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Just your average extraordinary day.

Tue Sep 15, 2009, 6:42 AM
  • Mood: Euphoric
  • Listening to: Falling Up: Ambience
  • Reading: Tamora Pierce: Bloodhound [again]
  • Watching: Nihil.
  • Playing: Nihil.
  • Eating: Just had 3/4 of a bagel and cream cheese.
  • Drinking: Lukewarm Dr. Pepper
It's another lovely sunny Tuesday at RCC. I'm in the library again killing some time before my next class at 1:30.

In English we have our first assignment, to write a subjective descriptive essay. Easy. Laurencell made us write a rough draft too- gag -but whatever. I finished it, all I need to do now is fine-tune it in the final draft. I decided to write about the photo lab. Here's some bits of it:

"Perhaps it's a natural talent, or by now a learned ability, but my eyes, and certainly my emotions, adjust well to the darkness. Although long known to evoke fear in man, the shadows instead wrap around me like friends instead of the enemy. The soft darkness fills me with a sense of peace. I even like the rosette glow the strange safelights cast over everything. It is when the true lights are turned on that I begin to feel uncomfortable: that pale white flourescence is too sharp and cold for me, and turns the darkroom into a stranger by erasing its mystery....

I enjoy as well the privacy of the darkroom, even when I'm not alone. The space at each enlarger on the counter that encircles the room becomes my own private world. I become absorbed in the click of the timed light and f-stop dial, the slide of the negative hold and the hushed flip of paper. It is usually very quiet, but the occasional murmur of talk is a pleasurable background noise. With so select a group granted access, it is a companionable setting of understanding and shared purpose. And when I work by myself, I feel like a solitary wanderer trapped not unwillingly in a hidden land...."


I'm going to go now, sit outside and read more of Bloodhound, sip my Dr. Pepper and scan for more photos to take. I have both cameras with me today, digital Persephone and film Iris, as I'll be using the latter in Black and White Darkroom later on today.

God, I do love it here. I know I'm just a community college girl, but I'm happy and damn proud. Maybe it has to do with this new taste of freedom. I've left the institution of involuntary schooling behind. I can't believe I was ever afraid of the idea of college.

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  • Current Residence: In the viewfinder of a camera.
  • Interests: Street photography.
  • Favourite genre of music: All kinds of rock.
  • Favourite poet or writer: Too many to count.
  • Operating System: Good ol' Dell.
  • Favourite game: Tetris all the way.
  • Personal Quote: No pants, no plotline.
  • Tools of the Trade: My Nikon D50 and Minalta 7000, Adobe Elements 5, and a keyboard.

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:iconmayfall-x:
Ahhhh! Dreeeeam! I miss yoouuu! <3 <3 <3

MY gallery? What about YOUR gallery? Auuugh. Jealousyyyy!
:iconpkritiotis:
Thank you very much for the fav! :D

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:iconsoggy-phoenix:
I miss you. :hug:

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~Proud Sentinel Prime fan..~

I'm Sentinel Prime in the G1 Crew on DA
:iconshiznap:
I'm in ur dA. Stalkin ur fotos.
:iconsoggy-phoenix:
Ha. I found you.

=3

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Am I awesome? I should think so. I boldly go where no man has gone before! (Perches on Stay Puft's head)

~Proud Sentinel Prime fan..~

I'm Sentinel Prime in the G1 Crew on DA
:iconadreamreflected:
That took you long enough.

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The world behind a camera lens.

"For nowadays the world is lit by lightning ... blow out your candles, and good night."
:iconsoggy-phoenix:
Didn't it?

Hey. Not my fault.

Blame the space babies.

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Am I awesome? I should think so. I boldly go where no man has gone before! (Perches on Stay Puft's head)

~Proud Sentinel Prime fan..~

I'm Sentinel Prime in the G1 Crew on DA
:iconadreamreflected:
It's always the space babies' fault.

Them and the monkeys.

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The world behind a camera lens.

"For nowadays the world is lit by lightning ... blow out your candles, and good night."
:iconsoggy-phoenix:
Those damn monkeys.

I thought it was Hal or Gladys or any variation of. It was in Eagle Eye. Mmmm angry Shia LaBuff.

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Am I awesome? I should think so. I boldly go where no man has gone before! (Perches on Stay Puft's head)

~Proud Sentinel Prime fan..~

I'm Sentinel Prime in the G1 Crew on DA
:iconcometchaser:
I poke you...
WITH MY FIST
:spam:

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*repeat*

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