Back in Arizona.
Classes started. The two I am actually in, Photo and Poetry, are going well. Pretty chill classes. But I am also signed up for an independent study so that I can maintain full time, and I don't yet know what I am going to do for that. I was hoping to just take another class, but the one I picked at the last minute ended up being full, after I had gone through the trouble of getting a professor signature and everything. When I originally decided on that class I was told it still had space left. Frustrating.
My mom thinks I should do a web design independent study. I have dreamweaver, so I could work on teaching myself how to use it. The final product of the IS would be a website of some sort designed by me. Right now I am leaning towards this. It isn't exactly what I was thinking of, but right now I have no other concrete ideas. Just vague outlines of the types of things I would perhaps like to do.
My Aunt Mary and four of her kids are moving in with my parents. Mary recently kicked out and divorced her deadbeat husband, got her masters degree, and got her first full time job in more than twenty years. They were living in the house that my mom grew up in. It used to be a nice family centric neighborhood. Now it is dangerous. Drug and gang ridden. The type of neighborhood where you don't want your kids out on the street on their own. My uncle also ruined the house. He tore out the kitchen and didn't replace it. Did a bunch of bad renovation work. Basically torpedoed the property value of the house. Mary is trying to just completely start over. She wants to live somewhere that she is comfortable raising her remaining kids proudly. Because she had to sell the house for a pittance, she lacks the start up money needed to get her own place. So, they are moving in with my parents until that time comes. My bedroom back home will no longer be my bedroom. It will be two of my cousin's bedroom. I am not sure what I think about this. It is incredibly generous of my mom.
I haven't had the opportunity to take much of any pictures with my fancy new camera yet. Just a few pictures of my cat. I want someone to take pictures of. I like photographing people. I'm actually thinking about trying my hand at shooting sets for SG.
Thankfully I don't have a huge workload of homework for over this weekend. I actually have pretty little to do. Which means that potentially I can make plans. I had been hoping on going skiing, but it has been unseasonably warm lately and I have a feeling the snow isn't going to be very good.
For some reason I have been stricken with a bit of crippling shyness and social anxiety. I never used to have issues with this. I was open and could make friends easily. I'm not sure what prompted the change. It is something I am actively trying to get over, but it is hard. Wanting to make plans and do stuff with people is difficult when you end up being to shy to broach the subject with anyone. It makes me feel really, really silly. I'm not really a shy person. I swear. This is weird.
Been renting and watching seasons of Boston Legal. James Spader is extremely sexy.
Oh! Academy Awards! Kate Winslet FINALLY won. I love her to death.
And Slumdog Millionaire was fantastic. I am glad it kicked so much ass.
Classes started. The two I am actually in, Photo and Poetry, are going well. Pretty chill classes. But I am also signed up for an independent study so that I can maintain full time, and I don't yet know what I am going to do for that. I was hoping to just take another class, but the one I picked at the last minute ended up being full, after I had gone through the trouble of getting a professor signature and everything. When I originally decided on that class I was told it still had space left. Frustrating.
My mom thinks I should do a web design independent study. I have dreamweaver, so I could work on teaching myself how to use it. The final product of the IS would be a website of some sort designed by me. Right now I am leaning towards this. It isn't exactly what I was thinking of, but right now I have no other concrete ideas. Just vague outlines of the types of things I would perhaps like to do.
My Aunt Mary and four of her kids are moving in with my parents. Mary recently kicked out and divorced her deadbeat husband, got her masters degree, and got her first full time job in more than twenty years. They were living in the house that my mom grew up in. It used to be a nice family centric neighborhood. Now it is dangerous. Drug and gang ridden. The type of neighborhood where you don't want your kids out on the street on their own. My uncle also ruined the house. He tore out the kitchen and didn't replace it. Did a bunch of bad renovation work. Basically torpedoed the property value of the house. Mary is trying to just completely start over. She wants to live somewhere that she is comfortable raising her remaining kids proudly. Because she had to sell the house for a pittance, she lacks the start up money needed to get her own place. So, they are moving in with my parents until that time comes. My bedroom back home will no longer be my bedroom. It will be two of my cousin's bedroom. I am not sure what I think about this. It is incredibly generous of my mom.
I haven't had the opportunity to take much of any pictures with my fancy new camera yet. Just a few pictures of my cat. I want someone to take pictures of. I like photographing people. I'm actually thinking about trying my hand at shooting sets for SG.
Thankfully I don't have a huge workload of homework for over this weekend. I actually have pretty little to do. Which means that potentially I can make plans. I had been hoping on going skiing, but it has been unseasonably warm lately and I have a feeling the snow isn't going to be very good.
For some reason I have been stricken with a bit of crippling shyness and social anxiety. I never used to have issues with this. I was open and could make friends easily. I'm not sure what prompted the change. It is something I am actively trying to get over, but it is hard. Wanting to make plans and do stuff with people is difficult when you end up being to shy to broach the subject with anyone. It makes me feel really, really silly. I'm not really a shy person. I swear. This is weird.
Been renting and watching seasons of Boston Legal. James Spader is extremely sexy.
Oh! Academy Awards! Kate Winslet FINALLY won. I love her to death.
And Slumdog Millionaire was fantastic. I am glad it kicked so much ass.
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thanatogenous:
Hey we should hang out, we live in the same town. Where do you go to school?
mimo_:
have you ever checked out lynda.com? they have some pretty great tutorials for all adobe software. if you have CS3, though, i warn you - the voice of the guy who teaches is really dull.