Daze of Confusion

Typical day at work--get up at 8 a.m., get to work late. Check e-mail. Check e-mail again. Read the newspaper (this is billable time, by the way). Check e-mail again. Crisis. Crisis averted. Crisis. Check e-mail. Crisis averted. Lunch. Afternoon--looks a lot like the morning.

Well, today wasn't a typical day at all! To start, we had a photo shoot at work, which is basically a lot of standing around watching a photographer work, suggesting shots and lugging equipment around. We did a "moving" shoot--in other words, no studio. The photographer and his assistant would set up and tear down lights in actual classroom space, which means we got to be the target of student jesting, hamming it up, and sometimes pleased embarassment (sp?).

Some thoughts on photo shoots--it's interesting how different someone can look on camera. We took pictures of one student in the library, who seemed pretty, but nothing out of the ordinary. On film, she looked like a different person--changed, somehow, the camera brought out beauty in her that I hadn't seen, that maybe wasn't visible, just by looking at her. It was a strange experience.

Also, seeing how people react to the camera is a source of fascination as well. Some people can't concentrate on anything else--this includes some of the professors in the rooms we were shooting in. Some try to resolutely ignore it. The ones that can't are the interesting ones--you can tell they're always thinking about where that camera is, what it's looking at, who it's looking at.

Anyway, today was a day out of the ordinary--something I'm grateful for.

Check e-mail.

Classic

Here's a "blast from the past." The "booting it up" thing was classic--though this guy has nothing on Lucas' "magic blow" (not as gross as it sounds).

http://www.milkandcookies.com/links/28721/

(You'll need Quicktime to view this, or be on a mac, anyway)

So, I'm a burger king

Well, it's been a while. The website is up--www.parkview.com. Bobbi got into Harvard Law, though she's not sure whether she'll take it. And my father in law won the college baskteball tournament pool, a grand prize of $80. Yes, things have been happening. Important things. Things that maybe people want to know a little about.

And yet, my posting has shriveled up like Langston Hughes' rasins.

How many times can you apologize and say you'll try to do a better job?

Answer: at least one more time.

By the way, I guess I'm in the burger business--check out this link: www.billgrays.com. It makes me kinda hungry, looking at those burgers. Perhaps a pilgrimmage is in order?

Thought of the day: "Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry." --Mark Twain