this is the other cow i had taken a pic of. this is right outside the boston public library in copley, and also placed where the marathon finishing line is, so i thought that was pretty cute and got a picture of it. sometimes i really hate looking like a tourist, stopping and snapping at locations and such. it just makes me feel kind of like an idiot. EDIT: what was that saying i used to have in my aim profile? something about meeting at the revolving foot of copley? this kind of fits it perfectly xD

this is one of the many cows posted in boston right now, and this was actually taken during my walk to prudential with perverted john from staples. so, in short, i guess this was my one fruitful memory of that day, and i distinctly remember thinking that the swan painted on the cow's stomach looked like the cow was pregnant with a swan. that, or that the cow became carnivore, but i thought the other one was cuter (in a weird way). this is beside the public garden, which is why the swan boat and the bridge is painted on the cow. i still have no idea why these cows are lying all around boston.

FOR JESS!

and this one's for you jess, for cheering me up so much. your comment made me feel so much better. at first i'd thought i'd overreacted to what they said cuz davy said it wasn't a big deal and i just somehow kept feeling strongly that it was. thanks so much jess, even though you're on your trip you make me feel better. this made me think of you so much. thanks so much.

i watch as these leaves drift
my head out the window as you drive
if there is anything about this world
that makes me wish i could breathe
just one more breath, of what significance
you are my one and only,
my everything, my smile,
my eyes when they are closed, they
think of you and they flutter
open to find you with open arms.

warmth is all i've ever asked for.
to shield me from such a lonely place
to hold me when i cry so helplessly
is this okay?
is it okay that you belong to me
is it okay that i've stumbled upon such
a beautiful thing when
we live in such grey reality?

being with you
hearing you laugh
watching you ask me to come to you
that's what matters, the only thing;
the only thing.
hands that brush the hair off my face
and lips that kiss the world away
zutto
you are, always...
that's what matters.
the world can end now
i can care less about tomorrow
just...
relinquish yourself.
let me hold you once more,
kiss you again and again
let me relish in such a joy
let me cry in my bliss, because
baby i love you, because
baby i love you, so much that
these tears cannot express themselves.

you make me wish i was beautiful
wish i was a better person
wish i could give you everything in the world
wish i could hold you and never let go
capture all the beautiful things in the world
and show them to you, zenbu.
but baby all i have is myself.
myself and you, who i will give everything for.
for all the smiles you've given me,
i can only give you all of me, and
pray that it's good enough.

because i love you.

and the 3rd. there was no room to write anything else so i just stuck with the first thing on my mind. i really love him so much.

the second of 3 pics that was edited for our 16-month. it says 6.23.06 in the corner =) and this was photoshopped too to look like a drawing. i've been really into photoshop lately. it just seems so amazing, that it can take completely black spots, equalize the lighting and it looks good as new. ok, next.

i'm back at home now. so bored since mike's at work. i just spoke to peter shortly beforehand and it seems we're still cool, so i'm glad. my place is so excruciatingly hot, and i'm so excruciatingly bored, so nothing to do but post another bunch of pics. this happens to be a pic i edited for our recent 16 month anniversary (yes we celebrate every month) and in the final edit i have "you are my one and only" on the curve of the chair but as a piece of art it looks better like this.

maroon is such
the color of my blood
so distilled in fear i am
helpless in pain, drenched
the rain
relentless and unceasing
offer no hope to
the future, the present
the past hidden in shrouds of doubt
give me sunlight
give me freedom

scores of regrets
immaturity so immense
i can't go on
people hide ugly faces
masks adorned with coins and
jewels and paper bills
things they can hide under
things the rain won't wash
things that will be there when i
open my eyes

the world is an ugly place
i want to disappear, where
darkness will embrace and thought
is unnecessary.
something to hold onto
something to cherish deeply
i can't...

something i can place some faith in
meaningless life gives me such
a meaningless existence
i need to breathe
they won't stop talking
their breath reek of hidden secrets
reek of maliciousness
borderline insanity strikes me hard
and i can't eat, can't breathe
can't live the way things are

somebody stop this
help me
i'm trapped
no escape
they won't stop
make it go away

sexual harrassment.

