j'ai froid

Hi.

I'm not digging the way that my fingers are stiff from being cold. It's funny how I refuse to bundle up efficiently; I think perhaps its denial and, of course, a phobia of clothes with sleeves that can't be pulled above the elbows.

In general, the days have just been slipping by with unauthorized sneakiness. It's already the eighth week of 2010. I know this because of my nifty exam count-down paper - I'll show it to you sometime, but right now the numbers on that paper are not quite presentable. *hangs head sadly*

Here are some slice-of-life photos for you...

I've been doing lots of French. I really, really like it. Speaking of which, this is a very nice reference site for foreign language learners: www.languageguide.org At least, the French section is nice, not sure about the other languages.
Been doing basic physical science, which I feel like I should have learned by now. Huh... I find it all intriguing, regardless.
This is my Satorialist book. I have sticky-noted my favorite pictures... this guy makes fashion so fascinating.
Me and Mom rewatched the fourth season of Doctor Who a few weeks ago. Honestly don't know when it was, but I sketched the Tardis into my Moleskine.
Also been doing British Lit, which is a lot harder than I expected... Reading Chaucer was a struggle. Milton, however, I quite enjoyed, and thought it was a pity that they only have an excerpt of Paradise Lost in my textbook.

Hello. :)
And, of course, I've been working. A pic of the dry-erase board that reminds me that I have a job. I have to be reminded because I have short-term memory loss... That may or may not be a joke, depends on who you ask. ;)

Here's to warm weather in the near future. *tinks her hot mug with your hot mug*

- caroline

joyeux dimanche

The weather was so yummy today.

mon frère et ma soeur

Here are the promised pics of Sara & Logan at the Athens Library! I actually am posting this!!

The Athens Library is not a particularly attractive location for photographs, I know, but Logan was studying there when we met him. :) Logan and I shot some pics of Sara, and Sara and I shot some pics of Logan...

And they are as follows:


This was Sara's idea. Should have scooted down to the W-Z's, but I think the light was probably not as beautiful:


In these next two of Logan, I couldn't decide which exposure I liked better... What do you think? I love how, in the silhouette, you can see a glint of his wedding band.




You can find the most... interesting items in a library.



That's all for tonight... Maybe I'll keep in touch.

hi again

Hello there! Loooong time, no see. Good lord it's been a long time since I've posted... I'm finding that I can't really think of much to write about; it always seems to be that way. You would think that a million exciting things might have happened between September and February, but besides the usual Christmas festivities and New Years' festivities and work and school, nothing much has been going on.

So on to my pictures. Some of these are from the first day of snow, and some are from the second... Here is two from the first; Quinn's Lego Stormtrooper poses for the camera, and a shot of the only reason I could take pictures out in the falling snow with a nice camera without getting completely drenched.

Here is what is going on below, because I know it's really small. If I were any less lazy I would repair these pictures so that they were larger, alas... Anyway, Quinn saw a tree, he stood under the tree, he shook the trunk, and down came all the snow.
I climbed into the snowy underbrush for this picture. Quinn told me that I was crazy, but ahhh well. I got exactly what I wanted.
There was a fox prowling the night after it snowed. We saw it right before we went to bed, this brown fox with a bushy tail. I had never seen a fox that close. In the morning me and Quinn followed its tracks around - it went practically everywhere.


The snow was pretty deep in some places... and the texture of a cross between powdered, granulated and brown sugar. Yum.



I love this. The trees are so picturesque, like a Christmas card.




Those are my favorites. :) Now I'm off to eat and study!

- Caroline

P.S. I know this will just prove to jinx any efforts, but I have the most honorable intentions of posting some pics I took of Sara & Logan soon. But like I said, jinx jinx jinx. Jinx makes me smile -- anyone ever read the Freddie the Pig stories? :)

Un pour aujourd'hui...

One for today:



This was from Charleston, as well. :)

Charleston, Half of Part II

These were bikes for rent in front of a hotel. :)



I love these vines...


There are still a gazillion that I want to post, but these were ready to upload so... I didn't want to have too big of lapse between posting or it becomes very awkward, don't you know?

Septembre est quand je veux écriser à la blog...

Translation: September is when I like to write on the blog...

It's the truth; come September, I'm in the mood to blog. It's been quite a while since my last post - before SCAD and... Okay, so I haven't really done much between now and then. However, for those of you who I haven't talked with since SCAD, I had a really great time, absolutely LOVED my Figure Drawing class, met some pretty awesome people and learned tons.

Other than that, I finished Algebra I with the help of Erin (thank you *so* much), I finished up American Lit, I'm nearly finished with four other school subjects, and I bought a shiny new computer. :)

So today I was rummaging around in my shiny new computer and I remembered that I had never edited my gazillion pictures from Charleston, SC. Sara, Mom, Quinn, Henry and I went there for a weekend in July on an engagement shoot - it was lovely. I took 700 pictures, not including the engagement shoot. Go me!

This is what I saw on the drive there:

This is Henry at the hotel... What a goofball. He was a little out-of-it when we arrived.




This is the third time in my life that I have seen the ocean. I think its gorgeous.



This is called a tilt-shift photo. Thanks to a fantastic action by Totally Rad Actions, I can make tilt-shift whenever I please...

And, lastly, I love the orange shutters. *heart*

There are about 60 more pictures I want to post - stay tuned! Hopefully you will be hearing from me more often now that we are going into the fall. ^.^

ttyl,
- caroline

wallpapery

So I got a bit bored tonight. I'm sure I had some more important things to be doing with my time (like finishing some homework exams, considering I have [insert really large number here] left to do before graduating...). Anyway, I started playing on Illustrator because the last desktop I made was from February. O.O I'm a naughty graphic artist, yes.

Here is what I came up with... First I started really simple. Meet Miss Dots:



Then I started playing with some symbols (which are just like vectors or something, I'm not really sure what the definition is, but Illustrator comes with dozens...)



And then I brought out the whole army. o.o CLICK TO ENLARGE, s'il vous plaît!



So I hope you enjoy. Use whichever you like, please don't deface them, and that's about it. :) I want to just disclaim for a minute, though: I didn't create a single stitch of any of these graphics that were used to make the graphics. XD These are all Illustrator symbol packs/brushes. All I did was arrange, color & then I edited the last one in Photoshop to make it look a little cooler.

I think I may soon make something a little more... shall we say, pretty? Yes.

On a random thought, eating a Butter Pecan ice cream cone is perilous. This is because I always want to eat the praline and so I take these precarious bites about of the cone, which for one, makes the whole thing disappear more quickly, for another it hurts my teeth, and for a third, it then gives me a bit of brain freeze. Those darn pralines.

Another random thought: I'm going to SCAD in just a week! Wow. I'm a little scared, I think... :P

I think I've been sitting here for about four hours straight (like I haven't even gotten up?), and I also don't think I've been breathing properly. For no good reason, I just do that sometimes, I breathe really shallow. I bet you can't even hear me if you tried to listen to me breathe, you know, in person (which would be odd, I know) and some people might think I was a zombie or something.

So now I'm going to go to bed.

Ttyl,
- caroline

P.S. Next time I post (you know, when there will be hovercrafts and such) I will have learned how to say goodnight in French! Though I have a hunch that it's like "bonsoir," or something.

*snicker*

Let me describe the scene. Sara is sitting on a picnic bench that is used to block Henry from falling off of the porch, trying on her new pair of shoes from Rack Room. Quinn is watching. The ceramic, nameless dog by the door is watching. Henry is running around naked, albeit for his little brown cow shoes, sticking one hand in a pot of dirt and the other crotchwise.

And I'm taking pictures.
*giggles*

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