um. whatever.

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A couple of days ago I was screwing around with my old digital camera (the DimageX) and took this photo of myself.

4:30pm yesterday I was at work not at all happy about the fact that it was sunny outside and that it was going to rain all weekend. Instead of cry about it, I cut out of work early and climbed breakneck so that I could enjoy and do the outdoor thing before the weather turned ugly. Now, I can hear you saying "Graham, you go hike Breakneck everyday it seems. You could just repost the same entry everyday and achieve more or less the same effect as you do my reporting it here." So I am going to make two observations which are unique to this particular hike:

1. I jumped off this railing and landed on my foot at the wrong angle and hurt my ankle a the very beginning of the trail. Undaunted I shook my head and continued.
2. In January a hiker went missing on the very same trail and for some reason the past two times I climbed Breakneck this year it didn't cross my mind. This time I did the hike alone and I started thinking about it coming down the backside and it was kind of creeping me out.

When I got home from Breakneck Ridge, my foot was hurting bad, which surprised me because it didn't really bother me on the trail itself.

Today I got up and did the laundry and then drove up to Dutchess where I asked Sarah to photograph me for a website that I am working on. Here are a couple of test shots she took with my new digital camera: Then I met Joe and Cicely at the movie theater where we saw Sin City, which I will probably write about in a bit. Dinner was at this place that I had never been to before called Ümani café^® (incidentally I am learning my HTML ampersand character codes). It was good food. Cicely said that she was feeling old because she can remember a time when they just played music before a movie. I feel old because my last birthday in the 20s is this year and because I keep composing sentences in my head which use the word lamenting. It's silly though, because I'm not at all old and anyway, you are only as young as you feel.

I was looking at the Australian notes that I had brought back with me in February and I noticed that the $5 bills no longer have the Queen on them It's funny because it is the sort of thing which I used to always notice. I was passing these polymer notes for a month and never really looked at them closely.

The DacLounge

I also took a picture of my home because lately I have been feeling awfully affectionate with the place. Funny that I choose to photograph the lounge, because I have been practically living in the computer room lately.

I was on my feet all day. I didn't get to sit and chill until I got home at 9pm.

Comments

[onehundredways.livejournal.com]

your floors are so much nicer than mine. hardwood or pergo? either way i'm jealous.

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Hardwood. It was one of my requirements when I was looking for an apartment this time. I love the floors in this place. Apparently it used to be carpeted before I moved in, I am so glad that they decided to rip it out.

[hijinks-ensue.livejournal.com]

ooooh i love hardwood. my apartment was renovated right before i moved in, so the carpet is brand new, but the guy downstair's also recently renovated apartment has pretty hardwood and i am horribly jealous.

[onehundredways.livejournal.com]

i have hardwood floors throughout the downstairs (well not in the kitchen, but i put new vinyl down in there) but they're in bad shape, desperately needing refinishing. plus they're the skinny little boards and i like the larger ones much better. wait, is it lame that i even have such a preference? but this is the first time in my life that i've had hardwood floors so i should just shut up and be happy.

[hijinks-ensue.livejournal.com]

amanda and i were just discussing how pleased we are that you are becoming more self-indulgent with the pictures you post.
(what a crepe i am! let me talk about you and then tell you i was just talking about you!)

i like the second of the three portraits :-)

[plicease]

Yes. You have created a monster.

btw- what is this: 半? I assume it is Japanese?

[hijinks-ensue.livejournal.com]

yessss! my plan is working! you will be one of us soon...


半 is kanji for "half."
i don't know why it is my username.
(ok maybe i know a little, but i'd just sound superemu if i admitted it!)

[plicease]

Interesting. plicease means perfect collaboration, and I think I likewise shall not elaborate.

[onehundredways.livejournal.com]

onehundredways and morethanmockery are both from cure songs.

artful rhetoric is from skinny puppy.

I AM WAY MORE LAME THAN YOU ARE

[onehundredways.livejournal.com]

i like the mirror picture better than the studio ones although i like those too. i guess that's because 1) the nature of all the insane (i first typed inane accidentally but i guess that works too) amounts of candid shooting i've been done lately and 2) i've never been 100% comfortable in a studio. not as a photographer and certainly not as a subject.

it's difficult to be on the other side of the camera, especially when someone else is looking at you through the viewfinder.

this (http://www.livejournal.com/users/onehundredways/26617.html) is the only time someone else's studio photographs of me didn't completely make me want to cry myself to sleep. although they're shitty 4x5 polaroids.

[onehundredways.livejournal.com]

i've been done? nice grammar amanda

[hijinks-ensue.livejournal.com]

it's ok dude i wrote "downstair's" instead of "downstairs'"

[onehundredways.livejournal.com]

hahahah PLURAL NOT POSSESIVE


oh god that's my number one annoyance, it fills me with psychotic rage

[plicease]

My contribution is “Instead of cry about it”

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Oh, I love them!

[onehundredways.livejournal.com]

i wish i had the actual polaroids, but. they were not mine. at least she let me scan them.

[hijinks-ensue.livejournal.com]

those are great, and very you!

[hijinks-ensue.livejournal.com]

i like how sparks makes me put exclamation points on EVERYTHING!


!!!!!!!!

[hijinks-ensue.livejournal.com]

he looks very mischevious in the mirror picture...

[onehundredways.livejournal.com]

oh ps - how did santa and mrs claus score a spot on the australian fiver?


my stereotypical american mentality of thinking paper currency with art and nice colors is like, not real money

[plicease]

Hehe. I never noticed that Henry Parkes looks like Santa Claus. He is the “father of federation” because he unified the seven Australian states into the nation which exists today. I’m not sure who is on the other side. I think she may have been a high court judge or something, based on the imagery.

Before they switched to Polymer notes they had Kingsford Smith on the $20, and I am disappointed that they took him off because he was a way more impressive aviator than Lindbergh.

It is kind of arty money. I used to get a thrill out of looking at the notes when I visited Australia when I was younger.

[onehundredways.livejournal.com]

well um.. i have an australian shepherd? i dunno.


i feel way un-cultured

[hijinks-ensue.livejournal.com]

one of the french bills had le petit prince on it! it was very pretty. i am sad they use euros now.

[plicease]

Is that the Little Prince?

[onehundredways.livejournal.com]

yeah especially since i still have deutschmarks from when i lived in germany like 12 years ago that i never converted to dollars