i can't take this. i can't take this fear. this is fucking bullshit. this post is gonna be fucking stupid cuz i know i'm not gonna make any sense, but to think that most guys are like that is disgusting. how can i be so oblivious?? they were talking about raping me amongst themselves. they were suggesting for one of the guys to get me drunk and just "bag" me. alright, i can take people looking me up and down; it makes me uncomfortable, but i can take that. you don't fucking talk about RAPE. that dude ramone knows i have a fucking boyfriend. jesus christ, people are fucking disgusting.

that doesn't make john (the guy who told me what was going on behind my back) any better. he basically just strung me along to impress this other girl he's trying to get in the pants of. i'd only thought he was only trying to be friendly and wanted my company, but apparently not. everyone has ulterior motives. it's either get in that girl's pants or using her to get in another girl's pants. i am so sickened i want to throw up. i want to go back to court st and take a pair of scissors off the shelf and cut off all their dicks. i'll bet they won't have anything left to think with after that's gone. i just can't believe it.

this is so fucking ridiculous. i get scheduled up at the front desk where i'm not even trained to be, and then to add onto that i get scheduled with all guys. i know they're probably just saying disgusting things to try to show off to each other, and they probably don't mean it, but i'm so fucking disgusted i don't know what to say. i called chris and said forget it, i'm not working for you the week of july 4th, find someone else. i just absolutely can't go back there after they pull off this shit. what the hell do they think i am?

if i kept typing i know i'll just repeat all this junk over and over. i just can't get over it. i wanna kill somebody. chris got all pissed that i called out on her and didn't even bother to answer her phone afterwards. i want to cry. this is the way things fucking are, and i'm just oblivious and naive and stupid. is this the way people were at staples all along? is this the way things are in brighton too? is kindness only a cover for disgusting motives like theirs? i can't type anymore.

i blurred the pic a little more to make it look softer, gentler. the details on the green whatchamacallit under the sunflower makes it look like thorns, and when sharper looks even more threatening, which i thought contrasted with the warmth of the color too heavily. i can't quite think of what else to say. sunflowers seem to come out so pretty, i wonder if it's just the lighting at the time. this was taken while i was at work at staples btw, cuz a customer just came in with a bunch of sunflowers and i asked her if i could take a picture of it. she had it wrapped around in this brown paper bag paper type, and the color matched so perfectly with the yellow of the flowers so i took several with the paper in there too. she was so friendly, the type that seems to always be cheery and doesn't quite get mad. that sort of made my day ^^;; but now, until i have something else to update with, this will be my entry of the day.

for some reason i've gotten into downloading ebook mags and have not been able to stop since. i've moved from downloading just scientific american and national geographic to digital camera world and popular photography, then onto electronic gaming monthly and newtype (even though i have the subscription), and even random playboys and fhms and reader's digests... then finally now i am on JAPANESE mags. i'm downloading vivi, cawaii, seventeen japan, cutie, zipper, popteen, and random other mags respectively called soup, kera, ps, with, and fruits. it's like i'm just d/ling to d/l. OBVIOUSLY i'm not gonna be reading either playboy or the jap mags, though i'm probably providing mike the opportunity for the former
-__-;; the jap mags i'll probably browse through for celebrity faces (i got a vivi with ayumi on the cover) but otherwise, i have no idea what i'm on. i race through phases when i have free time, i guess. although i suppose getting more educated wouldn't hurt either. i have to work in less than 3 hours so i do realize that not sleeping isn't doing me any good, but i am not sleepy at all. which means i'll be half dead at work, which should come in handy might i add. still dying to read the stolen child. i think i remember it was only offered in hardcover, though i thought the soft prints usually come out first?

anyways, mike just bought me a memory card on newegg, 1gb, sandisk xd card, type m. i should be able to keep shooting for a while before memory runs out, and my camera should be compatible with the card since it's fairly new. the card itself was $50. next up, i'm aiming for the vakaadoo case or the stolen child book. price comparison:

• The Stolen Child, $14.37 (paperback), Amazon.com
• Fujifilm FinePix F30, $348.84, digitalfotoclub.com
• holy fuck i'll skip the vakaadoo

revision: i found an ebook of the stolen child, just now! looks like all that's left is the vakaadoo and the finepix f30.

