Well it has been a whirlwind these past few days. I know i have no room to complain, but life sure gets stressful sometimes! I finally was able to get onto fast grad (i'll be in school all year round now) but previously the office had lost my application 3 times!! It was silly how i had to go through everything over again, but they office people know me well now, and i made a few new friends. :) along with that, i'm changing apartments next semester and i had to deal with some things with that, then classes are busy and every teacher assumes that you are only taking their class, so they feel it necessary to give you 4 hours of meaningless yet time consuming homework each day-then add the daily stresses of college life, lack of sleep and the desire of a decent social life and it's just a big ol' party! needless to say, i've had some pretty library filled days recently and some rather long group projects so we can try to complete our assignments! 

in my free time, I've started looking over online tutorials and have gone to a few workshops to broaden my knowledge of the Adobe sweet-on saturday i learned how to make words look like they're on fire  along with some other cool effects :)  it's been quite an adventure practicing and editing photos with different effects and designs. it has been an adventure the whole time and i have spent many nights playing on photoshop and illustrator rather than getting the sleep i need. haha, oh well-

So this semester i've been the media director for some of the athletic teams here at school and i was taking some photos and i've realized something very important: people act completely different when they don't think anyone's watching. My new favorite thing is to zoom in on people in the crowd and see if i can get a picture of them doing something odd. I have a few good photos which i'll try to post later, but just in general i'm pretty amazed at some of the things people think they can get away with. for instance, picking your nose. one of my biggest pet peeves, and some people just think that they are invisible when they do it in public! no-you're not my friend who has his finger 1/2 way up his nose-get a tissue or go to the bathroom! i swear it looks like they could scratch their brain with how far they have their finger shoved up there! it's disgusting-yet rather humorous as well. 
Since i've been doing photography, i've paid much more attention to small details and to emotions to make a shot better, or unique. because of that, i've been more observant to how people talk, react, and just their emotions in general. it has been incredible to see and to try to capture some of the emotions which we emulate each day and passing moment. And then to amplify them with editing and bringing out the beauty of each picture-oh how i love that even more!!!  i'll post some once i finish editing :) 

other than that my life is pretty boring, there's nothing really new going on but life is great and i couldn't be happier.