Here’s my new favorite song. Here’s an ad that keeps showing up in the sidebar of my Google search page, whose results are now in Spanish, against my wishes. After class today we puttered around school for a while, getting a very late start to Monte Albí¡n — so late that we had only an hour up there before having to catch the last shuttle down for the day. I wasn’t happy about that. Those […]
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Curmudgeon
Every day a new goodbye, or an opportunity for a goodbye missed. Spirits flagging, doubts rising. Because of technology, I can see what some of my soon-to-be classmates look like. Some have even “friended” me on Facebook; when I get the notification I think, “Oh, just leave me alone.” And then I get mad at myself. Why am I not reveling in this experience the way these younguns seem to? On an SIT-related forum, one […]
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Yesterday I threw my farewell party for myself. It was surrealistic: not because there were all these people I love sitting in the same room, but because when they faded away, that was my cue to vanish into some new life. The party itself was easy. It all seemed scripted: laugh at stuff, bound around talking to people, say goodbye “mwah, mwah, mwah”, clean up, go to sleep. But today is different. Everyone’s gone for […]
Read moreNeed More Photo Advice Pls
Editor’s Note, late January: I did make it to the meeting, where I got the following comments from the critique lady: “The bicycle one is too busy to my eye. But these might make good travel photos.” Oh well. Original Post, January 1: I’ve finally worked up the nerve to attend a meeting of a local photo users’ group next week. By Sunday night I need to have picked out two images for critique. I’ve […]
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