[...]

i was just reading reviews on the f30, so i was away from typing for a while. it really does sound like what i want, with fast shutter speed capabilities and even a flash or no flash comparison of the same shot. and its flash is called "intelligent" flash, supposedly it can determine what level of flash to use depending on how the sensor detects exposure in the surroundings. but still... i paid so much for my last camera, must i gorge myself on another one? with an average of $400? not to mention there isn't a case out for it yet. so maybe either holding off until they release a case at least, or just holding off altogether, until they release the next model. and now, sigh. oh well. helps me save ^__^

EDIT: OMG IN JAPAN THERE ARE CARS THAT PARK THEMSELVES!! my oh my... maybe i would consider driving if some of those came over to america =D

nature has the ability to express beauty in a way that few human souls are ever capable of. that's why i love photo so much. it touches me in such a way that makes me realize how beautiful things are, and in so i aspire to be able to touch other people in the same way, even though i'm still a fledgling. i should take up the passion of singing again though. music was my original passion, it just never got too far because i lack the voice and the money to gain further talent. practice can only gain so much experience, and on top of all that, it takes connections to actually make it out there. so for now, it's a closet dream. you know who i'd like to jam with one day? well actually, i don't know anymore, cuz it used to be utada hikaru but now i'm not so much a fan of her stuff. maybe imogen heap. i would love to be in a band though. i have the vocals to be able to withstand that. i would actually love to sing glamorous sky with nakashima mika. ooh, i do wanna jam with anna tsuchiya. her voice is hardass. wanting to sing with boa is like asking to be outsung. well, for now, i'm a rookie photographer trying to earn wings. i need to trial and error some, same as my singing days.

curling itself to sleep the beige awakens reflection too shiny glasses for homeless rhythm to evolve like feathers of freedom lighting your meal instant departure protruding from earth skeleton of stone keep the light up before the crane goes snapshot today dusty tomorrow and mmm my i like this 'cause

this time i'll remember this time i'll say hey come over here look over there remember that beauty and embrace that glow joy is my faith and time can be joy how ruthless you are my look at the time and i've got to be

spraying the lawns get our legs dry wash the dog wipe car sunny side up passerbys join in laugh an hour before you go hands smoothing folds out imperfect incomplete impolite improper no ask before you sit dear black springs youth impossible unlikely dust like hairy men rain like poland spring

see through clothing make me attractive when no one's looking but yellow clouds love gloating smiling spinning twirling disease is knocking don't look today's your day how about it one ride and whiskers can run faster than you don't fade just float pray love dance lie breathe life truth fate trust men don't watch attention feel like illusion dream how green chair glade dew 88 2 23 05 the best time of my life the best life the best

blue light sleep gentle why how now breathe soft hands warm tears closer soon time ends.

pic of the day is this little adjustment i made for mike, for him to see when he got out of work. technically though, i didn't wake up until AFTER he came back from work, but he wasn't in the room so i just sped my way through everything. i know everything isn't perfect and i stole copyrighted images, but i didn't do a bad job =) i wanted to write maybe to pinocchio diagonally above the kitty and yuki, either in black or white, but i have no scanner so i can't do anything with it anyway. i was a camwhore this afternoon after mike left for work, makeup and everything. wanted to make some use of the pics. supposedly, he's supposed to be getting his car back tomorrow. for both our sakes, i hope so, cuz i really need a more reliable way around everywhere. this is the pdf i ultimately converted it to: LOVEx2.pdf

here's that same pic from before, with a little saturation to make me look darker (bleh...) i really hate editing pics of myself in photoshop but until i get a tan this will do. my pose in this reminds me of ayumi in the forgiveness pv, so needless to say i really liked this pic. umm, i may look too dark though. talk about vain. yep, that's me.

time.
that which toys
that which fades
pray
save us all
before you fall
mind.
houser of our souls
hive of our will
pill--
please cease the war
seize the pain,
kill the masses.
that's what all this
is about, right?
citizens of a totalitarian
utopia, not so utopian
we are the vision of perfection.
our will to defeat
our will to conquer
our will to destroy
shall soon lead us to smiles
to happiness
to impending JOY
despite what we slaughter.
we, the will of GOD
shall create the plague for Him,
shall fill the air with
locusts,
rivers and oceans with
blood and oil, oh precious oil;
for bush, you ingenious man
shall be the 2nd rider from the gates
you are the glorious, the red,
definer of JUSTICE
bringer of death.
you shall lead all into
war and fame, oh we the infamous.
mars/aries shall watch
and REJOICE
their reign has returned;
i can certainly weep
as i laugh at the irony.
thought process
there's no time to pray;
the hands dance too fast.
take the pill to cease the mind
cease the will, so
it cannot be surrendered
take me now.
take me within your arms
and hold me with all your might
just so i might cry
&void my eyes of existence.

