she reminds me or looks like someone that I don’t like or am wondering about but every time I see here I feel like going “hulk”. The thing is that there have been scientific studies that link our likes and dislikes of people to the pheromones that every individual gives off. Like you not liking or wanting to eat a food that smells bad. They also say that daughters are supposed to dislike the pheromones of their fathers instinctively as an extra safety precaution against inbreeding. That’s why most daughters link a smell of a colon or a work environmental smell to their fathers instead of their pheromone smell. But with other individuals that you are close to or a spouse you seem to know which pillow is theirs and cling to the smell of it if that person is away. When you break down everything humans and mankind are still just instinctive animals trying to make their way through life. Highly intelligent animals might I say though.

dreaming of counting sheep

So I awoke this beautiful Tuesday morning to hale, I heard it last night on the window but though it would be gone by now. Nope I look out and the ground it covered with white hale its April 15th there should be no more white stuff. It’s only nine but it’s probably not going to melt today. I wish it would just hurry up and get to spring.

On today’s agenda I need to run and do my taxes, yes I know today is the day you need them in. Well I have a wonky student loan and I wanted to see if I could get any more deductions so I was going to take them into a free tax place up in the tri-cities, but since it was the tri-cities I needed my Social Security card which I have no idea where is. So I’m going in today to see if H&R Block will do it for me, it might cost me an arm and a leg though.

I’m still tired from that trip, must be jet lag or something, I went to bed tired as hell yesterday tossed and turned a little like usual and woke up tired as hell again even after eating breakfast I was still tired. I think that I might start taking sleep aids. I can’t seem to get a good night sleep no matter how tired I am. My friend suggested that I might be allergic to my matters seeing as the second I lay down on that thing my nose gets all stuffy and I got really great sleep on that memory foam mattress, although it could have just been that it was comfy. I’ll look into it.

I was editing some pictures form the trip and saw that none of them were really great, I mean there good but not OMG that picture is beautiful. One or two came out, I really liked a Panorama near Deception pass and one of some tulips that I turned black and white. Eeee it might just be me being a photographer though.

I will hopefully be in the Tri-cities this weekend and will be taking a little road trip to visit my grandma, aunt, and cosine in Adams Organ just outside of Pendleton. It will just be me and my boyfriend driving up there the rest of the family will already be there since he has to work we won’t leave tell oneish. I will be glad to get to go on a small day trip with just me and him. We don’t get to spend enough time together as it is so it will be nice to be stuck in a truck together for an hour or two.

I have been rereading my blogs from the trip and found that I made a lot of grammar mistakes I guess it was from being in a rush to post and not rereading beforehand. At some points I was amazed that people actually got what I was trying to say. Sorry about that.

Any other world than mine

Ok so it’s back to reality and good old Spokane.

So after we got back from Sunrise it took us a good two hours to get everyone packed up and back into the vans to leave. We took the Port Townsend faire back through Seattle and back onto I-90 or something like that it was 10:00 when we left and we stopped around one or two for lunch. Which I haven’t eaten anything since I woke up at five so I was starving. We stopped at North Bend because one of the girls wanted to stop at the Nicky Factory in the strip mall there. There was only Subway and some Mongolian restraint and we only had an hour so I took long walk probably a mile or so around the strip mall and up to the Safeway were there was a pizza place next to it. Jay’s Berry’s pizza was a sit down restraint but did take out for lunch I ordered a slice of cheese pizza that came with a salad twenty minutes later I get this sake with a huge salad and two big sliced of pizza and a role. It was really good food and a lot of it for only 7 bucks. Mmmmm the salad was the best and I don’t really like salad. After that we took a rest stop when we got out of the pass and then another one before Moses Lake. We got back to our instructors house around six. And stepped out in to nice sunny 70 degree weather, in Spokane. We had good weather the entire trip a little over cast at some points but it wouldn’t last all day at lake crescent it was 70 degrees and in Seattle it never rained once and was all sunny and nice. It was good to get back to Spokane and see that winter was finally over, having snow in March and April isn’t fun.

I got home around seven put everything away cleaned my sea shells and then went to bed around 9:00 my bed was so welcoming and I fell asleep right away. Had to take back the camera around seven thirty and then went back to sleep tell 10:30.

