Posted by Lauren Felton
– February 15, 2010
After a refreshing mid-week snow day free of classes and meetings, this was a pretty busy weekend… full of rescheduled meetings and, of course, all work I had put off in anticipation of cancelled classes. On top of that, Friday was spent at the LGBTQ retreat, followed by a rather tense e-board meeting, which for some reason we thought this would be a good idea after 4 hours of conflict resolution and True Colors (I always turn out to be a green-gold, and apparently it says a lot about me… not sure what my friends mean by THAT). Saturday I was up at 7am for a flea market excursion in the deathly cold weather, followed by an aquarium visit with Kayla’s family and best friend, Morgan (one of our future housemates!). The picture today is one of those fake Polaroids made using an iPhone app, which I’m having way too much fun with… there are about a million different photo apps available to download, apparently. I’m only sorry that while playing around with it, I forgot to take a picture of the penguins — Kayla was overjoyed at the sight of them, probably more so than her younger siblings and cousins. She even has a giant stuffed penguin named Professor Svelter, and I’m married to him on the Demarest Family Tree. There was a wedding and everything.
Luckily, Hall Government was cancelled tonight so that the love birds amongst us could spend the evening fornicating, and the rest of us learned about and composed erotic fiction in the Main Lounge (a joint section between Creative Writing and Sex, Sexuality & Gender — it’s a hit every year). You’d think the cancelled meeting would allow for plenty of free time, but somehow I ended up still awake at 1:30, blogging instead of sleeping… I should really work on that, considering I wake up at 6:30 during the week…
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Posted by Lauren Felton
– January 8, 2010
I’m late with this post, and although I don’t seem to have much to do these days I haven’t slept since yesterday and I’m feeling anxious about nothing, as usual. I’ve managed to finally perfect my list of resolutions, though, and this photo is one of the 52 self-portraits I’m supposedly going to take this year (I once attempted the 365 project and made it to day 3, so we’ll see). The editing here was simple enough to do, and the main difficulty I had was actually posing for the shots – the last clone I added in was of me pulling my hair up, a last-minute decision that replaced another clone sitting on the left side of the couch. I shot this one by mistake, but I soon realized it was the only shot that added depth to the image. All the other clones are posed in alignment with the couch, as I was more focused on the actions of each clone, making them look in communication with one another, etc. than anything else. So, I went with the random back-turned, hair-fixing clone. Once I finally replace my ink cartrige, I’ll print this for one of my journals – I promised myself that by the end of the year, I’ll compile the entire 52 weeks project into a 2010 book (even though I have 2 unfinished journals still to work on from previous years).
And now for the resolutions in their entirety (well, minus some others that I’m not going to post):
1. Read 50 books – my standard challenge. I’m on my third book of the year, having just finished Wasted by Marya Hornbacher and The Freedom Writers Diaries with Erin Gruwell. The second I enjoyed (despite my concerns about its authenticity and racial implications), and the first I’m not sure I’d recommend (seems like she wrote the memoir prematurely), though the parts that irked me the most were admittedly due to personal bias.
Also, I’m going to figure out why my booklog isn’t working so the books I read will actually show up somewhere on this site…
2. The 52 weeks project – explained above (Flickr group: here).
3. Finish the journal I’ve been “working on” (read: watching collect dust) and start my 2010 book.
4. Work on some of my eating habits and remember to take my vitamins/calcium… doc says it builds strong bones, who knew?
5. Sleep.
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