...we won't be here long...
love, death is...
a beautiful thing.


"It is probable that over 100,000 people were killed in Afghanistan as Bush rolled into that land to avenge 3,000 American deaths." --John WorldPeace

"A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; but do not harm oil and wine!" --The Horsemen, Revelation 6: 1-8

so i was just saying to jess the other day that i really need to read. in my profile it's written that i already have the stolen child as a favorite book, but it's not, technically, because i haven't read it yet. after reading plot synopses though i really wanted to, so it's currently in queue at the library, around queue 30 or so. it's supposed to be similar to audrey niffeneggar's style of writing, so i'm sure i'd like it. as long as it's no lotr. i feel like i should buy some books, and assemble a collection of the ones i do like, like jess already has. i do realize that a bad habit of mine is to collect and keep everything at "MINT" condition, perhaps it's a sort of ocpd, who knows. jenny can diagnose me with that when she has a license to =) damn that green looks nice with the bg.

pic from 4.02.06 - i'm posting this just so my pics aren't the ones on top. it makes me feel conceited. anyhow, i have this obsession with taking pics of traffic lights and telephone poles, i think looking at them makes me feel like i'm travelling. the sky just so happened to be perfect, so what else can i complain about? the cars would've been better off not being there though, shame. still, it's nicer than my usual, so hey. *shrug*

these two are the ones i like the most out of all the body shots from yesterday, and although they're doubles, i wanted to post bigger versions of them. that sounds kind of arrogant, but since my ipod doesn't back anything up, nothing i could do but upp all the ones i like before i eventually lose them. besides that, they are nice pics. i don't like seeing my profile pic next to pics of myself though. i feel like my face is a sign plastered everywhere. the lighting was great and it made my skin stand out better than usual, just cuz i'm so unusually pale. huh, i'm listening to boa. odd.

after everything, i had to post this. this was at canobe lake park right after we went inside and got our stamps. so this pic was our very own power ranger type thing. my hand is obviously the lightest one, and the one to the right of that davy's, jess's is the one with a hairband and she's wearing that blue skirt, i think the one next to davy's and jess's is mike, and the one next to me and jess's should be jenny's. though that looks sort of chubby for jenny... i would've thought it was mike...

EDIT: O__o;; my mistake. blue skirt is jenny. then who's the other 2 that i wasn't sure of? shiiiiit.... btw... the date the pic was taken was 8/21/05. this is not this year. august of last year when mike's mom got tickets from work.

2nd edit: i figured it out. clockwise from hair tie: hair tie is jenny, then mike, then davy, then me, then jess. i figured it out.

it's beautiful isn't it? the original was okay too, but i really wanted to edit it. my baby's asleep now, i think he was annoyed that i was posting so much. shoot, i'm annoyed that i'm posting so much. i can't help it though. a PHOTO BLOG! i wanted to do this so badly. and now i find something that offers it for free! it's a phase, i think. i know i'll find a hobby more interesting, just like how i threw out burning dvds for this as a hobby. i wonder... if i made it black and red, would that make it look apopcalyptic? i should give some of these a try.

no reason why i took this. i've always been obsessed with unfolding folded book corners. it's a habit i develope from sitting through 6 hours of school doing nothing with imbecile teachers.

this is, actually, my toothbrush. i thought the play on shadow was cool. but then i didn't notice there was an "EBAY" logo behind it, so overall, it's just a funny image. for me. plus i wanted to see how fine the bristles would turn out.

no particular reason why i took this. i thought the striped denim and the laces would turn up well, but it turned out okay. nonetheless, pattern and symmetry is pretty altogether, so i decided to post it. watch, i'll have an average of 50 posts a day. i wonder if the logo of the shoe should've been in the pic. whatever.

this is sort of nostalgic for me, to take a pic of this. umm well... actually this smirnoff bottle was the batch molina bought for us... but i love the way the color behind the glass showed up. it's not all that good and i know my technique is poor, but i just love how the lighting is centered too.

just thought i'd seen this type of pic somewhere before. probably on ps2 mags or articles, but probably a lot cleaner than this too. our ps2 wireless controller's all dusty and up close it looks even worse. i also liked it upside down a lot better than the right side up, although that was entirely unintentional anyway.

