Personal

02:26 - The Chinese English teacher next door that doesn't speak English isn't in; I'm turning up my music.
02:36 - Nice work, Klyment . . . plugged adapter into laptop . . . didn't plug adapter into mains and laptop batteries died mid-transfer.
02:44 - C1 Pro preview generation is taking forever . . . I'm going to start from the bottom of the pile and batch images upwards.
03:03 - Ahhh . . . that was the most satisfying dump I took today.
03:15 - Some of these improvisors have the worst skin I have ever seen.
03:33 - This is taking forever.
03:46 - I wonder what Steven in Beveren-Leie, Belgium is up to.
04:17 - Steven suggests that if I call the 17-55/2.8 my ugly lens, perhaps I should call the 10.5/2.8 fish eye my busty lens. Hmmm . . .
04:46 - The sun is coming up. Steven and I are talking about firearms in Belgium.
04:48 - Photos for Improvaganza's Day 9 jam session are done and uploaded here. Hahah . . . normally it doesn't take so long to process under a hundred photos.
05:09 - Shit . . . I didn't sort between full res and web-sized images from the queue . . . deleting all from Gallery and starting over.
05:11 - Sent Bill Minsky something he's looking for.
05:14 - Wooo . . . I'm getting dizzy . . . but now it's done. Going to bed - Chad's returning a Hasselblad 500C/M later this morning.

When monitoring print jobs or waiting waiting for photos to finish processing at the studio I try to find things to keep me occupied. Over the past two weeks, this artificially-created leisure time can be summarized into a few short statements:

• I spent three hours watching the movie Alexander and wondered why Brad Pitt had this dumb look on his face the entire time. Then I realized Alexander was played by Colin Farrel.
• After the first two days of storing fresh bananas in a plastic shopping bag on top of the studio refrigerator, an unblemished banana's peel will develop an average of fifteen black spots per day until moldy.
• I recently acquired cleavage-enhancing elite aeromancer armor for my female elementalist in Guild Wars: Factions. And she's Jonathan's type - light skin, light eyes, black hair, long legs.
• After reading about a dozen broadsheets as I printed them for U of A Visual Communications Design students I have concluded that an individual's competence in graphic design is inversely proportional to this individual's grammar.
• I have a stockpile of nearly six gigabytes in MP3 players and flash memory drives from people bringing stuff to print and leaving them here. If you're missing one such device please schedule a time to drop by and claim them.