All in all the trip was great tiring, gross at some times, but really relaxing. I had a great time and I’m planning to take it again maybe with my mom for the tulip festival.

But it’s good to be home. And I survived the IMBC on the trip thanks to my Air card I don’t know what I would do without it.

last day on earth

finally got time to blog I’m going to try and get this done before we have to pack up and leave.
we woke up around 5:00 this morning and were almost late for sunrise, at Fort Flagler beach which was pretty, pretty the waves in were crashing down and it was cool to play in them.

Yester day we went up to Port Angeles yesterday to the Olympic state park a little ways outside. there was Mar falls and took a one and a half mile hike to the falls its self. it was pretty nice but I have all seen it before really once you’ve lived in the forest for most of your life you really don’t need to see more. me and one of the other photographers who we call little Jeff went up on one trail of the main one that took us clear up one of the mountains in was a really steep climb like hand and feet clime and I had on a ten maybe fifteen pound back pack on with my camera slung across my shoulder. it was difficult because my zoom lens kept on zooming out. after a while I just squished it in my bad only to have to yank it out later to shoot a deer that was one the cliff above us. I was dead tired by the time we got to the van and went to a picnic area to have lunch were I almost lost my phone in the lake. The temperature yesterday was perfect nice and warm t-shirt warm. Until we got up near the hot springs in the Sul Duc. Which smelled and weren’t rock they just looked like hot tubs. after that we went and shot a little in Port Angeles which was nice but we ended up driving through sunset cus we “had to get back to the cabin for our group dinner” if you want to know what the quotations are about ask me personally or e-mail me.

The thing I really love about Laptops is that you can take them anywhere right know I’m on the beach although it smells pretty bad its cool to look up and see it and its pretty inspiring.
we leave in just a little while I have no idea how or which way we are going back to Spokane but it well either take us 8 hours or 6 either way seems to long. this trip was great and I got to see and experience things that I never have before. I would really like to come back here someday just with two or three people though anymore and it’s kind of hell. well here are some more pics I’ll probably be posting some for awhile.

P.s. the tulip pic are the ones I bought from the festival

drunken stumbles

I got to sleep in an hour, we have to be up and out by seven thirty.

Yesterday we had breakfast over at the boys cabin then left in a hurry to catch to faire we almost didn’t make it. but we got on ok and headed to Whidbey island I saw some seals on the way running along the boat. We hit Fort Casey in Keystone and stayed there for a while there are a few pictures of it above. After that we went over Deception pass to the main land to go to the tulip festival hitting a Daffodil field on the way. We only hit on grower called tulip town I got a bunch of souvenirs and a lot of pictures. we spent a while there. There wasn’t to many people just because we hit it on a week day but there wasn’t to many flowers either there was about half as many as I thought would be there. I didn’t see too many Asians there but there was a whole lot of Indian Americans there. After that we hit deception pass again but before we went over we stopped on a little beach and shoot some tide life. I have never really seen or been around tide pools before so it was a experience to say the least. All the rocks that you had to climb over were full of squishy plant things, barnacles, and enamines ( totally spelt wrong). when you pocked the enamines they would suck back into their selves. the whole time I was holding a gage because I felt so bad for stepping on all the little creatures and all the little icky things that could attach to your leg and eat you in your sleep.

We hit Coupeville for dinner and then headed down town to go see all the old shops and then we saw “Rosie” the dead whale bones hanging in one of the museums. There were a lot of star fish over by the museum and we stopped at a ice cream shop one the way back to the faires which yet again we were running late for we got there and the 6;30 one was already full so we had to what tell the 7:30 one. gave me an hour and I got internet reception so I put some pictures of me on my myspace and talked to my boy friend a little. We went straight to the cabins and got there around 9:00. I took a shower because of all the icky things I was rolling around in. And got to bed around 10:00. A bunch of the people here went out drinking though I can’t wait to hear all there drunken stories.

and today we go to Port Angeles to go to the rain forest outside of it

Ok so here are some pics there are daffodils, some of the fort, some tulips, and some other stuff.