wow, this pic looks like a horrible outlook on life. at first i wanted to turn em around and take pics of the un/sharpened sides, but the color of the erasers made for a nicer contrast to the wood. i didn't notice that broken eraser there, which looks so depressing with the other bunch. i also noticed that these blogs don't have the currently listening to type thing. kind of depressing, but i think for them this whole thing is a visual thing, and 'blogging' is for the public to see, hence no private option.

well, to end today's crazy blogging phase here's a pic of my old journal, before the age of the blogs. the spine is ripped off, which could explain it looking like a rotten piece of log. i'm still amazed how detailed it comes out. that used be to some sort of a photo journal; i would find pics of things i liked, then print them out at school (bls, with their nice ass thermal printer) and do a cut and paste into the journal pages. it was nice while it lasted, but it was also messy. the writing was neat, which was about all that mattered. for a while, that thing was all me and lily did in our study periods; it was about anime, and cutting and pasting into our journals. i wonder if that was also the year i started failing everything. i don't remember now, but reminiscence can be harsh sometimes. somehow i want to post more cuz i'm still just so amazed. is there a space limit? is it still 300mb if i post on hello? i'll need to find out, before i resume this craziness. being jobless can bring too much boredom, but i guess this will be part of what i do daily while mike's at work.

whew, finished. that's the halloween '05 pic of me in the half angel half devil costume, and bgcolor removed! that took forever and it turned out like crap so i won't boast about it but it does bring out the saturation in my skin tone more. i wasn't sure whether i should take out the color inside the frame of the wing but decided against it. well actually, i did it and it turned out crap so i decided against it. figured it could pose as sort of a fairy wing effect too. or that's just being lazy trying to talk out of it. the fur was hard to do. which is also why i ended up doing a crap job, but whatever. i'm happy with the result.

i just found this one on the desktop and decided to post it, just for the sake of it. that's the best i've ever been at photoshop, which is probably sad to most people but i thought it was cool anyway. i removed color for the background and thought it would bring the foreground out. it would be even cooler if we were wearing red. actually... that just gave me an idea. i'll go and try another one on someone wearing a red outfit. i think i remember this one took about 2 hours to do. i just suck at photoshop.

and these are the shoes i've been obsessed with/wearing the past few days. they hurt like hell and i can barely walk but they're so damn cute! okay, yes, this is the only thing i can think of to write about. but since i got started on materialistic things i figured i might as well. i mean shoot, if it comes down to it i'll just take pics of the anime collection and show that. i feel like a kid in show and tell. sigh.

OK.

time for some serious blogging now. with all those crazy posts maybe i'm finally warmed up to the new account. and in any case, i thought, hey, what would happen if i linked to another site's pic that's bigger than the frame border allows? well, we'll see. after this pic i'll edit the post to write more but i want to find out the answer to that first.



ouch, not pretty. i had to go to another site and grab the same pic but smaller off that instead. i really need to learn how to do a resize option on pics, but toggling with it probably won't do me any good. let's see how this looks now. btw, that's the vakaadoo case i wanted. it's a hard case for my ipod, and i'm using a silicone one now. jess liked me case upon seeing it, but upon touching it she withdrew her comment haha.

maybe i'll make this sort of like a wishlist post. there are too many things i want though, so indulging myself in material desires is probably not the best thing to do when i'm this broke. but like i said, i am working 2 days next week. and i also wonder where i'm supposed to pick up my check this week. i suspect brighton, but i hesitate to go there. anyway, since i have the link and pic now, this is the new vers. of the finepix i have, that i want. it averages around $400 and i think the cheapest i can get it now is like... $320 or so. maybe more, i can't check for specifics but the quality for the new cam is supposed to be better. it now does night shots at iso 3200 which is supposedly a breakthrough. pic:



okay, so that looks kind of choppy resized down, but hey, not as bad as stealing the pic from cnet! the cnet pic was a transparent gif and it ended up showing the bgcolor of the table for the post around the camera instead, and that looked even more choppy =T and in any case, i think this looks fine. so where was i? something around iso 3200, that's all i remember. this one has more presets, 9 i think? with a new camera i'll probably need at least 1gb of memory for point-and-shooting. on top of those purchases i would still have the ps3 on my wishlist. hopefully, i'll get jess's job, and then i can start saving up to get crap. for the most part, i just want accessories for my ipod and probably accessories for the camera. a memcard is definite, i guess. he just said that i'm posting a lot, which i am, but it's like i'm warming up into this. it's just... nothing else better to do, and it feels good to look at my own blog. MY OWN. i don't know. and typing feels pretty productive too. guess i'll stop for now, but when i can think of something else to write i know i'll be back.

