An uneventful, but gorgeous, day.

"I don't want no paper gangsta."

I heard that particular lyric quite a few times today, courtesy of my lovely office mate Liz.  She's hip with the music stuff, while I am really not.  ...Unless you count the fact that I know a lot of random Japanese from listening to my very large J-Pop/Anime OST collection (Cowboy Bebop "ELM" = love).  I certainly don't.

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Some things from Etsy I love/wish I could afford/want some sugar daddy to buy me:

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It has ceased to be 90% humidity and 100 degrees here in eastern PA, so today had me wishing I worked construction, just so I could be outside.  In the summer that's rare for me to say--I'm what you would call "hateful of the heat."  Today it didn't get over 85, and the humidity was a nice, low 41%.  Tomorrow will be more of the same, so my pasty white butt will be trekking to Longwood Gardens, in historic Kennett Square.  Longwood is the East Coast's largest arboretum, and is a wonderful place to check out not just plants, but architecture and people, too.  Every time I'm there, from Spring till Fall, weddings are taking place.  Check it out on Flickr, you might be impressed!  I'll be uploading some shots from there if all goes well.  For now, a summer shot I took out of my office window at sunset (fear my weedy lawn!!, and sorry for the screen distortion!) and my uber new alt on WoW, Quynlyn (Draenei shaman).  Have a good Friday night, everyone!

New lens + TICKET PRINTING CHAOS

"The BOCA ticket printer is a BEAST."

This week at work we began printing out what is going to end up totaling 35,000 tickets.  So far we've printing 13,713 - we have three more days to print, check and rip apart the rest.  Wooowwee!  No small feat.  To show the severity of my plight for the remainder of the week, I submit exhibits A and B:

(Please note that my desk is NOT usually this messy.  The cute Hollywoods hanging on the wall are always there, however - as well as about 1/100th of my anime figure collection.  Yes, I nerd.)

Needless to say, it's a monster.

Moving on!  I received from B & H Photo today my new Sigma 10-20mm lens, and I am thrilled.  I don't quite know what I'm doing with it and I've only been able to do a small test run today on my way home from work - let's just say I will need a lot of practice!  But I'm hopeful, and if you're not too afraid, please do check out my test shots.  Enjoy!

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MY 10-20MM DEBUT

 Yes, I now have one of these fun tree shot thingies too!

Look...just look at my cute shoes!