Free Hugs

The early bird gets the worm right… while damn I was tired when we finally got to the Cabin on Marlstone island the cabin is really nice three bed room with two twin size beds in each room one of the nicer cabins I’ve stayed in it look right out on to the beach and so it’s about seven feet away from alt water.

We finally left Spokane around seven thirty hitting Ritzville for breakfast and money, hit a couple of rest stops on the way and hit down around two thirty shot there for an hour before we had to get in line for the fairy. I got a picture of a guy holding a Free Hugs sign supporting something about something, he kind of didn’t really know what it was about or what the proceeds went to but I treaded a Hug for a photograph of him. I got the better deal. I found people in the down town area of Seattle really nice I got talk to by complete strangers about five times. Mostly because we had four people with really nice cameras and weren’t Asian. Two guys talked to me while walking and asked if we were form out of country he thought I looked German. Nope were from good old Spokane the place that never gets outs. Then we had about thirty minutes to kill so we went to The Ye Old Curiosity Shop, my favorite part there were the shrunken heads. I’ve heard rumors about the place but didn’t get a chance tell yesterday to go. I bout me a space needle key chain, I’m going to start buying one every time I go to Seattle. At Ploubseo (sp) we stopped for groceries and went to a chine’s restraint which surprisingly had a bunch of white girls working. Then we traveled about an hour to the cabin. I het the comfy memory foam mattresses and was knocked out, until heather called me and texted me at one o’clock in the morning waking me up….grumble grumble, after that I went back to sleep then woke up at five.

Today we have breakfast at the boy’s cabin then head on over towards Mount Vernon for the

Tulip festive then a photo shot at Deception pass or something like that.

This nifty Internet air card is not working to its full extent it taking about five minutes to load one page.

Here are some photographs from yester day but I need to get going and ready for breakfast.

I especially find kid devil extra cute

ok so here it is I’m blogging in the early morning before I leave just in case I don’t get another chance.

We leave today at 7:00 sharp on of the girls are picking me up on the way to the meeting spot that mostly why I’m up an hour early.

Today’s Itinerary what I heard;

leave 7:00 am for Marrowstone Island, WA

Breakfast at Leavenworth

11:00 photo shoot of the release of the horses

Lunch in Ellensburg

Park on Ferry Dock for Winslow Ferry and ep;ore and photograph Pike Street Market and
Seattle waterfront

Dinner on Kitsap Peninsula

Grocery stop at Poulbo on to Hood Canal Bridge and North on to Marrowstone Island

Sunset shoot on the beach and in the salt marsh

All these things are subject to change and we might hit a big photography store in Seattle. I well have my Lap top off except to blog making sure that I have enough battery to last just in case.

But all in all I realy am looking forward to being in Seattle again the tip we went last year for Sakura- con was great and the down town area seems so cool. the people there were pretty nice asking you about your costumes and what was going on. even sometimes commenting on how well done they were. in Spokane you would just get weird looks.

I didn’t get to much sleep last night I always get really enchase(sp) and nervous before a trip even right know I’m totally done with packing and I’m rushing writing this blog fearing that I’m going to be late. Yep crazy here. We will be hitting the Tulip festive on this trip I think on Saturday. and I might blog again today when we get to the cabin but you never know right.
on other news the new comic called Titans’ Together came out yesterday. It’s the first issue and was pretty good well anything having most of the Titans’ naked in it is well deserved the read. And the last issue of the four part series Suburban Glamour one of the smaller comics that I read. Plus the third Tiny Titans’ which not only are adorable but there just downright adorable I especially find kid devil extra cute. yep girl moment there.

I might have to make a trip to Vancouver BC this summer or sometime soon my friend just went there and convinced me that I have to go sometime saying that it is a great city and that you don’t have to have your passport to go until June of this year or maybe was it next. well any who

I well be going sometime. ok I’m just blabbering so off I go.

and i wonder why i'm having trouble sleeping.

One more person is out now I’m the only one left out of all the people that I know personally that were in the IMBC competition.
slightly mocking

At 10:30 I will be doing the Wednesday thing and going to the comic book shop to bag books.

After that I have an hour to get all my shopping done for the trip, before I have to head back to work at the Cage.

