the usual long rambling entry about everything

There is currently no one online. I don’t think that’s happened to me… well, in a long long time. Come on, folks, I have 160 screen names on this list, and NO ONE is on? *check that* Uhh, well Jaimie just logged on, but I don’t think it should count. This is just crazy. Crazy, I tell you.

Sunday night, and everyone ditches me! Nice. 😛

I went for a walk with my mom today… it lasted over an hour, and we walked on the bike path around the civic center. We didn’t go off onto the road bike paths, though. In case I never told the rest of you who have no clue what I’m talking about, my city is highly bike-friendly. Yeah, they have bike paths that will take you to almost any of the 16 schools here. *nods head* Seriously, there’s a real bike path around my high school, the civic center, city hall, and that centralized location, but there are also bike paths on the side of a bunch of roads running off of that. The bikes have their own lanes around here… too bad I don’t even own a bike. (Wait, not too bad… I HATE bikes.) And that is another long story… maybe I’ll tell it sometime.

For about 2 1/2 hours today, I was at the institute of art for photography. No, there wasn’t class today, but the teacher opened the dark room starting at 1 in case we wanted to work. So I went… and I worked! I managed to finish 2 prints. Well, really it was 5… but only of two different shots. The first set took me 3 tries. The first print was just too gray, so then I used a filter. But it just wasn’t exposed long enough, so I did it again, and now it’s perfect! 😀 The next print was of the beach. I decided that it, too, needed a filter, so that was my second try on that shot. It may sound like a long time for only 5 products, but when you take in consideration that I had to do at least 5 tests in addition to that, 3 or 4 minutes to set up your enlarger the way you want it (focusing, borders, f-stops, filters, whatever), and it takes about 17 minutes to develop one print, that’s not bad. Not bad at all! (yeah so I skip steps on the tests… who cares if it sits in fixer for 6 minutes? not I…)

After that, Mom and I took a meander over at the botannical gardens. My goodness, it’s so beautiful there! So that was cool… I kept switching lenses, though. Lol… it’s kind of overwhelming to see a shot you really want, and think… Gee, wouldn’t it be nice if I had my 210 zoom lense on instead of my wide-angle? Ahh well…

For dinner my mom, sister, and I took sandwiches and pop to the lake park. (note, this is a different location than the beach, and actually much closer to my house) So we sat on the grass near the edge of the rocky/cliffy/thingy and watched the sun begin to set. And also try to not watch a gropey couple drink alcohol right there in front of everyone and be all over each other. That man had a really obnoxious laugh. Grr. (*note* There’s one thing I hate more than people… drunk people.)

You know, if stupid Sean weren’t in Switzerland, there’d be someone online right now. And I’d probably be talking to him. WAIT… what is THIS? CC’s online! Oh boy, now I have to delete someone from my buddy list in order to add her. Um, Matthew dear, it was you. I figure you’ll be on ICQ if anywhere, and that’s really the only place I’ll talk to you. So I deleted the AgamemnonOD. 🙁 (but I still love you)

Oy… I don’t want to go to band. I think I’m scared of it.

I thought of doing attention drills in the privacy of my own home. Would that be overboard? I thought perhaps it would build up my strength so that when we go to band camp and have to stand still for 15 minutes after an entire day of marching, it wouldn’t hurt so freaking much. What do you think? Oh, wait… I don’t care what you think. Almost forgot. *whoops*

So my mom was reminding us of the time my sister and I both had chicken pox… we went to this lake park and ate McDonald’s in the car. Apparently we were “sick of being couped up”. *laughs hysterically* Do you get it? She actually said that, not meaning the pun, but I cracked up. Um, moving on…

There are now 8 people online. This is more like it. Goodness…

Well, I’m off to be

~swept away in conversations~

@~>~>-dreamergrrl

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