It’s the last day before the Spring semester starts, and therefore it’s the perfect day to go through my photos for last week to celebrate the break and mourn its end, and to get ready for new beginnings — and books and class plans and assignments and Diet Coke-fueled grading sessions — well, let’s just concentrate on pictures for now …
Day Eight: Ms. Toklas is certainly happy to be back home.
Day Nine: Sometimes you can kind of coast along and ignore a problem. Sometimes, though, you have to put on your big girl panties and start to fix the problem. Sadly, my problem is sciatica, and it is a major problem because it causes a problem with my favorite thing ever: shoes. I finally big-girl-pantied up and cleaned out high heels that I shouldn't wear again. God bless you, Steve Madden platform pumps. You served me well.
Day Ten: I think I was karmically rewarded, though, because I found out that my bone is healing beautifully. No more crutches! Boot for only four more weeks! That's plenty of time to amass a collection of super-fashionable flats!
Day Eleven: The bad news: it's almost Valentine's Day, Hallmark's hideous Frankenstein monster who pulls its hideous, glitter-coated body out of the black, black depths of a black, black swamp every year to drag helpless singles back down with it. The good news: CANDY!
Day Twelve: One of the things I love most about the 365 project is that it trains you to pay more attention to your surroundings and to look where you normally wouldn't look -- including up.
Day Thirteen: It's been a really long time since I've used the heat in my car. This just reminded me of how happy I am to be back in the South.
Day Fourteen: I will probably post about this later, but I re-decorated my study/office/writing room and it is too awesome for me to handle. I mean, I have two tables. TWO TABLES. It's my dream!
Day Fifteen: If there is one thing I need to learn, it's patience. I'm in the middle of a project right now that takes a ton of it -- putting together a twin reflex camera, out of these tiny, tiny parts. If anyone is betting, I might suggest betting that I'll give up soon.
Day Sixteen: As part of my resolution to live the Free to Be You and Me life, I've finally taken out my old Pentax K1000 to take pictures again. I used this when I was a yearbook photographer in high school; since I got this around the time I read The Inferno and "Rappaccini's Daughter," it's named Beatrice (pronounced BAY-a- tree-chay. Of course.). Pictured is the fab wide angle/macro lens combo I got from Photojojo. I'm remembering how excited I was when Beatrice and I took our first photos all those years ago.
