i get shit done. (not. haha.)

i put more pictures up on my walls today.
added some to my desk and frames too.
i'm so productive, right? hahaha.
my walls still have a lot of room left to fill but i only have a month left of school so i'm not too worried.
i need to get a print for my g.k. chesterton quote - the five photos and one notecard that says "thing," haha. that's not permanent - that notecard will be a photo like the others as soon as i get my snapfish shipment in. 


ignore the fact that my bed is a disaster, haha.

wah.

i am done with this whole mood swing thing.

i hate being emo, which keeps happening.

mmm.

recently, my breakfast has consisted of an apple and some almond butter.

it's not the prettiest snack in the world, but it's sooo tasty. i could live off of it, for sure. at least until i run out of apples (i only have one left)...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ainsleem/

polaroids.

i hope that by the time i have kids, polaroid film won't be so expensive.


i want to be able to give my kids an old polaroid camera with a 10 pack of prints and see what happens, even if they're the shittiest pictures ever.




i can't decide whether this came from me reminiscing about my shitty old film camera from when i was little or from my desperation that my kids won't experience any of the same tangible gorgeous things from the pre-digital era.

old pictures, new edits.

my flickr

technology.

http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/111745/things-babies-born-in-2011-will-never-know?mod=family-kids_parents


This might honestly be one of the saddest things I've read this year.


I have recently decided that as technology evolves, we devolve. I love the internet and digital cameras and my iPad, but I miss libraries and film and reading. I am going to miss book stores and magazines and video tapes and CDs. The technology just can't replace those in my mind.


My kids are going to miss out on so much. Sad. :(

winter break.

so i have officially finished my first semester as a college student.

it's funny, really, because i was so worried about starting school. terrified, even.

and i mean, it hasn't been as scary as i thought it would be. i had a good first few months - hiking, joking around, taking ridiculous pictures, going to parties. but when i realized that the friends i thought i had were really... not people i wanted to be hanging out with, things went downhill. actually, i was unhappy even before that.

once i removed them from my life, i was significantly happier, although a tiny bit lonelier. i have moved from having an admittedly small group of friends to one friend. i mean, i hang out with her friends too, and i'm friendly with kids around, but it's weird.

the academics have been both easier and harder than i imagined. i didn't realize they graded so easily, but i also didn't realize that "weather and atmosphere" was going to be so difficult to understand. 

it hasn't been bad, per se, but it has been interesting.

i feel like i've learned a lot about my self from the social experiences i've had so far - i feel like once i'm friends with someone, i have to continue to be friends with them; i am sometimes uncomfortable around people i don't know because i'm used to knowing everyone, etc. etc.

anyway, i'm really looking forward to next semester, when i get to meet new people, make new friends, take new classes, meet my new roommate. it should be interesting.

in the meantime.....