Last week was the first week of the Fall semester, and it turned out to be quite the week. I’ve found that Physics is going to be astoundingly boring—I’m more or less retaking AP physics with a tiny bit of calculus thrown in—Tech Writing is going to be monotonous, Computer Science II is going to be alright (but time consuming), and Discrete Structures II is going to be pretty insanely hard. On the bright side, I did get some cooler room mates, albeit in a farther-from-everything-else-on-campus room, but enough about that.
Archive for August, 2009
Home Again
Saturday, August 29th, 2009Like a Cat to Water
Thursday, August 20th, 2009My girlfriend is going to USF next week, and so we’ve been working on getting her cat to move into my house, since my family will be around with her more on weekdays. The last couple of weeks we’ve brought her over a couple of times, to get her used to my cat and the house, and today’s visit turned out…interestingly. Lets just say that it was less than completely pleasant.
Assorted Happenings
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009
John behind the RED One
All sorts of fun things happening lately. Today I went and hung out with my friend John, while he was trying out the RED One camera for his next film…and it was a beast. I made some behind-the-scenes sorts of photos of the production folks testing it out, and of course ogled the thing plenty myself. Lately I’ve also gotten the chance to shoot some video, and found that laser tag can be thoroughly amusing.
Good Samaritans
Monday, August 3rd, 2009
One of the nurses (actually posing for a photo) with a patient
Today my church participated in an event for migrant workers and their children at the Good Samaritan Mission out in Wimauma. They had food and some variety of medical care (looked like vaccinations, I think) for the parents, and school supplies, popcorn, cotton candy, and all sorts of festivities for the children. There was face-painting, hair-cutting, magic shows, balloon animals, and all manner of fun. I think they even tried to have a soccer game, but the sun was brutal, and that didn’t last for very long.
Photographs, Photographs, Everywhere
Saturday, August 1st, 2009
My sister, Steffi
So this is definitely going to be the weekend of photographs. Thursday, my sister needed a portrait to print to go try out for modelling. So I set up some lights under the carport, metered, and shot away. I ended up with a shot I was happy with, and went off to print it. Last time I went for a print, I found out that the Wolf Camera I usually use for quick prints (on Manatee Ave.) had closed, and had to drive out to the one on US 41 to get prints made. This time I went out to the US 41 store to find that it, too, has closed its doors. Apparently, charging obscene markup in an economic downturn isn’t a viable business plan. Go figure.