"In Our Bedroom After the War" is probably the album that tells the best story

I wish I had this one for my digital photo project.

A Cemetery Where I Marry the Sea

Today has been relatively productive:

• Started my presentation board for the pet carrier
• Got 4/5 photos retouched and restored
• Decided on the quotes for my book
• Found pictures to put in the book

There is something decidedly awkward about my class; I wish I knew how to fix it. It would be so much more fun, and I would learn so much more if there wasn't this weirdness...I'm not the only one who feels it.

Quick trip home tomorrow. Stella needs some vaccinations and I need to get my license plates renewed...we'll see if that actually happens. If not, I'm not sure what I'll do...Saturday, I'm going to the Vagina Monlogues!

Today was most definitely a Red Hot Chili Peppers day. There's no way to dispute that.

I love having evenings at home with my girls so so much!

I Want to Bitch. Instead, I'll Show my Art

Here are the photos from my second digital photography project. The assignment was Abstract, and we had to have two that were not manipulated and three that were visibly digitally altered.
Enjoy!

What I DID Learn

Yesterday morning, I participated in a SIFE Ethics Scavenger Hunt (insert manaical laughter here about doing something with SIFE). Despite the fact that I had to wake up at 7:30 on a Saturday morning and there was snow on the ground, it wasn't altogether terrible...and I did learn something--well, actually solidified something that I already knew.

The Ethics Scavenger Hunt consisted of going to five different businesses around town. Each business offered an scenario that either previously dealt with or they were actually needing ideas for what to do. The scenarios ranged from dealing with disgruntled employees to "green" marketing strategies to dealing with constitutional rights.

I remembered throughout all of this exactly how much I loathe corporate procedure and protocol. I hate it with a passion. I cringe when I think about working in an environment that requires me to go through the corporate ladder when I have an issue or problem. I shudder when I think about having to do something that I don't feel is particularly moral just because protocol tells me I have to.

So, I have come to an important decision. I must own my own business. I'm not sure what kind...maybe a boutique design agency or a hip coffee shop...? I don't know, but I am going to have to be my own boss.

PS. I also got this great book for participating! hahahahahaha
PPS. I told Russell he could get me one of these to repay me for being on his team for the SIFE event. He laughed.

The Earth's Eye

A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature. The fluviatile trees next the shore are the slender eyelashes which fringe it, and the wooded hills and cliffs around are is overhanging brows.

--Henry David Thoreau: Walden; Or, Life in the Woods (121)

What Birds are Really Saying

"They are the spirits, the low spirits and melancholy forebodings, of fallen souls that once in human shape night-walked the earth and did the deeds of darkness, now expiating their sins with their wailing hymns or threnodies in the scenery of their transgressions."

--Henry David Thoreau, Walden; or, Life in the Woods (81)

Stella and the Q-Ts

That would be a terrific band name (why have we not started girl band?)! Here is Stella who we have had for 4 days, and she has already completely weasled her way into our hearts. She will be three months old tomorrow!