woozle

In going through all these photos, I found this forgotten role of 120 film that had a bunch of pictures of David and Willa Marie, back from when she was just a tiny woozle and not the big imaginative talking woozle she is now. This role of film is why I wish I could get my Mamiya fixed, and actually afford to get the film developed.




Medium format is just plain better! Gah!

because i like pictures

It's Saturday night and I have been video taping horse shows in the 100 degree Burbank heat all day (not the sort of thing I thought I would be doing with my MFA), and I've been scanning all these old pictures for Rachel and Alexis and they got me thinking about pictures. I haven't posted any from the summer, so here are some of my favorites:

CHERUBS


the faculty (minus Caleb, who urgently had to go to the gym): Jim, Dusty, Adam, Kevin, Glen, Kevin, Melissa, Joe, Marci and me. I LOVE THESE PEOPLE.


me, Joe, Adam and Glen


faculty dancing... don't let the kids see! (oh wait, there's a kid in there too)


Glen, Marci and me


Dusty, Anthony (one of my advisees) and Joe


4 good kids and Joe: Simon, Jacob, Sam, and Claudia


Ben Ratner (far right) shooting his movie on the Lakefill, with Chicago in the background


Emily (on ground) shooting her project in Tech with an audience of kids from the Center for Talent Development


Kevin at the White Sox game


Adam and Kevin


Brokeback Mountain starring Jim and Kevin!


Melissa, Glen and Adam, bored while chaperoning the "mixer"


FRIENDS AND FAMILY


Pat, me, M-Dep, Tim, Jack, and Kat at a White Sox game


Nat's henna tattoo


Alec and Natalie on a spinny ride


Kane County Fair and midwestern clouds


Jennifer and Avelyn visit


Jamie and Avelyn play


Jessica and Willa Marie, 4th of July on the Lakefill


Jack and Kat at Jack's last public observing session with the Dearborn telescope


Jack is a nerd

Sadly, I have no pictures of Tim, Pat and my drunken viewing of Mamma Mia!, but trust me, the memories are priceless.

Soon I will put up some pictures from Camp and oh hey, maybe tell you something about it. I am deplorably behind in this respect, and I'm sure you're all on pins and needles waiting to hear whether Dad and I won the Trivial Pursuit tournament.

random things on wednesday

a) I'm trying to grow my nails out, and in the process of doing this I have become utterly fascinated with them. I've never tried to grow them out before! I've never wanted actual nails! My nails are weird and squarish, just like my hands, so I always figured they looked better short. But anyway, I'm trying not to bite them, and it makes me feel like Sister Bear in The Berenstein Bears and the Bad Habit, where they put tape on her nails to get her to stop biting them. Except with me it's nail polish- mustn't consume toxic chemicals and all.

b) Do you think they will ever add a president to Mt. Rushmore?

c) A list of famous people who have died this summer, so far:
Michael Jackson, Farah Fawcett, Karl Malden, Billy Mays, Robert McNamara, Ed McMahon, Steve McNair, Frank McCourt, Walter Cronkite, Arturo Gatti, David Carradine, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, John Hughes, Ted Kennedy, and Dominick Dunne. Geez!

please don't kill me with your eyes

Now that I am back in LA, every day on my way to the gym I drive past this poster at the Pantages Theater, and I want to find some mace to spray in those giant, terrifying eyes:



I don't understand who thought this was an attractive picture, one that would make people want to see this godforsaken musical adaptation! She sort of reminds me of Rachel McAdams in Mean Girls plus Linda Blair in The Exorcist.

Oh, how I miss the days when the poster to drive past was the fairly benign and actually rather graphically clever Wicked poster.

geez!

So, I bought a dress. It is a little dressy for Rachexis' wedding, but most of that will be at night, so I'm ok with it, plus as Jonny says you always need to dress for the dressier event of the two. For Jack and Kat's wedding it will have to have a sweater or something over it cause it's strapless, but whatever. Sweaters are good because they cover up my fat arms.

ALSO Deirdre emailed us 1 Brown girls today to tell us that she and Karl are getting married next August, and Kate/Stuart are officially getting married Labor Day weekend 2010, and Jarrod and Amelia are getting married, and Richard and Jada presumably will be getting married sometime in the next year. Conclusion: HOLY CRAP, WEDDINGS. Hopefully one of those other weddings will be appropriate for me to wear this dress again.

Plea to Jarrod and Richard: PLEASE DON'T GET MARRIED NEXT AUGUST/SEPTEMBER OR I WILL DIE.

oh bother, now i'm sad.

I'm looking through my boxes upon boxes of photographs from high school and college- really, I have no idea why my parents put up with me spending so much money on film and processing- and I found this, and I wanted to cry:



Can I please go back to college?

another list

Differences Between Working On Films and Teaching Preschoolers:

1. Reaction to the phrase "Look how deep my hole is!"
Teaching Preschoolers: "Wow! Can you see the other side of the world?"
Working On Films: "That's what she said."

2. Reaction to lunchtime:
Teaching Preschoolers: Is it over yet?
Working On Films: Sweet!

3. Primary Materials With Which Things Are Built:
Teaching Preschoolers: Legos, sand, tape.
Working on Films: Metal, wood, tape.

4. Meaning of the phrase "I can't find the sticks!":
Teaching Preschoolers: lost Lincoln Logs
Working on Films: lost tripod

5. Meaning of the word "dirt":
Teaching Preschoolers: actual dirt, generally smeared all over children
Working on Films: sandbags