daines'n around

Number of Netflix dvds watched in the last four weeks: 18. Number of seasons of Six Feet Under in the last 8 weeks: started on season four this week.

I have been struggling to find time to photograph people. I suppose mostly this is sue to the fact that I am never around people, other than the married women whom I work with.

I have taken quite a few nature shots: Some tree, a moth, walking distance from my house. But it doesn't fulfill quite the same. I got a chance to take some more wedding portraits at the Timpanogos Temple.

I don't charge nearly enough, but I do enjoy helping out people who would other wise have to settle for their friend who thinks they can take awesome photos with the digital camera their parents bought for them. If I knew more wedding planners, it would make sense to start doing more weddings, since I doubt more weddings happen elsewhere (aside from Vegas of course).

Living alone is rather interesting. Sometimes I want to comment to someone, anyone really about that superb article in the New Yorker I read. Or when the President says something stupid on television, I itch to say something. Today when a CNN reporter unknowingly flicked her microphone on and talked with someone else about needy relatives over the President's Katrina production, I just laughed and probably would have rolled around on the floor if there had been someone to laugh with me.

I told a friend that I've begun a tally mark on my wall for every time I say a complete sentence out loud. I almost feel like I should, just to follow through and not make it become a vicious and unhealthy lie.

I got a superb book in the mail today from Amazon. The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation. The link is to an NPR interview about the novel. I never lived through the 9/11 experience. I was in Brasil at the time, and never really understood everything that happened that day. I never had the patience to sift through the actually report... I suppose I should one day... but this adaptation is striking. The graphic novel contains streamlined timelines, allowing for a visual consumption of an otherwise difficult to comprehend sequence of events. I'm glad I picked up the book. It is an outstanding piece of interpretation, with a flair of illustration to carry across the facts of the 9/11 Commission report with more ease.

I hate my writing. I need to get back in the habit.