I need to pick up a new CF card, Munchies, 12v power inverter, Polaroid’s, and maybe a digital voice recorder, to help me with my story. My Lap top battery only last about an hour so I wanted the 12v power inverter so that I can charge in the car. One or the students going on the trip already has one but if I can find one within a reasonable price it would go great with my Air card. Photojournalist on the go you know. We were told to pack light to I’ll have my “carryon bag” and hiking back pack, and a clothes bag. I will most likely smell on Sunday when we get back into town. But I’m totally excited and ready to go and get started on my photo story it will help me bulk up my portfolio for my interview with the Inlander too.
So know that I have time I watch the news every day when I get home from school. I love to watch the news and see all the non-since going on around the world;

Yesterday I saw Victoria Lindsey a sixteen year old girl get beat up by six girls only showing one
of them actually hitting her. Supposable Miss Lindsey sad some rude comments about a girl at school on myspace. Leading these girls to lure her to what she thought was a friend’s house to get video tapped while getting beat. The girls reasons for video tapping the incident was to put it on myspace. Wanting to be the justice bringers and have the most viewed video…. ummmm I was once sixteen and we never acted like this never sure we said mean things to each other I got in a fight once but we never kidnapped a girl to beat her up. I’m sure there are more incidents like this one around the U.S. It’s animalistic but people know in days need to relies it happens all the time. People say things they would never say so someone’s face for fear of getting beaten on the internet and think that they can’t be held accountable for their actions. I do realize that the whole time Miss Lindsey was getting beat up she never through one punch that was either bravery, fear, or stupidity. later on I Googled the subject and found that all the youtube posts of this video were taken from the news and the parents in there interview blamed the internet and places like myspace and facebook for their child getting beat. If all else balm the internet right.

Other news some four hundred children were confiscated/ removed from a Polygamist compound in Texas. Supposable a sixteen year old mother called in to police and a women’s shelter saying that she was forced to marry at fifteen and was now pregnant and that the conditions that they were being held in against their well were poor and unsuitable for living. The great thing that I like to think that if actually someone in the nearby town called in saying that she was this girl. The police didn’t have enough evidence to enter the premises without the phone call. They still have yet to find the girl that supposable made the call from a townies cell phone.

and i wonder why i'm having trouble sleeping.

Well my battery is dying and I shall escape from this hellish world and into the comic book realm.

freaken photoshop a thousand deaths upon your mothers head!

So yesterday was Monday if anyone noticed;

Rachel one of my good friends here is going to be coming along on the photo club trip Thursday whoot at least now I’ll have someone to relate to.

I always end up getting ditched at work all alone for most of the day. I work at the school photography lab where we rent out equipment to students. I wouldn’t mind it except for all the slightly irritating 101’s who don’t know how to treat a camera or any other equipment. Yesterday I was left alone like usual and a 101 brought back a camera three hours late. These are high end 2,000 dollars and more cameras so you can say I was kind of pissed. Then I go to charge it and find that the 75-300 f/ 4- 5.6 canon lens housing is cracked now you can’t put the all important UV filter on it. It was like someone dropped it cracking the frame and denting the filter it’s going to be an expensive fix. Later this year someone dropped one of the cameras totally smashing the filter to bits, that’s what there for better them then the lens itself. But still I have seen a lot of damaged equipment and it gets to you, why can’t people just treat things better. Poor little cameras.

I dislike PC’s and being a PC owner I dislike them slightly more. It’s so much easier to do things on Mac’s exceptionally when your school is mostly Mac based. Having to learn the short cuts for both is hard enough but try making a stupid copyright symbol on a lap top is like defusing a bomb. For Mac’s its option G but for CP’s its ALT 0169 on numeric key pad…. lap tops don’t have a numeric key pad you jack asses. There is no other way for me to make one that will allow me to make a work path the water mark out of it errrrrr. I spent all class trying to find a way and have nothing to show for it.

On a lighter note;

This is the latest I have ever blogged mostly cus I had nothing to write about. So this is all you get today maybe something cool will happen between now and tomorrow so that I don’t have to bore you non-sense again.

