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.....

hmmm.

my life is being run by flickr.
i am beginning to decide to go places because i think it will be fun to take pictures there. whaaaat.
haha.
it's been five days since i've updated my flickr photostream and now i am dying to take more pictures. i don't know what's wrong with me. :)

procrastination.

there are so many things i'd rather do than read my government chapters.
i could take pictures or read blogs or watch house and parenthood on hulu or look at the most recent uploads on flickr or pretend i'm doing homework or play path pix pro on my ipod touch or shower or finish addressing my graduation announcements or wash my face or summarize science articles or read a magazine that i don't even like.
but i really should just read for government...

flickr.

i'm officially obsessed with flickr.
bahhh.
<3

heart.