I've always been interested in photography. And I've been wanting a camera for so long now. Epiphany: I have a job now, let's buy one.

I went to a photography class of sorts today. It had two segments: one about a little trick in Adobe Photoshop and the other about the Gigapan System. All around the room hung photos by senior photographers. I mean seniors in the sense of kohai and sempai, not that they aren't also actual seniors in age(grandpas) which they are. Anyway, after the one hour session, I went up to the teachers to ask this question: For an amateur photographer just starting out, would it be better to get a DSLR or a point-and-shoot? (DSLR = the cameras that have a mirror and many lenses to switch around for any wanted effect; e.g. Nikon D40 / point-and-shoot = your usual digital cameras with one lens and set zoom of 3x, 6x, etc.; e.g. Nikon CoolPix)

What I understood from the short answer I was given and the amused look constituted this: look at your budget. If you can spend $500 or more, get the DSLR. If not, get the point-and-shoot.

Problem is, I also have specific kinds of pictures I want to take. Things that I get a feeling that I like and is different, my style. But I also want to just buy a CoolPix and have a camera already! I have a co-worker who bought a CoolPix for $135 or so and the other guys were basically saying he could have gotten it cheaper. That's right up my alley. I don't think I can buy in the $500 range; as much as I would like to take the photos I want.

So the choice is between Nikon CoolPix or Nikon D40. Cost is a big deciding factor.

i REALLY want the D40...

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Way old update.

Last week, my glasses broke. Shocking, yes, I know. I wear glasses. PLease, close your mouths, it's not attractive. Anyway, I am wearing my contacts so I am perfectly fine. Getting new glasses soon. And I had a rebate thing for free Acuvue so I'm getting contacts, too.

Couple of days later, my cell phone screen cracks. Still haven't replaced it yet. Was going to get a new phone, but the one I want is three hundred bucks, plus my dad's a cheapskate. >.>

Starting to talk-type quick. Short sentences. Master is home and will kill if caght typing-onlappie-online.

Bye!

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My heart has skipped a beat before. At one time, it was the first time it happened, then, it happened again. Maybe three times in total it's happened so far. All within...the last two-three years? Yeah, I should really go use that referral I got from my doctor to go to a cardiologist. Except I kinda...lost it. Well, I still have the cardiologist's business card. I can call him and make an appointment, then get another referral from my doctor, and bring it in on my appointment. There, I made a plan. Now to put it into action.

I'm thinking about it now because I'm watching a piece on the human heart on PBS. About heart failure, heart attacks, and the resulting strokes. The heart pumps=RVD (right ventricle), LVD (left ventricle), B?VD (both ventricles). Heart transplants. The kids with heart problems, sudden cardiac arrest. A college student who had never had any heart trouble suddenly dropping to the floor and is basically dead for 10 min. He ends up getting an implantable defibrillator.

I need to get checked out. Not only has my heart skipped a few times, there's also heart arrhythmia--it's happened a couple of times. Also within the last two-three years, I suppose. It quickened or dawdled a millisec. too long, I suppose, but it's happened.

Not to worry, it's still what I would call rare. Maybe it was within the last four years or so. I don't have such a great sense of time passage these days. =P

So yes, yes, I'll go make that appointment soon. ^-^

Oh! I have an update for my schedule~! Banquet next week. Volunteer, of course. Everyone else has an assigned task after today's meeting. Only mine is not specifically fundraise-oriented. I'm what she (the one in charge, my 'auntie') calls her personal secretary/assistant. *eyeroll* All it means really is I'll be on call all night. *shrug* No difference. I've been to many many many fundraisers before; I know exactly what to do, and no duh I'll keep myself busy all night.

If there's a lull, I'll be giving subtle--hopefully my temper and patience will keep it subtle--directives to the volunteers. >.>If you can call them that. I am in high school; I am braver and take more initiative than these college 'volunteers'. What are they--twelve? I had more courage than they do when I was twelve. I was doing this stuff already--and more! Goodness me.

Haha, there was a little time for practice today towards the end of tonight's meeting. It was for the ushers to practice escorting the guests, honored individuals, and officials to there table. None of them could think of a way to do it on their own. Is it so hard to make a little 'small talk' during the thirty sec. it takes to get from one table to the next? We made it clear, there are only a few things you want them aware of--three things really--while being polite. Is that just so hard? *gasp* It must be!

Oy vey, whatever. Night-night, dears! Toodles! *blow kiss* theDot

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Insensitivity.

The part of Mulberry Street by Columbus Park in Chinatown has a number of funeral homes. So it's not unusual (far from it) to have funerals down that same block since that's where the wakes, etc. take place and the coffins go to the hearse. So what's with the HONKING?! Shut. UP! God damn it.