Damn you see reduced to talking about god forsaken Pop tarts

WARNING- Today’s blog may cause internal bleeding from boredom.

And the good stuff is at the bottom. I make you read through the crap to get to the good stuff.

Blaaaa

That’s what today is starting out to be, I forgot my keys down in tri-cities and dad forgot to leave me his for today. That means I’m either going to have to leave the door unlocked or just stay at school and work on things tell four. I do have a online class that I need to get started on, the stupid thing about this class though is that you have to check out a book at our mac lab and work on it there you can’t leave with the book and there are out of print so you can’t buy them anywhere. I also have to go to the Library to check out another book for my other online class. If you’re in college I recommend that you see if the school library has the books you need for classes first, so you don’t have to go through the pain of spending one hundred dollars on one book.

I’m getting ready for the Photo trip already. I have my sleeping bag all rolled up and my hiking pack almost ready to go. I have to make some small shopping stops one to Costco to get a new compact flash card and then to a grocery store for some road snacks. I was telling my boyfriend the other day not to buy Pop tarts because they’re pretty bad for you just as bad as hot pockets. All though they do have little nutritional value they have 200 calories per Pop tart. Anyway my mom ending up buying me some for breakfast so I’ll take them on the trip just in case we get stranding out in the woods, they will be very good emergency food with all that sugar.

Damn you see reduced to talking about god forsaken Pop tarts.

Yesterday while dad and I were driving dad found a radio station that plays the old radio shows, it was entertaining enough for the car ride. We listened to ‘the shadow man’ and ‘all about unexpectedness’. The last one was pretty lame.

I was thinking about picking up a pack of Polaroid’s for the trip for my Polaroid camera just for fun. Polaroid actually stopped production of the film so now photographers are running around trying to buy as much 4x5 Polaroid film as possible for fear that Fuji Film might not be as good. Plus we pick one brand and stick with it we have to or our whole consistency plan goes out the window.

Well I’m bored and have enough words to satisfy the IMBC, I’m going to go have me a Pop tart.

p.s. I will be starting ”Dispatch to all Truck Drivers” a photo-story about the pressing gas situation on independent truck drivers and how they are trying to overcome the harsh condition. I am choosing to start this on the Photo trip we will be stopping at a lot of different places and I will have a bunch of opportunities and viewpoints.

P.s.s. Hilary Clinton is on Ellen, yes I watch Ellen, yes she is going to defend gay rights, yes I was wondering if that was going to come up.

you got me all riled up

I have figured out why weekends are my weakness, there is nothing to blog about.

Three people are out of the IMBC now meaning there are now only thirteen people left.

It was really nice in the Tri-cities yesterday;

I went out and had a really good day with my boyfriend.

I picked up James Patterson’s newest installation in the Maximum Ride series. Which I well be saving for the photo trip.

I helped walk some dogs.

I read DMZ, a comic about a second civil war breaking out in America, and a photojournalist intern being stranded after an accident in the DMZ which is all of Manhattan. Making allies and trying to survive while still reporting the story to a news type organization in America. I don’t quite understand the situation and why the war started yet but I think when I get more into it, it well all make since. If you were a photojournalist you would totally understand the lure of being in his position although really hard and your life always being in danger it would totally rock and many photojournalist would give up everything to be put in a situation like the one the character is in. I don’t know why we are just made like that, crazy or not we go where there is a story and repot it. No if ands buts about it.

I well be going back to Spokane around six tonight meaning will get there probably around eight thirty. It’s weird, and if any of you have driven the stretch from Spokane to Tri-cities you will understand, that no matter how fast you drive it always takes two and a half hours to get to one from the other and trust me I have taken this road at many speeds 60, 65, 70 ,80 and one time 45 but that’s a different story. And every single time it took two and a half hours it’s like Ritzville is some type of time altering dimensional hole. So you can say that I’m not looking forward to that drive. I was talking to one of the girls that work at the Adventures Underground and she came up with the great idea that they should just make speed tubes, like in Futurama, connecting Spokane to Tri-cities to Seattle and on to any other major cities in Washington. So all you would do is lay down in a tube an bamf your at your destination, it would save on gas.

