911

Today I realize that there is a lot of reflection going on, but I've kept myself away fromo the mainstream media for the most part. However, It is interesting to think back on what was going on in my life years ago, how things have changed. . . how things have stayed the same.

I'm older, have had a lot of experiences. . . the jury's still out on whether or not I've come out the wiser, exactly, but I definitely have a slightly more mature view of things.

September 11, 2001, I was in my first semester at university, and now I'm in my last. I was ignorant of a lot of things, like the state of the world, the "bigger picture", and how intimate relationships are supposed to work. Now I know a lot more about all those things. It doesn't seem like I'm that much older, but at the same time I feel like those days were a lifetime ago. More like a life stage ago, and there seems to be little difference between the two.

Still in 5 years not much has changed in the world. People—young, innocent, no-so-innocent—are still dying in wars in one place or another. Children are still starving in Africa, and we now have more technological advances to distract us from the reality of the world we live in.

Until the metaphorical flood comes, that is.

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So, Yesterday I went to Pensacola Beach with my dad, 3 sisters, and paternal grandmother. It was raining, but I got some pretty nice photos out of it. I haven't been to Pensacola in forever, because during the summer it's really crowded. Still, despite the weather, yesterday, people were out surfing. I think the weather actually made for a better surf. Good times.

Kendall did this after I showed him the pics from the trip.


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I got my camera back from the Canon Repair Factory last week, and I was pretty happy about that. I bought a 1 gig memory card for it, so I could record more memory. Then, yesterday, I couldn't find my charger, so my battery ended up dying while on the beach. I resorted to using my lil sis and dad's cameras, and got a nice combo of photos.

Today, I looked for my charger again with no success. So I finally went to Best Buy and bought another one. *sigh*. I'll probably find my old one now, as things tend to go. But I couldn't go with a dead camera battery after just getting it fixed. I tell ya, if it's not one thing. . .

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School's going ok. I'm really fighting the pattern of behavior in procrastinating in photography, but not having much luck. Tomorrow is class, and I really need to finish shooting, because our first assignment is due Thursday, and cyanotypes are a time-consuming process.

However, tomorrow, I must get my hair done before class, 'cause it's lookig pretty bad.

I've also a backlog of pics I need to post, so I may just end up making pages for all of them.

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Ok, I'll end it here. There's been a lot of interesting things happening that I haven't blogged about, but I'll try to be more regular with the posts.