Critical Digital III

Critical Digital II

Critical Digital I

Back in the day I used to own a sweet little palm pda that had a camera on it. I loved that camera and took hundreds of terrible pictures with it. The low resolution images and lack of flash made things look more "real" in some strange way to me. With my other camera I always try to capture some perfect picture or hyper realism. I am usually frustrated by this. My birthday was last week and I felt like it was okay to reward myself with a little present from Wally World, so I picked up the cheapest digital camera that they had that still came with a view screen. I also picked up a sweet cherry design "camera sock" from the quarter machine outside. Thus begins my new escapade. I plan on (maybe) trying to take pictures of things I see in my everyday life. They probably wont be "good" pictures, but they will illustrate the things that I enjoy. The low resolution means that they wont look so good in any format but tiny. I think that this is good, as it means I have to get the oomph of whatever I take a picture of in a very tiny place. It has to be simple. It has to be obvious. So here is the first batch. If anyone wants me to id the photos then leave a comment and I will let you know and will label them in the future. Thanks to everyone who spoke to me or left me a message on my b. day. Please don't feel bad if we haven't spoken, I know that you love me and hopefully you know I love you. I'm just VERY busy with my 6 classes and such. Much love, and enjoy.

Promises

I've been so incredibly busy with school and work that I have not had any time to blog, which makes me sad. I like blogging. Right now its 1 am and I have to get up for class and work tomorrow, but not too early. Usually I blog more when I'm in school because I procrastinate so much and my blog is pretty easy to use as a distraction. Cornbread is sleeping in the living room now, so he is watching me blog. There are some pretty major things afoot in ole Jeremy's life right now. Stuff with work may be changing. I'm sad I won't get to go to Wilmington to see my Nana this weekend because of work, and I'm also sad that I turn 26 next week. Geez. I started this blog last year right about this time. Isn't it crazy to think that I've done this a whole year? On and off admittedly, but still...

I really would like to keep this going at least another year. I make so many weird promises to myself that I feel compelled to keep. When I started smoking (at 15) I always promised myself I would stop when I was 25, at the time a fairly unimaginably long way away. So when I finally turned 25 I did it. It took me a few months, but I am comfortably calling myself a non-smoker. I'm at a very unique point in my life now (isn't every moment though?) where I am questioning some of my early decisions about things, and questioning what influenced the decisions I made about likes/dislikes, religion, music, exhibitionism (let's face it, that's what this is...). I just keep coming back to the fact that I enjoy it, and that's enough for now. But then again, I enjoyed smoking too...

I'm So Tired

I drank too much caffeine before my 7:25-10:10 class. Now I can't sleep. I have to wake up early to take Emi to the car place to get a rental in the morning before yoga/meeting to determine future/computer purchase (for someone else)/collapse/work from 2 to close. Sigh. Keep me in your thoughts. The new Tallest Man on Earth album is incredible. I don't know how this guy doesn't have a bigger fan base. He only gets better and his lyrics are amazing. I'm for bed.

A Very Much Delayed Vacation Blog 8 and Epilogue

So on Friday, the day before we came home, Emi and I went to Broadway at the Beach (as we always do at Myrtle). We enjoyed a 3D move at the imax that tops almost every imax movie I have ever seen. It was called Sea Monsters and was about dinosaurs that lived in da ocean. The film was made all the more thrilling by the child behind me. That actually was not sarcasm. This kid gasped and was excited at all the parts I was, and could get away with loud oohs and aahs. There was a delicious (sarcasm here) meal at some crap Italian restaurant, multiple squished pennies, a crappy knight (embedded in a brick) from Magiquest, and a roll of quarters spent feeding the giant fishies.

That evening Emi and I went down to the ocean during the full moon and I swam in the sort of calm water. We walked down to the end of the beach where I fell into the current of the intercoastal waterway. Emily thought that was hilarious. We came back and read for a bit before hitting the hay.

On Saturday we woke up and had a leisurely breakfast before packing up all the tons of stuff that we brought and heading home. The ride home was nice. We stopped at Sonic and had some disgusting food. The best part of the ride home was that Emily drove, so I got to play with Cornbread the whole way home.

Epilogue: We got home (it was wonderful) and I started school. Emily's car broke down, we had dinner with Dad, Mitch and Anna, and I STILL haven't gone back to work. Life's pretty weird. But fun. I have a doctors appointment tomorrow to fix my hand. Yay.


Emily being a dragon.

Emily with a scary bear.


The boat I drove.


Emily driving.

Me in the rearview.


The hybrid bike I want.