Speaking of gas what do you guys think about the Trucker Strikes that went on and are still going on around the United States?

I grew up having breakfast with some really great truckers, men, dads, brothers, husbands of people who they leave behind every day to make a living which isn’t that good. And now if you can imagine there having an even tougher time with high gas prices making them work longer hours and make little profit. I’m talking about independent truckers not the cushy Wal-mart union drivers. There having to spend three times as much money yearly to keep their trucks in gas than two years ago. The prices jumped so much that it takes 1,100 to fill up a tank on a rig today, when it only took about 600 last year. You think that you’re hurting, look at their gas ticket. But what are we going to do about it right, will I know what I’m doing I’m writing this blog. I’m going to go out there, educate people, do a photo story, get it on the school web site, and make sure people know what’s going on, that the oil cooperation’s are making way too much money off of the average Joe and people are getting tired of it. And I’m tired of not taking action.

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another one bites the dust

Location the parents house in Tri-cities,

I love Saturday mornings not only do I get to sleep in and still get to watch all the best shows because they are on later I get nummy breakfast food. hummm cinnamon rolls.

One person was eliminated last night form the IMBC Logan ,who I actually know in real life. This leaves about sixteen more people, awww the sweet sixteen.

Last night my boy friend and I went and saw 10,000 BC. It was good and even a little better than I thought it was going to be. I love movies that have great elements of humanity. Everybody uniting to over throw a commend evil, even though that rarely happens I the real world. I loved the diversity of the tribes too, they came up with some really cool ones. There was one tribe, this taking place in Africa with some tribes from part of either southern Asia or Europe, that was “one with the tree” or something there war masks were pretty awesome. But anyway it was a really good movie, unlike 21 right guys, and if you’re looking for one to see I highly suggest this one.

On another note I think this blogging contest is really helping with my typing and spelling I’m having to use word check less and less.

IMBC topic of the day: Action Figures

Ok so I’m a big tomboy and have always been since i was little while my sisters were playing with Barbie’s I had my own collection of GI Joe’s and power ranger toys, the original power rangers. Know am trying to collect them being a comic book geek and all. I don’t have too many right now but I have a awesome Boba Fett bobble head. There is a Youtube series called DC vs Marvel were they use action figures for the characters. They are very funny.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=av6fWfmugds&feature=related

Something that no one else will be interested in.

I am helping plan a friend’s baby shower soon. I don’t particularly like small children but she will be the first person in our Spokane friends group to have a kid. Since I work in a toy store here in Tri-cities I can’t wait to buy some really great and safe baby gifts. Since the whole stupid lead scare.

Another one bites the dust.

sacrifices people sacrifices

Awww just work up, Fridays are wonderful I don’t have class tell ten thirty and after this week I don’t really have to go, it’s just a lab. So I’ll write my IMBC blog while eating some breakfast which I rarely do, the eat breakfast part. On the menu this morning green apples and peanut butter yum.

A couple of people cut it really close yesterday for the IMBC on person didn’t post tell 11:51pm but good for her for making it.

Damn I’m going to end up getting peanut butter on my lap top o well sacrifices people sacrifices.

So I remembered what I was going to blog yesterday. Wednesday is family night for me, Heather, and Jenny. Even though we technically don’t live together any more we still are very close and a family. Anyway we usually go get our comics (since we get them Wednesday not on lame Thursday) then go to dinner, and come back to the apartment to watch a movie and read. We came back to my place and watched an Indie film called Everybody Thinks I’m Hot, a Bolywood film about a barber that could read the mind of any person when he’s cutting their hair. It was the first Indie film that I have watched and I liked it quite a bit it had everything and although there were some parts that were slow all in all it was as fast past as a movie about a barber that can read minds can go.

So everything is set for Emerald city comicon (not comiccon comicon) I well get my ticket in two to three business days and we have reserved a hotel room, Sqqeeeee, sorry about that I got a little too excited. Big names are going to be there, along with a lot of great artists, and Q&A boards plus a little trip to Seattle will be nice. I have already made my list of people to get autographs from, a list of exclusives that I want to try to get, and a list of people I want pictures with. Adam Baldwin the actor that plays Jane from Firefly and on chuck will be there, along with The Defuser the winner of the only who wants to be a superhero session that I watched. He was pretty cool. Here is my list of people I want to see if you guys know of anyone else cool that I should hit up for there John Hancock that would be great.