EDIT: umm.. it bothered me eventually. i upped it to imageshack and hosted it there instead.

ok, so those were wayy old too... but i can't help myself =( it's just good to be able to show off some good pics i took, or some good pics taken, whichever. i think this blog will be more of a journal type thing, whereas LJ will be my sole private blogging one. or i could just use that doc that i put a password on, but everyone knows what my pw is anyway. sigh. well, on the bright side, most people don't care to know what i'm thinking, so that's good enough for me.

cool lighting.

that angle makes her eyes look beautiful. well she has beautiful eyes anyway, but i would love to do her makeup again, cept do it the way i do my makeup now. this pic of her reminds me of BoA during her 1st jap album somehow.

gahhhh!! so pretty! gosh if someone can take a pic of me like that~~ i think the angle and lighting really makes it look like a jacket cover. maybe we can make a cd of all amateurish stuff =D and her expression of course. she would make a fine model.

nice lighting, makes it look studio again.

studio.

studio studio studio

although... maybe this one looks better. shouldn't have posted that one then. her expression looks more mellow in this and it makes it look more mature, somehow.

this is one of the pics i am soo proud of. i think it makes it look really studio, when in fact it's just a cheap shot. x] i think the mirror makes it look like a movie set or maybe an album cover or something.

ok i know those were old pics but i really am getting carried away. this is such a nifty option! at one point in time or another i was actually willing to invest in buying a domain and blogging that way, so i actually get some decent space for pictures. pics are the most important part to me, just cuz it's so much easier to describe a moment with them, and... words can't quite do justice sometimes. beauty is beauty. there is nothing more stunning than visual beauty. i guess that's just how shallow i am, but jess and i had arrived at that conclusion yesterday anyway. color makes one shallow, haha. potato tomato.

haha jess is a bunny.

and this one looked cute.

cuter...

i thought this one made me look cool.

don't i look like nakashima mika from NANA when she's half nekki? my legs aren't really skinny at all though. i wonder how that pic managed to make me look like a stick.

and that's my profile pic. last one for now, since i'm getting annoyed at myself for being so excited over something so small. i wonder why the border on the pics are black and not the green that's on the blog normally, but i guess maybe this thing generates html that overwrites that... so it's got to be in the tag. maybe i can edit it or whatever, but honest to god i think it looks pretty good. i can't decide whether it looks better than the green, but good enough, plus i don't really care.

my ipod cord. this looks cool with the orange in the back. how does the super focus make it look like professional pics? i don't get it.

it's the mic. but it almost looks like a face. well not really. umm... it could be a person with a hat?

here's one i just took this morning while talking to jess... i thought it looked kinda cool, but the red on the lcd came up kinda creepy, so at the time of shooting i wasn't sure whether i should keep this. anyhow, this is a fake rose that everybody got on valentine's from eric at staples. well not everyone, just the females. if only i still had that napkin rose from that guy at staples...

FLYSWATTER. looks almost like the birdie from badminton though, but it's not. from what jenny said, this thing supposedly has fly blood on it. i... don't see anything, even close up like this.

this is a repeat, but this is the twister blankie. i thought the stitching looked cool so i decided to take a pic of it. turned out much better than i expected. it looks like a baseball's stitching. but they could be roads for the miniature people too =)

colonies of little people? huts and stuff? the little dust could be people. maybe in a matrix like world. anyway, this is the top of mike's slippers. i think those flat ones are ones that broke off from wear. it really does look like a bunch of people sitting or crowding around something though. which is COOL. haha.

here's one i didn't post earlier. it's the end of the rope to my shoes, and i thought the little "hair" at the end made it look kinda cool. maybe i should've taken it against a different background than the floor, but ehh. oh did i mention they were fumigating the house today? to get rid of flies. i got reminded of it because i just remembered taking pics and flies kept buzzing around me everywhere.

alright, here's another shot at this blogging pic thing. apparently i was dumb and hadn't known that you could do this, so shame on me. i guess i'll have to bear with the fact that repeated pics are going to be in several entries. wow, free image hosting. this is better than linux's imageshack (i hope?) with no drawbacks? anyhow. i think this pic makes me look sleepy, but my nose turns out good in the pic.