Insensitivity.
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Part Two

Y'all know about the temper tantrums right? Not mine, but you-know-who's. >.> So yes, next bout of anger has secured several things in close future.

1.) She's a bit worried about her job. She's suspicious about school attendence. She doesn't want to get fired.

=every morning takes me to school, then takes herself to work
"KIll two birds with one stone." That way she won't be late and she'll be sure of MY whereabouts.

2.) Hehehe, this is a funny one. Okay, not really. Remember that volunteer thing next week? Hehehe, her decision

=I'M NOT GOING. she say's 'Final decision.' Who knows if it is. What else? 'You're never going to do any more of that stuff. I'll call [your auntie] and tell her you're not going.'

Oh, wow. No volunteer work. You realize this is supposed to be punishment. Does that mean she's finally realized I like doing that stuff? I mean, come one, I've been doing it for years. If she has, why hasn't it changed her...perspective of me.

Oh, have I told you? A new revelation. It came a few months ago.

Mom: I don't know if you're a good or bad person.
Me: (Oh. She's finally said it...)

Whih basically means that if we were to go to trial and my mother comes up to the stand...

Lawyer: You're her mother. (subtext: You understand her best.) Do you think she did it?
Mom: I don't know. She could have. (Maybe on the raping, killing, dismembering a man and burying his parts in her grandfather's grave.)

Fuckin' bitch. Excuse my language.

Oh, and she had recently sort-of relented a bit on her NO TV declaration. I watched MYSTERY: Inspector Lyndley last Sunday and a few shows las night. Guess what? Zzzzzzp! Gone. ^-^ How wonderful.

Later dears.
theDot

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I got my new glasses today. I don't like 'em. Much. T.T

Well, a'right. They ain't that bad. But I never disliked my glasses before...I just put 'em on, got used to the new 'look', and that was that. This time...I guess I liked the frame because it's a long rectangular frame and suited my bone structure, but the lens annoy me. For one thing, they're thicker than I'm used to and they give my headaches. Mother says that if they still give me problems tomorrow, we'll go back to the shop and tell them. See if we can lower the prescription or something. Problem is, the lenses cost more than the frames because of the prescription so I'm wondering if it'll cost another __bucks to get new ones, y'know? (Not that the frames were expensive, my mother's was more expensive--Emporio Armani. Thaaat's right. Always best for her, not as good for me. Heck, she got Transition Lens last time. And top-half frames. >.>)

Ehh, I'm outta here. Night.

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*groan* Oh, god. Sooo not a good idea. I was hungry, took out the grill (no microwave), toasted up the bread on the stove, ate it. It's wreaking havoc on my digestive system. Ow...

renaye-dear: Vampyre is so overused.
LostSoul13: BLOOD! Yay. XD
Nuttz: Mm, it is. Just throw the liquid all over and BAM! youre done. =P
randomjunk: Haha, whatchu gonna be?
invisible: I dunno which to pick...

Plus, I might just go as a 'princess'. Renaissance, Elizabethean, victorian, that sort of thing. Except goth is more likely since I have no idea where I'd get the renaissance stuff or when I'd have time to pick it up. I just have to find some accessories. And go through my 'closet'--I technically don't have one since the one we do have is filled with my ma's junk. Oh, pick up a few things from Ricky's, too. That's a store by the way, not a friend's house/place. So yeah, less hassle.

I think. *sigh* I have so much to do! And not just for Halloween! Ahhhck.
Ack. >.>

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...for eggs. And I don't know why. I want really nice fluffy eggs. Big pieces with scallions and tomatoes and maybe ham and onions and just really yummy eggs! I want eggs! I want!

Ugh, I'm hungry. I'll probably empty my cup of Pepsi's answer to Sprite and go to sleep.

But I want eggs...

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SAT. This week(end), on saturday. T.T

I'm so unprepared. I think. I don't really know my skills, er, academicly for this test. So I'm going to figure that out. Sometime tonight or tomorrow and hopefully be prepared for Saturday. Whoo...

p.s. Don't worry. I don't think I'm that stupid. But just in case, please don't jinx me by making me think even lower of myself. I need to feel tip-top shape so please PLEASE keep the negativity and any lectures for later, after.

Thanks. XD *sigh* Whoo...*smile*

--Scratch that. I know I'm not that stupid. It doesn't mean I'll be foolish enough to go without studying. That's just idiotic. So...keep that promise I put up there and I promise I won't complain or cry or get defensive or scream at you when you take a go at me afterwards. I'll be the perfect submissive child under your barrage of words. ^-^ Thanks.

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