Ø BILL WILLINGHAM- Writer and accessional artist of FABLES
Ø MOOSE BAUMANN- Color artist for GL and the Sinestro Corps War
Ø CRAIG ROUSSEAU- Illustrator for Impulse, Detective Comics, Batman/ Superman
Ø BILL CRABTREE- Invincible
Ø MIKE OEMING- Mice templar Co-creator of powers
Ø DAVE STEWART- Inker for Spirit, Umbrella Academy
Ø DAN WICKLINE- Co-writer for 30 Days and Nights
Ø BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS- Writer for Ultimate Spiderman
Ø DANIEL WAY- Writer for Wolverine Origins, Venom
Ø RON RANDALL - Illustrator Outsiders, Conan, Star Wars
Ø DARICK ROBERTSON - Co-creator The Boys, Transmetropolitan
Ø MIKE GRELL- Writer and artist for Green Arrow
Ø NAT JONES - artist/writer/creator Death Dealer, 30 Days of Night, Spawn
Ø HERB TRIMPE - Artist of The Hulk, Wolverine, Micronauts, G.I. Joe
Ø TIM SALE – Artist of Heroes, Superman: Confidential
Ø MATT WAGNER – Writer for Grendel, artist for Green Arrow, Batman, Trinity
Ø JAMAL IGLE - Artist Teen Titans, Countdown
Ø RYAN OTTLEY - Artist Invincible, Superman/Batman
Ø ETHAN VAN SCIVER – Artist Sinestro Corps, Green Lantern

Damn I’m going to be late for class, uuummm one more quick thing I will be in the tri-cities around five tonight for the weekend. Let’s see if my weakness will get the better of me. And Sorry to Rachel I will try to hit that subject this weekend.Thanks

sweet geeky blogness

A lot to talk about today:

Yesterday after getting so frustrated with the schools wifi always cutting out, me not having any internet at home, and having three online classes, along with the threat of having no internet on my trip next week, I broke down and went to the sprint store in the mall to see about those internet cards, Sprint being my choice because I have my cell phone service through them. I used my feminine wilds to get the AirCard for only fifty dollars, originally one hundred and fifty dollars, and the service is sixty dollars a month on top of my phone bill. It may seem like I lot of money about 120.00 a month for both cell phone and internet but I get it were ever I get cell phone service which sprint has not the best of best but pretty damn good coverage.

Yesterday was new comic book day I went around 10:30 like usual to help bag comics at the Comic Book Shop. Talk to Jen a little and saw Sean there, since he kind of works there now. Not too much out for me, a new Kick Ass came out which after picking up the first one two weeks ago I feel in love with right away. Don’t be fooled by the slightly lame and blunt name it is rightfully Kick Ass. So Kick Ass the first issue sold out within days pushing them to reprint. It came in along with the second issue yesterday, a new green lantern which retold Hal Jordan’s past for the fiftieth time came in too. The fist issue of the Marvels secret Invasion came out two with an alter-net cover. The alter-net cover confused me so I might just have to pick up one soon. Young X-men one also came out not sure if I’m going to get into that or not.

Also most of you might already know that Ryan Reynolds’ well be playing Deadpool in the upcoming” X-men Origins: Wolverine” movie Which is totally awesome Ryan Reynolds is one of my favorite actors and having him play the always left out greatest comic book character of all time Deadpool is like a sooo geektasticly awesome. We all can’t wait for the movie and hope that they do the character justice, not like what they did with Peter Parker in the stupidly emo Spiderman’s booo on you and ruining my favorite comic book hero ever...*starts crying*. We all hope that at some point in the Deadpool will do his favorite thing and break the fourth wall or at least say Duct tape or chimichanga during the movie.

IMBC topic for today Housekeeping: I’m a weird person that likes to clean, I cant really stand living in messy places that’s why the old apartment was so horrible for me but living there did make me more lax. Every since I was little I was the only one of three girls that every helped clean the house I even have a picture of me around one cleaning walls with my mom. I like housekeeping and love to clean when I’m mad it kind of Zen for me except when I mix the wrong to chemicals together and almost kill myself.

