I've barely used LJ for the past five years, and I probably won't use DW much more, but I'm happy to know that my ten plus years of journal entries have been migrated over to DW. This LJ account will continue because I have a lifetime membership, but I'm not fond of the new terms and conditions, so I'll go spend my time and money over at DW now.
Happy birthday to mizzlaurajean, she who has retired her Princes Three Sheets (to the wind) life and become a wonderful mom and passionate advocate for international adoptions. So many times I have seen you put others before yourself, so today I hope you take a little time for yourself to celebrate your continued existance.
People. Can we just stop using the word "bitch" to ever describe a woman?!? It's misogynistic. Period.
Women are beautiful, wonderful, and amazing people. I just don't want to be one or sleep with one. I'm more than happy to work, live, talk, drink, eat, and any other form of normal human interaction with women. (Also stop with the jokes about gay men fearing vaginas. We don't fear them, we just aren't interested.)
What I don't want to do is insult, demean, or otherwise joke about women based solely on gender. Women are as diverse and talented as men, and just as prone to failure. Most of what we think of as female characteristics are cultural and not physical.
And this isn't some P.C. bullcrap. This is basic human decency.
So next time you insist on calling Kim Davis a bitch, find a better word to describe her, like bigot.
(Note that this is my one and only Kim Davis related post. It's really not about her. She is just my example.)
This morning I had a meeting with the Ronstad recruiter, which went pretty well. It looks like I will be a good match for a Best Buy creative project manager position. Then I did a little shopping at Target. I stop home and then realized my haircut was in 15 minutes in St. Paul, so I quickly changed clothes and sped over. Greg did a good job. He told me that the short short sizes used a double-naught clippers.
During the haircut Greg told me about the Jewish Penicillin, aka chicken soup, at Cecil's Deli. So I stopped there on my way home to pick some up. It was very yummy.
After my lunch I wanted to start packing but I got interrupted by my client Lori who needed changes made to a flyer. That took an extra hour. Finally around 6 PM I started packing all my leather for IML.
Weird... my LJ was just hacked. 7 minutes ago I got an email from Live Journal alerting me to a loving to LiveJournal from unrecognized location.
Country: UA Internet service provider: Centr Informacionnyh Technologii Online, Ltd. IP address: 193.106.31.230
The email then linked to Live Journal's session log. I reviewed the log and then discontinued that session. I went to my LJ account and there was an entry in Russian:
В Лондоне откроется отель-яхта
Для туристов, желающих провести отпуск на воде, например, в плавании на яхте, но не имеющих возможности отдыхать с таким шиком, в Лондоне появилась реальная возможность исполнить это желание, причем
Which Google translates to:
In London, the hotel will open yacht
For travelers looking for a holiday on the water, such as swimming on a yacht, but have no opportunity to rest with the chic in London have a real opportunity to fulfill this desire, and
My Live Journal log in credentials are now changed.
I spent this evening at Twin Cities Leather & Latte updating the photography I have on display there.
Two of them are hanging in the bathroom, which fits the subject of these two photos. Another is by the back door, which relates well to the cowboy in the photo.
I also have some good ideas for display a few of my image series. Next time you're in Uptown Minneapolis be sure to check them out.
Joe, Ben, and I are on our way to Chicago. Ben is moving to Denver later this year so we finally decided to do that Chicago road trip together that have talked about for years.
Chicago is an interesting place over memorial weekend. The gay population is noticeably larger due to IML, Bear Pride, and the Gay Porn Awards (Grabbys). This makes the bars lively and entertaining.
I'll be spending Saturday at IML in my own. On Sunday we are going to connect with or cruise friends, Dan and Frank, to go see Buyer & Celler
I'm putting together a t-shirt design for this year's Atons Run (convention). The theme is "Tails of the City" but I decided to approach the theme from a different angle.
I'm struggling a bit with how best to represent the tail motion. A real road sign would just have arrows or something. I think I prefer what I have here, displaying three tail positions in the wag. I hope no one thinks this dog has three tails.
The last element I added was the distressed paint appearance. I wanted to imply that the sign is rougher around the wagging tail.
Last week I completed my project to talk with MCTC, AI, and Augsburg's academic advising department. By the end of the week I mentally put together a plan to continue at Augsburg, but to take some number of classes at MCTC to save some money. I then applied to MCTC, and wrote letters to the credit transfer person at Augsburg to inquire about the transferability of photography program classes at Augsburg.
This morning I had two emails waiting for me. The first was my acceptance email from MCTC. The second was an email from Augsburg that simply stated "The program leads to an A.A.S. degree, meaning it is technical in nature. The credits will not transfer to Augsburg." I haven't given up on MCTC or Augsburg photography classes yet. I have an additional email out to Robert Tom, the Studio Arts chair at Augsburg, to ask him how I can include digital photography in my Augsburg experience.
Outside of photography, I've been looking through Augsburg's Transfer Guide for MCTC, which cover the liberal arts foundation classes. I still need six liberal arts classes, and I've put together a long list of the classes that are available this term and are offered in the evening, weekends, or online. Now I need to determine if I want to take one or two classes at a time, and if Joe and I have any travel plans to come that would interfere with school.
The classes that I think look especially interesting are Fine Arts: THTR 1104 Introduction to Acting 1 and Humanities: JOUR 1000 Introduction to Mass Communications.
I've been trying to map out where I'm at in my college experience, and what I still have left to complete. Even when I complete all of my generals, liberal arts, and communications classes, I will still need 32 more credits.
I think I will spend 24 of those credits and get a second degree in Studio Arts, because there is a bit of cross over between the Communications and Studio Arts electives.
That still leaves me with 8 more credits I need for graduation. I think I'm going to try and spend those on additional photography classes somehow.
