next, please

You know those signs, "Today is not your day. Tomorrow isn't looking good either"? Well, I feel like I keep whacking into one after another lately.

7/52

Another week, another photo. I got a lot of great shots in Quebec City. I'm excited to really go through & edit them all! There will be quite a few more photos from this trip I'm sure. Wandering around the Old Town, I just loved these Maple Syrup buckets outside Le Cochon Dingue, filled with berries & pine needles. Here's my favourite shot of them.

6/52

I'm a little behind with this week's post since I was in Quebec City still until late Monday. Thankfully for Quebec City, I have a bunch of photos that don't involve myself to edit. Here's just one from my weekend at Carnaval. I love Bonhomme!

5/52

You're so vain. You probably think this song is about you. 

So, I know lately almost all of my photos have been EXTREMELY narcissistic. & yeah, I do take a lot of selfers, but my winter photography has been pretty dull lately. Between work & my huge class homework load & about a million other things I've got on my plate right now, I just haven't had time for a good photo sess. That, & I'm longing for a really nice lens & for apple to fix my external hard drive. Seeing as I don't have the money for the first & I don't have the time (2 more weeks, baby) for the second, I've got every excuse under the sun for my pathetic photographic attempts of late. Quebec city is next weekend, so I'll hopefully get some shots I'm happy with then.

My photo this week is flannely again (sorry it's been cold again!). I like this series of photos a lot, but the lighting really bugs me. It's bringing my need for some better editing software to my attention. I really don't like over edited photos very much & I don't want something stolen off the internet, so I'm biding my time until I can afford what I really want. Until then, I'll have to suck it up. & take technically better photos. Maybe avoid giant light sources in the background...

Now that I've totally torn my choice to shreds, here you go! (In the end, I still really love this photo. Flaws & all!)

the last unmarried

Clearly I am a terrible person. Or, at least, I am self-involved, petulant and petty. One of my best friends calls to tell me that she is engaged - something I have anticipated for awhile - and, while I am happy and excited for her, upon hanging up all I can think about is myself.

I just can't help stacking her relationship against mine and feeling badly. Her and her boyfriend-now-fiance haven't been together as long as myself and mine. But they moved in together a year ago. I thought that was the plan for us this spring, but after much discussion it has been decided that, in fact, it's not. They seem to be moving along the conveyor belt of monogamy so expertly. Why do I feel like I'm just scanning tabloids in the slowest check-out line?

A ring for so-and-so! - So-and-so tie the knot! - Yes, we're having a baby! Exclusive details inside.

I get the headlines from all my friends. And yes, I know that every relationship moves at its own pace. And yes, I know there are legitimate reasons for why my relationship is at the place that it is. And I don't feel like marriage makes sense for me right now. And I think it's perfectly reasonable, at this stage in my life, for that to be so. But still!

There was a wave of weddings, then a wave of babies. Now the second wave of weddings is cresting. I want those things. You know ... eventually. In the meantime I'd like to feel reassured of eventually. I feel like eventually has arrived already for so many other people and I wonder when it will be my turn. And I get the distinct feeling that somehow the people behind me in line are cutting ahead, and I can't quite catch them at it, and I don't know that there's anything I can do. I just have to suffer waiting. And sometimes I just get tired of waiting. I feel like I'm going to be the last unmarried, and I don't think I like it.

faulty parrallelism

ugggh, writing techniques is infiltrating my life! i just went back and edited my last post because of faulty parallelism (my assignment this week is on the subject). I'm not sure if I edited it correctly, but if it's still incorrect, at least it's less obviously incorrect. Damn you, correlative conjunctions!!