Well that’s all I have let’s see who cares.

I had something else to blog about but I forgot ummm o well.

Cus’ you make me happy

Now that I moved out of that god forsaken apartment that I shared with two other girls I find myself constantly bored. I come home from school not having heather there to...well be heather and bam I’m bored. I guess I slightly miss them, them not that apartment. Heather is in and out of town going between Spokane and Coeur d’ Alene and Jenny is living with two of our friends and I get to see her every Wednesday for comic booking. That leaves my dad to talk to which is ok I love having political discussions with him that’s about the only worthwhile discussions I every really get into, well that and photography. I mean you can only argue about who really killed Captain America so many times.

I had my first Coop class today, which is a class that will help us find internships with photographers, I well be lining up interviews with Inlander, our local weekly news magazine, and The Communicator, our campus magazine, so I’m pretty excited to start on my path the photojournalistic greatness…or something like that.

10-11-12-13 of this month I will be going on a photography club trip to national park areas and such around Seattle we will be stopping at the tulip festival on the way which I’m totally excited about, they are my favorite flower. Jeff one of the other photo students well be my life saver on this trip he has one of those nifty little internet cards that you can get internet wherever you get phone service, I think that’s how they work. So hopefully during the trip I want miss a blog. If all else fails I can get the internet with my phone and text my blog in…which sounds completely fun. Do you see my excitement well of course you can.

I well be in the tri-cities this weekend since school is starting at a crawl and I probably won’t have anything better to do up here. Dad goes down every weekend so I’ll just hitch a ride with him, since I don’t have school on Mondays him coming back at 5 o’clock in the morning shouldn’t affect me too much.

Here is a question for my (one) viewer(s):

What do you think is the most important thing in a friendship/relationship?

IMBC...i can’t really think of anything witty to say

Whooot and it all begins, I took a little break before the IMBC just to make sure that I didn't burn myself out. And it was spring break whoot I was completely lazy the entire time only worked one day at the toy store and spent that money going to The Olive Garden with my boyfriend which was really nice, me only being there once before a long time ago and listening to him we walked up to the front to pay the check with our waitress running after us thinking that we were taking off without paying. Yep Olive Garden is high class to us.

Near the end of the week Hank came into town and we played some bored games with him, Zombies, one of the games, would only be really fun with a bunch of goofy friends who don’t really care about winning, but just want to kill zombies with golf clubs or tie them up for “pleasure”. Streetcars was ok you build a rout from one terminal to the other stopping at destinations on the way, were I ended up building and completing a long ass rout then found a easier way through everyone else’s going on to win. Then the next day we played a game called Elfenland (I think that’s how you spell it) it was a good tactic game but not as long as I expected. I screwed over Hank to win that game too, what can I say I was on a role.

I was planning on leaving on Friday but the roads were crap Spokane got four inches of snow. So I left around two on Saturday going through what seemed like apocalypse weather first hale in tri-cities, then hellish winds, rain, snow, fog, then more snow going through Sprague and then popping out through dark clouds to see Spokane sunshine. I came back early to clean the horrible tiny apartment that I moved out of. It took me three hours to clean the kitchen which is the size of some of your bathrooms. Than I had to go and fix my roommates mistake, first she ruins part of the carpet while we were living there by ironing a shirt to it she thinks that she can replace just that part and it look fine I did not agree to this but in the end she got to “mad” at it to finish so I had to do it. I am so glad that I’m out of that place I always had to look after shit like that even when it’s not my responsibility. O well in the past in the past.

I started my last semester Monday well actually today cus I don’t have any class Monday which will be nice when things really get going. I had a crazy idea of waking up at like one o’clock this morning and writing my blog so that I would be the first person to blog but as you can see I feel through.

Today’s topic for the IMBC is Fonts……….fonts?.....ok I know the person how put this topic down is going to make a really good argument of why “fonts” is a good topic for today, and I know I didn’t put any topics down so I shouldn’t’ be picking at yours, but I just don’t see it.*Fonts*