You can't make this stuff up

- I went to the park today, where the river was mostly frozen, and out of the whole herd or flock or whatever of ducks-- like eight dozen or more-- there was exactly one duck who instead of swimming in the unfrozen areas along the banks, wouldn't stop walking around on the ice, pausing every couple of steps and looking, to my anthropomorphizing eyes, very confused. It was adorable, and I wasn't the only one taking pictures.

- Still keeping my apartment all nice and tidy after New Years cleanup, go me.

- I bought a hat! It goes with my coat and keeps my head warm! I love my hat. It is bright teal with a big bow on it and if I can get someone to take a full-body picture of me in all my new little ensemble I will show you my hat.

- So the other night I was all set to go to a gallery opening at the invitation of a friend, for which I had had several weeks of advance notice, and for which I wanted to finally get an actual website together for myself, so that when I met all the cool art-gallery-going people there I could be like, pssh, of course I have a website.

Of course I failed to accomplish this (though to my sort-of credit it was merely because I underestimated how long it would take to finish and not because I blew it off altogether). So I was sad, in my actually-not-very-sad way, and admitted to myself 2.5 hours before the opening that it was going to be a night of "uh hi well I doodle in notebooks sometimes? :D" after all, and gave up and texted my friend to see if she was going to arrive early or what so we could meet up. Soon she called, all high-pitched and practically singing her apologies ("I AM SOOOOOO SORRY~"), that I must not be on her email list, because she had sent out word that the gallery had called the thing off due to the weather (??-- all I can figure is they let the pipes freeze and burst, because our weather is not remotely dangerous) and didn't know when it would be rescheduled.

I was delighted with my MAGICAL REPRIEVE GET!, and I hope I communicated to her, without going into details, that I was not at all upset by this news. So now I have an undetermined amount of time to finish, and of course I'm all "bleh this is boring :(" and haven't done much with it since.

See, I don't have a scanner so I'm photographing all my stuff, and no matter how good my light is the paper comes out gray instead of white and when I lighten it I lose some of my actual lines and it gets all terrible and life should be easier than this. Recommend me good Photoshop techniques/plugins plz.

- Goin' to eat foods~

BLARGH BLARGHITY BLARGH I need a real picture to draw :|

This beautiful little bug is now rooming with me! I assume that's okay. I don't actually know what it is. It's the size of a popcorn kernel. It'll watch over me while I sleep and protect me, right?

I found a used Canon A650, which is normally more expensive now that it's discontinued than it ever was while it was still being sold, but I managed to get it cheaper. It has a swivel screen. Those are my weakness. I demand them in my cameras.

It makes my options for purchasing cameras very limited. :|

But anyway, here some pictures I've taken with it so far that are actually a little bit good!



We have:
Testing manual focus!, and
1/2000 shutter speed!, and
the cheap motel I am staying in right now! Where I forgot to bring any pajamas!

...My laptop is really hot on my tummy :o

Talked to my friend who is a girl earlier this evening about some stuff, and she thinks she is a whiny coward and I think I am a needy user and she might be illustrating a children's book and I might have trouble sleeping with this loud air conditioning on all night.

Time to test that last theory.